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font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Stories of Lebanese Women in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region></span></font></i></b><font
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<i><span style='font-style:italic'><br>
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style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'>thursday | may 10 | 7pm
| mit | e51-376 | 70 memorial drive (<a
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target="_blank">map</a>)<b><span style='font-weight:bold'><br>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><font size=2
color="#a42700" face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";font-variant:small-caps;color:#A42700;font-weight:bold'>About the
Book</span></font></b><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
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The tales in Evelyn Shakir’s <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Remember
Me to Lebanon: Stories of Lebanese Women in America</span></i> are set in various
eras, from the 1960s to the present and occasionally hark back even to the
turn of the twentieth century. Protagonists range in age from a
teenager who resists her father’s understanding of honor, to an elderly
woman who returns from the grave for one last try at whipping her family into
shape. Most of the stories dramatize personal issues involving
negotiation between generations and cultures. But others have a
political dimension—one is set against the backdrop of the Lebanese
civil war; another is a response to 9/11, narrated by a woman who keeps watch
all day on the Arab family next door. (<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Remember
Me</span></i> is published by Syracuse University Press.)<br>
<br>
<b><font color="#a42700"><span style='font-variant:small-caps;color:#A42700;
font-weight:bold'>About the Author</span></font></b><br>
Evelyn Shakir, daughter of Lebanese immigrants to the United States, and a
pioneer in the study of Arab American literature is author of <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in
the United States</span></i> (Praeger 1997), which will soon appear in an
Arabic-language edition. As a Senior Fulbright scholar, she has taught American
literature to university students in both <st1:country-region w:st="on">Lebanon</st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Syria</st1:country-region>; under the
auspices of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Bentley</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType> (where she is professor emerita), she has
taught similar courses in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">kingdom</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Bahrain</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>. She holds degrees
from <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Wellesley</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType>,
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Harvard</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>,
and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Boston</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.<br>
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<b><font color="#a42700"><span style='font-variant:small-caps;color:#A42700;
font-weight:bold'>Reviews of Shakir’s <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Bint
Arab</span></i></span></font></b><br>
</span></font><b><font size=1 color="#a42700" face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:#A42700;font-weight:
bold'>“</span></font></b><i><font size=1 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-style:italic'>Weaving
together the personal narratives of a number of women of different
generations and experiences (including those in her own family), Shakir
compares their lives and experiences as they negotiated their way between the
demands of their own cultural traditions and the opportunities provided by
their new adopted country. A rich and complex portrait of Arab women and
their culture emerges, one that should serve as a corrective to the negative
and simplistic stereotype about Arab women in the West.</span></font></i><b><font
size=1 color="#a42700" face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:#A42700;font-weight:bold'>”<br>
– Choice</span></font></b><font size=1 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
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<b><font color="#a42700"><span style='color:#A42700;font-weight:bold'>“</span></font></b><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>A sweeping mosaic, rich and colorful in human
experience, brought to life in a collection of observations of life in their
lands of origin and, primarily, in the U.S., where events in the Middle East
continued to shape their identity.</span></i><font color="#a42700"><span
style='color:#A42700'>”<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>– Al Jadid</span></b></span></font><br>
<br>
<b><font color="#a42700"><span style='color:#A42700;font-weight:bold'>“</span></font></b><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>A gem of a book....[and a] valuable insight into
the changing generational perspectives of what it means for an Arab-American
woman to be a good daughter, sister, wife, and mother.</span></i><b><font
color="#a42700"><span style='color:#A42700;font-weight:bold'>”<br>
– Journal of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Palestine</st1:place></st1:City>
Studies</span></font></b><br>
<br>
<b><font color="#a42700"><span style='color:#A42700;font-weight:bold'>“</span></font></b><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Shakir presents the material in a coherent, logical
manner, adding comments or background where necessary, but never judging.
Bint Arab is a worthwhile book for Arab Americans and all others interested
in knowing more about the women of this little-known ethnic group.</span></i>”<br>
<b><font color="#a42700"><span style='color:#A42700;font-weight:bold'>–
International Migration Review</span></font></b><br>
<br>
<b><font color="#a42700"><span style='color:#A42700;font-weight:bold'>“</span></font></b><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>A major and enjoyable contribution to the
understanding of Arab and Arab American women....[Shakir] gives voice to
women's struggles when they navigate between their Arab family values and
those of their new country.</span></i><b><font color="#a42700"><span
style='color:#A42700;font-weight:bold'>”<br>
– <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">MESA</st1:place></st1:City>
(Middle Eastern Studies Association) Bulletin</span></font></b><br>
<br>
<b><font color="#a42700"><span style='color:#A42700;font-weight:bold'>“</span></font></b><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>American libraries and bookstores have long been
waiting for a book like Evelyn Shakir's Bint Arab....Shakir has written a
thoughtful and moving text that brings to light, through a skillful blend of
scholarship and oral storytelling, the largely untold history of a century of
Arab immigration to the United States....Never before has the Arab-American
experience been chronicled in just this fashion....Shakir should be thanked
for having had the courage to write it.</span></i><font color="#a42700"><span
style='color:#A42700'>”<b><span style='font-weight:bold'><br>
– <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wellesley</st1:place></st1:City></span></b></span></font><br>
<br>
<b><font color="#a42700"><span style='color:#A42700;font-weight:bold'>“</span></font></b><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>[T]he women's voices which Shakir enlists to flesh
out the big picture bring fresh insights to an otherwise stale story.
Compelling as they are diverse, the stories stand on their own as worthy of
interest. They touch on every conceivable subject--marriage and divorce,
religious fundamentalism and modern feminism, cultural racism and social
embarrassment, domestic violence and interdenominational marriages. The
Lebanese and Palestine women assembled by Shakir, immigrants and native born,
engage the reader's interest as they wrestle with various pressures and
demands placed on them to conform to mainstream culture....[A]dds a new
dimension to the understanding of what, for the lack of a better term, has
been called the Arab-American experience.</span></i><b><font color="#a42700"><span
style='color:#A42700;font-weight:bold'>”</span></font></b><br>
<b><font color="#a42700"><span style='color:#A42700;font-weight:bold'> –
Journal of American Ethnic History</span></font></b><br>
<br>
<b><font color="#a42700"><span style='color:#A42700;font-weight:bold'>“</span></font></b><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Shakir manages to provide an interdisciplinary
approach in her work, giving the reader an insight into Arab customs and
traditions, and into the women's intimate consciousness... The book is a
valuable reference on the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
society seen through Arab women immigrants' eyes... It is with great joy and
interest that I read this book!</span></i><b><font color="#a42700"><span
style='color:#A42700;font-weight:bold'>”<br>
– Journal of <st1:place w:st="on">Third World</st1:place> Studies</span></font></b></span></font><font
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face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";
font-weight:bold'>Lebanese Club at MIT © 2007| <a
href="http://web.mit.edu/lebanon" target="_blank"
title="http://web.mit.edu/lebanon">http://web.mit.edu/lebanon</a></span></font></b><font
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