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Rent Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia
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Format: Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Warner Books Inc
Published: Jun 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - General
Retail Price: $15.99
Pages: 214
Synopsis
Immediately after September 11, 2001, Carmen bin Laden knew that her name would engender responses from others--for she knew in her heart that the person behind the events of that day was her brother-in-law, Osama bin Laden. In her revealing memoir, INSIDE THE KINGDOM, Carmen tells what it was like for a European woman to marry into a wealthy Saudi Arabian family. She was expected to conform to a culture that was new to her, and a family in which women took second place. Feeling like an outsider, and realizing she was not living a fairy tale, she fled, in 1988, and petitioned for divorce. The most difficult struggle was her effort to to win custody of her children. Carmen's personal story, interesting in itself, holds even greater fascination because of her connections to the bin Ladens. Expressing great sympathy for those who died or lost loved ones on 9/11, Carmen bin Laden provides a perspective unavailable anywhere else, and answers many of the questions that people have about the bin Ladens and the Saudis.
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