Teta, mother and me
Subtitle: an Arab woman's memoir
By: Jean Said Makdisi.
Publisher: Saqi
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
Subjects: Makdisi, Jean Said -- Family; Family -- Middle East; Women -- Middle East -- Biography; Middle East -- Biography; Beirut (Lebanon) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In this memoir Jean Said Makdisi 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-412) and index.