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But you don't look Arab : and other tales of unbelonging / Hala Gorani.
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Gorani, Hala, author.
New York : Hachette Books, 2024.
Subjects
Gorani, Hala.
Women journalists -- Biography.
Foreign correspondents -- Biography.
Arab Americans -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780306831645 (hardcover) :
0306831643 (hardcover) :
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xvi, 313 pages : genealogical tables ; 24 cm
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First edition.
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Part 1: "You don't even look Arab". Port-au-Prince, January 23, 2010 -- One hundred fifty years earlier -- Part 2: Aleppo. Beit Kbeer -- Independence -- Elvis is dead -- The not-so-secret police -- We are watching you -- "It's all gone" -- Part 3: Neuilly-sur-Seine. My first big lie -- The American dream -- The Middle East of Paris -- The five-star boarding school -- The train to Lille -- Part 4: Cairo. The revolution -- The massacre -- One night in Aswan -- "Making us look bad" -- The Arab winter -- Part 5: Paris. Je suis Charlie -- "Why don't you wear a hijab?" -- My brilliant harasser -- Leaving it all behind -- Allez les bleus -- The return -- Part 6: London. A fresh start -- Live from the studio -- On the road -- Bad decisions -- Full circle -- Part 7: Istanbul. Love on the Bosphorus -- The little boy on the beach -- Part 8: Baghdad. The Green Zone -- Baghdad beautiful -- The surge -- The pullout -- Part 9: Washington, DC. The White House Press Corps -- "You're banned" -- Laurel Hill Road -- The big leagues -- Part 10: Beirut. The thirty-four-day war -- The Paris of the Middle East -- The man of my dreams -- The final straw -- The jungle -- Part II: Somewhere over the Atlantic. Just the two (and a half) of us -- Lights, camera, action -- The clock -- The Saturday lunch -- BA Flight 217.
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"What is it like to have no clear identity in a world full of labels? How can people find a sense of belonging when they have never felt part of a "tribe?" And how does a blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman who's never lived in the Middle East honor her Arab Muslim ancestry and displaced family--a family forced to scatter when their home country was torn apart by war? Hala Gorani's path to self-discovery started the moment she could understand that she was "other" wherever she found herself to be. Born of Syrian parents in America and raised mainly in France, she didn't feel at home in Aleppo, Seattle, Paris, or London. She is a citizen of everywhere and nowhere. And like many journalists who've covered wars and conflicts, she felt most at home on the ground reporting and in front of the camera. As a journalist, Gorani has traveled to some of the most dangerous places in the world, covering the Arab Spring in Cairo and the Syrian civil war, reporting on suicide bombers in Beirut and the chemical attacks in Damascus, watching the growth of ISIS and the war in Iraq--sometimes escaping with her life by a hair. But through it all, she came to understand that finding herself meant not only looking inward, but tracing a long family history of uprooted ancestors. From the courts of Ottoman Empire sultans through the stories of the citizens from her home country and other places torn apart by unrest, But You Don't Look Arab combines Gorani's family history with rigorous reporting, explaining--and most importantly, humanizing--the constant upheavals in the Middle East over the last century."-- Provided by publisher.
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