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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.
Middle East -- Biography.
Beirut (Lebanon) -- Biography.
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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
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1. Jean
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2. A Cairo childhood
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3. Men and
women
, girls and boys
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4. A kind of education
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5. 'Ladies, simply ladies'
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6. Suez
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7. Ringing the changes
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8. Beirut. Teta in history.
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9. Teta's family origins: the Badrs of Schweir and the Haddads of Abeih
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10. Homs
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11. A nineteenth-century Syrian schoolgirl
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12. Alternative paths
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13. Marriage and war
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14. Happiness. Mother's world.
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15. A Palestinian girlhood
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16. Partings
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17. Schooldays in Beirut
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18. Engagement and marriage
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19. Modern bride, housewife, mother
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20. Beyond the memoir.
Women
together: mother and me.
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21. Beirut revisited
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22. More letters and war
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23. Gentle into the night
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24. Balance
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Postlude
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Acknowledgments
--
Selected bibliography.
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