Edition |
First American edition. |
Description |
404 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
Note |
Previously published as Teta, mother and me : an Arab woman's memoir, London : Saqi, 2005. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [399]-404). |
Contents |
Prelude. In my own time -- 1. Jean -- 2. A Cairo childhood -- 3. Men and women, girls and boys -- 4. A kind of education -- 5. 'Ladies, simply ladies' -- 6. Suez -- 7. Ringing the changes -- 8. Beirut. Teta in history. -- 9. Teta's family origins: the Badrs of Schweir and the Haddads of Abeih -- 10. Homs -- 11. A nineteenth-century Syrian schoolgirl -- 12. Alternative paths -- 13. Marriage and war -- 14. Happiness. Mother's world. -- 15. A Palestinian girlhood -- 16. Partings -- 17. Schooldays in Beirut -- 18. Engagement and marriage -- 19. Modern bride, housewife, mother -- 20. Beyond the memoir. Women together: mother and me. -- 21. Beirut revisited -- 22. More letters and war -- 23. Gentle into the night -- 24. Balance -- Postlude -- Acknowledgments -- Selected bibliography. |
Subject |
Makdisi, Jean Said -- Family.
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Families -- Middle East.
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Women -- Middle East -- Biography.
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Middle East -- Biography.
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Beirut (Lebanon) -- Biography.
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ISBN |
0393061566 hardcover |
Standard No. |
9780393061567 |
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