The Veiled Kingdom by Carmen Bin Ladin
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 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. In 1974 Carmen, half Swiss and half Persian, married into the Bin Laden family and found herself inside a complex and vast clan, part of a society that at that point she neither knew nor understood. Determined to protect her daughters from the inevitable restrictions within a society riddled with hypocrisy and contradiction, in 1985 Carmen moved back to her home country, Switzerland. Carmen's story takes us inside one of the most powerful, secretive and repressive kingdoms in the world and the Bin Laden family's role within it, and she is one of the few women to have acquired, through her husband, intimate knowledge of the inner workings of this society.
'If you want to beat Osama, you've got to start by listening to Carmen' - Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times 'A searing indictment of a society and a family perverted by fanaticism.. a terrifying insight into the psychology of Al-Qaeda.' - Times
Carmen Bin Ladin lives in Switzerland with her three daughters.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844081028 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844081028 |
| Title | The Veiled Kingdom |
| Author | Carmen Bin Ladin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2004-07-22 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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