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Love in a Torn Land: Joanna of Kurdistan: The True Story of a Freedom Fighter's Escape from Iraqi Vengeance 7 reviews
Jean Sasson
Wiley, 2007
Riveting.... Jean Sassoon's Best Yet!
It is hard to believe that this story is non-fiction given the never-ending twists and turns, intense drama and the perfect love story that unfolds. It was hard to put this book down!
This is Jean Sassoon's best book to date. There is far less of the distracting shifting back and forth that I found to be a problem in the construction of her earlier books. Her descriptions are richer, more ...
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Princess Sultana's Daughters84 reviews
Jean Sasson
Windsor-Brooke Books, 2001
Princess Series
I have read all the books in this series and I would recommmend that they all should be read. I think that these books should be required reading for all high school students. They are an eye opener to the way that part of world thinks and their beliefs. The books are very well written and a fast read.
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The Rape of Kuwait: The True Story of Iraqi Atrocities Against a Civilian Population 5 reviews
Jean P. Sasson
Knightsbridge Pub. Co., 1991
Riveting
After reading all of Jean Sasson's other books (including her most famous "Princess") I was very glad to pick up, "The Rape of Kuwait." This is Jean's first book. The author describes how Desert Storm effected the Kuwaiti people. It's atrocious, and very sad and shocking in some parts, but also a riveting tale that should be told. I could not put this book down. I look forward to reading Jean ...
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Princess Sultana's Circle (Princess Trilogy)59 reviews
Jean Sasson
Windsor-Brooke Books, 2002
Saudi Arabia
I highly recommend reading the Princess Trilogy. I had a hard time putting the book down. It's a really easy read.
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Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia303 reviews
Jean Sasson
Windsor-Brooke Books, 2001
God bless you, Jean P. Sasson.
I read this book without regard to ethnicity or political belief. I read it as a woman -- as a human being who suffered at the thought of what other women are enduring in the name of "religion" or "culture."
There is no explanation possible to make this palatable to anyone with a conscience. To let it pass without mention is an abomination, akin to denying the Holocaust. There is no ...
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Ester's Child36 reviews
Jean P. Sasson, Jean Sasson
Windsor-Brooke Books, 2001
I guarentee: You'll be hooked!
Once you get past about 10 pages, you'll be HOOKED and this is a promise. ESTER'S CHILD portrays the reality of LIFE in war. Sasson focuses on the MIDDLE EAST, and in particular Lebanon and Israel. As a once-upon-a-time aid worker in the Middle East, I was astonished at how vividly Sasson described the reality of life for people living in refugee camps. I would have believed her a refugee if I ...
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Sultana (Biblioteca)3 reviews
Jean Sasson
Debolsillo, 2005
Respeto y aliento
Jamás pensé que un ligro como éste puedise despertar tanto odio hacia los hombres y sus leyes ridículas en las que la mujer es menos que un animal cuando es ésta mujer la que te trae al mundo con dolor y angustias. Se necesitan en el mundo más mujeres como Sultana yo por mi parte he adoptado un segundo nombre adivina cual
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Mayada 1 review
Jean P. Sasson
Plaza y Janes, 2005
Mayada
I bought several books from you last month and enjoyed all of them. However, this book Mayada, was in a different language. It was not in ENGLISH!!!!!! I can't begin to attempt to read it. I did not send it back because it is too much bother wrapping and running to the post office. I think it was only $10 anyway. If by a chance you do have it in English and would like to send it to me without ...
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Desert Royal 28 reviews
Jean Sasson
Bantam Books, 2004
Comments......
You also have to remember that this is a life story, I don't think when someone tells there life experience that it means that everyones life will be the same, just like we can't generalized everyone in a country or religion by only one experience.
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Mayada, Daughter of Iraq: One Woman's Survival Under Saddam Hussein70 reviews
Jean Sasson
NAL Trade, 2004
The tip of the iceberg
Mayada Al Askari was born in Iraq, in 1955, to a prominent Iraqi family, and is the granddaughter of Jido Sati, an important Iraqi politician and statesman in the first half of the 20th century, and of former Iraqi Prime Minister Jafar al-Askari.
This biography tells of her experiences growing up in the hellish cage of Baathist Iraq under Saddam Hussein's rule of fear.
Mayada was born, grew ...
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Las Cadenas de Sultana (Biblioteca) 3 reviews
Jean Sasson
Debolsillo, 2005
Admiration and anger
this book moved my soul to another level it was sad and frustrating at times but in the end you can see how a woman can survive in a world where she has no alies just the will to be heard and fight for her life.
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Las Hijas de Sultana (Biblioteca)3 reviews
Jean Sasson
Debolsillo, 2005
Que Libro!!!!
Sultana, una mujer decidida, nos enseña con este relato la cruda realidad de lo que vive este pueblo Saudi. Aqui no hay nada escondido, la narradora de este relato quiso que conocieramos detalle a detalle lo que viven estas mujeres, y que a veces el dinero no compra la felicidad ya que si de dinero se trata esta familia lo tiene casi todo. Es un libro facil de entender, no tiene palabras ...
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Mayada, La Hija De Irak (Exitos (Plaza y Janes))1 review
Jean P. Sasson
Plaza y Janes, 2004
A book to everybody read... Will touch your heart deeply!!!
Is a book I recommend everybody to read, will touch you heart very deeply, you will understand how was for the Iraqui people to live under the most terrible and dark regimen of Saddam Husein.
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The Princess Trilogy: Boxed Set11 reviews
Jean P. Sasson
Windsor-Brooke Books, 2002
The Princess Trilogy: Boxed Set
Jean Sasson's books are an accurate indictment a culture of hypocracy! They reflect the cruel slavery under which the Saudi female population has endured for centuries and should be required reading for all human-kind free to do so. Human rights do not exist for women in Saudi Arabia and as women from other cultures marry into that one they swiftly learn upon stepping foot on Saudi sand they've ...
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Love in a Torn Land (July 2008)1 review
Jean Sasson, 2008
Fascinating!
Read it in one day! It helped understand the plight of the Kurd in Iraq.
Such a heartwarming love story as well.
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