My Damascus
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In My Damascus the author takes us through the streets of Damascus and space and time to tell what Damascus means to her.
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Author: Suad Amiry
9789385606076 | PB | pp. 212 | 2016 | Women Unlimited
In My Damascus the author takes us through the streets of Damascus and space and time to tell what Damascus means to her.
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Writer and architect, Suad Amiry, was born in an old neighbourhood of Damascus, the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. In My Damascus she takes her reader by the hand through not only the narrow alleys and lively souqs adjacent to the grand Umayyad mosque, but also into the intimate spaces of her rich merchant grandfather’s Baroudi Mansion.
Through a web of interwoven personal stories and an intricate mix of simple, complicated or sometimes devious characters, Amiry travels across space and time, spanning three generations of family history. The Baroudi women animate the story and sparkle like no others: Teta, Amiry’s grandmother, rendered mute after her husband’s great betrayal; her cousin, Norma, torn between love for her adoptive mother and longing for a real mother she will never know; Fatima and Ghalia, Karimeh and Laila, maids and aunts, in a kaleidoscope of vignettes.
Through them the author traces the social and political history of Greater Syria from the Ottoman Empire era until its present-day devastation, juxtaposing them with the most intimate, loving, often contentious, family relations and secrets. In the end, her Damascus becomes a metaphor for a dispersed family and a lost past, as well as an elegy for a city she can no longer claim as her own.
| Author: | Suad Amiry |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9789385606076 |
| Publisher: | Women Unlimited |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 212 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | First |
| Condition: | New |
| Country of Origin: | India |
About the Author
The author is a Palestinian writer and architect. Born in Damascus of a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father from jaffa, she now lives between Ramallah and New York City. She is the founder of Riwaq: Centre of Architectural Conservation, in Ramallah, and author of the acclaimed memoirs, Sharon and My Mother-in-Law (2005); Menopausal Palestine: Women at the Edge (2011); Nothing to Lose but Your Life: An 18-Hour Trip with Murad (2011); and Golda Slept Here (2014). She is the recipient of Italy's renowned literary awards: Viareggio-Versilia (2004) and Nonino Risit D'Aur (2014). She and her organisation, Riwaq, also won the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2013.
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