Patricia Holton,Andrea Jones, Mother Without a Mask: A Westerner's Story of Her Arab Family Review
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Joneal's Review of Patricia Holton,Andrea Jones, Mother Without a Mask: A Westerner's Story of Her Arab Family
25th Apr 2004
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Exceptional first hand account of life for the Saudi Arabian traditional women. Their day-to-day lives as wives and mothers.
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Patricia Holton has revealed a true glimpse of the cloistered, secret life of the traditional Saudi Arabian family. How like the rest of us they are in their love of children and family, but how different they also are in their own private ritualism and traditionalist customs that have bound them even in the 20th century. A delightfully personal view of an insiders view of the very concealed and protected lives of some of the wealthiest people in Saudi Arabia.
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oumabdulaziz
on 1st May 2004
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Please get your countries straight. This story takes place in United Arab Emirates, not Saudi Arabia and there are big difference between the two. There seems a tendency, especially in the West, to lump all Arabs together as one, but one who has spent any amount of time traveling in the Arab countries can tell you that you will find many cultural differences as you travel from place to place.