Remembering Childhood in the Middle East: Memoirs from a Century of Change

by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and Robert A. Fernea

Book Overview

Growing up is a universal experience, but the particularities of homeland, culture, ethnicity, religion, family, and so on make every childhood unique. To give Western readers insight into what growing up in the Middle East was like in the twentieth century, this book gathers thirty-six original memoirs written by Middle Eastern men and women about their own childhoods.

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, a well-known writer of books and documentary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292725477
• ISBN13: 9780292725478
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"