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Speaking in tongues / Fedwa Malti-Douglas.
Author
Malti-Douglas, Fedwa
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 2017.
©2017
Description
xi, P8, 245 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Details
Subject(s)
Malti-Douglas, Fedwa
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Biography
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Women scholars
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United States
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Biography
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Scholars
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United States
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Biography
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Middle East
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Study and teaching (Higher)
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United States
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Indiana University, Bloomington
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Faculty
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Biography
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Lebanese Americans
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Biography
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Christian biography
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Lebanon
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Dayr al-Qamar (Lebanon)
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Biography
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Ithaca (N.Y.)
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Biography
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Muscular dystrophy
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Patients
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United States
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Biography
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Series
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 106, pt. 4.
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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 0065-9746 ; volume 106, part 4
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Summary note
"Speaking in Tongues is a very honest autobiography of a celebrated scholar. Fedwa Malti-Douglas chronicles her life and her struggles from her birth to the present day. Fedwa carries us on a journey that crosses landscapes of sadness, of happiness, of pain and peace, of alienation and acceptance, toward a healing enlargement of the soul. The book is a deeply moving account of her painful but heroic journey from a Christian childhood in a Lebanese village (where her father was a physician and her mother had deserted the family), to teen-age life in Ithaca, New York, where her Cornell professor uncle regularly beat both her and her brother, to a brilliant university career in Middle Eastern Studies, made difficult by the onset of an hereditary muscular dystrophy that Fedwa Malti and her historian husband Alan Douglas have battled with extraordinary bravery. The narrative shows that through all of her hardships, Fedwa retained her sense of humor and optimism, and her love of nature and art"--Publisher description.
Contents
Prologue
Part I. Albert
Abode of the moon
City life and village life
St. Joseph
The smell of death
Coming of age
In the mountains
Flesh and spirit
Besançon
Womenfolk
The wailing
Upheavals
Paradise on earth
Preparing the emigrants
Part II. Michel
Hand-off
Family rituals
The attic
Florida
Cornell
Penn
L.A. and Paris
Rites of passage
Constantine
Mississippi
Funeral
Part III. Odette
Texas
Nazareth
Indiana
Crash
Exiles
Odette's story
Saying good-bye
Quest romance
Part IV. Mimo
Facebook
La Yadum Ightirabi
Family
Dreams of flying
Tamriyya
Refuge.
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ISBN
9781606180648 ((paperback))
1606180649 ((paperback))
LCCN
2017000738
OCLC
974612651
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