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Wadad Makdisi Cortas ( - ) (in Arabic "وداد مقدسي قرطاس") was a Palestinian-Lebanese educator and memoirist. Wadad Makdisi grew up in an educated family in Beirut, and attended Ahliah National School for Girls as a child. 
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After 30 years, Wadad Makdisi Cortas’ memoir, A World I Loved, has finally been published in English, as she always hoped it would be. The World That Mariam Said Loved – The Forward
“This is my story, the story of an Arab woman,” Wadad Makdisi Cortas states in the opening line of her memoir A World I Loved. Born Wadad Makdisi in Beirut in , which at that time was considered a part of Syria, she discovered Arab nationalism at a young age and lived a life true to the idea in every sense. A World I Loved: The Story of an Arab Woman by Wadad Makdisi ...
“This is my story, the story of an Arab woman. It is the story of a lost world,” writes Wadad Makdisi Cortas on the first page of her memoir. Born in Beirut in when present-day Lebanon was under Ottoman rule, Makdisi Cortas poignantly describes her idyllic childhood city by the sea.
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“This is my story, the story of an Arab woman. It is the story of a lost world. It begins in , in Lebanon, when I was seven years old. So opens this haunting memoir by Wadad Makdisi Cortas, who eloquently describes her personal experience of the events that have fractured the Middle East over the past century. A World I Loved: The Story of an Arab Woman - Aramco World
In “A World I Loved: The Story of an Arab Woman” (Nation Books: pp., $ paper), Wadad Makdisi Cortas, born in , manifests a similar love, inflamed yet tempered by loss.
The first edition of her book, published in Arabic in the late 1960’s, became a popular textbook in Lebanon. Shortly before her death in 1979, Makdisi Cortas wrote an updated English version and entrusted it to her son-in-law, the renowned scholar Edward Said. The English edition was published in 2009, the centenary of her birth.
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In her memoir, “A World I Loved: The Story of an Arab Woman” (Nation Brooks), published in English in , Wadad Makdisi Cortas describes having nurtured this. In “A World I Loved: The Story of an Arab Woman” (Nation Books: 208 pp., $14.95 paper), Wadad Makdisi Cortas, born in 1909, manifests a similar love, inflamed yet tempered by loss.
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A direct challenge to the stereotypes of passive Arab woman, Wadad Makdisi Cortas’s memoir A World I Loved, offers a window into the twentieth century Middle East through a fearless, feminist lens of pride and empowerment. A World I Loved : The Story of an Arab Woman - Google Books
Wadad Makdisi Cortas ( - ) (in Arabic "وداد مقدسي قرطاس") was a Palestinian-Lebanese educator and memoirist. Wadad Makdisi grew up in an educated family in Beirut, and attended Ahliah National School for Girls as a child.