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Come with Me from Lebanon
Ann Kerr’s is a personal account of an American family during the most tumultuous years of Beirut’s political strife. It begins with the tragic assassination of her husband Malcolm Kerr, one of the most respected scholars of Middle East studies, in 1984, seventeen months after he became president of the American University of Beirut. She retraces in detail the events that brought them to the Middle East, and reaches back into her childhood to describe a lifelong affinity for Lebanon. For a young American woman caring for a family in Lebanon and Egypt, life was like nothing she had ever known, but Ann Kerr approached it with a sense of adventure, which would help her deal with the beauty, chaos, and the ultimate horror of life during the country’s most volatile years of the last three decades. The personal saga of her family and the events surrounding her husband’s untimely death merge with the political episodes that have shaped U.S.-Arab relations since World War II.
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Come With Me From Lebanon: An American Family Odyssey
Ann Kerr’s is a personal account of an American family during the most tumultuous years of Beirut’s political strife. It begins with the tragic assassination of her husband Malcolm Kerr, one of the most respected scholars of Middle East studies, in 1984, seventeen months after he became president of the American University of Beirut. She retraces in detail the events that brought them to the Middle East, and reaches back into her childhood to describe a lifelong affinity for Lebanon. For a young American woman caring for a family in Lebanon and Egypt, life was like nothing she had ever known, but Ann Kerr approached it with a sense of adventure, which would help her deal with the beauty, chaos, and the ultimate horror of life during the country’s most volatile years of the last three decades. The personal saga of her family and the events surrounding her husband’s untimely death merge with the political episodes that have shaped U.S.-Arab relations since World War II.
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One Family's Response to Terrorism
On January 18, 1984, Malcolm Kerr, president of the American
University of Beirut and a respected scholar of Middle East
politics, was shot in the back of the head as he stepped out of an
elevator on his way to work. At the time, the chaos of Lebanon's
civil war made it impossible to investigate who had carried out the
killing and why. Seventeen years later, armed with new information
concerning the assassination and supported by the Anti-Terrorism
Act passed by Congress in 1996, his family came to a painful
consensus that nonviolent justice through the rule of law was a
duty they could not ignore. Disturbing revelations emerged as the
author explored U.S. government intelligence, U.S. district court
records, Malcolm Kerr's unpublished papers, and the recollections
of journalists, diplomats, academics, and former Hizballah hostages
who lived through the violence of 1980s Lebanon. The family's team
of lawyers built a clear case against the Islamic Republic of Iran,
culminating in a trial before a judge of the U.S. District Court.
One Family's Response to Terrorism: A Daughter's Memoir is
a stunning portrait of the intimate way in which violence pulls
lives apart, of an American family caught on the stage of Middle
East politics, and of the moral choices required in seeking
justice.
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THE ARAB WORLD LOSES A FRIEND
The two men who assassinated Malcolm H. Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut since 1982, shot a friend, not a foe. They were loosely identified as members of a pro-Iranian group called Jihad Jimah, or Islamic Holy War.
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BEIRUT MOSLEMS, CHRISTIANS UNITE TO MOURN KERR
Educational institutions and various factions of Christians and Druze, Sunni and Shiite Moslems called for suspension of classes in tribute to [Malcolm H. Kerr], a specialist in Mideast politics who sought to keep his university free of political strife. A male caller telephoned the Beirut office of Agence France- Presse yesterday and said a pro-Iranian group called Islamic Holy War had assassinated Kerr and kidnaped Farrash. Donald Rumsfeld, the special US envoy to the Mideast, arrived from Israel shortly after Kerr was slain and met for five hours with President Amin Gemayel of Lebanon. The state radio said they discussed ways of easing tensions in Lebanon.
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A FRIEND AND VICTIM OF LEBANON
American officials in Beirut tightened security precautions. President Reagan denounced the ''despicable assassins;'' Dr. [Malcolm H. Kerr]'s death, he said, ''must strengthen our resolve not to give in to the acts of terrorists.'' In New York, the American University's trustees vowed to continue its commitment to ''education, reason and persuasive dialogue.'' Dr. Kerr's predecessor, David S. Dodge, was kidnapped in July 1982 and taken to Teheran; he was freed a year later after intervention by Syria.
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Why Steve Kerr Sees Life Beyond the Court
[...]a hired driver took Kerr over the Lebanon Mountains and across the Syrian border to Damascus, then on to Amman, Jordan. [...]perhaps it should be no surprise that, at 51, Kerr has found his voice in public discourse, talking about much more than basketball: heavy topics like gun control, national-anthem protests, presidential politics and Middle East policy.
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JOURNEY TO JORDAN MALCOLM H. KERR SCHOLAR FORGES FRIENDSHIPS, FINDS NEW LIFE GOAL DURING MIDDLE EAST VISIT
Even that wasn't the real highlight of the four weeks she spent in Jordan last summer as a [MALCOLM H. KERR] scholar, says Gleason, a 1989 Lafayette high school graduate and freshman at The College of William and Mary. * The last night she spent visiting Jerusalem. Gleason and the other Kerr scholars sat on a high roof, deeply moved by their visit to the Holy Land and talking about creating a society where all people could live in peace. For a moment they sensed the fear prevalent in the area when a truck full of Israeli soldiers careened around a corner and began shining a search light on their building. Through that experience, Gleason made a new friend, her \"sister\" who is a freshman at the University of Jordan. \"We write to each other regularly,\" says Gleason.
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ADVENTURE - MELISSA LILES
When Melissa Liles takes off for Tunisia this summer as a Malcolm H. Kerr scholar, it won't be the first time the Walsingham Academy senor began an adventure in a foreign land. Melissa is seriously considering going into the Peace Corps after she graduates from college and believes her experiences in France and Tunisia will help her. Staff photo (b&w) by JOE FUDGE Melissa Liles is going to Tunisia this summer as a Malcolm H. Kerr scholar.
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