Translator’s Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Prologue 1. Upbringing and family My first school; Other childhood memories; Means of transport and new inventions; Weddings and funerals 2. Political events before the First World War The trip to Cairo; My education (continued); Awakenings; The reform movement; The Paris Conference; The “Yellow” peril; First signs of a secret revolution; My studies at home; The Society for the Awakening of the Young Arab Woman 3. An engagement that was not completed Jamal Pasha and his iniquities; The war period and my meeting with Jamal Pasha; Workshops and refugee shelters in wartime; The Muslim Girls’ Club and Ahmad Mukhtar Bayhum 4. The war’s end Occupation and the Mandate; The Syrian Congress; My father’s opposition to the Mandate and his exile to Duma; French vindictiveness and severe financial losses for the family; The Lake Huleh story 5. Society for Women’s Renaissance My trip to England; Returning to Beirut; Unveiling; The progress of feminism; Feminist conferences; Some pioneers of feminism 6. Back to the literary scene of the 1920s and beyond Some women literary figures 7. The story of my marriage Palestine my homeland; British policy in Palestine; Palestinian women; Zionist propaganda; Our literary and social life; Deir Amr; The Jericho Project; Jerusalem and the Arab College; Back to family life; My children 8. Exile Loss of homeland, loss of partner Index