- Paperback: 137 pages
- Publisher: Write-Place Publishing; 2Rev Ed edition (1 July 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0955901308
- ISBN-13: 978-0955901300
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,700,391 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"...if someone publishes and sends me a copy, it is rare for me to read it from cover to cover and even rarer for me to do that in a single day. Crossing Borders left me wanting more when I got to the end and found she did not go on to tell what it was like when they all came back to England. I am assured there is a sequel ... but when, I ask her, when? The writing style is informative and almost chatty and drew me in to the whole scenario. It was hard to believe this was non fiction at some point, so descriptive and so flowing. That's it, you want to know more, ask Brenda. For me it was an amazing read and left me full of admiration for her courage and her great, great love." --Dorothy Davies - Editor, and author of "Captain of The Wight"
"Brenda Abou El Ola's book is a perceptive account of one woman s experience of crossing borders Britain s and Lebanon's. Two ordinary people both divorced, both with children come face-to-face with red tape, misconceptions and each other as they struggle with language, customs and their own personalities. The author shows particular insight into her own character." --Jay Mandal - Author of "The Dandelion Clock", "A Different Kind of Love" and others at BeWrite Books.
"Brenda Abou El Ola's book is a perceptive account of one woman s experience of crossing borders Britain s and Lebanon's. Two ordinary people both divorced, both with children come face-to-face with red tape, misconceptions and each other as they struggle with language, customs and their own personalities. The author shows particular insight into her own character." --Jay Mandal - Author of "The Dandelion Clock", "A Different Kind of Love" and others at BeWrite Books.
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I was a middle aged British teacher with grown up children. He was a Palestinian living in a notorious refugee camp in Lebanon, a member of Fatah the major Palestinian political party and largest organisation in the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) with teenaged boys. He had experienced numerous small wars and political unrest over the years while I had been involved in various family, health and work problems - neither of us were actively seeking new family relationships. However, we fell in love. I went to Lebanon; we met and married. I returned to UK to work while we worked out how we could be together as a family - here or there. I then returned to Lebanon and lived with my new family in Ein El Helwa camp, in Saida, (despite advice against this) "Crossing Borders" records the journey that we undertook to become a family and the problems that we seemed to hit at every turn. It tells of the gradual understanding through my experiences of the little that most of us know (or care) about other cultures and societies and how pre-conceived ideas, from the media or other, have a major impact on our impressions and comprehensions of the world, the people in it and the way we live. It is also an understanding of the barriers we humans put between ourselves, culturally, socially and emotionally, and the extent of the borders we are willing to cross
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