Postcards from the Middle East : How our family fell in love with the Arab world.

Naylor, Chris.

Postcards from the Middle East : How our family fell in love with the Arab world. - Chicago : Lion Hudson, 2015. ©2015. - 1 online resource (163 pages)

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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Map of Lebanon -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration of Arabic to English Texy -- Introduction: To Picnic or Not to Picnic? -- Chapter 1: The Middle East and Back Again -- Chapter 2: The Keys to the House: The Arabic Language -- Chapter 3: Lebanon After the Civil War -- Chapter 4: A History Told in Stone -- Chapter 5: Grounded in the Valley -- Chapter 6: Mission Impossible -- Chapter 7: "Salaam Alaykum and Merry Christmas and Thanks Be to God" -- Chapter 8: How I Got a Gun -- Chapter 9: Crossing Cultures -- Chapter 10: The Day the World Changed -- Chapter 11: Myths, Legends, and Superstitions -- Chapter 12: Valentine's Day -- Chapter 13: A Summer War -- Chapter 14: The Final Departure -- Chapter 15: A New Country -- Appendix -- The Naylor Family and the Middle East Timeline -- Suggested Reading -- Last Word… -- Photographic Insert.

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Middle East-Description and travel. Middle East-Social life and customs.


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