6/25/2023 0 Comments The Red Sea Bride by Sylvia Fowler![]() ![]() She shares her downfalls and her triumphs. During this period she raises her children, grows apart from her husband and integrates herself in to her Saudi family. Sylvia spent twenty years in the port city of Jeddah. ![]() She describes in heartfelt detail the challenges of raising a son who is different from his cousins because he has lighter skin and does not speak the language. Sylvia shares her experiences of starting out married life in the same building where her mother-in-law and other extended family members lived. Sylvia found herself in a new land with a new husband and where everyone spoke a language she did not understand. This was before it was natural for most homes to have satellite TV. This was before the internet was readily available in Saudi Arabia. Instead of her dream of becoming an international journalist, she found herself a young mother and new wife living in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. ![]() They had a fast courtship and were soon married. American Bedu recently completed reading the book “The Red Sea Bride.” “The Red Sea Bride” is the autobiography of Sylvia Fowler, a woman who met her Saudi husband when he was a student in Texas during the 1980’s. ![]()
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