Sentences with phrase «in a harem»

A bible talks he had 300 wives and 700 concubines (women, living in a harem in sexual aims).
Soon, Jillian found herself on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei.
As the title suggests, the riveting, illuminating memoir recounts Mernissi's childhood spent in a harem in Morocco in the 1940s.
Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, leaving behind her gritty East Village apartment for a palace with rugs laced with gold and trading her band of artist friends for a coterie of backstabbing beauties.
She is in the pose of a concubine in a harem popularized in the renderings of female nudes by the early 19th - century French artist, Jean Auguste Dominque Ingres.
«She is in the pose of a concubine in a harem popularized in the renderings of female nudes by the early 19th - century French artist, Jean Auguste Dominque Ingres,» according to the museum.
I'm the one who was also in a harem and I want to tell you my story, as I loved yours..
The eunuchs were the ones who served in the harem.
He has just taken all the most beautiful women of the country into his own harem, and he sleeps with them one by one, and if he is not pleased with them, well, too bad for her and for her family, but now that the king has slept with her, she has to remain in the harem.
This helped to democratize marriage by making more women available to poorer men rather than allowing wealthy men to hoard females in their harems.
a man who has been castrated, esp (formerly) for some office such as a guard in a harem 2.
Perhaps she ate only seeds and nuts and fruits while in the harem, unwilling to sully herself with unkosher foods.
Perhaps she observed Shabbat even in the harem of the king, in secret.
Jillian Lauren (who also wrote «Some Girls») tells her story of infertility, of adoption, and of moving past a history of drug use (and a stint in a harem) while watching other friends who are unable to escape that past.
Jillian Lauren quit New York University her freshman year to become a «party guest» for a «wealthy businessman in Singapore,» and ended up spending a year - and - a-half in the harem of the Prince of Brunei.
Half a lifetime ago, Jillian Lauren, 36, spent a year in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, the Sultan of Brunei's decadent youngest brother.
Mom is a big fan of this season's harem pants and my little girl (2 months) would look very dapper in harem - like pants of her own.
the movie is broad, brassy, often overdramatic and about as subtle as an elephant in harem pants.
Isadora Myung Hee Sohn — Isa — worships her mother, an exceptional beauty, born in Seoul and sheltered in a harem of sisters inside the wealthy family's compound.
Jillian has told some fabulous stories at the Moth and other events about her time in a harem during her troubled twenties.
-- so now I'm feeling like that over-sexed guy in the harem.
Left: Marlene Dumas, Jealousy in the Harem, 2005; watercolor and inkwash on paper, 24 x 78 3/4 in.
Odalisque translates to female slave or a woman slave in a harem.
Hirola cluster in harems, consisting of a territorial male, several females, and their young.
Williamson deftly intercuts the points of view of characters drawn from the group, which includes a teenage girl living in a harem.
Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next 18 months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah...
Sadly, most of the women in his harem are dead, too.
If the story of an 18 year - old girl traveling to Borneo and ending up in a harem of the prince of Brunei, son of the Sultan of Brunei, doesn't entice you then perhaps her fantastic writing will.
That's why they were usually safe to have in harems.
Jillian Lauren is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem and the novel, Pretty, both published by Plume / Penguin.
As it was with her first book and memoir: Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, Lauren's fictional debut proves, yet again, that she has what it takes to leave an indelible mark.
She is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoirs Everything You Ever Wanted and Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, and the novel Pretty.
Jillian Lauren is a writer in Los Angeles and her new book «Some Girls: My Life In A Harem» was recently released
Here is the trailer for «Some Girls: My Life In a Harem» Jillian Lauren
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To read more by Jillian Lauren check out her blog and go to Amazon for her books «Pretty» and «Some Girls: My Life in a Harem»
Now an Eagle Rock mom of one, married to Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, she looks back at her year of living dangerously in a new memoir — «Some Girls: My Life in a Harem» (Plume)-- which will be released Tuesday.
Jillian Lauren is the author of Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, due out from Plume on April 27.
Jillian Lauren's first book, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, tells her true story of living in a harem in Brunei.
Jillian Lauren is the author of the new novel, «Pretty,» and the memoir, «Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
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