Monday, December 25, 2006

the price of honor


one of the best documentry's i've seen, here is more on the story of the film from wikipedia:

Princess Misha'al bint Fahd al Saud (1958-1977) (Arabic: الأميرة مشاعل بنت فهد بن محمد آل سعود) was a Saudi Arabian princess who was a victim of an honor killing, being publicly killed by her own family for adultery in 1977, at the age of 19. She was a granddaughter of Prince Muhammad bin Abdul Aziz, who was an older brother of the then King of Saudi Arabia, King Khalid bin Abdul Aziz.
After attempting to fake her own drowning and being caught trying to escape from Saudi Arabia with her lover, she and her lover were executed on the orders of her grandfather, Prince Muhammad bin Abdul Aziz. There is no clear evidence that a trial of the Princess or her lover took place. No charges have ever been brought against her grandfather.
Her death and events that lead up to it were dramatized in the docu-drama Death of a Princess (1980):
"The difference between the official version, which was the girl was killed because she was found guilty of adultery, and the truth of it, which turns out that she was, in fact, executed by the king's elder brother in an act of tribal vengeance in a parking lot in Jeddah, was, in fact, the heart of the controversy because that was the part that, of course, the royal family could not countenance. And that was the great outrage."
- David Fanning, Cowriter, Executive Producer of Death of a Princess

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

ok if u mean ino she's the one ili escaped with the american lover thing, then let me tell u this, we were always told that she didnt die and is just under house arrest, so reading this is 7ada @@!! and yeah, its sad!

bored said...

actually no, i think ur talking abt the ba7rainy princess, this actually happened a long time ago, and her lover was saudi

Missy said...

Intersting O.o

princess, ur talking about Maryam Al Khalifa. the Bahraini princess. she got divorced and she's back now.. what she did was so offensive to her family.

Missy said...

no update? :P
check my blog.
you've been tagged! haha :Pp

bored said...

missy: oh cool i got tagged, i'll get to it as soon as possible :)