The author of this volume is One of the pioneers of the new historic era and the changing social order in the Nearer East. He is entitled to this distinction no
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When newly married Sarah Smith arrived in Beirut in 1834, she was appalled by the ignorance and ill treatment of Arab women and girls. Well educated for her tim