"It's Not What You Think is a wry, incisive account of working in Saudi Arabia that offers insight into that insular patriarchal society, what is so attractive to expatriates living there, and what was contradictory or confining about it for a naturalized American who is a woman and a Muslim. A hospital executive in New Jersey, Sabeeha relocated with her oncologist husband to Riyadh, the most conservative city in the country, intending to remain two...

Describes the brutal reality of women living in Saudi Arabia and the continuing attempts of Princess Sultana to fight oppression and establish human rights.

In January 2019, then 18-year-old Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed escaped from her family while holidaying in Kuwait. She was fleeing systematic abuse of her human rights as a woman growing up in Saudi Arabia and, specifically, her family's threats to kill her because she desired the freedoms Western women take for granted. She boarded a plane bound for Bangkok, en route to Australia where she intended to seek asylum. But on her arrival the Thai authorities,...

"Arabia Saudyjska to jeden z najbardziej tajemniczych krajów świata. Szczególnie dotyczy to życia kobiet, które dla człowieka Zachodu przedstawia tylko zbiór stereotypowych wyobrażeń. Nicola Sutcliff postanowiła naocznie przekonać się, co kryje się za nikabem. Przez cztery lata mieszkała w Arabii Saudyjskiej, pracowała tam i widywała się z kobietami. Spotykała się ze znanymi na całym świecie saudyjskimi aktywistkami walczącymi...