Author: Pauline Kaldas
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815608547
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
When her husband is offered a six-month Fulbright grant to teach American literature at Cairo University, Pauline Kaldas embarks on a new journey—and an opportunity to return home. Born in Egypt, she immigrated with her parents to the United States when she was eight years old. Returning now with her own children, Kaldas writes from a perspective as an Arab American, straddling two homelands and two identities. Through a collection of letters, journal entries, essays, and even local recipes, she provides a richly detailed portrait of life in Cairo, recording daily revelations and eventually reconciling past and present. With keen observation and deeply personal reflections, the author presents a thoughtful meditation on the meaning of place, family, and origin. Kaldas offers insight into the complexities of Egyptian culture, alternately taking on roles of linguist and cultural interpreter and addressing everything from class issues and political activism to education and the impact of Western culture. But it is her moving, often entertaining letters and her children’s emails and poems that will charm readers and resonate with devotees of travel narratives and multicultural literature. This book captures the images, character, and passion of an extraordinary country. Marked by spare, graceful prose, drawing on observations and friendships past and present, Kaldas offers a unique lens for observing Middle Eastern societies, one that the reader will not soon forget.
Letters from Cairo
Author: Pauline Kaldas
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815608547
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
When her husband is offered a six-month Fulbright grant to teach American literature at Cairo University, Pauline Kaldas embarks on a new journey—and an opportunity to return home. Born in Egypt, she immigrated with her parents to the United States when she was eight years old. Returning now with her own children, Kaldas writes from a perspective as an Arab American, straddling two homelands and two identities. Through a collection of letters, journal entries, essays, and even local recipes, she provides a richly detailed portrait of life in Cairo, recording daily revelations and eventually reconciling past and present. With keen observation and deeply personal reflections, the author presents a thoughtful meditation on the meaning of place, family, and origin. Kaldas offers insight into the complexities of Egyptian culture, alternately taking on roles of linguist and cultural interpreter and addressing everything from class issues and political activism to education and the impact of Western culture. But it is her moving, often entertaining letters and her children’s emails and poems that will charm readers and resonate with devotees of travel narratives and multicultural literature. This book captures the images, character, and passion of an extraordinary country. Marked by spare, graceful prose, drawing on observations and friendships past and present, Kaldas offers a unique lens for observing Middle Eastern societies, one that the reader will not soon forget.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815608547
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
When her husband is offered a six-month Fulbright grant to teach American literature at Cairo University, Pauline Kaldas embarks on a new journey—and an opportunity to return home. Born in Egypt, she immigrated with her parents to the United States when she was eight years old. Returning now with her own children, Kaldas writes from a perspective as an Arab American, straddling two homelands and two identities. Through a collection of letters, journal entries, essays, and even local recipes, she provides a richly detailed portrait of life in Cairo, recording daily revelations and eventually reconciling past and present. With keen observation and deeply personal reflections, the author presents a thoughtful meditation on the meaning of place, family, and origin. Kaldas offers insight into the complexities of Egyptian culture, alternately taking on roles of linguist and cultural interpreter and addressing everything from class issues and political activism to education and the impact of Western culture. But it is her moving, often entertaining letters and her children’s emails and poems that will charm readers and resonate with devotees of travel narratives and multicultural literature. This book captures the images, character, and passion of an extraordinary country. Marked by spare, graceful prose, drawing on observations and friendships past and present, Kaldas offers a unique lens for observing Middle Eastern societies, one that the reader will not soon forget.
The Englishwoman in Egypt: Letters from Cairo
Author: Sophia Lane Poole
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
The Englishwoman in Egypt: Letters from Cairo
Author: Sophia Lane Poole
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Englishwoman in Egypt: Letters from Cairo
Author: Sophia Lane Poole
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Letters from Cairo
Author: Anne Speake
Publisher: Emerald Books
ISBN: 195477947X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
A woman recounts her adventures in Egypt, the Middle East, and beyond in this absorbing memoir. Imbued with a love of travel and adventure as a child through books her parents bought her during the Great Depression, Anne Speake would eventually go on to journey to many destinations in her adult life, from Paris to Thailand to Greece—but she particularly fell in love with the Middle East, especially the city of Cairo—to which she’s returned at least thirty times over the decades. This memoir of her times in Egypt, from sailing the Nile to visiting with the Sadats to living for a while in her beloved Cairo—as well as trips to Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Palestine and Israel and more—is an in-depth, wide-ranging account of a well-traveled life that also provides a close-up view of late-twentieth-century history in the region, as well as the ways the Middle East has changed, and the ways it hasn’t, over time.
Publisher: Emerald Books
ISBN: 195477947X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
A woman recounts her adventures in Egypt, the Middle East, and beyond in this absorbing memoir. Imbued with a love of travel and adventure as a child through books her parents bought her during the Great Depression, Anne Speake would eventually go on to journey to many destinations in her adult life, from Paris to Thailand to Greece—but she particularly fell in love with the Middle East, especially the city of Cairo—to which she’s returned at least thirty times over the decades. This memoir of her times in Egypt, from sailing the Nile to visiting with the Sadats to living for a while in her beloved Cairo—as well as trips to Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Palestine and Israel and more—is an in-depth, wide-ranging account of a well-traveled life that also provides a close-up view of late-twentieth-century history in the region, as well as the ways the Middle East has changed, and the ways it hasn’t, over time.
The Englishwoman in Egypt: Letters from Cairo
The Englishwoman in Egypt
Author: Sophia Lane Poole
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The Englishwoman in Egypt
Author: Sophia Lane Poole
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cairo (Egypt)
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cairo (Egypt)
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description