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Author Makdisi, Jean Said.

Title Teta, mother, and me : three generations of Arab women / Jean Said Makdisi.

Publication Info. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 2006.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 MAKDISI    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B MAKDISI    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  305.48 MAK    Check Shelf
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.
Families -- Middle East.
Women -- Middle East -- Biography.
Middle East -- Biography.
Beirut (Lebanon) -- Biography.
ISBN 0393061566 hardcover
Standard No. 9780393061567
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