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This is my story, the story of an Arab woman. It is the story of a lost world. It begins in 1917, in Lebanon, when I was seven years old. So opens this haunting memoir by Wadad Makdisi Cortas, who eloquently describes her personal experience of the events that have fractured the Middle East over the past century. Through Cortas eyes we experience life in Lebanon under the oppressive French mandate, and her desire to forge an Arab identity based on religious tolerance. We learn of her dedication to the education of women, and the difficulties that she overcomes to become the principal of a school in Lebanon. And in final, heartbreaking detail, we watch as her world becomes rent by the Palestine question, Western interference, and civil war. The World I Loved is both an elegy on Lebanon and her people, and the unforgettable story of one womans journey from hope to sorrow as she bears painful witness to the undoing of her beloved country by sectarian and religious division.
| ISBN: | 9781568584294 |
| Publication date: | 4th June 2009 |
| Author: | Wadad Makdisi Cortas |
| Publisher: | Nation Books an imprint of Avalon Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Primary Genre | Biographies & Autobiographies |
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Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 17 May 2012.
This is my story, the story of an Arab woman. It is the story of a lost world. It begins in 1917, in Lebanon, when I was seven years old. So opens this haunting memoir by Wadad Makdisi Cortas, who eloquently describes her personal experience of the events that have fractured the Middle East over the past century. Through Cortas eyes we experience life in Lebanon under the oppressive French mandate, and her desire to forge an Arab identity based on religious tolerance. We learn of her dedication to the education of women, and the difficulties that she overcomes to become the principal of a school in Lebanon. And in final, heartbreaking detail, we watch as her world becomes rent by the Palestine question, Western interference, and civil war. The World I Loved is both an elegy on Lebanon and her people, and the unforgettable story of one womans journey from hope to sorrow as she bears painful witness to the undoing of her beloved country by sectarian and religious division.
A World I Loved The Story of an Arab Woman features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, eBooks of the Month, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Recommendations
A World I Loved The Story of an Arab Woman is available in Paperback
A World I Loved The Story of an Arab Woman was written by Wadad Makdisi Cortas and published by Nation Books an imprint of Avalon Publishing Group
A World I Loved The Story of an Arab Woman has 208 pages
£15.29
