Brownies and Kalashnikovs : a Saudi woman's memoir of American Arabia and wartime Beirut / / Fadia Basrawi ; jacket design by David Rose

• Autore: Basrawi Fadia
• Pubblicazione: Reading, England : , : South Street Press, , 2009; ©2009
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 953.8053092
• Soggetto topico: Women - Saudi Arabia
• Soggetto geografico: Saudi Arabia Social life and customs
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Part I: Aramcoland; 1 Desert Suburbia - Desert Kingdom; 2 Brave New World: Growing Up 'Aramcon'; 3 Disneyland Within, Desertland Without; 4 Hidden America; 5 Yankee Doodle Comes to Town; 6 Forbidden Knowledge; Part II: Heartland; 7 Lebanon: My Past, My Future; 8 Hello . . . I Love You; 9 Go Up to Lebanon and Cry - Jeremiah 22:20; 10 Tides of War; 11 Life Will Go On; 12 Dignity or Death; 13 War and Dreams; 14 Lessons in Love; 15 What Goes Around Comes Around; 16 The Road Not Taken; Postscript
• Sommario/riassunto: Providing an account of a Saudi woman's painful journey from naive Aramcon girl to life as a resident of a war-torn capital city, this book provides fresh insight into two very different Middle Eastern worlds about which so little is known by those living outside the region.</div>
• Titolo autorizzato: Brownies and Kalashnikovs
• ISBN: 1-902932-35-8; 1-902932-27-7; 9786612151712; 1-282-15171-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455046003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II