Speaking in tongues /

"Speaking in Tongues is a very honest autobiography of a celebrated scholar. Fedwa Malti-Douglas chronicles her life and her struggles from her birth to the present day. Fedwa carries us on a journey that crosses landscapes of sadness, of happiness, of pain and peace, of alienation and acceptan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Malti-Douglas, Fedwa (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 2017.
Series:	Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 106, pt. 4.
Subjects:	Malti-Douglas, Fedwa. Women scholars > United States > Biography. Scholars > United States > Biography. Middle East > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States. Indiana University, Bloomington > Faculty > Biography. Lebanese Americans > Biography. Christian biography > Lebanon. Dayr al-Qamar (Lebanon) > Biography. Ithaca (N.Y.) > Biography. Muscular dystrophy > Patients > United States > Biography. Indiana University, Bloomington. Christian biography. Lebanese Americans. Muscular dystrophy > Patients. Scholars. Universities and colleges > Faculty. Women scholars. Lebanon. Lebanon > Dayr al-Qamar. Middle East. New York (State) > Ithaca. United States. Biography.

Table of Contents:

Prologue
Part I. Albert
Abode of the moon
City life and village life
St. Joseph
The smell of death
Coming of age
In the mountains
Flesh and spirit
Besançon
Womenfolk
The wailing
Upheavals
Paradise on earth
Preparing the emigrants
Part II. Michel
Hand-off
Family rituals
The attic
Florida
Cornell
Penn
L.A. and Paris
Rites of passage
Constantine
Mississippi
Funeral
Part III. Odette
Texas
Nazareth
Indiana
Crash
Exiles
Odette's story
Saying good-bye
Quest romance
Part IV. Mimo
Facebook
La Yadum Ightirabi
Family
Dreams of flying
Tamriyya
Refuge.