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Honey
and Onions: A Life in Saudi Arabia
Publisher's Book Summary
Frances
Meade lived in Saudi Arabia from 1965 to 1998.
She and her husband and two daughters exchanged
their desert life in Arizona for another desert land when
they had the opportunity to transplant themselves to
Arabia for an eighteen-month adventure that was to last
thirty-three years. This was not the Arabia of the oil companies nor the high
tech country of today.
Hers
was the experience of Riyadh, the capital, in the days
before paved roads, telephones, and dependable electricity
and water. Her story opens a window onto a culture much
misunderstood by westerners.
How
the family adjusted to an alien way of life and became a
part of it is told with humor and an intimate
understanding of a people and a country that are
constantly in the news today.
Originally published in 1996 in Saudi Arabia, this
revised edition is even more timely in 2004.
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Book
Reviews for Honey and Onions: A Life in Saudi Arabia
"A
charming and humorous book that will awaken nostalgia
among those who have lived or traveled in the Middle East
.. But it may make even livelier and more informative
reading for new generations of people living as guests in
someone else's land."
-- Richard H. Curtiss, The Washington Report on
Middle East Affairs
"The
book's title, Honey and Onions originated from a
popular Arabic proverb, 'One day honey, one day onions' ..
'That is to me the universal description of life,' [the
author] explains .. So many books have been written about
the boom years and the country's gigantic leap into the
21st century as if the past has no value .. The book brims
with interesting descriptions and humorous anecdotes ..
Frances Meade has the ability to bring back the warmth,
the liveliness, the tempo of those years of the Riyadh of
the sixties." -- Lisa
Kaaki, Arab News
Additional Links:
| Frances
Meade is an American who has lived in Saudi
Arabia since 1965.
Born in New York, she and her family moved
to Arizona in the '50s and still call it home.
She has a degree from Mount Holyoke College
and has written and edited educational texts as
well as a monthly magazine column. |
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