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|  | | Politically Homeless - a five year Odyssey across three continents
Born in the Armenian diaspora, a young girl leaves her birthplace and community for an expatriate assignment in Africa. She seizes the opportunity to travel across three continents to find a niche where she can peacefully pursue her dreams.
Born in Egypt to immigrant Armenian parents, survivors from the great genocide, Mary is not encouraged to pursue higher education considered superfluous for young women then - in the 1950's in Egypt.
Terzian is adamant to realize her dream. She accepts an offer from the World Health Organization to work in Alexandria, away from home, a very bold step in 1957. Five years later she qualifies for an expatriate assignment in Congo, a country in turmoil in 1962. During her home leave two years later she extends her vacation by another six weeks to travel across three continents in search | |  | | Politically Homeless - a Five-year Odyssey across Three Continents
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 f | |  | | The Immigrants' Daughter
Born to immigrant parents from Turkey, this book consists of authors' witty and sometimes painful memories of growing up in Cairo during World War II, Israel's independence and Egypt's transition to Republic.
span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In her award-winning book the author captures the universal immigrant experience through her personal memories. The scene is set in Cairo in the 1940's. She is a member of a tightly knit Armenian family living in an expatriate community of genocide survivors, or escapees, like her parents, from Turkey, during and after orld War I. Peaceful life, joy with younger brother's arival and happy celebrations with the clan are rocke |
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In Handcuffs
by R. Burrow
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 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 |
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