Teta, Mother, and Me: Three Generations of Arab Women

New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007 W.W. Norton & Company, New York. 2007. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: As New. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 404 pp 8vo. In this book the author illuminates a century of Arab life and history through the stories of her mother, Hilda Musa Said, and her Teta, "Granny" Munira Badr Musa. Against the backdrop of the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the rise of Arab nationalism, the founding of Israel, the Suez crisis, the Arab-Israeli Wars, and the Civil War in Beirut, she reveals the extraordinary courage of these ordinary women, while rethinking the notions of "traditional" and "modern", "East" and "West." With a loving eye, acute intelligence, and elegant impassioned prose, the author has written more than a memoir, rather and embrace of history and culture. A clean pristine copy.