ENGL124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lebanese Civil War, Hijab, Lebanese People
14 Jan 2015
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Lebanese civil war: a million people killed, injured, displaced, civil war: fighting amongst many different ethnic and religious groups (palestinians, israelis, syrians, christians, sunni and shia muslims, phoenician: an ancient civilization, partially located in modern lebanon, hijab (cid:224) debates in muslim communities about this, nation as a symbol (cid:224) nation and symbol terms intertwined within this story, lebanon, it"s a place she grew up, where her family lives, her cultural background, a place where other lebanese people live (since there are not that many. Culture, family, community: her family was pretty conservative, she also romanticizes lebanon in her memory (trauma and nostalgia, america, freedom, progressive ideas, peace, she places some symbolic meanings on america too, she"s desperate to get out of the violence and she wants to experience old traditional values, relationship (cid:224) her new man represents both of these things (lebanon and.
