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

People: Jean Said Makdisi

Places: Beirut (Lebanon),  Middle East