Postcards from the Middle East : how our family fell in love with the Arab world /: how our family fell in love with the Arab world. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Chris Naylor.
• Authors: (Conservationist), Naylor, Chris
• Contents: Contents ; Map of Lebanon 8; Acknowledgments 9; A Note on Transliteration of Arabic to English Text 10; Introduction: To Picnic or Not to Picnic? 11; Chapter 1: The Middle East and Back Again 21; Chapter 2: The Keys to the House: The Arabic Language 39; Chapter 3: Lebanon After the Civil War 55; Chapter 4: A History Told in Stone 71; Chapter 5: Grounded in the Valley 87; Chapter 6: Mission Impossible 101; Chapter 7: “Salaam Alaykum and Merry Christmas and Thanks Be to God” 115; Chapter 8: How I Got a Gun 125; Chapter 9: Crossing Cultures 141; Chapter 10: The Day the World Changed 153; Chapter 11: Myths, Legends, and Superstitions 165; Chapter 12: Valentine’s Day 181; Chapter 13: A Summer War 193; Chapter 14: The Final Departure 209; Chapter 15: A New Country 219; Appendix 231; The Naylor Family and the Middle East Timeline 237; Suggested Reading 239; Last Word… 240
• Publisher Details: Oxford : Lion
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 915.604; British -- Middle East; Middle East -- Description and travel; Middle East -- Social life and customs; Middle East -- Civilization; Family
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780745956503
• Related ISBNs: 9780745956497
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• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.