Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia (2004)

The New York Times bestseller by Osama bin Laden's sister-in-law that provides a penetrating look inside the Bin Laden family, Saudi society, and the treatment of Saudi women is now in paperback with a new chapter. In 1974, Carmen, half-Swiss and half-Persian, married into the Bin Laden family. She was young and in love, an independent European woman hurled into a society she neither knew nor understood. Her story takes us inside the Bin Laden family and a power structure in which men regularly subjugate their wives. It also tells of the author's own personal battle to keep custody of her three daughters after her 1988 separation from her husband. INSIDETHEKINGDOM dares to pull off the veil that conceals one of the most secretive countries ... full descriptionin the world, revealing the intrigues and conflicts within its most infamous family. (less description)

Author: Carmen Bin Ladin

Categories: Ethnic & National, Specific Groups, Memoirs, Social Sciences, Biographies & Memoirs, History, Nonfiction