Dream Homes From Cairo to Katrina, an Exile's Journey

Name: Dream Homes From Cairo to Katrina, an Exile's Journey
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ISBN: 9781558615731

ISBN-10: 1558615733

ISBN-13: 9781558615731

Edition: 2007

Authors: Joyce Zonana

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An Egyptian-Jewish Under the Tuscan Sun, Dream Homes chronicles Joyce Zonana's quest to find a sense of home among people, foods, and places as far from her native Cairo as Oklahoma and Katrina-stricken New Orleans. After the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, newlyweds Felix and Nellie Zonana flee Cairo with their infant daughter Joyce, ending up in Brooklyn. Growing up, Joyce swiftly realizes that her Jewish family and their Egyptian culture are neither typically American nor typically American-Jewish; they eat kobeba instead of kugel and speak French instead of Yiddish. Struggling with her feelings of isolation from other Americans and frustrated by never getting full access to Egyptian-Jewish…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Publication date: 8/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English