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This new book will attract both jean sasson s many loyal readers and new audiences eager to learn more about not only how the saudi royal family live, but how with courage and determination the princess continues the fight for equal rights for women in the middle east. Jean sasson, a new york times bestselling author, lived in the middle east for 12 years and has traveled extensively in the area for 30 years. She has an uncanny ability to let the reader relate emotionally and sympathize with the characters, sometimes empathize too. A new book called the phoney princess available on amazon will put the record straight. This book presents jean sasson as a new orientalist, as she has raised the feministic view of the women of this region. In 1978 she traveled to saudi arabia to work in the king faisal specialist hospital in riyadh as an administrative coordinator of medical affairs. Stepping out of the shadows kindle edition by sasson, jean.
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