- Brossura: 279 pagine
- Editore: Virago Pr; Reprint edizione (aprile 2010)
- Collana: Virago Press
- Lingua: Inglese
- ISBN-10: 1844082202
- ISBN-13: 978-1844082209
- Peso di spedizione: 240 g
Married to a Bedouin
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Marrying for Love and A Sense of Humor -- Not Material Things
2 dicembre 2006
Di Lys Marigold
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This New Zealand-born woman with her Dutch ancestry talks about how she wasn't brave or didn't do anything extraordinary: she merely fell in love with a wonderful, decent, funny, charming and intelligent guy -- who happened to be Bedouin and live in a cave in Petra. I met them in the teahouse across from the amphitheater in the spring of 1989 when Salwa was a little girl and the boys were toddlers. Marg and Mo became our lifeline there and secured one of the new government houses in Umm Sehun for us to rent -- with a hot shower and all. We returned in the fall for three more months, learning so much from Marguerite: how to weave a tent from goat hair, to make margluba in one pot and attend a wedding. Each year for the next 10 years (until 2000), we remet and rekindled our friendship, having incredible fun with my own bint (daughter). Now, reading her book, I cherish each page, understanding even more about their special lives and what it means to be part of a Beduoin family.
It is a book that is so pertinent today in understanding another culture and how our American government is clueless about that part of the world and the vastly different outlook, superstitions, meanings, approach to everyday living that the local people have. Bravo Marguerite.
It is a book that is so pertinent today in understanding another culture and how our American government is clueless about that part of the world and the vastly different outlook, superstitions, meanings, approach to everyday living that the local people have. Bravo Marguerite.
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Petra in a new light
25 ottobre 2006
Di Wendy Botham
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Formato:Brossura
I am an American who has been living in Petra about 15 years now, and I found so many new and interesting things to enjoy from reading this book. Marguerite's story is a very personal and completely fascinating saga of falling in love and making a highly unusual life in one of the caves of Petra. She became totally immersed in the life of the Bedouin tribe which once inhabited the caves in amongst all the marvelous antiquities of the site.
Her stories of learning to bake the paper-thing Bedouin shiraq bread, doing laundry and grabbing the chance to have a swim in the spring of Wadi Siyyagh, racing around the country trying to deal with all the bureaucracy to get her marriage license.....what an adventure!
I only met Marguerite and Mohammed after they had moved from their cave to a house in the government-built Bedouin village outside the ruins. Reading this book about the years they spent in the cave in Petra gave me a new appreciation for her ability to meld a modern woman's sense of independence with a Bedouin tribal existence. This would be quite a feat for anyone, but her book shows that lots of love and a good sense of humor can overcome the most remarkable challenges.
This is a GREAT story. Each of us has to cope with life as it happens, and it's usually not exactly what we had planned. Marguerite tells us how she handled both the large and the small challenges of a life as far from imaginable as possible. It's an inspiring story, not least because she manages to make it all sound so un-remarkable.
Her stories of learning to bake the paper-thing Bedouin shiraq bread, doing laundry and grabbing the chance to have a swim in the spring of Wadi Siyyagh, racing around the country trying to deal with all the bureaucracy to get her marriage license.....what an adventure!
I only met Marguerite and Mohammed after they had moved from their cave to a house in the government-built Bedouin village outside the ruins. Reading this book about the years they spent in the cave in Petra gave me a new appreciation for her ability to meld a modern woman's sense of independence with a Bedouin tribal existence. This would be quite a feat for anyone, but her book shows that lots of love and a good sense of humor can overcome the most remarkable challenges.
This is a GREAT story. Each of us has to cope with life as it happens, and it's usually not exactly what we had planned. Marguerite tells us how she handled both the large and the small challenges of a life as far from imaginable as possible. It's an inspiring story, not least because she manages to make it all sound so un-remarkable.
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Married to a Bedouin
17 febbraio 2007
Di Donald M. Boardman
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Read this book right after touring Petra. It enhanced my feelings and memories if the place immensely. Well written. It gives a very good sense of what life was like in a Petra cave and being married to a very creative Bedouin man and his very large extended clan. Recommended highly, although I'm not sure how much I would have comprehended without having been there myself.
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