Actions for One family's response to terrorism : a daughter's memoir
One family's response to terrorism : a daughter's memoir / Susan Kerr van de Ven ; foreword by Saad Eddin Ibrahim
- Author
- Van de Ven, Susan Kerr
- Published
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2008.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xvi, 183 pages) : illustrations, maps
Access Online
- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Illustrations -- Foreword / Saad Eddin Ibrahim -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Breaking apart -- First reactions -- The antiterrorism and effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 -- The decision to take legal action -- Knock, and the door shall be opened -- Words remembered -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Summary
- "A stunning portrait of the intimate way in which violence pulls lives apart, of an American family caught on the stage of Middle East politics and of the moral choices required in seeking justice."
- Subject(s)
- Kerr, Malcolm H.
- Van de Ven, Susan Kerr
- American University of Beirut—Presidents—Biography
- American University of Beirut
- Since 1945
- Victims of terrorism—Lebanon—Biography
- Terrorism—Lebanon—Case studies
- College presidents—Lebanon—Beirut—Biography
- Americans—Middle East—Biography
- Arab-Israeli conflict
- Conflit israélo-arabe
- Présidents et recteurs d'université—Liban—Beyrouth—Biographies
- Terrorisme—Liban—Études de cas
- Victimes du terrorisme—Liban—Biographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY—General
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS—Infrastructure
- SOCIAL SCIENCE—General
- HISTORY—Middle East—General
- Americans
- College presidents
- Politics and government
- Presidents
- Terrorism
- Victims of terrorism
- Middle East—Politics and government—1945-
- Moyen-Orient—Politique et gouvernement—1945-
- Lebanon
- Lebanon—Beirut
- Middle East
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780815651581 (electronic bk.)
0815651589 (electronic bk.)
9780815608738 (cloth ; alk. paper)
081560873X (cloth ; alk. paper)
081560954X
9780815609544 - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-172) and index.
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