Breaking Vases powerfully and vividly captures the rich heritage of one woman\'s Middle East, along with its brutal realities, which followed Dima Ghawi from her native Jordan to her adopted country, the United States.
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With two decades of experience leading cross-cultural teams, managing client relationships, and developing talent for companies like IBM, Merrill Lynch, and Intuit, Dima combines corporate expertise with her inspiring personal Story to captivate and motivate audiences.
About the Author: Dima Ghawi is Middle Eastern in her genes and a global citizen in spirit.
Her memoir captures the terrors and joys of escaping confinements, crossing continents, and Daring to discover and create a bold identity and life purpose.
Nevertheless, she was determined to transform her destiny, even if it meant standing alone and facing life-threatening consequences.
Changing her circumstances would be dangerous and require courage Dima had never known before.
She soon realized that her husband was more traditional and controlling than she had imagined.
But San Diego\'s "Little Middle East" was not her American dream.
Newly married and in a state of na ve love, she happily uprooted her life in Amman and moved with him to California.
At nineteen, hoping to free herself from cultural constraints and her father\'s turbulent temper, she accepted a traditional marriage proposal from an older, affluent, and seemingly Western-minded jeweler.
Yet her grandmother also planted a seed: the simple hope that Dima could graduate from college and become the first formally educated woman in her family.
Anything less was shameful.
When she was just five, Dima\'s beloved grandmother warned that a woman\'s greatest responsibility was to preserve her image-one as fragile as a glass vase-and the honor of her family\'s reputation.
Brought up in a small, conservative Christian community in Amman, Dima learned to be quiet and subservient to her elders and to men.
Breaking Vases powerfully and vividly captures the rich heritage of one woman\'s Middle East, along with its brutal realities, which followed Dima Ghawi from her native Jordan to her adopted country, the United States
