![]() ![]() ![]() But Sasson's device of telling Sultana's story in the first person trivializes the princess's important material. ![]() She had children, battled her husband, and was thrilled during the Gulf War by reports of the 47 Saudi women who bucked the law and drove in the streets of Riyadh (although rumors persist that one of the group was put to death by her father). Arranged marriages were the norm: Sultana was lucky in being matched with a liberal, distant cousin (she was also lucky in being spared the common practice of ritual genital mutilation). Sultana, we learn, crafted constant rebellions, from smashing Ali's Rolex to leaving his pornographic slides-on which he'd printed his name-at the local mosque for the religious police to find. Her father had three wives in addition to her mother her brother, Ali, had sovereignty over his ten sisters. From minute one, Sultana got the message that only men mattered. ![]() Sasson (The Rape of Kuwait, 1991-not reviewed) brings us ``Sultana,'' a pseudonymous member of the Saudi royal family whose memoir documents the suffocating sexism that pervades Saudi life. ![]()
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