Sultana (not her real name) is a member of the royal family in Saudi Arabia. This is the horror of her “privileged” life and the lives of women in a country that our U.S. government calls friend. How fathers can treat their daughters this way escapes me. That my government can claim friendship with a country that treats its women this way infuriates me--executions for perceived wrongs, purdah (solitary confinement for the rest of a woman’s or girl’s life), arranged marriages to abusive husbands, allowing men and boys to rape young girls and women then stoning these women to death. Sultana’s constant battles against her trivialization as a human being simply because she is a female are beyond frustrating. I wonder how she continues to fight. Or has she given up? Four out of four
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