This Arab Life: A Generation's Journey into Silence

This Arab Life is an intimate and honest exploration of a rising Arab generations descent into silence. Personal and panoramic granular and sweeping the book offers a raw account of the unremitting mire that anticipates the regions present-day chaos. In an unusual twist the author a daughter of the Levant who claims Jordan and Lebanon as her homes locates her own privileged class in this painful history and holds a mirror to herself and her fellow travelers. In doing so she threads a generational tale with grit color and nuance. This Arab Life begins in Amman in the Summer of 1973 and concludes in Beirut in December 2021. But the narrative encompass a world by turns distant and faded near and vital.