The Curtain Maker of Beirut

by Thornhill, Teresa

• ISBN13: 9781907784064
• ISBN10: 1907784063
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-01
• Publisher: Berkshire Academic Pr Ltd

Summary

It is March 2006. At the Sit-in for the Disappeared, in downtown Beirut, an old woman describes the abduction of her teenage son by the Syrians in 1978. She is still waiting to learn his fate.

Author Biography

Teresa Thornhill, a linguist and children's lawyer, has travelled widely in the Middle East. Her published work includes Sweet Tea with Cardamom: a Journey through Iraqi Kurdistan and Making Women Talk: The Interrogation of Palestinian Women Detainees.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Author's Note	p. x
Foreword	p. xi
	p. 1
The Sit-in for the Disappeared	p. 3
A Walk in the Qadisha Valley	p. 17
'Not Arabic, not French, but Lebanese'	p. 27
The Assembling of a Nation	p. 37
'Catching the Daw-Daws Out of the Sky'	p. 45
'Everything is Lovely Now'	p. 53
An Ancient City for the Future	p. 59
'We're not Arabs, We're Phoenicians!'	p. 67
'Church Bells Sound More Loudly Than Before...'	p. 85
Arafat under Siege	p. 91
'In Lebanon We Like Blonds'	p. 97
Secret Meetings	p. 105
	p. 109
Change	p. 111
Hanan's Aunts	p. 115
'Before the War, Life was Beautiful'	p. 127
The Curtain Maker	p. 133
On the 'Bloody Coastal Highway	p. 145
'In Those Days, the Leaders of Lebanon were Lebanese'	p. 155
A Wartime Childhood	p. 163
Forence Raad	p. 169
Hizbullah	p. 181
'Sometimes, Life is So Difficult that the Only Thing to do is Laugh'	p. 197
Bourj al Barajneh Refugee Camp	p. 207
'All Lebanese are Bitter'	p. 227
In the Druze Mountain	p. 229
Death and Reincarnation	p. 243
Miriam	p. 257
Homeward Journey	p. 267
The July War	p. 271
Epilogue-July 2010	p. 277
Chronology	p. 283
Major figures in the Lebanese political arena referred to in the text	p. 287
Bibliography	p. 289
Glossary	p. 291
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