Princess Sultana's Circle

PRINCESS SULTANA’S
CIRCLE Book III in the Princess Trilogy
    Jean Sasson
    ****
    Published by:
    Jean Sasson at Smashwords
    Copyright (c) 2011 by Jean Sasson
    Front Cover Model’s Photograph by Marco
Baldi for Studio Babaldi
    ****
    All rights reserved. Without limiting the
rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication
may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system,
or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic,
mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the
prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above
publisher of this book.
    Smashwords Edition Licence
Notes
    This ebook is licensed for your personal
enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to
other people. If you would like to share this book with another
person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you
share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it,
or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to
Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy.
    ****
    Jean Sasson is the sharp-eyed and compassionate chronicler
of women’s lives in the Muslim world. Author of the worldwide
bestsellers Princess , Daughters of Arabia , Desert Royal , Mayada: Daughter of Iraq , Love in a Torn Land and Growing up Bin Laden , she lived in Saudi Arabia for twelve
years, and has travelled throughout the Middle East for thirty
years. She currently makes her home in the southern United
States.
    ****
    For more
information on Jean Sasson and her books, see her website at www.jeansasson.com
    ****
    --
    ALSO
BY JEAN SASSON
    NON-FICTION
    The Rape of
Kuwait
    Princess: A True
Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
    Princess
Sultana’s Daughters (Daughters of Arabia)
    Princess
Sultana’s Circle (Desert Royal)
    Mayada, Daughter
of Iraq
    Love in a Torn
Land: One Woman’s Daring Escape from Saddam’s Poison Gas Attacks On
the Kurdish People of Iraq
    Growing up Bin
Laden: Osama’s Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret
World
    HISTORICAL
FICTION
    Ester’s
Child
    --
    For more
information on Jean Sasson and her books, see her website
at:
    www.jeansasson.com
    ****

This book is dedicated to
all the young girls and women in the world.
    May you have the right to
live your life in dignity.
     
    And, a personal dedication
from me, to our precious Kayleigh Brooke
     
     

Books by Jean
Sasson
     
    The Rape of
Kuwait
    Princess: A True Story of
Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
    Princess Sultana’s
Daughters ( UK title: Daughters of Arabia)
    Princess Sultana’s Circle
( UK title: Desert
Royal)
    Mayada, Daughter of
Iraq : One Woman’s
Survival Under Saddam Hussein
    Love in a Torn Land: One
Woman’s Daring Escape from Iraq
    Growing Up Bin Laden:
Osama’s Wife and Son Take us Inside Their Secret World
    For the Love of a Son: One
Afghan Woman’s Quest for her Stolen Child
    Ester’s Child

Princess Sultana’s
Circle is a true story. For the personal
safety of the people featured in this book, names have been changed
and various events have been slightly altered.
     
    By revealing these true
life stories, neither the Princess nor the author intend to demean
the rich and meaningful Islamic religion, of which the princess is
a member.
     
    Acknowledgements
    Special thanks to those
wonderful people who must go unnamed, yet have assisted me so that
I might continue telling the significant and wonderful story of a
very unique Princess.

Update from Jean
Sasson
    The world as we know it was
utterly changed on September 11, 2001. Few people were left
untouched by the carnage brought against so many by so few. That
eventful day even provoked military action. The haunting images of
the war against terrorism were often tragic while others were
uplifting, and none more so than the endearing smiles on the faces
of the previously burqa clad women and girls of Afghanistan.
Although our purposeful military mission was to seek justice and to
stop suicide bombers from future odious acts, I have always
believed that the emancipation of women is a freedom worth fighting
for. A great imbalance is created in the world when women are
treated as liabilities, as they are in many countries.
    As the Afghani women
celebrated, I rejoiced with them. As I listened to First Lady Laura
Bush’s now famous radio broadcast about these women, I waited in
anticipation, hoping that some golden words of hope would be cast
to women in other countries. Consider the fact that women in