Brownies and Kalashnikovs: A Saudi Woman's Memoir of American Arabia and Wartime Beirut
Basrawi, Fadia
Fadia,
a Saudi Arab, grew up in the strictly circumscribed and tailor-made
‘desert Disneyland’ of Aramco (the Arabian American Oil Company). This
slice of modern, suburban, middle America was located in Dhahran,
Aramco’s administrative headquarters in Saudi Arabia, a theocratic
Muslim kingdom run according to strict Wahabbi Shari’a law.
Eventually,
after only brief holidays abroad visiting relatives in colorful Arab
cities like Medina, Damascus and Alexandria, Fadia moved to Beirut, the
glitzy ‘Paris of the Middle East’, to attend high school. In Beirut she
fell in love with a passionate and idealistic Lebanese journalist with
whom she eloped against her parents’ wishes, subsequently getting caught
up in Lebanon’s fifteen-year civil war while raising a family of five
children.
Providing a fascinating account of a Saudi woman’s
painful journey from naïve Aramcon girl to life as a resident of a
war-torn capital city, this book provides new insight into two very
different Middle Eastern worlds about which so little is known by those
living outside the region.
a Saudi Arab, grew up in the strictly circumscribed and tailor-made
‘desert Disneyland’ of Aramco (the Arabian American Oil Company). This
slice of modern, suburban, middle America was located in Dhahran,
Aramco’s administrative headquarters in Saudi Arabia, a theocratic
Muslim kingdom run according to strict Wahabbi Shari’a law.
Eventually,
after only brief holidays abroad visiting relatives in colorful Arab
cities like Medina, Damascus and Alexandria, Fadia moved to Beirut, the
glitzy ‘Paris of the Middle East’, to attend high school. In Beirut she
fell in love with a passionate and idealistic Lebanese journalist with
whom she eloped against her parents’ wishes, subsequently getting caught
up in Lebanon’s fifteen-year civil war while raising a family of five
children.
Providing a fascinating account of a Saudi woman’s
painful journey from naïve Aramcon girl to life as a resident of a
war-torn capital city, this book provides new insight into two very
different Middle Eastern worlds about which so little is known by those
living outside the region.
년:
2014
출판사:
Garnet Publishing (UK) Ltd
언어:
english
페이지:
631
파일:
MOBI , 3.55 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2014
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