Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
Print Material
Author Alrabaa, Sami.

Title Veiled atrocities : true stories of oppression in Saudi Arabia / Sami Alrabaa.

Imprint Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2010.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  323.4909538 Al77v 2010    ---  Available
Description 275 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents Saudi school textbooks that incite hatred, violence, and discrimination -- Education -- Smoke and daggers : work ethics of Saudis in academia -- The dean -- The "morality" police -- The border : amputated for a crime he never committed -- Accidents will happen -- Prince Majid and pornography -- Waleed and Mishel : hunting a woman a la Saudi -- Polygamy as heroism -- The prince -- Karin -- Saleh : marriage a la Saudi -- Rafid : tribal honor -- A son at all costs -- Mansour -- Servitude that ends in starvation or stoning -- Awad.
Subject Human rights -- Saudi Arabia -- Case studies.
Civil rights -- Saudi Arabia -- Case studies.
Islamic law -- Saudi Arabia -- Case studies.
Saudi Arabia -- Social life and customs -- Case studies.
ISBN 9781616141592 (pbk. : alk. paper)
161614159X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard No. AU@ 000044974039

 
    
Available items only