Description "This is my story, the Story of an Arab woman.
Through Cortas\' eyes we experience life in Lebanon under the oppressive French mandate, and her desire to forge an Arab identity based on religiou.
It begins in 1917, in Lebanon, when I was seven years old." So opens this haunting memoir by Wadad Makdisi Cortas, who eloquently describes her personal experience of the events that have fractured the Middle East over the past century.
It is the Story of a lost world.
Description "This is my story, the Story of an Arab woman