Veiled Atrocities: True Stories of Oppression in Saudi Arabia
"These stories convey what it is like to be an innocent civilian (a wife, a servant, a woman), living in a country where barbaric interpersonal violence is normative. Once I picked it up, I literallycould not put it down." --Phyllis Chesler, emerita professor of psychology and women's studies at City University of New York, lecturer, and author ofWomen and Madness, Woman's Inhumanity to Woman and The Death of Feminism."...Eachheart-wrenchingshort story Alrabaa shares with us conveys, like few authors have been able to do, the ongoing humanitarian crisis of oppression in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.... Radical Islamists, police and monarchs are suffocating the Saudi population." --M. Zuhdi Jasser, MD, founder & president, American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD)"Because of the extremely secretive and repressive nature of the Saudi Kingdom, outsiders can only guess what goes on inside there....The stories in this book areincredible, jaw-dropping, heart-rending. The cruelty of Saudi Arabia lies much less in its brutal criminal laws than in how summarily and heartlessly the guilty, often totally innocent, are picked..." ----M. A. Khan, author ofIslamic Jihad: A Legacy of Forced Conversion, Imperialism and Slaveryand editor of Islam-watch.org.