Translator’s Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Prologue
1. Upbringing and family
My first school; Other childhood memories; Means of transport and
new inventions; Weddings and funerals
2. Political events before the First World War
The trip to Cairo; My education (continued); Awakenings; The reform
movement; The Paris Conference; The “Yellow” peril; First signs of
a secret revolution; My studies at home; The Society for the
Awakening of the Young Arab Woman
3. An engagement that was not completed
Jamal Pasha and his iniquities; The war period and my meeting with
Jamal Pasha; Workshops and refugee shelters in wartime; The Muslim
Girls’ Club and Ahmad Mukhtar Bayhum
4. The war’s end
Occupation and the Mandate; The Syrian Congress; My father’s
opposition to the Mandate and his exile to Duma; French
vindictiveness and severe financial losses for the family; The Lake
Huleh story
5. Society for Women’s Renaissance
My trip to England; Returning to Beirut; Unveiling; The progress of
feminism; Feminist conferences; Some pioneers of feminism
6. Back to the literary scene of the 1920s and beyond
Some women literary figures
7. The story of my marriage
Palestine my homeland; British policy in Palestine; Palestinian
women; Zionist propaganda; Our literary and social life; Deir Amr;
The Jericho Project; Jerusalem and the Arab College; Back to family
life; My children
8. Exile
Loss of homeland, loss of partner
Index
Anbara Salam Khalidi (1897 - 1986) was a feminist, activist, writer
and translator of classic literary works into Arabic. Her memoirs
were published as Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist (Pluto,
2013).
Marina Warner is an award-winning writer of fiction, criticism and
history; her works include novels and short stories as well as
studies of art, myths, symbols, and fairytales. She contributed an
introduction to Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist (Pluto, 2013) and
the afterword to Shadow Lives (Pluto, 2013).
'A truly exceptional woman. Her book stands witness to a momentous
period; throughout, she was in the vanguard of reform'
*Marina Warner, from the foreword*
'A fascinating record of experiences witnessed by a pioneer
feminist in Beirut whose name is rightly synonymous with the
feminist, social and literary renaissance of the Arab East'
*Kamal Salibi, prominent Lebanese historian and former Professor of
History at the American University of Beirut*
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