Politically Homeless - Terzian, Mary
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Multicultural/Social Science, Women//Travel In this Memoir, Terzian's aspirations to attend college meet parents' refusal, flaring her yearnings even more. Consequently she quits her home in Cairo to work with the United Nations (UN) World Health Organization in Alexandria. Five years later she accepts a UN assignment in Congo, where civil war is rampant. She endures the rigors of expatriation, meanwhile saving funds for her college tuition. She also travels to eighteen countries across three continents for vacation and to visit her scattered family: cousin in Holland, brother in Armenia, and…mehr

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Multicultural/Social Science, Women//Travel In this Memoir, Terzian's aspirations to attend college meet parents' refusal, flaring her yearnings even more. Consequently she quits her home in Cairo to work with the United Nations (UN) World Health Organization in Alexandria. Five years later she accepts a UN assignment in Congo, where civil war is rampant. She endures the rigors of expatriation, meanwhile saving funds for her college tuition. She also travels to eighteen countries across three continents for vacation and to visit her scattered family: cousin in Holland, brother in Armenia, and new relatives there, descendants of survivors from the Armenian genocide during World War I. While she is still in Yerevan, Comrade Khrushchev is overthrown. She manages to slip out of the Soviet Union safely and visit several countries in Africa on her way back to Congo. She returns to Leopoldville on board a plane commandeered by mercenaries! Her...
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Born and brought up in Cairo, Tertian comes from a family of staunch traditions who attach secondary importance to girls in the clan. Born before her time she quits home at twenty-one, and does not return until she is assured of her rights to freedom. Her experiences of living in a cosmopolitan society propel her to go forward and realize her dreams of becoming a writer. Language impediments, political upheavals, outdated laws, traditions and attitudes about keeping women below par do not deviate her from her aspirations.