This Arab Life

<p><em>This Arab Life </em>is an intimate and honest exploration of a rising Arab generation's descent into silence. Personal and panoramic<span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> granular and sweeping the book offers a raw account of the unremitting mire that anticipates the region's present-day chaos. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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.  </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This Arab Life</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> 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.  </span></p>