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The Scent of Jasmine: Coming of Age in Jerusalem and Damascus

The Scent of Jasmine: Coming of Age in Jerusalem and Damascus


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JOURNEY TO A WORLD LITTLE KNOWN TO WESTERN READERS. Born to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father in 1944, Anan Ameri's refreshing memoir, The Scent of Jasmine, offers a funny, spirited, unique self-portrait of her childhood, adolescence and passage to adulthood as a young woman in the Arab world. A collection of twenty-three vignettes, Anan's search for the familiar fragrance of jasmine blossoms leads her to reimagine the puzzle pieces of her early life. While these stories--creative nonfictions--reverberate with the impact of enormous political upheavals and conflicts, The Scent of Jasmine demonstrates how the intricate bonds of family, community and place can nourish in us the creative capacity together to reimagine and repair our world

About the Author :
Dr. Anan Ameri is a writer, educator, activist and the award-winning author of The Scent of Jasmine (Interlink, 2017). She is the founding director of Dearborn's celebrated Arab American National Museum (AANM). She has won a Palestine Book Award, was named the 2005 Michiganian of the Year by The Detroit News, was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame, and was named the 2020 Arab American of the Year.

Review :
"Ameri recollects her life story from her earliest memories of living in Palestine before the Nakba (disaster) in 1948 to repeatedly traveling from Jordan to Syria amid the fluctuating tides of war, protest, and political upheaval. Ameri's story is that of relative privilege, as her father was a Jordanian government official and her mother came from an upper-class family who owned and operated a print shop. Prosperity, however, does not shield this family from the all-too-familiar violence of war and bloody territorial disputes. Her family life, by contrast, is not unlike any other, as her parents focus on trying to provide a peaceful place for raising their daughters and sons so that one day they can attend college and then graduate school. Filled with relatable stories about her fascination with modern technology, teen-idol-like admiration of Egyptian president Nasser, and anger toward religious intolerance at Western-run universities, this timely memoir should be shelved among other grand life stories lived amid war and turmoil. Ameri's strong and courageous voice gives this chronicle special significance as the world contends with a growing surge of conflicts and refugees."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781566560016
  • Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Interlink Books
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 318 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1566560012
  • Publisher Date: 15 Mar 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Coming of Age in Jerusalem and Damascus
  • Width: 152 mm


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