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Because I Believed in Me
BECAUSE I BELIEVED IN ME (MY EGYPTIAN FANTASY CAME TRUE) is a love story of Egypt and Egyptians. An ordinary American woman traveled to Cairo alone to teach and had the greatest adventure of her life. She went there to enable young Egyptians to become more fluent in English, but she became a student again herself. She learned to become an Egyptian woman and to survive successfully in a culture so different from hers. What she learned, experienced, and enjoyed in the Land of the Pharoahs is captured in her own words and emotions. She shares her many exciting adventures, her interesting but sometimes difficult daily life, her incredible teaching experience, and her students and her many friendships formed there plus her new and profound insights and understanding of Islam-once an extremely unfamiliar faith to her-and its true meaning. The reader will hopefully share her passion for a country that has now become like her second home and for its people who have become like her family.
186 pages, Paperback
First published November 28, 2012
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January 13, 2020
Randi Ward is an extraordinary person with depth and determination. Because I Believed in Me is her memoir of her time teaching English as a Second Lang in Egypt. The time was of a revolution, and yet she and her students continued to work together. I encourage people to read this to get a better sense of daily life in Egypt and to just enjoy a great story. I look forward to her stories about other adventures in Africa.
July 27, 2014
That was a really awesome book. I'll call it "A motivational Journal". I just loved it! I liked the way my dear friend Randi described everything with tiny details and how she felt about it.. It was like I was with her in every move she made. When she was happy, I was happy too. and When she was sad, I felt sorry for her.. In general, I recommend anyone who love Egypt and wanna know how it looks like now in the modern life to read this Amazing book. :)
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