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My Accidental Jihad
After reading Pamela Druckerman's review of my memoir, \"My Accidental Jihad\" (May 25), I am tempted to address her criticism of my book for not being strictly linear, as if memoir were the same as autobiography, or her assertion that I have a great story but I...
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Spice of Life
Each time my husband, Ismail, returns from visiting relatives in Libya, his suitcase is lined with yellow powder in plastic baggies: the spice mix of his mother, Hajja. As a child, he watched her fill an iron pan with desiccated cloves, fenugreek seeds, withered black...
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Spice of Life.(hardships in family life)
Bremer shares that her Libyan husband earned his doctorate in the US, but his parents remained illiterate. She wondered how her mother-in-law who do not read even the Quran feed a family of 10 on barely any money, survive four decades of tyranny followed by a revolution, and give his son enough wits and determination to overcome his meager beginnings and build a new life across the world.
Magazine Article
Cover Girl
NINE YEARS AGO, I DANCED my newborn daughter around my North Carolina living room to the music of Free to Be...You and Me, the '70s children's classic whose every lyric about tolerance and gender equality I had memorized as a girl growing up in California.
Magazine Article
Driven by Desire
Bremer shares the story of one couple with two cultures and what it means to buy a car. In the husband's mind, to value something that's old and flawed is a sign of integrity.
Magazine Article
Foreign Affair
THERE'S A SCENE in \"My Accidental Jihad\" in which Krista Bremer visits her husband's relatives in Libya and sees a wheezing, skeletal old woman lying on a hospital bed in their living room.
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