Memoirs of an Babylonian princess

This book, in its solid and beautiful translation, reveals a biography of a respectable, cultured, and faithful lady. It is "Marie Terez Asmar," born near the ruins of Nineveh in 1804. A woman of a special social class, carrying an understanding aware of the nature of the place she lives in, and bearing an extraordinary heart prepared for all crises and situations. Therefore, her memoirs can be described as a world from the worlds of travel, reading in Orientalism the spirit of the place and its customs. Because "Marie Terez," as in the honesty of the translation and editing, in which the great effort of Mrs. "Amal Porter" was evident, represented an imaginative view of observing and a geographical reading of the place she lives in, in terms of customs, traditions, cultures, and even the psychological obsession and literary description of the place she is in. These memoirs remain rare and important documents about a phase of Iraqi history, a true reading of the levels of Iraqi urban, Bedouin, and rural social construction during a time when Iraq was under the harsh dominance of the Ottoman Empire.