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Makdisi, Jean Said.
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Makdisi, Jean Said -- Family.
Families -- Middle East.
Women -- Middle East -- Biography.
Middle East -- Biography.
Beirut (Lebanon) -- Biography.
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Makdisi, Jean Said.
Makdisi, Jean Said -- Family.
Families -- Middle East.
Women -- Middle East -- Biography.
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Beirut (Lebanon) -- Biography.
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Teta, mother, and me : three generations of Arab women / Jean Said Makdisi.
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Makdisi, Jean Said.
W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 2006.
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305.488927 M235t
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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.
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