Princess

===The book Princess written by Jean P. Sasson but told by Sultana gives the reader a true glimpse of what it it is like to be a female in certain Arab countries and families. Starting from the first page the reader's eyes are opened to the severity of how limited women are in certain countries in the Middle East. The first page tells the reader that the person telling the story is an American friend. The woman behind the veil cannot even reveal herself through literature for fear that harm may come to her family and simply because the reader may be a male. The limitations that these women face everyday is extreme and is very well expressed by Sultana as having invisible chains that were there since the day she was born and discovered to be a female. But as she grew older they became heavier and heavier as the restraints were tightened.===

===It is absolutely impossible to wrap one's head around the fact that in the 1920's women were allowed to vote in the United States. But in the 2000's some countries in the Middle East did not even keep records of the females that were born. Another nerve wracking issue is imagining oneself as a woman in a Middle Eastern country where one has heard that in Western countries women have been able to divorce their husbands because they were abused and even sue them or put them in jail for a period of time. And one is at home where one has to share one's husband with three other women and although all four wives are supposed to be treated equally one's husband is only human and has a favorite wife. Not only that, but one is also abused by one's husband but it is nearly impossible to divorce him and one does not want dishonor one's family. Just thinking about it can make the reader extremely frustrated and the reader is not even in the situation themself.===

===I felt completely useless while I was reading the book and found it infuriating that women are still treated like that. 1 The consolation I felt was that at least women like Sultana have found a way around these tricky rules and have started to spread the word. I also learned that Jerusalem was a holy city for Muslims as well. I had always thought that it was only a holy city to Christians and Jews and that it was just another territory that the Middle Eastern countries were determined to take away from Israel. I learned a lot from this book and would like to read more if that was not the end of it. 2 ===

1. The book describes the 1970s. Thankfully it has improved.

2. you can borrow the whole book for the summer if you'd like.

9/10 (examples needed as supporting evidence)