Cinderella in Arabia

About the Book

Moving from adolescent dreams under the spires of Oxford to the incestuous, corrupt, and filthy-rich milieus of modern Kuwait, this book tears away the veil of hypocrisy, misunderstanding, and myth which shrouds the contemporary Middle East. Forget about political correctness. This is a true story that takes you into the heart of wastaland, where whom you know gets you where you want to be, where haute couture garments rub shoulders with the spirit of the Middle Ages and where women are still bought and sold and consigned to a life of obedience or else! Step into the land of oil and the riches it brings and prepare to be shocked by what you learn.

About the Author

Cinderella in Kuwait is an autobiography that exposes the tensions of intercultural marriage. Monika, as a naive young Austrian student, believed she was marrying a Muslim Prince Charming and found herself welded to, persecuted by, and entangled with the whole of his family and culture. Her sometimes tragic, often ludicrous, but constantly volatile lifestyle drove her to the fringes of human despair as spells thickened the air, her businesses burnt down, and infidelity reared its ugly head?again and again.