Princess Sultana's daughters by Sasson Jean P

Author:Sasson, Jean P
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Women, Princesses
Publisher: New York : Doubleday
Published: 1994-03-11T05:00:00+00:00

money could purchase. While Kareem and I grew to adulthood without knowing need, we understood the vital force of our parents' poverty, which had made a lasting impact during our youth. However, the children born from our generation never knew deprivation, even secondhand, and so did not realize what it really meant to be poor.

Civilization followed a natural course, for concentrated wealth balanced insecurely upon a lost heritage may at any moment be dismissed as of no value. It was only a matter of time until the shaky foundations began to tumble.

The conventions and traditions accepted by past generations were questioned by my generation. The generation that followed mine often, wholly without restraint, followed their animal instincts. This primitive rejection of social order brought forth a natural backlash of religious fanaticism and disdain for extravagant fortunes.

Now, those who are most fanatical are the offspring of my generation. Having never known life without great wealth, and spared any knowledge of the consequences of wrenching poverty, our children and the children of our acquaintances are scornful of our economic ease and are searching for a purpose greater than the accumulation of additional riches.

My child Amani became a leader of a group of women who strive to be even more militant than the men who lead the faithful to overturn the throne claimed by the Al Sa'ud clan.

While Amani sought to save the souls of those she knows as relatives, or claims as friends, she brought forth a confession from her cousin Faten, the child of my brother, Ali, that none of us could ever have imagined.

No man has been haughtier with women than Ali. As a child, he treated his ten sisters with contempt. As a young man living in America, he bedded and casually discarded hundreds of Western women. As a husband, he treated his wives as slaves, caring little about their happiness, careful to wed girls at first puberty so that they knew little of man's nature and accepted his perverse behavior as normal. In addition to four wives, Ali settled one concubine after the other in his home. As a father, he virtually ignored his daughters and showered affection on his sons.

It was only natural that his son Majed, brother of Faten, grew

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