Cocktails and camels /
Jacqueline Carol
- Alexandria , Egypt : Bibliotheca Alexandria , 2008
- 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes index.
When Jacqueline, a Lebanese girl, was growing up in Egypt she did not know that she was living in a world that was soon to be of the past. Nor did she love it totally at the time. She was too busy fuming against the restrictions placed on "nice" young Lebanese girls. It was a life that was an odd mixture of the old and new, of countless cocktail parties, incredible luxury, French originals, and definitely Near East attitudes about woman's place