Through the Palace Keyhole

From the Arab world comes a story of the love between an Arab man and an American woman which lasted more than half a century.

In 1958, Sami Sawalha took his young bride to his Jordanian homeland. Uprooted from all that was familiar to her, Ann faced the cultural and linguistic challenges head on and began to assimilate herself into her husband’s tribe – a proud and ancient Bedouin people who trace their roots to before the coming of Islam.

Building up the family hotel business on both sides ...