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Jean Saeed Makdisi

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  • Country of residence: Palestine
  • Gender: Female
  • Born in: 1940
  • Age: 82
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Jean Said Makdisi is a Palestinian writer born in Jerusalem. She is the sister of Edward Said and moved between Egypt and the United States of America before settling in Beirut in 1972. She studied at the Lebanese American University. She established, with a number of Lebanese women researchers, the “Researchers” association.

 

 

her literary career

She has published many books, such as: “Beirut Diaspora: Memoirs of War 1975-1990”, which she said about, “Beirut Diaspora: Memoirs of War” is a personal biography about life and perseverance in the midst of the multiple stages of the civil war in Lebanon. In one of the chapters of the book, we seek some of Humor, albeit bitter, in the author's presentation of a glossary of phrases and words that were included during the war.In another chapter, Jane deals with the social and economic life of Beirut, and the experience of being in Hamra Street when the sounds of gunfire erupt.There is a chapter dedicated to the Israeli invasion in 1982, as the author recounts. About her experience in the spring of 1989, and her insistence on living despite the destruction, fear, and the feeling of losing hope.

 

And the book “My Grandmother, My Mother and Me: Three Generations of Arab Women,” about which she said, “As for my second book, “My Grandmother, My Mother and Me,” it was of a completely different nature. “Beirut Diaspora” was recently published, to positive acclaim from critics. And my mother had passed away not long ago. I was feeling very bad about her loss. I had long thought of writing about her, and about her mother whom I loved so much and who often lived with us. So I started with what I thought would be a simple, nostalgic, loving account of their lives. But when I started writing I found out how much I didn't know about them, where they had been educated, their parents, etc. So I understood then that I had to do research. But I didn't know how much research I was going to do. I had to create my own research system because there was no trace of their lives. women in known history, which I went into with much expectation.So, although my readings in history were very useful in reconstructing the political and historical past, they did not help me in my attempt to understand the lives of my mother and grandmother.So I worked for two years tracing the history of the family, which It is usually based on anecdotes and hearsay, and the family tree (which always dispenses with women though M Pronunciation of this omission) and I found ancient letters, that is, in general, the excavation of a lost past. Suffice it to say that the writing of this book was more thoughtful than the book that preceded it.

 

She also edited the book "Sirin Husseini Martyr, Memories of Jerusalem," which tells the biography of a Palestinian writer born in Jerusalem in 1920 and from the ancient Husseini family in Palestine. Some papers, small anecdotes and short stories about her childhood and youth in Jerusalem which she was writing, and she asked me my opinion if she should continue, and if she should try to publish it.According to the feminist ideology given below, my opinion was that of course she should continue and publish, because despite her young age The stories, as they were two or three pages, and although they describe special events, I felt that they were a biography of Palestine, especially written by women, and especially when girls are the focus of the story, which we rarely write about in the Arab world.

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