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Inside the Kingdom
- My Life In Saudi Arabia
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In 1974, Carmen, half-Swiss and half-Persian, married into the bin Ladin family. She was young and in love, an independent European woman about to join a complex clan and a culture she neither knew nor understood. In Saudi Arabia, she was forbidden to leave her home without the head-to-toe black abaya that completely covered her. Her face could never be seen by a man outside the family. And according to Saudi law, her husband could divorce her at will, without any kind of court procedure, and take her children away from her forever.
Carmen was an outsider among the bin Ladin wives, their closets full of haute couture dresses, their rights so restricted that they could not go outside their homes, not even to cross the street, without a chaperone. The author takes us inside the hearts and minds of these women, always at the mercy of the husbands who totally control their lives, and always convinced that their religion and culture are superior to any other. And as Carmen tells of her struggle to save her marriage and raise her daughters to be freethinking young women, she describes this family's ties to the Saudi royal family and introduces us to the ever loyal bin Ladin brothers, including one particular brother-in-law she was to encounter: Osama.
In 1988, in Switzerland, Carmen bin Ladin separated from her husband and began one of her toughest battles: to gain the custody of her three daughters. Now, with her candid memoir, she dares to pull off the veils that conceal one of the most powerful, secretive, and repressive countries in the world, and the bin Ladin family's role within it.
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"The gravity of the events Carmen writes of, her insider's perspective, and her engaging style make this memoir a page-turner." (Publishers Weekly)
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- Mohammad Sabeh
- 07-09-19
I am saudi and here is what I think.
Her story was way long back and for me I cannot recall that saudi has been this way as she described. She clearly had so much hate towards the country and I can understand why. She wrote about the country based on how she saw it. However, everybody I met that are on her age say that saudi was very simple and people loved and cared for each other and life was very joyful. Nowadays, saudi is not very different from any other country. Women are allowed to drive and we have concerts and cinemas. Nevertheless, despite all that. Women her age now still say that they miss the old saudi... Saudi is a very safe place for women where they can walk freely and feel safe. They are respected everywhere they go.
I was born and raised in saudi until the age of 18 then i have moved to the US for 3 years and then moved to dubai. However, I still love saudi and I feel that it’s a really great place to live in.
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- janice
- 02-22-16
interesting
a very interesting story, good insight into the culture and struggles of West versus Islam
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- J. Tiefel
- 11-08-09
A Real Education
I love to learn about different cultures and this book certainly opened my eyes to the way of life in Saudi Arabia. The narrator's accent certainly made the story sound like it might have come from Carmen's lips. A fascinating read!
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- Tom
- 06-24-08
Revealing
One hears about mistreatment of women in Saudi Arabia. This is one such story.
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Great Story!
Really enjoyed her life story. Her daughter Noor, is a great journalist & must take after her mothers writings!
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- Billie Braithwaite-jones
- 07-25-19
An inside look at the kingdom.
A searing inside view if the Saudi kingdom. This memoir confirmed much of what I'd heard and hoped was not true. She was able to get out and keep her children. My heart aches for those women who couldn't.
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- Joni
- 03-23-13
Couldn't wait to pick it up again
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
yes and I have because it had a good story and was so interesting.
What other book might you compare Inside the Kingdom to and why?
Growing up Bin Ladin, because they were about the same topic.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
many
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- Laura
- 02-27-11
A true insight !
It seems that the global civilisation merges us into one world. But, in truth, it doesn't and not far away we can meet a civilisation more distant than if it were born on Mars ! Only a bit more influential. An interesting travel into the totally foreign land !
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- Deborah
- 09-22-05
Pretty close, but not everyone agrees...
Carmen has done an excellent job of presenting her story. This is a pretty good look into the restrictive society in Sauida Arabia. However, having lived in Saudi Arabia myself for 6 years, I can say that many Saudi women LOVE their lives. I think it is extremely dangerous for Americans to view any lifestyle unlike their own as somehow bad or less valuable. As an American woman in Saudi Arabia, I was startled to find that American women are pittied by many well educated, worldly, well traveled Saudi women. Pittied, you say? They think it sad that American women are forced to work outside the home, do their own housework and laundry, taxi the kids back and forth to school and extracurriculars, and don't have chauffers. Carmen had many of her freedoms curtailed in that rigidly Islamic society, but as one very wise Saudi pointed out to me: "American women cannot walk safely alone at night in any American city. They are kidnapped, raped and murdered. You pay a very high price for your 'freedom'." Food for thought?
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- Lilly-Marie Lamarl
- 01-07-18
A decidedly western take on an eastern culture
The most likable think about this book is Carmen, the protagonist. She is sincere and her shock over 911, she is a deeply devoted mother, and seemingly a fun, outspoken woman with commitment to a gender equality, freedom of thought; basically humanitarian. On the flipside though, I find it very concerning, the way in which she others Saudi culture. It makes sense that she doesn’t like living in Saudi Arabia, a much stricter, more fundamentalist society than the one she grew up in. But much of the book is given over to her criticizing everything about it, whether it be the behavior of the other women, her husband’s House, or the ubiquitous sandstorms. My guess is that there are some truths about the Culture of Saudi women that can be gleaned from reading this book, but at the same time, the book is hard to read because Carmen doesn’t reflect on how it is that she so quickly jumped into a life in Saudi Arabia without thinking ahead about well she could be happy there, and doesn’t seem to give the culture a chance. It is as if she assumes that we will be shocked and outraged by even the most basic of Saudi customs just because we are mostly Westerners reading this. I fear that we are not give an insight into why Osama bin Laden did what he did, but only very negative perspective of the culture from which he arose, a culture which, even Carmen says, found his extreme religiosity shocking and didn’t welcome him as a leader. As for the writing it’s… Average two. There is virtually no scene and no dialogue, and some redundancy here and there. If you choose to read this book, I would say just pick up what you can about Saudi Arabia culture, but be very, very careful about not being drawn into the level of subjectivity with which the story is told. This book serves to divide east and west, not create a bridge between them, and this is worrisome.
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