Jean Said Makdisi
Palestinian writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jean Said Makdisi is a Palestinian writer and independent scholar, best known for her autobiographical writing. Life Jean Said Makdisi was born in Jerusalem, British Mandate Palestine, to a Palestinian family. The younger sister of Rosemarie Said Zahlan and Edward Said, she was raised in Egypt and educated in the United States and England. She married a Lebanese academic of Palestinian origin, Samir Makdisi. They lived in America before moving to Beirut, Lebanon, in 1972, where she taught English and Humanities at the Beirut University College. They remained in Beirut throughout the Lebanese Civil War and the 1982 Lebanon War. Makdisi documented the city's decline in her first book, Beirut Fragments: a war memoir :
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- The Islamic Origins of the Common Law (1999) (50)
- Legal logic and equity in Islamic law (1985) (50)
- Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir (1990) (37)
- Proportional Liability: A Comprehensive Rule to Apportion Tort Damages Based on Probability (1989) (24)
- The Fragmenting Force of Memory The Fragmenting Force of Memory: Self, Literary Style, and Civil War in Lebanon (2014) (8)
- Formal Rationality in Islamic Law and the Common Law (1985) (7)
- Teta, Mother, and Me: Three Generations of Arab Women (2006) (7)
- My life in the PLO : the inside story of the Palestinian struggle (2010) (6)
- Arab Feminisms: Gender and Equality in the Middle East (2014) (5)
- Fixed Shares in Intestate Distribution: A Comparative Analysis of Islamic and American Law (1984) (4)
- Improving Education-Delivery in the Twenty-First Century: The Vital Role of the Law Librarian * (2003) (4)
- Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Post-Modern Analysis (1970) (3)
- Introduction to the Study of Law: Cases and Materials (1997) (2)
- Elisabeth Bowen Thompson and the teacher training college (2005) (2)
- Islamic Property Law: Cases and Materials for Comparative Analysis with the Common Law (2005) (2)
- war and peace: reflections of a feminist (2008) (2)
- Powerlessness and power: Women and the war in Lebanon (1997) (2)
- Hard Cases and Human Judgment in Islamic and Common Law (1991) (2)
- Post-War, Pre-What? (1991) (1)
- Huqouq almarʾa: Feminist Thought and the Language of the Arab Women’s Movement (2014) (1)
- Aquinas's Prohibition of Killing Reconsidered (2019) (1)
- Brief of Jerome S. Luebbers, for Himself and 61 Other members of the Ohio General Assembly as Amici Curiae in Support of Appellant, State of Ohio - Ohio v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, 497 U.S. 502 (1990) (1989) (1)
- Uncaring Justice: Why Jacque v. Steenberg Homes Was Wrongly Decided (2017) (1)
- New Writing on Women, Politics and Social Change (1991) (1)
- Enid Hill, Mahkama: Studies in the Egyptian Legal System Courts and Crimes: Law and Society (London: Ithaca Press, 1979). Pp. ix + 197. (1980) (0)
- Henry Toledano. Judicial Practice in Morocco . New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. 197 pp. $17.50 (1983) (0)
- Estates in Land and Future Interests: Problems and Answers (1995) (0)
- A Christian Response to Laws That Require Immoral Acts (2021) (0)
- The Kindred Concepts of Seisin and Ḥawz in English and Islamic Law (2008) (0)
- Karmi: In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story (2004) (0)
- Lebanon Agonistes@@@Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon. (1991) (0)
- Chaos by Proxy@@@Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir. (1991) (0)
- How to Do a Perpetuities Problem (1988) (0)
- Justification in the Killing of an Innocent Person (1990) (0)
- Problems with the Structure of Casebooks and Instruction (1992) (0)
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