During the last years a lot of rumors and cases have surprised again many women and men over the World and provoked many questions: what is happening to the royal arab men?? is the woman still suffering the submission from the arab man, in the 21st century? Is it the culture responsible or somebody else??. In this article, we decided to write about the arabe princess who is intellectually independent and with high education. Despites this, she could not face the power of the man in the arab society.
Princess Hind Al Qassemi Princess Latifah Bint Mohammad. Princess Haya of Jordan. Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco.
The majority of the women in the Arabic world, if not all of all of them are usually considered as socially disadvantaged and unfairly treated. For instance, traditional families in the Arabic world are known of the strict rules they apply on women and the suffocating restrictions they place on women, depending on many factors including marriage, the tribe they belong to, the social status of the family and many other restrictions many women find themselves facing.
Indeed, women in most of the Arab countries find themselves living under male guardianship. And by male guardianship, a father, brother or husband become involved in controlling the lives of women on different levels and making decisions on behalf of women, even when it comes to decisions that affect their lives from the day they are born until death. Surprisingly enough, female students in the United Arab Emirate University are strictly prohibited not only from using a Cell phone, but from carrying any cell phone with a camera.
The Women in the Arab Royal families from, fake freedom
While all the people believe that the life of the Royal families in general and that of the women within the royal families in particular, is a beautiful fairy tale that would never end, you should give it another thought. Indeed, life as a member of any royal family in the Arab world is no more than one of the most oppressive experiences in the world. And because the women of the royal families find themselves living in a lifetime prison and are restricted from living as normal people as well as well as deprived from their right to take the simplest decisions of their lives, many princesses and royal women choose to take daring decisions that no one would ever been able to foretell. And for many of the Royal Arab women, the apparent wealth they live in is no more than a superficial consolation for the unfair life they are going through and for their inability to make their own choices and to take their own decisions.
And if you want to focus more on the main problem that faces the Arab women in the Royal families, it is basically hypocrisy. Indeed, many privileged Arab families prefer to show themselves as a great example of the Liberal families, but this is only what they want to show to the world and the real treatment belies the international picture the Arab world wants the whole world to. However, the bitter reality is that any women who may threaten the family’s royal patriarchal image or any of its patriarchal public order are punished by being locked whether by the state or at their own homes.
Thereby, and due to the oppression they were subjected to, the women of the Arab Royal families sought escaping and fleeing their countries and the Arab world as one of the best solutions they could find in order to live the freedom they dreamt of and here some of the most popular stories of Women Royals in the Arab world, who dared to challenge the rules and the restrictions of Royal life and of the Arab world.
- Sheikha Latifa, Princess of United Arab Emirates
Princess Latifa is one of the members of the royal family of Dubai; she is Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum and she was born on the fifth of December 1985 to an Algerian mother, Houria Ahmed al-M’aach. Princess Latifa went suddenly missing since 2018.
Sheikha Latifa disappeared all of a sudden leaving huge interrogative questions. A witness described the disappearance of Sheikha Latifa as an act of abduction as he reported that the princess was seized by the forces of commandos trying to escape on a yacht. However, the astonishing truth was later revealed and the Princess wasn’t abducted, but and the fact that was more surprising and even shocking to the United Arab Emirates in general and a scandal par excellence to the royal family was that the princess spent seven years planning for her failed escape. Interrogated, Sheikha Latifa said she considered the State of the Gulf as a gilded and suffocating prison in her eyes.
Sheikha Latifa is the daughter of Mohammed bin Al Rashid al-Maktoum; Dubai’s prime minister. And the young woman, 32- years-old wasn’t seen after she was taken by certain armed men for about 30 miles away off the coast east of India in the early month of March. And it was later discovered that the Finnish capoeira teacher of the princess played an important role in helping her to sail and to escape in order to start a new life.
And Latifa is not the first person who has tried to flee the life of luxurious caged palaces of the royal family, but her older sister known as Shamsa was also seized in England, on the streets of Cambridge after escaping the family’s estate Surrey in 2000. Sheikah Latifa was said to be seeking political asylum abroad February of 2018.
- Princess Hind Faisal Al Qasimi
The Royal Qatari family is no exception when it comes to the restrictive rules to which princesses are subjected to. And the Qatari Princess, born in Sharjah in United Arab Emirates, Hend Faisal Al Qassemi and the well-known Emirati businesswoman make a great example of the Royal princess and the mother who has turned out to be the centre of focus throughout the entire world. Princess Hind was born in Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates and she had Architectural studies at the American University of Sharjah in Management at University of Manchester for Information in Science & Technology.
Indeed, Princess Hind has been really popular, mainly in the social media for the case in which she fought for the custody of her son. Princess Hind broke all the rules as she amicably married; then got separated from Prince Abdullah Saud Jassim Al Thani in the mid 2006. And the bravery Princess Hind has shown as she fought for the custody of her child remains one of the most courageous and bravest decisions that made her popular all over the world. Princess Hind knew how to defend her case very well and said that her son wasn’t even living with his father for several years and he was rather living with his aunts. And Princess Hind was really upset that her child wasn’t receiving the same level of affection as his cousins. For instance, Princess Hind said that one of her child’s aunts locked him up in a room for a whole day, while the other child wasn’t locked up. Besides, the child wasn’t allowed to go school or to have a mobile phone or use one.
- The Princess of Jordan
Another story of runaway princess appears to catch the interest of the entire world is the story of the Jordanian, Princess Haya Bint al-Hussein, the daughter of the late kind of Jordan, King Hussein. Princess Haya was born in 3 May 1974 and she graduated of Oxford University in England and an accomplished equestrian.
Princess Haya has been one of the wives of Dubai Ruler, Sheikh Rashid Al-Maktoum, and the princess is said to be in great fear, especially after the decision she made to leave her husband and run away with both her children and with a sum of money that is estimated at about $39 million. The princess and sheikh Rashed Al-Maktoum have stayed in legal battle for a long time and in different English courts after the Princess filed for a divorce from her husband.
Many media reports state that the princess looked for asylum in Germany for herself and her children too and at the moment, she is seeking refuge in the United Kingdom.
- Lalla Salma, the Princess Of Morocco
In an oppressive culture all Women, even Princesses are oppressed, and the same applies to some European cultures where Royal women were condemned to spend the rest of their lives in obscurity and no one would ever hear about. And the disappearance of Lalla Salma, wife of Mohammed VI of Morocco, triggered all the hearts and the souls. Lella Salma was born in Fes and her parents were the schoolteacher Abdelhamid Bennani, and her mother was Naïma Bensouda, who died when she was only three years old. It was later that sister Lella Salma and her sister were raised by their maternal grandmother, Hajja Fatma Abdellaoui Maâne in Rabat. Lella Salma attended a private school and met her husband after completing her engineering studies.
Princess Salma had not been seen in public since December 201 during her visit to the Museum of the Contemporary Art in Rabat. And the sudden disappearance of Princess Lalla Salma, the wife of Mohammed VI, King of Morocco, sowed doubt in the minds. And the main stakeholders, feeling scandalized by the assertions found it obligatory to break the silence and deny the spread of any false information.
It was later that the rumors started to spread all over the monarchy and the news came to shock the people when the statement “Lalla Salma is the former wife of Mohammed VI was printed in black and white’ and made the head news and the top of the headlines. And what started as a rumour became officialised by the royal palace; and the news of the divorce of the couple was confirmed. The royal divorced came after sixteen years of marriage. Lalla Salma was not only the mother of the heirs who remained hidden in the shadows, but she used to have an important role within the monarchy. And the princess was the first spouse of a Moroccan monarch to have an official status. In 2006, Princess Salma founded an association to the fight against cancer. And after a long time she spent in the shadows, the princess was recently seen in Greece, but nobody knows the real truth about Lellah Salma or what happened to her after the divorce took place.
