Married to a Bedouin

Zusatztext In a world troubled by Arab extremism! this sparkling memoir is a refreshing antidote and a rare window into the legendary hospitality and mysterious customs of the Bedouin Arabs' Publishing News Informationen zum Autor Marguerite is from New Zealand. In 1978 she met Mohammad Abdallah in Petra, Jordan, married him and moved into his Nabataean cave. In 1985 they moved to the new Bedouin settlement, Umm Sayhoon. She was widowed in 2002. She has three children. Klappentext " First published in Great Britain in 2006 by Virago Press; this paperback edition published in 2009 by Virago Press; reprinted 2010"--T.p. verso.It was as Mohammad guided us singing through rocky, oleander-crowded canyons that I fell in love with him. Why I hadn't noticed his quick, eye-crinkling smile the day we met I don't know but I noticed it now. He fixed his red and white mendeel , throwing the knotted ends up over his head into an exotic Bedouin turban and flashed me a smile. I was fascinated. Zusammenfassung ' The donkey tied to the tent peg had a hard-on which was difficult to ignore. 'Hamar mabsoot,' my new brother-in-law Ibraheem said cautiously and as I realised I recognised his words (the donkey's happy), so our embarrassment dissolved with a giggle.'

Product details

• Authors: Marguerite Van Geldermalsen, Marguerite van Geldermalsen, Margueritte Van Geldermalsen
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.11.2009
• EAN: 9781844082209
• ISBN: 978-1-84408-220-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 173 mm x 205 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Virago Press
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, Jordan, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Autobiography: religious and spiritual, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Arab & Middle Eastern