Come with Me from Lebanon by Ann Zwicker Kerr
Ann Kerr's is a personal account of an American family during the most tumultuous years of Beirut's political strife. It begins with the tragic assassination of her husband Malcolm Kerr, one of the most respected scholars of Middle East studies, in 1984, seventeen months after he became president of the American University of Beirut. She retraces in detail the events that brought them to the Middle East, and reaches back into her childhood to describe a lifelong affinity for Lebanon. For a young American woman caring for a family in Lebanon and Egypt, life was like nothing she had ever known, but Ann Kerr approached it with a sense of adventure, which would help her deal with the beauty, chaos, and the ultimate horror of life during the country's most volatile years of the last three decades. The personal saga of her family and the events surrounding her husband's untimely death merge with the political episodes that have shaped U.S.-Arab relations since World War II.
This deeply moving book is the story of love, or rather of two kinds of love closely intertwined…‘It all came to an end today,’ is Ann’s entry in her diary for the fateful day, 18 January 1984… It is good to know that it did not all come to an end for her
Ann Zwicker Kerr, the coordinator of the Fulbright Program at the University of California, Los Angeles, serves as trustee of the American University of Beirut and escorts study tours to the Arab World for the National Council on U.S.—Arab Relations.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780815604341 |
| ISBN 10 | 0815604343 |
| Title | Come with Me from Lebanon |
| Author | Ann Zwicker Kerr |
| Series | Contemporary Issues In The Middle East |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Syracuse University Press |
| Year published | 1996-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 344 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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