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- 9780306831669
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- Hachette Books
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- 20/02/2024
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- anglais
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Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from
her time as a globe-trotting correspondent and anchor with her own lifelong
search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants.
What is it like to have no clear identity in a world full of labels? How can
people find a sense of belonging when they have never felt part of a "tribe?"
And how does a blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman who's never lived in the Middle
East honor her Arab Muslim ancestry and displaced family--a family forced to
scatter when their home country was torn apart by war?
Hala Gorani's path to self-discovery started the moment she could understand
that she was "other" wherever she found herself to be. Born of Syrian parents
in America and raised mainly in France, she didn't feel at home in Aleppo,
Seattle, Paris, or London. She is a citizen of everywhere and nowhere. And
like many journalists who've covered wars and conflicts, she felt most at home
on the ground reporting and in front of the camera.
As a journalist, Gorani has traveled to some of the most dangerous places in
the world, covering the Arab Spring in Cairo and the Syrian civil war,
reporting on suicide bombers in Beirut and the chemical attacks in Damascus,
watching the growth of ISIS and the war in Iraq--sometimes escaping with her
life by a hair. But through it all, she came to understand that finding
herself meant not only looking inward, but tracing a long family history of
uprooted ancestors. From the courts of Ottoman Empire sultans through the
stories of the citizens from her home country and other places torn apart by
unrest, But You Don't Look Arab combines Gorani's family history with rigorous
reporting, explaining--and most importantly, humanizing--the constant
upheavals in the Middle East over the last century.
her time as a globe-trotting correspondent and anchor with her own lifelong
search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants.
What is it like to have no clear identity in a world full of labels? How can
people find a sense of belonging when they have never felt part of a "tribe?"
And how does a blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman who's never lived in the Middle
East honor her Arab Muslim ancestry and displaced family--a family forced to
scatter when their home country was torn apart by war?
Hala Gorani's path to self-discovery started the moment she could understand
that she was "other" wherever she found herself to be. Born of Syrian parents
in America and raised mainly in France, she didn't feel at home in Aleppo,
Seattle, Paris, or London. She is a citizen of everywhere and nowhere. And
like many journalists who've covered wars and conflicts, she felt most at home
on the ground reporting and in front of the camera.
As a journalist, Gorani has traveled to some of the most dangerous places in
the world, covering the Arab Spring in Cairo and the Syrian civil war,
reporting on suicide bombers in Beirut and the chemical attacks in Damascus,
watching the growth of ISIS and the war in Iraq--sometimes escaping with her
life by a hair. But through it all, she came to understand that finding
herself meant not only looking inward, but tracing a long family history of
uprooted ancestors. From the courts of Ottoman Empire sultans through the
stories of the citizens from her home country and other places torn apart by
unrest, But You Don't Look Arab combines Gorani's family history with rigorous
reporting, explaining--and most importantly, humanizing--the constant
upheavals in the Middle East over the last century.
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