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The home that was our country : a memoir of Syria / Alia Malek.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Nation Books, [2017]Description: xvi, 334 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781568585321
  • 1568585322
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Home that was our country.DDC classification:
  • 956.91/440423092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • DS99.D3 M346 2017
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.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK Harrison Memorial Library BIOGRAPHY Adult Nonfiction MALEK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31624003701802
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-334).

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.

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.

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