Title: Teta, Mother, and Me
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.
Subjects: Families, Family, Biography, Women, Family, middle east, Women, middle east, Middle east, biography, Lebanon, biography, Women, biography
Places: Beirut (Lebanon), Middle East
People: Jean Said Makdisi