| 词条 | Wadad Makdisi Cortas |
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Wadad Makdisi Cortas (1909 — 1979) (in Arabic "وداد مقدسي قرطاس") was a Lebanese educator and memoirist. Early lifeWadad Makdisi grew up in an educated family in Beirut, and attended Ahliah National School for Girls as a child. CareerWadad Cortas worked at her alma mater, the Ahliah National School for Girls, for forty years, as a teacher and then for 26 years as principal,[1] before she retired in 1972. She also taught at Beirut College for Women, and was on the board of the Academie Libanaise des Beaux Arts. Her memoir, Dunia Ahbab-tuha (A World I Loved) was published in Arabic in the 1960s. She translated the memoir into English and updated it in her retirement;[2] the revised version was published posthumously, with a foreword by Nadine Gordimer, in 2009.[3] In 2012, a stage adaptation of Cortas's book, starring Vanessa Redgrave, was produced first at the Brighton Festival,[4] then at Columbia University,[5] and in 2015 at the Spoleto Festival in Italy.[6][7] Personal lifeWadad Makdisi married a businessman from Brummana, Emile Cortas.[8] They had four children, including Mariam C. Said. Wadad Cortas had a stroke in 1972 with lasting effects; she died in 1979, aged 70 years. Her granddaughter Najla Said is an actress and playwright in New York City.[9] References1. ^Amy Wilentz, "Essay: A Mutual Passion for the Middle East, and a Divide" Los Angeles Times (July 12, 2009). {{DEFAULTSORT:Cortas, Wadad Makdisi}}{{authority control}}2. ^Norbert Bugeja, [https://books.google.com/books?id=81EUWv7oTZIC&lpg=PA184&ots=sM7mnOH-5K&dq=Wadad%20Makdisi%20Cortas&pg=PA184#v=onepage&q=Wadad%20Makdisi%20Cortas&f=false "Wadad Makdisi Cortas' A World I Loved: Some Conclusions, More Beginnings"] in Postcolonial Memoir in the Middle East: Rethinking the Liminal in Mashriqi Writing (Routledge 2012): 185. {{ISBN|9780415509138}} 3. ^Wadad Makdisi Cortas, [https://books.google.com/books/about/A_World_I_Loved.html?id=RR0fw2w4Fm8C A World I Loved: The Story of an Arab Woman] (ReadHowYouWant 2010). {{ISBN|9781458766724}} 4. ^"World Premiere: A World I Loved" Brighton Festival (2012). 5. ^Adam Hetrick, "A World I Loved: The Story of an Arab Woman, Featuring Vanessa Redgrave, Presented at Columbia Nov. 28-29" Playbill (November 28, 2012). 6. ^"A World I Loved" Spoleto Festival (2015). 7. ^Joshua Furst, "The World that Mariam Said Loved" Forward (December 15, 2012). 8. ^"About Us: Our Story" Cortas.net. 9. ^Felicia R. Lee, "Identity Found: On West Side via West Bank" New York Times (February 9, 2010): C1. 3 : 1909 births|1979 deaths|Lebanese writers |
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