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The home that was our country : a memoir of Syria / Alia Malek.
Record details
- ISBN: 1568585322
- ISBN: 9781568585321
- Physical Description: xvi, 334 pages : illustrations, map
- Publisher: New York : Nation Books, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue : leaving -- Generations -- Origins -- Sheika -- Adrift -- Pack your bags and go -- Locked in -- Locked out -- A wedding in hama -- 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 -- Epilogue: bound. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 36.50 |
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| Subject: | Malek, Alia, 1974- > Family. Damascus (Syria) > Biography. Damascus (Syria) > History. Syria > History. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 956.9144040922 Mal | 31681020043709 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A senior staff writer at Al Jazeera America describes what life was like in her familyâs home in Damascus through various political shifts and describes how the Arab Spring allowed her to reclaim her grandmotherâs apartment, lost to them since 1970. 25,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
The author discusses the political situation in Syria by returning to her family home in Damascus and telling the history of her own family. - Baker & Taylor
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. Her book bristles with insights, as Alia weaves acute political analysis into intimate scenes, interlacing the personal and the political with subtlety and grace. After being in and out of Syria growing up, Alia came back to Syria as a journalist at the time of the Arab Spring, striving to understand it as the country was beginning to disintegrate. As days go on, Alia learns how to speak the language that exists in a dictatorship, while privately confronting her own fears about her country's future, and learns how to carry on with everyday life. This intimate portrait of contemporary Syria will shed more light on its history, society, and politics than all of today's war reporting accounts written from the Syrian front. It makes for an eye-opening, highly moving, and beautiful read, and finds the humanity behindthe disastrous daily headlines. - Grand Central Pub
At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent's decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people who lived in the Tahaan building, past and present, Alia portrays the Syrians-the Muslims, Christians, Jews, Armenians, and Kurds-who worked, loved, and suffered in close quarters, mirroring the political shifts in their country. Restoring her family's home as the country comes apart, she learns how to speak the coded language of oppression that exists in a dictatorship, while privately confronting her own fears about Syria's future.
The Home That Was Our Country is a deeply researched, personal journey that shines a delicate but piercing light on Syrian history, society, and politics. Teeming with insights, the narrative weaves acute political analysis with a century of intimate family history, ultimately delivering an unforgettable portrait of the Syria that is being erased. - Perseus PublishingAt the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent's decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people who lived in the Tahaan building, past and present, Alia portrays the Syrians-the Muslims, Christians, Jews, Armenians, and Kurds-who worked, loved, and suffered in close quarters, mirroring the political shifts in their country. Restoring her family's home as the country comes apart, she learns how to speak the coded language of oppression that exists in a dictatorship, while privately confronting her own fears about Syria's future.
The Home That Was Our Country is a deeply researched, personal journey that shines a delicate but piercing light on Syrian history, society, and politics. Teeming with insights, the narrative weaves acute political analysis with a century of intimate family history, ultimately delivering an unforgettable portrait of the Syria that is being erased.
