Remembering Childhood in the Middle EastGrowing up is a universal experience, but the particularities of homeland, culture, ethnicity, religion, family, and so on make every childhood unique. To give Western readers insight into what growing up in the Middle East was like in the twentieth century, this book gathers thirty six original memoirs written by Middle Eastern men and women about their own childhoods. Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, a well known writer of books and documentary films about