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Book SynopsisThirty-six original memoirs written by Middle Eastern men and women about their own childhoods.
Trade Review... these accounts eloquently portray extended families at work, the needs and responsibilities they represent, and the ways in which modern Middle Easterners never "leave home"... Books of this kind, which reveal the great variety of Middle Eastern Experiences, which bring a human dimension to what otherwise might seem a set of abstractions, and which enable the reader to engage in life events that most of us share, have an important role to play in the university classroom. They are a key weapon in the university's teacher's struggle against prejudice and ignorance."--Times Literary Supplement, 24 October 2003
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction by Robert A. Fernea
- Narratives
- The End of the Ottoman Empire (1923)
- Mohammed Fadhel Jamali (Iraq)
- Nazik Jawdat (Syria/Lebanon)
- Charles Issawi (Egypt)
- Mansur al-Hazimi (Saudi Arabia)
- Janset Shami (Jordan)
- Selma Khadra Jayyusi (Palestine)
- European Colonial Rule and the Rise of Arab Nationalism (1830-1967); Establishment of the State of Israel (1948)
- Hoda Naamani (Syria/Lebanon)
- YIldIray Erdener (Turkey)
- Hassan Aziz Hassan (Egypt)
- Basima Bezirgan (Iraq)
- Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot (Egypt)
- Mohammed Ghanoonparvar (Iran)
- Avraham Zilkha (Iraq)
- Halim Barakat (Syria/Lebanon)
- Güneli Gün (Turkey)
- Zbida Shetlan (Tunisia)
- Mahnaz Afkhami (Iran)
- New Nations (1952-1963); Oil Wealth and OPEC (1973- ); Israeli-Palestinian Wars (1967, 1973); Camp David Treaty (1979); Iranian Revolution (1979)
- Salah-Dine Hammoud (Morocco)
- Saif Abbas Dehrab (Kuwait)
- Hamza al-Din (Egypt)
- Akile Gursoy (Turkey)
- Rafiq Abdul Rahman (Palestine)
- Abdul Aziz Abbassi (Morocco)
- Fedwa Malti-Douglas (Lebanon)
- Awad Abdelrahim Abdelgader (Sudan)
- Ali Eftekari (Iran)
- The Post-Colonial Middle East (1971- )
- Shafeeq N. Ghabra (Kuwait)
- Maysoon Pachachi (Iraq)
- Esther Raizen (Israel)
- Lilia Labidi (Tunisia)
- Suad Joseph (Lebanon/United States)
- Abdelaziz Jadir (Morocco)
- Nahid Rachlin (Iran)
- Mustafa Mirzeler (Turkey/Kurdistan)
- Leila Abouzeid (Morocco)
- Ronda Abou-Bakr (Egypt)
