02663nam a2200301 a 4500 vtls000054144 KUKTEM 20251125093011.0 110621t2009 enkaf f b 000 0aeng d 9781902932255 (pbk.) 1902932250 (pbk.) 201111301241 fauzi 201107131925 VLOAD 201106211617 safura UMP HQ1730.Z75 B37 2009 Basrawi, Fadia Brownies and Kalashnikovs : a Saudi woman's memoir of American Arabia and wartime Beirut / Fadia Basrawi 1st ed. Reading, Berkshire : South Street Press, c2009 ix, 285 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 285) Desert suburbia - desert kingdom -- Brave new world: growing up 'Aramcon' -- Disneyland within, desertland without -- Hidden America -- Yankee Doodle comes to town -- Forbidden knowledge -- Lebanon: my past, my future -- Hello...I love you -- Go up to Lebanon and cry - Jeremiah 22:20 -- Tides of war -- Life will go on -- Dignity or death War and dreams -- Lessons in love -- What goes around comes around -- The road not taken "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 colourful 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 naive 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." -- Book cover Women Saudi Arabia Biography Saudi Arabia Social life and customs 20th century Lebanon History Civil War, 1975-1990 Lebanon Social life and customs 20th century 0 0 0 0 20000 20000 2019-09-04 62.62 0 HQ1730.Z75 B37 2009 0000060732 2019-09-04 00:00:00 1 62.62 2019-09-04 OPEN VIRTUA40 60384 60390 VTLSSORT0080*0200*0201*0400*0900*1000*2450*2500*2600*3000*5040*5050*5200*6500*6510*6511*6512*9991