75. Latifa: The Missing Princess - UAE/India

This is the story of Dubai’s missing royal; this is the story of Princess Latifa. The best way to break a spell of awkward silence with your friends, is to ask this simple question: what would you give up for a billion dollars? That’s billion with a ‘b’. And this question takes many forms: would you give up your arms, or your legs, or vision or your relationship, and the toughest of them all, would you give up your dog for a billion dollars? This is a simple rhetorical tool to instill thoughtful humorous banter with your buddies, but what happens when a rhetorical tool is no longer a game? What happens when this question becomes a very real dilemma in somebody’s life? A princess in Dubai faced this dilemma. Not posed by her friends, but by her very life’s circumstances. The question was: would you give up your freedom for a billion dollars? Exclusive YouTube episode, Chamari Liyanage: https://youtu.be/hk0-FuqgRNI Latifa Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN7OEFyNUkQ Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBrgzG_SGU0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVkCtJGVnpM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kb6Ne21Xa8 https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/dubai-rulers-daughter-sheikha-latifa-used-car-dinghy-rode-jet-ski-in-failed-escape-2191012 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56085734 https://freelatifa.com/latifas-escape/ https://freelatifa.com/proof/ https://freelatifa.com/about-latiifa/ https://freelatifa.com/evidence/ https://freelatifa.com/about-shamsa/ https://freelatifa.com/gallery/ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/world/middleeast/dubai-princess-alive.html https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3168182/what-happened-dubais-runaway-princess-sheikha-latifa-uae https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/07/08/princess-latifa-what-we-know-fbis-role-her-capture/7889659002/ https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/princess-latifa-dubai-jail-villa-uae-ruler-7193428/ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56085369 https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-princess-latifa-lawsuit-dubai-emir-interpol-head https://www.thedailybeast.com/dubai-tricked-the-fbi-into-finding-runaway-princess-latifa-report-says https://ia600105.us.archive.org/16/items/FreeLatifa/latifa_1_31375892_2084819728470139_9001930614064021504_n.jpg https://player.fm/series/series-1789846/the-plight-of-princess-latifa-427 https://web.archive.org/web/20180410073805/https://www.mid-day.com/articles/former-spy-wants-fbi-to-investigate-raid-to-snatch-dubai-princess/19302176 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/world/middleeast/human-rights-robinson-dubai-princess.html https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dubais-latifa-is-free-travel-statement-issued-through-lawyers-says-2021-06-23/