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Jean Said Makdisi was born in Jerusalem and studied in Cairo and the United States. She is the author of Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir, a New York Times Notable Book. She lives in Beirut.

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Average rating: 3.86 · 318 ratings · 43 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Teta, Mother, and Me: Three Generations of Arab Women 3.66 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 1990 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ذكريات من القدس by سيرين الحسيني شهيد, إدوارد سعيد (تقديم), Jean Said Makdisi (محررة) 4.12 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Life in the PLO: The Inside Story of the Palestinian Struggle: The Inside Story of the Palestinian Struggle by Shafiq Al-hout, Hader Al-Hout (Translator), Jean Said Makdisi (Editor) 4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teta, Mother and Me: An Arab Womans' Memoir by Jean Said Makdisi (2004-11-11) by Jean Said Makdisi, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[Beirut Fragments - A War Memoir] [Author: Makdisi, Jean Said] [February, 2004] by Jean Said Makdisi, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beirut Fragments: Bearing Witness to a War 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?”
― Jean Said Makdisi

tags: banishment, community, punishment

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“Thus did I receive, through the singing of these various hymns and the moral education that accompanied them, not only a religious, but a political schooling of sorts. For though the intertwining of morality and politics does not necessarily make for a clear understanding of the cynicism that governs world affairs., it does engender impatience with and a rejection of this cynicism, and a real belief in a more perfect, less unjust world. And though I regret not having been taught more about the real world, I have never regretted being taught this kind of morality first.”
― Jean Said Makdisi, Teta, Mother, and Me: Three Generations of Arab Women

tags: education, morality

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“I had been brought up to be something of an intellectual, but there seemed at the time no connection between my newly formed ideas and the world to which I had returned. Indeed, I did not even recognize my ideas as ideas at all: they seemed to be culled from somewhere else and did not belong to me. I did not know then what I am just beginning to know now: that my ideas were indeed mine, that I had reacted and changed and moved, that I had already analyzed and synthesized, rejecting some thoughts, adopting others, putting yet others away for a while to be thought on. I did not recognize how mentally active an individual I had become, already divorced from the world through my own thoughts, my own perceptions of right and wrong, of honour and justice, of what mattered and what did not. (2007: 117)”
― Jean Said Makdisi

tags: intellectual, thoughts

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