Bibliograph

The home that was our country, a memoir of Syria, Alia Malek

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The home that was our country, a memoir of Syria, Alia Malek

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-334)

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The home that was our country

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

961457621

Responsibility statement

Alia Malek

Sub title

a memoir of Syria

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

Table Of 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

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