Teta, mother, and me: three generations of Arab women

Prelude. In my own time

1. Jean

2. A Cairo childhood

3. Men and women, girls and boys

4. A kind of education

5. 'Ladies, simply ladies'

6. Suez

7. Ringing the changes

8. Beirut. Teta in history.

9. Teta's family origins: the Badrs of Schweir and the Haddads of Abeih

10. Homs

11. A nineteenth-century Syrian schoolgirl

12. Alternative paths

13. Marriage and war

14. Happiness. Mother's world.

15. A Palestinian girlhood

16. Partings

17. Schooldays in Beirut

18. Engagement and marriage

19. Modern bride, housewife, mother

20. Beyond the memoir. Women together: mother and me.

21. Beirut revisited

22. More letters and war

23. Gentle into the night

24. Balance

Postlude

Acknowledgments

Selected bibliography.