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Remembering childhood in the Middle East : memoirs from a century of change / collected and edited by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea ; introduction by Robert A. Fernea.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle East-Biography.
- Middle East-Social life and customs-20th century.
- Middle East-Ethnic relations.
- Middle East--Biography.
- Middle East.
- Middle East--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Middle East--Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (366 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Growing up is a universal experience, but the particularities of homeland, culture, ethnicity, religion, family, and so on make every childhood unique.To give Western readers insight into what growing up in the Middle East was like in the twentieth century, this book gathers thirty-six original memoirs written by Middle Eastern men and women.
- Contents:
- 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 (Israel) ; Halim Barakat (Syria/Lebanon) ; Guneli Gun (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)
- Notes:
- Some essays translated from Arabic or French, and previously published.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-292-79873-3
- OCLC:
- 55731930
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