Politically Homeless: A Five-year Odyssey across Three Continents, by Mary Terzian
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In this memoir, Terzian's aspirations to attend college meet parents' refusal, flaring her yearnings even more. Consequently she quits her home in Cairo to work with the United Nations (Un) World Health Organization in Alexandria. Five years later she accepts a Un assignment in Congo, where civil war is rampant. She endures the rigors of expatriation, meanwhile saving funds for her college tuition. She also travels to eighteen countries across three continents for vacation and to visit her scattered family: cousin in Holland, brother in Armenia, and new relatives there, descendants of survivors from the Armenian genocide during World War I. While she is still in Yerevan, Comrade Khrushchev is overthrown. She leaves safely and visits several countries in Africa on her way back to Congo. She returns to Leopoldville on board a plane commandeered by mercenaries! Terzian transfers to Lomé, Togo, in 1965, but her appointment turns sour. She resigns and seriously thinks about immigrating to where she can peacefully pursue her interests. Her tenacity pays off. - A universal struggle revealed in a personal story, this memoir is told against the backdrop of strict cultural upbringing, political turmoil, and a young woman's love of education propelling her toward independence. - Sherry Barber, Journalist, Editor. - Terzian's story continues as her extraordinary autobiography, Politically Homeless – an Odyssey across Three Continents - unfolds with more adventures in her always honest and humorous voice. - M.L.Schubert, Author of The Silence and Beyond.
Politically Homeless: A Five-year Odyssey across Three Continents, by Mary Terzian- Amazon Sales Rank: #3185480 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-02
- Released on: 2015-06-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.01" w x 6.00" l, 1.29 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 402 pages
From the Author I was often asked "Where do you come from?" a question that needed half a page of explanation. "From my mother's womb," was my immediate impulse but I restrained myself. Instead, I wrote "The Immigrants' Daughter . . ." hoping to appease the enquirers' curiosity concerning my background. I was wrong. The book flared up another question: "how did you come here?" to which I would have replied "on a camel riding the Atlantic Ocean," because people assumed that in Cairo camels were the only means of transportation. The statements from fans were eager and genuine: "I can't wait for your next book!" a very flattering request for an author. I wanted to respond to my fans' desires and high expectations. So I penned "Politically Homeless - a Five-Year Odyssey ..." It is a story that needed to be told, since most of my friends, acquaintances in social circles, even family members, were not aware of my "sometimes hair-raising" adventures during those years. In this second memoir I had to establish some background and more details from adolescence, for the benefit of those who have not read "The Immigrants' Daughter." Then I delved into my tumultuous life in Africa. I followed a non- traditional route to achieve my dreams. Although I was interested in foreign travel, my trajectory was not planned the way it turned out to be. After I left Egypt for the Congo, a country in turmoil then, I became an itinerant soul in search of a niche. My life's purpose was to acquire a college degree. Writing the book brought back sensational memories. I re-lived my youth and the prevailing politics then, watched the process of my interaction with different cultures, the emancipation from a subdued teenager into an adult making life-changing decisions, and traced the influences that reshaped my life. The motto "The future belongs to those who believe in the power of their dreams," perfectly describes this book. I wrote it to encourage other dreamers to follow their instincts and to pursue their goals with tenacity, hard work and patience. Some paths are hard to cross, but they are the ones that teach the most.
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Born and brought up in Cairo, Tertian comes from a family of staunch traditions who attach secondary importance to girls in the clan. Born before her time she quits home at twenty-one, and does not return until she is assured of her rights to freedom. Her experiences of living in a cosmopolitan society propel her to go forward and realize her dreams of becoming a writer. Language impediments, political upheavals, outdated laws, traditions and attitudes about keeping women below par do not deviate her from her aspirations.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. An enthralling narrative By Rubina Peroomian In my review of Mary Terzian’s Immigrants' Daughter: A Private Battle for Self-actualization, I characterized the book as “the story of a young woman's aspirations and unwavering struggle to rise above all gender-specific discriminations and inequalities pressed upon her in the family atmosphere.” The story continues and the same characterization holds true in regards to her next book, Politically Homeless – a Five Year Odyssey across Three Continents. In this second memoir, Mary Terzian provides more details, filling the gaps in the first book, like her short-lived romance in Alexandria (pp. 51-52), her “pilgrimage” to Soviet Armenia and her unfulfilled expectations (pp. 225-233), as well as the amusing episode of her cooking chicken in a tea kettle (pp. 60-61). Incidentally, as we learn, she turned her chicken story into an article and sent it to an Armenian paper in Cairo. This first attempt to expose her talent in literary expressions was well received. She was encouraged to keep on writing and publishing essays, travelogues, witty stories of the Tropics. The continuing praise and reassurance she received built up a sideline career and deepened her desire to become an accomplished writer someday.Through a well-wrought and enthralling narrative in Politically Homeless comes across the persona of an amazing “globe-trotter,” or “itinerant soul” by the author’s own definition. Terzian projects herself as a strong woman with an unyielding will to fight for gender equality, for independence in life, and freedom to make choices. These attributes helped her achieve in life and career, but also caused serious setbacks bringing her to the brink of distress and dejection, because deep down, “behind the façade of a happy traveler there hid a naïve and insecure woman, afraid of her shadow but willing to take on the world” (p. 224). She pushed ahead to attain her goals notwithstanding, by breaking the shackles of tradition, by “challenge[ing] that destiny” (p. 2) established for an Armenian girl, and by overcoming the perpetual feeling of insecurity, “a legacy of the Armenian Genocide still fresh in the collective consciousness” (p. 24). But there was this hesitation consuming her determination: “Would I be betraying my roots and staining the blood of my martyred ancestors by deviating from tradition?” (p. 72). The shadow of the Genocide hovered above, affecting Terzian’s life as it did in children born to the survivors of that colossal catastrophe.This emancipated Armenian woman, ahead of her times, opens the way for the young generation to follow. Perhaps, this generation will be able to cast off all the derogatory aspects of the term “immigrant” as it “evoked a poor, emaciated, disheveled individual” (p. 376). “Once an immigrant, always an immigrant” (p. 367), she wrote, as if the term connoted a predicament not a legal status. Mary Terzian’s generation uprooted from their birthplace in the tumultuous Middle Eastern Countries were indeed immigrants everywhere they went, “politically homeless” with an expiring passport and with no prospect to settle somewhere and start a new life. The Armenian resilience and will to survive and perpetuate played its role once again for the second time to succeed and ward off the bewildering question, “Where do you come from?” (p. 114). Politically Homeless, Mary Terzian’s life story and an entertaining read is an evidence to that.Rubina Peroomian, Ph.D.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A woman with guts and brains! By J. J. Sartori The eagerly awaited second autobiographical book has recently been published. It begins by revisiting her early life in Cairo, Egypt and her emotionally abusive upbringing especially by her stepmother. Despite monumental obstacles and by sheer force of spirit she improves her skills, becomes financially independent and soon secures a job with a UN function. This leads to an astonishing succession of assignments and travels throughout dangerous war torn Africa of the 1960s. Despite internal condemning voices from her past, she bravely persists in her quest to achieve her educational and personal goals. Through her tenure there, and her self directed travels to an astonishing array of dangerous, even deadly, locations she soldiers on. Close encounters with death, well armed mercenaries on a mission, and sexual predators are confronted with external calm while internally frightened beyond measure. True heroism is not measured by lack of fear but by facing the fear and doing your task anyway! If this were not enough, she travels though Europe, even Soviet Armenia, alone and determined to locate family living there. Everywhere she learned diverse cultures, customs and languages and became the true polyglot she is today. Winner of several awards for English, an acquired language, writing, Ms. Terzian tells her story with honesty, humor and clarity which should be an inspiration to young and old. A MUST READ!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A fascinating search for individual freedom...and a home. By Katherine Sartori, Author of THE CHOSEN SHELL How many of us are expelled from our country and must travel the world in order to find a home? Politically Homeless traces Mary Terzian’s very poignant, yet at times humorous story, depicting a young Armenian woman’s search, for not only a permanent home, but her own individual freedom.Growing up in a Muslim country, Egypt, in the 1940s and 1950s, Mary exhibits incredible tenacity and determination to become independent from the persistent Armenian community’s expectations to marry and have children. Instead she seeks out her own path, finding work in Alexandria and then, at a time when Egypt gave choices to foreigners to leave the country, she secures a job at the UN with an assignment to the Congo. Thus begins her dual odyssey: In the ensuing years, not only does she visit three continents and numerous countries, but she encounters myriad career changes within the UN, learns how to navigate among numerous cultures, makes and visits a multitude of friends and somehow manages to evade dangerous people as well as perilous national uprisings.To say this book is fascinating is an understatement!Note: It is my practice to assign 5-stars to national award winners or literary favorites. Thus, the 4-star rating I’ve given this book is normally my best rating.
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