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Remember Me To Lebanon
Evelyn C. Shakir paints tales that are rich in history and background. She sets her stories in different eras, from the 1960s to the present, peopled with Lebanese women of different ages, sometimes writing letters, often reminiscing, looking back as far as the turn of the century.
In different ways, these first and second-generation women struggle with feminist issues overshadowed by the demands of dual cultures. In Young Ali a teenager tries to listen to her beloved father's time-honored tales of males in friendship and marriage. Aggie of House Calls is a deceased matriarch who returns to haunt her family with reminders of the customs she fought to uphold while alive. Shakir's other heroines include a thrice-divorced thirty-year-old woman quibbling with a modern matchmaker, an elderly non-Lebanese woman who spies on Muslim neighbors in the wake of 9/11, and a traditional wife and mother who thinks she has found a route out of Old World womanly duties. Many of the authors's women grapple with reclaiming or abandoning ancestral demands, and finessing age-old male-female relationships. In Oh, Lebanon a war-haunted Lebanese-born woman willfully departs from the mores of her upbringing, with surprising results. With agile humor and emotional truth, Shakir offers multiple perspectives on Lebanese women trying to change roles in a new landscape without surrendering cultural identity.
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Loom
As a blizzard blankets the northeast United States, burying residents and shutting down airports, the Zaydan family eagerly awaits the arrival of Eva, a cousin visiting from Lebanon after a long separation from the family. Over the course of several days, while Eva is stranded in New York City, Chehade’s nuanced story unfolds in the reminiscences and anxieties of each family member.
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Remember me to Lebanon : stories of Lebanese women in America
Evelyn Shakir paints tales that are rich in history and background.She sets her stories in different eras, from the 1960s to the present, peopled with Lebanese women of different ages, sometimes writing letters, often reminiscing, looking back as far as the turn of the century.
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The blues walked in
\"In 1936, life on the road means sleeping on the bus or in hotels for blacks only. After finishing her tour with Nobel Sissel's orchestra, nineteen year-old Lena Horne is walking the last few blocks to her father's hotel in Pittsburgh's Hill District. She stops at a lemonade stand and meets a Lebanese American girl, Marie David. Marie loves movies and adores Lena, and their chance meeting sparks a relationship that will intertwine their lives forever. Lena also meets Josiah Conner, a charismatic teenager who helps out at her father Teddy's hotel. Josiah often skips school, dreams of being a Hollywood director, and has a crush on Lena. Although the three are linked by a determination to be somebody, issues of race, class, family, and education threaten to disrupt their lives and the bonds between them.Lena's father wants her to settle down and give up show business, but she's entranced by the music and culture of the Hill. It's a mecca for jazz singers and musicians, and nightspots like the Crawford Grill attract crowds of blacks and whites. Lena table-hops with local jazzmen as her father chaperones her through the clubs where she'll later perform. Singing makes her feel alive, and to her father's dismay, reviewers can't get enough of her. Duke Ellington adores her, Billy Strayhorn can't wait to meet her, and she becomes all the rage in clubs and Hollywood for her beauty and almost-whiteness. Her signature version of Stormy Weather makes her a legend. But after sitting around for years at MGM as the studio heads try to figure out what to do with her, she isn't quite sure what she's worth. Marie and Josiah follow Lena's career in Hollywood and New York through movie magazines and the Pittsburgh Courier. Years pass until their lives are brought together again when Josiah is arrested for the murder of a white man. Marie and Lena decide they must get Josiah out of prison-whatever the personal cost.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Beirut on the Bayou
Raif Shwayri begins his family's story with his grandfather Habib
Shwayri's arrival at Ellis Island in 1902. Having left Beirut, then
a harbor city on the Syrian coast of the Ottoman Empire, only weeks
before, he took the name Alfred Nicola and made his way to
relatives in New Orleans. There, he began peddling down the Bayou
Lafourche, befriending the communities living alongside the water
and earning the nickname \"Sweet Papa\" for his kindness and
generosity. When he returned home to Lebanon in 1920, he invested
the money he had made, from years of peddling, in real estate and
died a wealthy man in 1956. After his death, his youngest son,
Nadim (Raif's father), turned his part of the inheritance into an
endowment that started Al-Kafaàt, an iconic and unique institution
in Lebanon that serves the handicapped and underprivileged. Alfred
Nicola's story, like the story of Lebanon itself, begins farther
back in history. In its account of centuries of Ottoman rule,
decades of colonial occupation, and years of internal political
strife and civil war, Beirut on the Bayou intertwines a
family narrative with the story of a people, of Lebanon in the
making. From the Fertile Crescent that was Syria to the Crescent
City that is New Orleans, the saga of the Shwayri family reflects
the experiences of those Lebanese who walked the path of
immigration to the United States, as well as those who stayed
behind-or returned-to help forge a nation.
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The treasure of Maria Mamoun
\"An island adventure about a girl from the Bronx on a journey of mystery and discovery\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Mississippi Mahjar: Lebanese Immigration to the Mississippi Delta
[...]the percentage of non-voting black males rose from 71 percent in 1888 to nearly 100 percent in 1895. [...]opportunities for black advance- ment steadily diminished, and race relations between whites and blacks steadily declined, leading directly to Jim Crow segregation, white-on-black violence, and widespread black poverty.6 Clearly, the move to storekeeper and merchant among Chinese and Italian im- migrant laborers was significant.\\n The protracted pace of assimilation into white society, which was partially due to a retention of identity markers, slowed the process of acceptance, despite otherwise enthusiastic efforts to Americanize.
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