Politically Homeless: A Five-Year Odyssey Across Three Continents
By Mary Terzian
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Multicultural/Social Science, Women//Travel
In this Memoir, Terzians 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 manages to slip out of the Soviet Union safely and visit several countries in Africa on her way back to Congo. She returns to Leopoldville on board a plane commandeered by mercenaries! Her struggles continue.
Tertians Politically Homeless. . . publication in 2015 has so far caught the attention of three entities:
-Women of Distinction Magazineis looking forward to featuring you and your article. It will now be noted Recipient of the 2016 Excellence Award ....
- The Honors Department ofThe International Women'sLeadership Association(IWLA) selected Mary Terzian for her outstanding leadership skills,commitment to her profession and contributions her community.
-Continental Who'sWhohas awarded a plaque to Mary Terzian as "Pinnacle Professional Member" inducted into Continental's Who's Who circle.
Additional information about the book and the author can be found online at Amazon.com, and other digital stores as well as at www.maryterzian.com; Authorsden.com/maryterzian; Whittierwriters. wordpress.com/author/MaryTerzian. She is active on Facebook and Linked-in.
Mary Terzian
Mary Terzian was born and brought up in Cairo. Her English high school education changes her philosophy on life, planting ideas of freedom and emancipation. She rebels against strict parental control by quitting home to live on her own. Terzian keeps writing as a sideline during her career, until she can afford formal college education. She becomes a multicultural hybrid through the influence of her foreign colleagues, supervisors and acquaintances at the UN, and by exposure to different cultures throughout her itinerant life. Terzian now lives in Southern California. Politically Homeless is her second book.
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