· Children of the Roojme: A Family's Journey from Lebanon; Elmaz Abinader Children of the Roojme: A Family's Journey from Lebanon; Elmaz Abinader Joudieh, Cynthia R. Elmaz Abinader Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, pages. $ (ISBN ). Review by Cynthia R. Joudieh, M.A. Amoco Cbrporation lmaz Abinader’s book, . · In this lyrical memoir of her Lebanese-American family, Elmaz Abinader offers a vivid account of uprooted and resettled lives. Spanning four generations and two continents, Children of the Roojme is the story of a family from the mountains of Lebanon and their emigration to western Pennsylvania. More than that, it bears intimate witness to the hardships of World War I, the Brand: University of Wisconsin Press. In this lyrical memoir of her Lebanese-American family, Elmaz Abinader offers a vivid account of uprooted and resettled lives. Spanning four generations and two continents, Children of the Roojme is the story of a family from the mountains of Lebanon and their emigration to western Pennsylvania. More than that, it bears intimate witness to the hardships of World War I, the disintegrating Ottoman empire, /5(2).
Her first major work, Children of the Roojme, A Family's Journey from Lebanon (Norton, , University of Wisconsin, ) was a result of a Post Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities where she worked with Nobelist Toni Morrison. Early in her career, she won an Academy of American Poets Award and most recently, A Fulbright Senior Scholarship. Shareable Link. Use the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more. The Children of the Roojme, a Family's Journey from Lebanon, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, The Children of the Roojme, a Family's Journey, New York: WW Norton Co., Anthologies. The Proper Purgation, Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, ed. Beau Beausoleil and Deema Shehabi, PM Press,
Abinader’s first published book, Children of the Roojme: A Fam-ily’s Journey from Lebanon, is about cultural belonging and family strength. In addition to Children of the Roojme, Abinader has published a collection of poems, In The Country of My Dreams, which won the Josephine Miles PEN Oakland award in Biography 1 Elmaz Abinader. Children of the Roojme: A Family's Journey from Lebanon; Elmaz Abinader Children of the Roojme: A Family's Journey from Lebanon; Elmaz Abinader Joudieh, Cynthia R. Elmaz Abinader Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, pages. $ (ISBN ). My first book, a memoir, The Children of the Roojme: A Family’s Journey from Lebanon was the story of three generations of Lebanese and their various challenges in finding a home away from their country. Based on diaries, interviews, and letters, the book covers two centuries, ending in
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