| Phys Descr |
xvi, 334 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-334) |
| Contents |
Leaving -- Generations. Origins ; Sheika ; Adrift ; Pack your bags and go ; Locked in -- Locked out. Anywhere but here ; No-man's-land ; They did it to themselves -- In the eye of the belly. Return ; Tahrir Squares ; Psychodrame ; Fatherland ; In the cards ; Routine ; Suspicion ; Unraveling ; Power ; Displaced ; Gone -- Bound |
| Summary |
In The Home that Was My Country, Syrian-American journalist Alia Malek chronicles her return to her family home in Damascus and the history of the Jabban apartment building. Here, generations of Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Armenians lived, worked, loved, and suffered in close quarters. In telling the story of her family over the course of the last century, Alia brings to light the triumphs and failures that have led Syria to where it is today |
| Subject |
Malek, Alia, 1974- -- Family
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Damascus (Syria) -- Biography
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Damascus (Syria) -- History
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Syria -- History
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| Other Form |
Online version: Malek, Alia, 1974- author. Home that was our country New York, NY : Nation Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2017 9781568585338 (DLC) 2016050029 |
| OCLC # |
961457621 |
| ISBN # |
9781568585321 |
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1568585322 |
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