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American Chick In Saudi Arabia (2012)

by Jean Sasson(Favorite Author)

3.42 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1939481058 (ISBN13: 9781939481054)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

LDA

review 1: I loved the book, yes, it's short but it's her own personal memoir so she's allowed that courtesy. Honestly, I'm not into long winded memoirs. I'm a "get to the point" kind of reader. This book is filled with humor and as well personal discovery which is rare these days. Most memoirs especially, those of celebrities and politicians are just commercials to their self-perceived grandeur. However here, Jean allows you to see her screwing up and doesn't make excuses for it. There are no happily ever afters and no heroes who make it all better in 100 pages or less. This is real life you know! And that is what I loved most about this book, so I gave Jean Sasson's American Chick in Saudi Arabia 5 stars for keeping it real.
review 2: Book ReviewIt's the firs... moret journey of Jean Sasson in Middle East country, Saudi Arabia that made her bring the unstoppable questions to the world in forms of books she writes on how the Middle East women's life is over-controlled by Male kingdom and the culture and sadly sometime combined with the religious misinterpretation.Over 30 years living in Saudi Arabia she has been keeping her hope to see the change the women life living in Arab Country and she sadly only found small changes and till now the realm of male gender in the name of Religion is still so powerful and becoming status quo back up with the holy scripture misinterpretation.All Jason Sasson's books are about battling the ideas of freedom for the oppressed, tortured and abused women especially in the Middle East. It is an eye opener that will bring myself so many questions on freedom mostly from the western way of thinking My afterthought on women life struggling or being struggled by western activists for their freedom in the Middle East always is ended up with my own self-questioning toward the definition of Freedom as we may be wrong/different to see and to define the terms of the freedom itself, OR is it perhaps only our envy for the life in eastern way which is derived from so many rigorous restrictions AND we maybe longing ourselves for renewing our definition of freedom with eastern way as we do not see any longer the freedom we learn or implanted from the west is giving us the happiness, the real one and it's always in the eyes of beholder. less

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