Anbara Salam Khalidi (1897 - 1986) was a feminist, activist, writer and translator of classic literary works into Arabic. Her memoirs were published as Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist (Pluto, 2013).Marina Warner is an award-winning writer of fiction, criticism and history; her works include novels and short stories as well as studies of art, myths, symbols, and fairytales. She contributed an introduction to Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist (Pluto, 2013) and the afterword to Shadow Lives (Pluto, 2013).

• Translator’s AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsPrologue1. Upbringing and familyMy first school; Other childhood memories; Means of transport and new inventions; Weddings and funerals2. Political events before the First World WarThe 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 Woman3. An engagement that was not completedJamal 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 Bayhum4. The war’s endOccupation 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 story5. Society for Women’s RenaissanceMy trip to England; Returning to Beirut; Unveiling; The progress of feminism; Feminist conferences; Some pioneers of feminism6. Back to the literary scene of the 1920s and beyondSome women literary figures7. The story of my marriagePalestine 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 children8. ExileLoss of homeland, loss of partnerIndex

'A truly exceptional woman. Her book stands witness to a momentous period; throughout, she was in the vanguard of reform'

Anbara Salam Khalidi (1897 - 1986) was a feminist, activist, writer and translator of classic literary works into Arabic. Her memoirs were published as Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist (Pluto, 2013).Marina Warner is an award-winning writer of fiction, criticism and history; her works include novels and short stories as well as studies of art, myths, symbols, and fairytales. She contributed an introduction to Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist (Pluto, 2013) and the afterword to Shadow Lives (Pluto, 2013).

• Translator’s AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsPrologue1. Upbringing and familyMy first school; Other childhood memories; Means of transport and new inventions; Weddings and funerals2. Political events before the First World WarThe 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 Woman3. An engagement that was not completedJamal 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 Bayhum4. The war’s endOccupation 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 story5. Society for Women’s RenaissanceMy trip to England; Returning to Beirut; Unveiling; The progress of feminism; Feminist conferences; Some pioneers of feminism6. Back to the literary scene of the 1920s and beyondSome women literary figures7. The story of my marriagePalestine 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 children8. ExileLoss of homeland, loss of partnerIndex

'A truly exceptional woman. Her book stands witness to a momentous period; throughout, she was in the vanguard of reform'

Anbara Salam Khalidi (1897 - 1986) was a feminist, activist, writer and translator of classic literary works into Arabic. Her memoirs were published as Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist (Pluto, 2013).Marina Warner is an award-winning writer of fiction, criticism and history; her works include novels and short stories as well as studies of art, myths, symbols, and fairytales. She contributed an introduction to Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist (Pluto, 2013) and the afterword to Shadow Lives (Pluto, 2013).

• Translator’s AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsPrologue1. Upbringing and familyMy first school; Other childhood memories; Means of transport and new inventions; Weddings and funerals2. Political events before the First World WarThe 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 Woman3. An engagement that was not completedJamal 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 Bayhum4. The war’s endOccupation 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 story5. Society for Women’s RenaissanceMy trip to England; Returning to Beirut; Unveiling; The progress of feminism; Feminist conferences; Some pioneers of feminism6. Back to the literary scene of the 1920s and beyondSome women literary figures7. The story of my marriagePalestine 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 children8. ExileLoss of homeland, loss of partnerIndex

'A truly exceptional woman. Her book stands witness to a momentous period; throughout, she was in the vanguard of reform'