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100 1 $aMakdisi, Jean Said.
245 10 $aTeta, mother, and me :$bthree generations of Arab women /$cJean Said Makdisi.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bW.W. Norton & Co.,$c2006.
300 $a404 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill., ports. ;$c25 cm.
500 $aPreviously published as Teta, mother and me : an Arab woman's memoir, London : Saqi, 2005.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [399]-404).
505 0 $aPrelude. In my own time -- Jean -- A Cairo childhood -- Men and women, girls and boys -- A kind of education -- 'Ladies, simply ladies' -- Suez -- Ringing the changes -- Beirut. Teta in history. -- Teta's family origins: the Badrs of Schweir and the Haddads of Abeih -- Homs -- A nineteenth-century Syrian schoolgirl -- Alternative paths -- Marriage and war -- Happiness. Mother's world -- A Palestinian girlhood -- Partings -- Schooldays in Beirut -- Engagement and marriage -- Modern bride, housewife, mother -- Beyond the memoir. Women together: mother and me -- Beirut revisited -- More letters and war -- Gentle into the night -- Balance -- Postlude.
520 $aTraces more than a century in the lives of three women from an Arab-Christian family in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt, in an account that describes their acts of faith and courage against a backdrop of the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the founding of Israel, the Arab-Israeli wars, and other conflicts.
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650 0 $aWomen$zMiddle East$vBiography.
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651 0 $aBeirut (Lebanon)$vBiography.
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