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Politically Homeless: A Five-year Odyssey across Three Continents

Politically Homeless: A Five-year Odyssey across Three Continents

Terzian, Mary

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral SociologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1504913116
ISBN13: 9781504913119
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: May 30 2015
Pages: 402
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Multicultural/Social Science, Women//Travel

In this Memoir, Terzian's aspirations to attend college meet parents' refusal, flaring her yearnings even more. Consequently she quits her home in Cairo to work with the United Nations (UN) World Health Organization in Alexandria. Five years later she accepts a UN assignment in Congo, where civil war is rampant. She endures the rigors of expatriation, meanwhile saving funds for her college tuition. She also travels to eighteen countries across three continents for vacation and to visit her scattered family: cousin in Holland, brother in Armenia, and new relatives there, descendants of survivors from the Armenian genocide during World War I. While she is still in Yerevan, Comrade Khrushchev is overthrown. She manages to slip out of the Soviet Union safely and visit several countries in Africa on her way back to Congo. She returns to Leopoldville on board a plane commandeered by mercenaries! Her...

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