Daughter of Damascus
Subtitle: Taken from Ya Mal Al-Sham (Modern Middle East Literature in Translation Series)
Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr
Published: March 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780292781269
Subjects: Women's studies; African; Historical; Sociology Of Women; Biography / Autobiography; History: World
Description: This book presents a personal account of a Syrian woman's youth in the Suq Saruja (old city) of Damascus in the first half of this century. Author Tergeman wrote the original memoir, Ya Mal al-Sham, in Arabic to preserve the details of a genuine Arab past for Syrian young people and to help them appreciate the architecture of the old quarter with its reminders of earlier values.