Bibliograph

Teta, mother, and me, three generations of Arab women, Jean Said Makdisi

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Teta, mother, and me, three generations of Arab women, Jean Said Makdisi

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-404)

resource.biographical

collective biography

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portraitsplatesillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Teta, mother, and me

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

62089944

Responsibility statement

Jean Said Makdisi

Sub title

three generations of Arab women

Table Of Contents

Prelude. In my own time -- 1. Jean -- 2. A Cairo childhood -- 3. Men and women, girls and boys -- 4. A kind of education -- 5. 'Ladies, simply ladies' -- 6. Suez -- 7. Ringing the changes -- 8. Beirut. Teta in history. -- 9. Teta's family origins: the Badrs of Schweir and the Haddads of Abeih -- 10. Homs -- 11. A nineteenth-century Syrian schoolgirl -- 12. Alternative paths -- 13. Marriage and war -- 14. Happiness. Mother's world. -- 15. A Palestinian girlhood -- 16. Partings -- 17. Schooldays in Beirut -- 18. Engagement and marriage -- 19. Modern bride, housewife, mother -- 20. Beyond the memoir. Women together: mother and me. -- 21. Beirut revisited -- 22. More letters and war -- 23. Gentle into the night -- 24. Balance -- Postlude -- Acknowledgments -- Selected bibliography

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