Arab Princess Memoirs (3 parts)

Memoirs of an Arab Princess, a novel similar to an autobiography by the Arab Eastern author and daughter of a great Arab sultan, who graduated more than a hundred years ago according to her people's traditions, then married a German young man and abandoned her homeland and her father’s throne for him, leaving a life of luxury and palaces to be swept away by fate to foreign lands between London and Berlin. She replaced her life of mingling and revealing in Europe with the life of women of the harem and wearing the hijab in the East, and with her Arabic name, Lady Salma bint Saeed, she took on a foreign name, Princess Emily Ruth. Then life became narrow for her after twenty years, or she herself grew weary of European life and longed to return to her homeland, but the doors of return closed in her face. So she devoted herself to writing in German her story and experiences, recalling her homeland and her people. This rare strange story, which almost resembles fairy tales and is rarely heard of in the East despite its prevalence in the West, is the subject of this book, which we present to Arabic readers today in translation. The princess is Lady Salma, daughter of Mr. Saeed bin Sultan, Sultan of Oman and Zanzibar (1804-1856), and granddaughter of Imam Ahmed bin Saeed, founder of the ruling dynasty in Oman.