jq-abstract

You are visiting the old website of The Institute for Palestine Studies
Please visit our new websiteClick Here
ABSTRACT
My father’s eldest sister has always served in my mind as a potential family encyclopedia.
“Potential” because I never had the opportunity to spend much time with her. She had come and visited us in Beirut once in the mid 1970s – I vaguely remember.
My grandmother, with whom I spent much of my childhood, would often mention Auntie M. under a nostalgic haze, perhaps regret, that her first-born was so far away.