{"product_id":"remembering-childhood-in-the-middle-east-memoirs-from-a-century-of-change-paperback-softback-9780292725478","title":"Remembering Childhood in the Middle East; Memoirs from a Century of Change (Paperback \/ softback) 9780292725478","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRemembering Childhood in the Middle East\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMemoirs from a Century of Change\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eElizabeth Warnock Fernea (Edited by), Robert A. Fernea (Introduction by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780292725478\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 November 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e365 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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 about their own childhoods. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, a well-known writer of books and documentary films about women 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, and Turkey. The accounts span the entire twentieth century, a full range of ethnicities and religions, and the social spectrum from aristocracy to peasantry. They are grouped by eras, for which Fernea provides a concise historical sketch, 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 and culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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, and always deeply felt, the memoirs document the diversity and richness of people's lives in the modern Middle East. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction by Robert A. Fernea\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNarratives\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe End of the Ottoman Empire (1923)\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMohammed Fadhel Jamali (Iraq)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNazik Jawdat (Syria\/Lebanon)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCharles Issawi (Egypt)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMansur al-Hazimi (Saudi Arabia)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJanset Shami (Jordan)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelma Khadra Jayyusi (Palestine)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEuropean Colonial Rule and the Rise of Arab Nationalism (1830-1967)\u003cbr\u003e Establishment of the State of Israel (1948)\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHoda Naamani (Syria\/Lebanon)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYIldIray Erdener (Turkey)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHassan Aziz Hassan (Egypt)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBasima Bezirgan (Iraq)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot (Egypt)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMohammed Ghanoonparvar (Iran)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvraham Zilkha (Iraq)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHalim Barakat (Syria\/Lebanon)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGÜ\u003cbr\u003eneli GÜ\u003cbr\u003en (Turkey)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eZbida Shetlan (Tunisia)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMahnaz Afkhami (Iran)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew Nations (1952-1963)\u003cbr\u003e Oil Wealth and OPEC (1973- )\u003cbr\u003e Israeli-Palestinian Wars (1967, 1973)\u003cbr\u003e Camp David Treaty (1979)\u003cbr\u003e Iranian Revolution (1979)\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSalah-Dine Hammoud (Morocco)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSaif Abbas Dehrab (Kuwait)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHamza al-Din (Egypt)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAkile Gursoy (Turkey)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRafiq Abdul Rahman (Palestine)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbdul Aziz Abbassi (Morocco)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFedwa Malti-Douglas (Lebanon)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAwad Abdelrahim Abdelgader (Sudan)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAli Eftekari (Iran)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Post-Colonial Middle East (1971- )\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShafeeq N. 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