{"id":126,"date":"2006-06-22T07:33:35","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T07:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=126"},"modified":"2025-04-05T09:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T14:53:17","slug":"leonard_lopate_-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/06\/leonard_lopate_-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Lopate Interviews Jean Said Makdisi (6\/5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Makdisi&#8217;s written two memoirs: <em>Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir <\/em>(self explanatory, no?) and <em>Teta, Mother and Me<\/em>, the story of three generations of her family.<\/p>\n<p>This interview was somewhat fractious &#8211; they seemed to be talking at cross purposes. Lopate wanted to focus on the repression of women in Arab countries and Makdisi wanted to emphasize that &#8220;modernism&#8221; doesn&#8217;t have to mean &#8220;Westernism.&#8221; She was a little unwilling to ever give ground, and refused to accept any generalizations. Which in a conversation about an enormous topic isn&#8217;t always possible. He, on the other hand, didn&#8217;t seem to know how to pick his battles in this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makdisi&#8217;s written two memoirs: Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir (self explanatory, no?) and Teta, Mother and Me, the story of three generations of her family. This interview was somewhat fractious &#8211; they seemed to be talking at cross purposes. Lopate &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/06\/leonard_lopate_-3.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-podcasts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3749,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/3749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}