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Daughter of Damascus
A Memoir
By Siham Tergeman; Translated by Andrea Rugh
University of Texas Press
A personal account of a Syrian woman's youth in Damascus in the 1940s.
The Sheltered Quarter
A Tale of a Boyhood in Mecca
By Hamza Bogary; Translated by Olive Kenny and Jeremy Reed; Introduction by Salma Jayyusi and William Ochsenwald
Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin
Only partly autobiographical, the memoir is nevertheless rich in remembered detail based on Bogary's early observations of life in Mecca.
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