Title:
Stories my father told me : memories of a childhood in Syria and Lebanon / illustrations by Helen Zughaib ; text by Elia Zughaib.
ISBN:
9781951082659
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Seattle : Cune Press, [2020]
©2020
Physical Description:
111 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 25 cm
General Note:
Title page title and story titles also in Arabic.
Contents:
Foreword by Helen Zughaib : telling me his stories -- Charity & compassion -- The transaction -- Blind charity -- Planting olive trees -- The hallab -- The show box -- The performing bear, the dancing monkey & the dancing gypsies -- Evenings in the kroum -- Making kibbeh on Sunday morning -- Making raisins & drying figs -- Playing basra – Subhiyyi at Teta’s house – Eid Mar Elias – Palm Sunday procession – Eid al Salib : Feast of the Cross – The wedding – A walk to the water fountain – Making molasses – When a child is born in a Syrian/Lebanese village – Critiquing the bride : Nakd al-ʼArous – Reading the coffee cup – Crossing the Litani – Saying goodbye – Coming to America.
Summary:
Twenty-five paintings by Helen Zughaib accompany text based on favorite stories told by her father, Elia Zughaib, about life in Syria and Lebanon in the 1930s and during World War II. Helen’s father recounted absorbing tales of his childhood in Damascus, village life in Lebanon in the late 1930s, amusing relatives, happenings and traditions in their local Greek Orthodox Church, and major events in her father’s early life that led him to immigrate to the United States in 1946. -- Adapted from publisher's webpage.
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OCLC Number:
on1280064573
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