Min Al-Nabak Ila Florida, Qisat Muhajer Suri [From Al-Nabak to Florida, the story of a Syrian immigrant]

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254 p.p of Arabic text; Paperback Binding as published, 38 chapter, biblio, index, 1 b/w photograph, Copy in mint Condition. New. Kutub, Beirut, First Edition, 2012, ISBN: 9789953554242 This manuscript recorded unfortunately incomplete biography of the immigrant Syrian Youssef Daoud.A biography as rich social life, economic and religious in Al-Nabak town in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century._x000d_ Author speaks extensively about childhood memories, the farmers lives, poverty, misery and deprivation, as well as on the activities of foreign missions in the Syrian countryside. Also refers to the origin of his family, farm life, and trade practiced by his father and his relatives by convoys between Damascus, Aleppo and Mardin. He also talks about the Syrian traditions in that period, and underscores the fact that all family loyalties, zonal and sectarian, and the lack of national loyalty under the Ottoman occupation despised by him and by all Syrians