TY  - BOOK
AU  - Makdisi,Jean Said
TI  - Teta, mother, and me: three generations of Arab women 
SN  - 0393061566
AV  - DS61.52.M35 A3 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - W.W. Norton & Co.
KW  - Makdisi, Jean Said
KW  - Makdisi, Jean Said.
KW  - Families
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Women
KW  - Biography
KW  - fast
KW  - Beirut (Lebanon)
KW  - Lebanon
KW  - Beirut
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -