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| 100 | 1 | _aBasrawi, Fadia | |
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_aBrownies and Kalashnikovs : _ba Saudi woman's memoir of American Arabia and wartime Beirut / _cFadia Basrawi |
| 250 | _a1st ed. | ||
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_aReading, Berkshire : _bSouth Street Press, _cc2009 |
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_aix, 285 p., [8] p. of plates : _bill. ; _c23 cm. |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 285) | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aDesert 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 | |
| 520 | _a"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 | ||
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_aWomen _zSaudi Arabia _vBiography |
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_aSaudi Arabia _xSocial life and customs _y20th century |
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_aLebanon _xHistory _yCivil War, 1975-1990 |
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