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Prelude. In my own time
1. Jean
2. A Cairo childhood
3. Men and women, girls and boys
4. A kind of education
5. 'Ladies, simply ladies'
6. Suez
7. Ringing the changes
8. Beirut. Teta in history.
9. Teta's family origins: the Badrs of Schweir and the Haddads of Abeih
10. Homs
11. A nineteenth-century Syrian schoolgirl
12. Alternative paths
13. Marriage and war
14. Happiness. Mother's world.
15. A Palestinian girlhood
16. Partings
17. Schooldays in Beirut
18. Engagement and marriage
19. Modern bride, housewife, mother
20. Beyond the memoir. Women together: mother and me.
21. Beirut revisited
22. More letters and war
23. Gentle into the night
24. Balance
Postlude
Acknowledgments
Selected bibliography.
1. Jean
2. A Cairo childhood
3. Men and women, girls and boys
4. A kind of education
5. 'Ladies, simply ladies'
6. Suez
7. Ringing the changes
8. Beirut. Teta in history.
9. Teta's family origins: the Badrs of Schweir and the Haddads of Abeih
10. Homs
11. A nineteenth-century Syrian schoolgirl
12. Alternative paths
13. Marriage and war
14. Happiness. Mother's world.
15. A Palestinian girlhood
16. Partings
17. Schooldays in Beirut
18. Engagement and marriage
19. Modern bride, housewife, mother
20. Beyond the memoir. Women together: mother and me.
21. Beirut revisited
22. More letters and war
23. Gentle into the night
24. Balance
Postlude
Acknowledgments
Selected bibliography.