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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Makdisi, Jean Said.     Subjects     Makdisi, Jean Said -- Family.     Families -- Middle East.     Women -- Middle East -- Biography.     Middle East -- Biography.     Beirut (Lebanon) -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Makdisi, Jean Said.       by title:      Teta, mother, and me...       by call number:      305.488927 M235t     Search the Web     Makdisi, Jean Said.     Makdisi, Jean Said -- Family.     Families -- Middle East.     Women -- Middle East -- Biography.     Middle East -- Biography.     Beirut (Lebanon) -- Biography.       MARC Display

Teta, mother, and me : three generations of Arab women / Jean Said Makdisi. by Makdisi, Jean Said. W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 2006. Call #: 305.488927 M235t Subjects Makdisi, Jean Said -- Family.   Families -- Middle East.   Women -- Middle East -- Biography.   Middle East -- Biography.   Beirut (Lebanon) -- Biography. ISBN:  9780393061567 0393061566 9780393329650 (pbk.) Edition:  1st American ed. Description:  404 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. Notes:  Previously published as Teta, mother and me : an Arab woman's memoir, London : Saqi, 2005. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. [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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 305.488927 M235t Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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