Carmen Bin Ladin Boeken

In 1974, Carmen Dufour - half-Swiss and half-Persian - married into the Bin Laden family. Young and in love, the independent European woman joined a complex clan and culture she neither knew nor understood. In Saudi Arabia, she was forbidden to leave her home without a head-to-toe black abaya. Carmen was an outsider among the Bin Laden wives, who had closets full of haute couture dresses, yet could not go outside unchaperoned. In 1988, in Switzerland, Carmen separated from her husband and began a tough battle for custody of her three daughters. Now, with her candid memoir, she dares to pull off the veils that conceal one of the most powerful, secretive, and repressive countries in the world. Book jacket.

On September 11th 2001, Carmen Bin Ladin heard the news on the radio that the Twin Towers had been struck. She instinctively knew that her brother-in-law's name would be linked to these horrifying acts of terrorism, and her heart went out to the victims in America. She also knew that her life and the lives of her family would never be the same again. In 1974 Carmen, half Swiss and half Persian, married Yeslam Bin Ladin and found herself inside the complex and vast clan of Bin Laden, part of a society that at that point she neither knew nor understood. Carmen Bin Ladin's story takes us inside one of the most powerful, secretive and repressive kingdoms in the world.

Osama bin Laden's former sister-in-law provides a penetrating, unusually intimate look into Saudi society and the bin Laden family's role within it, as well as the treatment of Saudi women. On September 11th, 2001, Carmen bin Ladin heard the news that the Twin Towers had been struck. She instinctively knew that her ex-brother-in-law was involved in these horrifying acts of terrorism, and her heart went out to America. She also knew that her life and the lives of her family would never be the same again. Carmen bin Ladin, half Swiss and half Persian, married into and later divorced from the bin Laden family and found herself inside a complex and vast clan, part of a society that she neither knew nor understood. Her story takes us inside the bin Laden family and one of the most powerful, secretive, and repressed kingdoms in the world.

Málokdo měl možnost nahlédnout do soukromí arabských šejků, a to obzvlášť z pohledu ženy, která se dostala do rodiny jako je klan Bin Ládinů. Autorčiny životní osudy nás zavedou do jednoho z nejtajemnějších království světa, kde panují podmínky nepochopitelné pro moderní západní svět a kde je pojem demokracie v rozporu s "čistým" životem podle koránu. Carmen Dufourová, narozená ve Švýcarsku v bohaté persko-švýcarské rodině, studovala na prestižních školách a cestovala se svými sestrami. Po matce, pocházející z perské aristokracie, zdědila impulzivní povahu, která ji přivedla k dobrodružství, jež ovlivnilo její život. I když zpočátku váhala se svatbou s Jislamem bin Ládinem, nakonec podlehla naléhání a souhlasila. V Saúdské Arábii zjistila, kým Bin Ládinové jsou - bohatou a mocnou rodinou s historickými kořeny. Ženy žily za zavřenými dveřmi, zatímco muži mohli volně přicházet a odcházet. Carmen se ocitla v izolaci, bez možnosti vyjít ven nebo řídit auto, a její život se scvrkl na malý prostor. Čelila zoufalství a hledala cesty, jak zlepšit podmínky pro sebe a své dcery. Když se její vztahy s manželem zhoršily, žila v obavách z rozvodu a ztráty dětí. Tato hrozba ji přiměla k radikálnímu kroku. Příběh ženy, která strávila desetiletí za vysokými zdmi arabského domu, odhaluje zákulisí rodiny jednoho z nejhledanějších teroristů a ukazuje neslučitelnost obou kultur.