Unveiled : : New Introduction by Carolyn Goffman / / Selma Ekrem.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Ekrem, Selma,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Cultures in Dialogue: First Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (0 p.)

Selma Ekrem grew up among the progressive Ottoman Muslim elite. Ekrem benefited from having an unconventional mother, who did not insist on her daughter's veiling. The book covers the family's sojourns outside Istanbul when her father was governor in Jerusalem during the 1908 Young Turk revolution and then governor of the Greek Archipelago Islands, where the whole family was held captive when their island was taken by the Greeks during the Balkan Wars. Returning to Istanbul just as World War I broke out, Ekrem attended the American College for Girls. Frustrated at the restrictions of Turkish female life, Ekrem traveled to America and countered prevalent stereotypes by lecturing on Turkey.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CULTURES IN DIALOGUE -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- CHAPTER I. THE SHADOW OF FEAR -- CHAPTER II. FEAR KNOCKS AT THE DOOR -- CHAPTER III. AN INTERLUDE OF SUNLIGHT -- CHAPTER IV. GOING TO JERUSALEM -- CHAPTER V. MY FIRST NEW CITY -- CHAPTER VI. CHRISTMAS IN JERUSALEM -- CHAPTER VII. CHRISTOS ANESTI -- CHAPTER VIII. JAUNTS INTO THE DESERT -- CHAPTER IX. REVOLT AND T H E REFUGE OF HOME -- CHAPTER X. WITHIN OLD FAMILY WALLS -- CHAPTER XI. THE PASSING OF HAMID THE RED -- CHAPTER XII. CYCLONE IN RHODES -- CHAPTER XIII. THE BARBER-DENTIST -- CHAPTER XIV. THE BLACK TCHARSHAF -- CHAPTER XV. THE ONE WHO LOOKS AT FATE -- CHAPTER XVI. WAR -- CHAPTER XVII. PRISONERS -- CHAPTER XVIII. IN THE ENEMY'S LAND -- CHAPTER XIX. BLACK BREAD AND PAPER DRESSES -- CHAPTER XX. THE DEATH OF OLD STAMBOUL -- CHAPTER XXI. MY AMERICAN VENTURE -- CHAPTER XXII. TURN TO THE EAST AND TURN TO THE WEST