Jean Said Makdisi (Arabic: جين سعيد مقدسي; born 1940) is a Palestinian writer and independent scholar, best known for her autobiographical writing.[1]
Life
editJean Said Makdisi was born in Jerusalem, British Mandate Palestine, to a notable academic Palestinian family. The younger sister of Rosemarie Said Zahlan and Edward Said, she was raised in Egypt and educated in the United States and England.[2] She married a Lebanese academic of Palestinian origin, Samir Makdisi. They lived in America before moving to Beirut, Lebanon, in 1972,[1] where she taught English and humanities at the Beirut University College.[3]
They remained in Beirut throughout the Lebanese Civil War and the 1982 Lebanon War. Makdisi documented the city's decline in her first book, Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir (1989).[4]
In Teta, Mother, and Me: An Arab Woman's Memoir (2005) Makdisi tells the story of three generations of Arab women: herself, her mother, Hilda Musa Said, and her grandmother, Munira Badr Musa.[5]
She is the mother of Saree Makdisi, professor of English and comparative literature at University of California, Los Angeles;[6] Ussama Makdisi, professor of history at the University of California Berkeley;[7] and Karim Makdisi, professor of international politics at the American University of Beirut.[8]
Works
edit- Makdisi, Jean Said (1990). Beirut fragments: a war memoir. New York: Persea Books. ISBN 978-0-89255-164-4.
- Makdisi, Jean Said (2005). Teta, mother and me: an Arab woman's memoir. London: Saqi. ISBN 978-0-86356-891-6.
- al-Hout, Shafiq (2010). Makdisi, Jean Said; Asser, Martin (eds.). My life in the PLO: the inside story of the Palestinian struggle. Translated by al-Hout, Hader; Othman, Laila. London: Pluto Press. ISBN 978-0-7453-2883-6.
- Makdisi, Jean Said; Bayyūmī, Nuhá; Ṣaydāwī, Rafīf Riḍā, eds. (2014). Arab feminisms: gender and equality in the Middle East. Contemporary Arab scholarship in the social sciences. Vol. 7. Translated by Khoury, Ellen. London: I.B. Tauris Publishers in Association With The Centre for Arab Unity Studies Lebanese Association of Women Researchers. ISBN 978-1-78076-672-0.
References
edit- 1 2 Fister, Barbara (1995). "Makdisi, Jean Said". Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-313-28988-0.
- ↑ Makdisi, Jean Said 1940–, Contemporary Authors, encyclopedia.com. Accessed February 11, 2020.
- ↑ "Jean Said Makdisi". The Knowledge Workshop. February 28, 2017. Archived from the original on January 21, 2021.
- ↑ Said Makdisi, Jean (September 9, 1990). "Book Mark : Living in Beirut: 'A Tightrope Over an Abyss of Panic' : Memoir: A Palestinian describes her efforts to live a normal life in a city under siege, and to understand passions that would erase it from the map". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 18, 2026.
- ↑ Kamal, Hala (Winter–Spring 2007). "A Feminist Autobiography; Teta, Mother and Me: An Arab Woman's Memoir" (PDF). Al-Raida. 24 (116–117): 82–84.
- ↑ "Saree Makdisi: Professor and Commentator". Institute for Middle East Understanding. February 20, 2014. Archived from the original on December 13, 2023.
- ↑ "Ussama Makdisi". Department of History. UC Berkeley. Retrieved May 18, 2026.
- ↑ "Karim Makdisi". Academic Council on the United Nations System. Retrieved May 18, 2026.
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