“On December 1, 1924, French High Commissioner Maxime Weygand closed Ahliah Girls’ School…”
So begins today’s story from Johanna Peterson.
For further reading:
A World I Loved: The Story of an Arab Woman by Wadad Makdisi Cortas (Nation Books, 2009)
Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon by Elizabeth Thompson (Columbia University Press, 2000)
