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 ...
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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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This book is an exchange of letters between the head of an orphan home in the late 1800s and the parents of children at the orphanage and/or their foster families. Some of the letters are to and from the orphans who left the orphanage. The letters reveal how family situations such as poverty, unemployment, illegitimacy, alcoholism, abuse and other family problems contributed to the decision to place children in the orphanage, even if they weren't true orphans. The letters also give you a glimpse of the lives of children who were indentured out to families from the orphan home. If you're interested in the history of orphanages, indentured children, foster care, or the economic and social stresses on families in the late 1800s, you will find this book a very good read. I appreciated the portrait that emerged of the head of the orphanage and the stresses he dealt with as he tried to help the children and families, with varying success.
