House of Stone will stand a long time, for those fortunate enough to read it. 'Entertaining, informative, and deeply moving.

'A poignant dedication to family, to home, and to history. This paperback edition includes an afterword by the journalist Nada Bakri, Anthony Shadid's wife, reflecting on his legacy. In the process, he memorializes a lost world and provides profound insights into a shifting Middle East. In this bittersweet and resonant memoir, Shadid creates a mosaic of past and present, tracing the house's renewal alongside the history of his family's flight from Lebanon and resettlement in America around the turn of the twentieth century. So begins the story of a battle-scarred home and a journalist's wounded spirit, and of how reconstructing the one came to fortify the other. 10, 2012 10:29 AM PT Special to Tribune Newspapers A yearning for home, wherever that may be, is one of many themes that the late New York Times journalist.

One year later, Shadid returned to Marjayoun, not to chronicle the violence, but to rebuild in its wake. It was discussed in 'Constructing the Good Life' as home is often a place many people consider sacred and we were constructing our ideas of. Bayt symbolizes a rememberance of the past and realiation of the future.

There, he discovered his great-grandfather's once magnificent estate in near ruins, devastated by war. In this bittersweet and resonant memoir, Shadid creates a mosaic of past and present, tracing the houses renewal alongside the history of his familys flight from Lebanon and resettlement in America around the turn of the twentieth century. In Anthony Shadids 'House of Stone' a bayt is a word that means 'home' in Arabic and implies emotional attatchment and sanctity. In the summer of 2006, racing through Lebanon to report on the Israeli invasion, Anthony Shadid found himself in his family's ancestral hometown of Marjayoun. One of the finest memoirs I've read.' - Philip Caputo, Washington Post

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