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Teta, mother, and me : three generations of Arab women / Jean Said Makdisi.
Publication details: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., 2006.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 404 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0393061566
- 9780393061567
- 9780393329650
- 0393329658
- DS61.52.M35 A3 2006
Contents:
Summary: Traces more than a century in the lives of three women from an Arab-Christian family in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt, in an account that describes their acts of faith and courage against a backdrop of the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the founding of Israel, the Arab-Israeli wars, and other conflicts.
Prelude. In my own time -- Jean -- A Cairo childhood -- Men and women, girls and boys -- A kind of education -- 'Ladies, simply ladies' -- Suez -- Ringing the changes -- Beirut. Teta in history. -- Teta's family origins: the Badrs of Schweir and the Haddads of Abeih -- Homs -- A nineteenth-century Syrian schoolgirl -- Alternative paths -- Marriage and war -- Happiness. Mother's world -- A Palestinian girlhood -- Partings -- Schooldays in Beirut -- Engagement and marriage -- Modern bride, housewife, mother -- Beyond the memoir. Women together: mother and me -- Beirut revisited -- More letters and war -- Gentle into the night -- Balance -- Postlude.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Non-fiction | Main Collection | DS 61.52 .M35 A3 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5175687 |
Previously published as Teta, mother and me : an Arab woman's memoir, London : Saqi, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-404).
Prelude. In my own time -- Jean -- A Cairo childhood -- Men and women, girls and boys -- A kind of education -- 'Ladies, simply ladies' -- Suez -- Ringing the changes -- Beirut. Teta in history. -- Teta's family origins: the Badrs of Schweir and the Haddads of Abeih -- Homs -- A nineteenth-century Syrian schoolgirl -- Alternative paths -- Marriage and war -- Happiness. Mother's world -- A Palestinian girlhood -- Partings -- Schooldays in Beirut -- Engagement and marriage -- Modern bride, housewife, mother -- Beyond the memoir. Women together: mother and me -- Beirut revisited -- More letters and war -- Gentle into the night -- Balance -- Postlude.
Traces more than a century in the lives of three women from an Arab-Christian family in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt, in an account that describes their acts of faith and courage against a backdrop of the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the founding of Israel, the Arab-Israeli wars, and other conflicts.
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