A world I loved : the story of an Arab woman / Wadad Makdisi Cortas.
نوع المادة : نصاللغة: الإنجليزية اللغة الأصلية:عربي الناشر:New York : Nation Books, [2009]تاريخ حقوق النشر: copyright 2009وصف:xxxi, 208 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781568584294 (pbk)
- 1568584296 (pbk)
- Dunyā ahbabtuhā. English
- HQ1728.Z75 Q573 2009
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | HQ1728.Z75 Q573 2009 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010000400371 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | HQ1728.Z75 Q573 2009 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010000400017 |
Foreword / Nadine Gordimer -- Introduction / Mariam C. Said -- A World I Loved -- Afterword / Najla Said -- Historical Overview / Mariam C. Said.
"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.3 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{u2019} 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 2Palestine question,3 Western interference, and civil war. The World I Loved is both an elegy on Lebanon and her people, and the unforgettable story of one woman{u2019}s journey from hope to sorrow as she bears painful witness to the undoing of her beloved country by sectarian and religious division.