This memoir depicts a young girl's aspirations to attend college and spares no effort in achieving freedom to do so, seventeen years after graduating high school.
Raised in a restrictive environment in Cairo, where immigrant parents still observe old country traditions and limit their daughter's aspirations for higher learning, she decides to quit her paternal home and follow her own path to emancipation. She finds employment with the World Health Organization and manages to leave Egypt for a work assignment in Congo, a country in turmoil. Despite the risks she remains there for three years and starts a nest egg for her college education. She manages to travel to eighteen countries in three continents to visit relatives, do some sightseeing and look for a niche where she can feel at home. Seventeen years after high school graduation she sets feet at Columbia University in New York to realize her dream of becoming a writer.
A passionate and poignant memoir written by a woman whose life has been guided by the words: "I am here to learn how to love well." The book is a deep examination of relationships, family, motivation, and honoring of the Self.
Sepsis knocked her down and out. Faith, hope, and gave her the strength to get back on her feet. I am a Runner She fought the river of death They said she'd never run again
She proved them wrong...
Inside the Methadone Clinic. Addiction to heroin, methadone, and other opiates. Destruction. The primal addiction" of the child, power and control over your own life, the institutions and the characters, the love between a mother and son. This book i
