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Come with Me from Lebanon

An American Family Odyssey

By: Ann Zwicker Kerr

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Come with Me from Lebanon

An American Family Odyssey

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.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815604343

ISBN 13

9780815604341

Come with Me from Lebanon

An American Family Odyssey

By: Ann Zwicker Kerr

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Come with Me from Lebanon

An American Family Odyssey

By: Ann Zwicker Kerr

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0815604343

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Painting the Middle East

By: Ann Zwicker Kerr

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Painting the Middle East

By: Ann Zwicker Kerr

We each paint our lives and frame our experiences of the world in a distinctive way for reasons that we cannot always understand," writes Ann Kerr in her book. The watercolors that fill its pages are an expression of the author's affection and fascination for the Middle East, painted during her many sojourns there starting in the mid-fifties and continuing to the present time. The paintings are unashamedly romantic and reveal nothing of the turmoil going on in the region during the last half-century that has brought personal tragedy to so many, including the author and her family. They are almost the antithesis of such events. 'The paintings represent hours snatched away from the business of everyday life—periods of time spent in nature amidst the sun-washed relics of the past where evidence of old cruelties and folly have faded away or been covered with sand and weeds." The eighty-nine watercolors and photographs are woven together with a brief narrative that brings the context in which they were painted or photographed to the reader. The book is divided into the four areas where the author painted, Lebanon, North Africa, Egypt and the Holy Land.

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0815607520

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9780815607526

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Come with Me from Lebanon

Come with Me from Lebanon

Come with Me from Lebanon

Come with Me from Lebanon

Painting the Middle East

Painting the Middle East

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