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100 1 _aMakdisi, Jean Said.
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245 1 0 _aTeta, mother, and me :
_bthree generations of Arab women /
_cJean Said Makdisi.
250 _a1st American ed.
260 _aNew York, NY :
_bW.W. Norton & Co.,
_c2006.
300 _a404 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations, portraits ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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500 _aPreviously published as Teta, mother and me : an Arab woman's memoir, London : Saqi, 2005.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 399-404).
505 0 _aPrelude. 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.
520 _aTraces 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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