num_pages: 424
description: In this moving memoir Jean Said Makdisi lovingly chronicles the unsung private histories of three generations of women in her family.Set against a backdrop of political upheaval in Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt and the United States, the story begins and ends with the author’s own experience of raising a family in Beirut during the agonising fratricide of the Lebanese civil war; it delves deep into the past to uncover her grandmother’s early childhood in Ottoman Syria, and her mother’s experience of urban modernization in the Arab world.Poignant yet uplifting, Teta, Mother and Me is a powerful testimony to the author’s lifelong struggle towards a state of independence and her negotiation of the often conflicting demands of work and family.Jean Said Makdisi was born in Jerusalem. She studied in Cairo and the United States. She is the author of Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book. She lives in Beirut with her husband.
language: English
title: Teta, Mother And Me: An Arab Woman's Memoir
titlecomplete: Teta, Mother And Me: An Arab Woman's Memoir
genres: Memoir, Nonfiction, Contemporary, Biography Memoir, History
ratings_count: 134
publisher: Saqi Books