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Elaine Rippey Imady, Road to Damascus
Elaine, born and raised in a small town in New York State, was a typical American teenager in the early fifties; confident enough in herself and background to be the family rebel. She might have expected to marry and raise a famiy in a similar way to her own upbringing, but one day in a university library she met a young man who would change the entire course of her life.
Mohammed Imady was Syrian and a Muslim, and these two intelligent young people were only too aware of the difficulties they would face if their relationship developed. Nevertheless, within days of meeting they were so deeply commiitted to each other that marriage was inevitable. Elaine knew that this would mean travel to the Middle East and having her babies far from her loving and supportive family, but also learning to to live in a wholly Arab culture, mastering a new language, living initially with her husband's mother and extended family, and even (from her own choice) changing her religion. For the former rebel it meant legally surrendering her independence to her husband, for in Syria he would legally have the last word on everything; But Elaine's trust in Mohammed was not misplaced.
This is Elaine's beguiling story of her journey from life as a college student in New York to that of a respected matriarch in today's Syria. She arrived there by ship, a young wife with a small baby, to move into her husband's family home. More than four decades later, as the wife of a successful long-serving Minister of the Syrian Government, Elaine would find herself in the same port, and could smile at the memory of that younger apprehensive self. Her life in Syria is not one of those now-common accounts of failed romance, and escape from life in an Arab world which had become intolerable to a Western woman. Rather, because Elaine opened her heart to every new experience in her adopted land, and accepted the differences with good humour and considerable grace, it is a story of personal growth where the difficulties were merely part of a learning process, always bolstered by the great love she shared with Mohammed.
The reader seems to learn alongside Elaine as she recounts her experiences and those of her new family and her fascinating descriptions convey the real personality of the ever-enchanting city of Damascus.
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Elaine Rippey Imady, Road to DamascusElaine, born and raised in a small town in New York State, was a typical American teenager in the early fifties; confident enough in herself and background to be the family rebel. She might have expected to marry and raise a famiy in a similar way to her own upbringing, but one day in a university library she met a young man who would change the entire course of her life.
Mohammed Imady was Syrian and a Muslim, and these two intelligent young people were only too aware of the difficulties they would face if their relationship developed. Nevertheless, within days of meeting they were so deeply commiitted to each other that marriage was inevitable. Elaine knew that this would mean travel to the Middle East and having her babies far from her loving and supportive family, but also learning to to live in a wholly Arab culture, mastering a new language, living initially with her husband's mother and extended family, and even (from her own choice) changing her religion. For the former rebel it meant legally surrendering her independence to her husband, for in Syria he would legally have the last word on everything; But Elaine's trust in Mohammed was not misplaced.
This is Elaine's beguiling story of her journey from life as a college student in New York to that of a respected matriarch in today's Syria. She arrived there by ship, a young wife with a small baby, to move into her husband's family home. More than four decades later, as the wife of a successful long-serving Minister of the Syrian Government, Elaine would find herself in the same port, and could smile at the memory of that younger apprehensive self. Her life in Syria is not one of those now-common accounts of failed romance, and escape from life in an Arab world which had become intolerable to a Western woman. Rather, because Elaine opened her heart to every new experience in her adopted land, and accepted the differences with good humour and considerable grace, it is a story of personal growth where the difficulties were merely part of a learning process, always bolstered by the great love she shared with Mohammed.
The reader seems to learn alongside Elaine as she recounts her experiences and those of her new family and her fascinating descriptions convey the real personality of the ever-enchanting city of Damascus.
- MARY S. LOVELL -
