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Remembering Childhood in the Middle East Growing up is a universal experience, but the particularities of homeland, culture, ethnicity, religion, family, everything memoir middle motherhood 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 everything memoir middle motherhood and women about their own childhoods.Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, a well-known writer of books everything memoir middle motherhood and documentary films about women everything memoir middle motherhood and the family in the Middle East, has collected stories of childhoods spent in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, everything memoir middle motherhood and Turkey. The accounts span the entire twentieth century, a full range of ethnicities everything memoir middle motherhood and religions, everything memoir middle motherhood and the social spectrum from aristocracy to peasantry. They are grouped by eras, for which Fernea provides a concise historical sketch, everything memoir middle motherhood and include a brief biography of each contributor. The introduction by anthropologist Robert A. Fernea sets the memoirs in the larger context of Middle Eastern life everything memoir middle motherhood and culture.As a collection, the memoirs offer an unprecedented opportunity to look at the same period in history in the same region of the world from a variety of very different remembered experiences. At times dramatic, humorous, or tragic, everything memoir middle motherhood and always deeply felt, the memoirs document the diversity everything memoir middle motherhood and richness of people`s lives in the modern Middle East. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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Mary After All Mary Marelli grows up in a close-knit Italian neighborhood in New Jersey, a slightly wacky but comforting milieu until her mother becomes chronically ill, everything memoir middle motherhood and Mary has to shoulder much of her care. Overburdened by it all, she leaves home at 16 to get married, everything memoir middle motherhood and by the time she`s out of her teens she has two children, a problematic marriage--and a mother she must continue to care for. From that point, her life gets no easier, as adultery, divorce, everything memoir middle motherhood and single motherhood shatter the secure life Mary had imagined for herself. This novel, in the form of a memoir from the vantage point of middle age, charts this very appealing heroine`s life choices, along with her hopes everything memoir middle motherhood and regrets, as she realizes that she has found the strength to live her life from the very elements that have so sorely tested it. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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