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Daughter of Damascus: A Memoir

Daughter of Damascus: A Memoir

Tergeman, Siham
Rugh, Andrea

Paperback

Series: Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation

Historical FiguresLiterary FiguresFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0292781261
ISBN13: 9780292781269
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Mar 1 1994
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.53 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Daughter of Damascus presents a personal account of a Syrian woman's youth in the Suq Saruja (old city) quarter of Damascus in the 1940s. Siham Tergeman wrote this book to preserve the details of a genuine Arab past for Syrian young people. In it, she relates the customs pertaining to marriage, birth, circumcision, and death. She writes of Ramadan festivities, family picnics to the orchards of the Ghuta, weekly trips to the public bath, her school experiences, Damascene cooking, peddlers' calls, and proverbs. She includes the well-known dramatic skits, songs, and tales of the Syrian Hakawati storytellers. And, through the words of her father, she describes the difficult period when Syrians were involved in the Balkans War and World War I. All this wealth of ethnographic detail is set in real-life vignettes that make the book lively and entertaining reading.

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