Teta, mother and me
Subtitle: three generations of Arab women
By: Jean Said Makdisi.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: Makdisi, Jean Said -- Family; Family -- Middle East; Women -- Middle East -- Biography; Middle East -- Biography; Beirut (Lebanon) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Previously published as Teta, mother and me : an Arab woman's memoir, London : Saqi, 2005.
Table of contents: title: Prelude. In my own time; title: 1. Jean; title: 2. A Cairo childhood; title: 3. Men and women, girls and boys; title: 4. A kind of education; title: 5. 'Ladies, simply ladies'; title: 6. Suez; title: 7. Ringing the changes; title: 8. Beirut.  Teta in history.; title: 9. Teta's family origins: the Badrs of Schweir and the Haddads of Abeih; title: 10. Homs; title: 11. A nineteenth-century Syrian schoolgirl; title: 12. Alternative paths; title: 13. Marriage and war; title: 14. Happiness. Mother's world.; title: 15. A Palestinian girlhood; title: 16. Partings; title: 17. Schooldays in Beirut; title: 18. Engagement and marriage; title: 19. Modern bride, housewife, mother; title: 20. Beyond the memoir. Women together: mother and me.; title: 21. Beirut revisited; title: 22. More letters and war; title: 23. Gentle into the night; title: 24. Balance; title: Postlude; title: Acknowledgments; title: Seleted bibliography; title: Index.