Unveiled: How an American Woman Found Her Way Through Politics, Love, and Obedience in the Middle East

By Deborah Kanafani

Book Overview

In the early 1980s, Deborah Jacobs was an ordinary Lebanese American college student from Long Island, New York. By the end of the decade, she would bear witness to the making of international... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743291832
• ISBN13: 9780743291835
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Memoir Masterpiece

Deborah Kanafani writes a powerful and touching memoir about loss and identity; feminism and third world politics. With beauty and tenderness she explores her micro family dynamics and how they coincided with macro world politics. A true pleasure to read.

A magnificent tale

Impressive and intelligent, a great tale vivid and absorbing. It's a richly detailed and sympathetic biography,self evidently powerful true and moving. I highly recommend that book I read it in one evening it's quite gripping.

I was fascinated

What an amazing journey this author takes you on. I didn't want the book to end. it was easy to read and was full of characters that I would certainly never have the chance to meet in my life. I would have never known the behind the scenes stories of Queens, First Ladies and other brave women who seemingly trusted the author enough to tell their stories to her. Her own story was fascinating as well, she took the circumstances she knew she couldn't change and made the best of them, trying to help the others around her. The first hand stories she tells of her work with Palestinians and Israelis was certainly eye opening.

excellent and compelling

I couldn't put this book down. I had heard the same thing from several other people and I was not in the least disappointed. There are probably very few Americans that have had the access this author has. After losing cutody of her children she could have left the difficult conditions she was living in but she chose to stay. I admire her sacrifice, her ability to look beyond her personal problems and her openess in sharing her difficult story. I was fascinated by the wives of the arab leaders who shared their life stories with her and the work she did with many Palestinians and Isrealis who are working for peace. She shows us a side of life in the Middle East we could never see in the news.

great read

I loved the style of this book, very visual and always left feeling like you want to know what happens next. I think it was well structured. It starts out like a fairy tale and after she loses everything , is able to pick up the pieces and find her way. I found the book to be very inspirational as well as informative about the MIddle East conflict.