A beautiful Arabian Muslim living in Amman falls in love with Michael, a Catholic in the Royal Army. An ancient tradition encourages the murder of women considered to have dishonored the family. This book has a new title in 2004.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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So after all, this book is a work of fiction!,
By Karlson (Amman, Jordan.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: FORBIDDEN LOVE: A Harrowing Story of Love and Revenge in Jordan (Paperback)
Indeed! There was no need for us in Jordan to wait for an Australian reporter to reach this conclusion. We knew it all along!I am a Western reviewer from Amman, a far more pleasant place than the author was willing to admit in her book! The author described Jordanian women as if they have only two choices: Stay in Jordan and be enslaved or move to the West and be free. Now we know how false is this description and how fake is the author herself! In 1977, the American author Alex Haley devised the term `faction' -to define a writing that is part fact and part fiction- when he was asked to describe the nature of his book `Roots' because it did not hold under historical scrutiny. The ensuing question was then: Is this book, with its content and characters, a work of faction or (worse) of fiction? The recent revelations about this book have answered this question: This book is so full of contradictions -within itself- and so full of lies and fabrications -about its Jordanian settings and people- that it could not stand the meticulous scrutiny of an enterprising and dedicated Australian journalist willing to check, independently and objectively, all the facts surrounding this `forbidden love' story that never happened! To your readers, may I suggest two alternative books to this fake book, for a serious, informative and definitely non-fictional study about women in Jordan? They are both written by women and are both available in Amazon: * `The Veil and the Male Elite' by Fatima Mernissi. * `Women and Gender in Islam' by Leila Ahmed. Regards.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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Racist Hoax,
By Ishmael "cleverlemming" (Montana) - See all my reviews
This review is from: FORBIDDEN LOVE: A Harrowing Story of Love and Revenge in Jordan (Paperback)
Khouri's real name is Norma Majid Khouri Michael Al-Bagain Toliopoulos, and she only lived in Jordan until she was three years old. She has a US passport and lived from 1973 until 2000 in Chicago. She is married with two children, 13 and 11. She has four American siblings and a mother who are desperate to hear news from her. But she has managed to conceal this double life from her publishers, her agent, lawyers in several continents, the Australian Department of Immigration and, until now, the public.(...)
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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I feel cheated,
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This review is from: FORBIDDEN LOVE: A Harrowing Story of Love and Revenge in Jordan (Paperback)
I really enjoyed Honor Lost until I just found out it was not a true story. Now I would like to get my money returned to me forbuying a book that was not sold as fiction. Anyone have any suggestions how we all should do this? I never would have purchased this fairy tale. Shame on you Norma. Roseamond In Pa.
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