Open AccessLiving with Passports in Our Pockets
Author(s) -
Brian Prsecott-Decie
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.54
Subject(s) - wife , armenian , sister , refugee , grandparent , immigration , aunt , spanish civil war , ancient history , genealogy , gender studies , history , political science , geography , law , sociology
My wife, Taline, and her sister Maral were born in Mar Mikhael, a suburb of Beirut, of a Lebanese family of Armenian origin. Her father and paternal grandparents were also Lebanese born and bred, but her mother, of Armenian origin, but a citizen of Egypt where she was born, became Lebanese by marriage, and her aunt, also originally from Egypt, became Lebanese by virtue of the edict promulgated in June of 1994 (Maktabi, 2000, p. 147 and Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, n.d.). During the civil war, when my wife was a child, they lived for a couple of years in the USA, and they have relatives in the USA, Canada, Brazil, Australia, Turkey, and elsewhere.