{"product_id":"9781647425371-dancing-into-the-light","title":"Dancing into the Light","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn Arab American Girlhood in the Middle East\u003cbr\u003eThis cross-cultural, Arab\/American story—an optimistic tale of joy, renewal, and the power of love, music, and dance—explores how a young girl growing up in Tehran and Kuwait experiences the loss of her American mother and her brother, yet is lifted from grief through the love of her devoted Arab father and her strong women relatives.\u003cbr\u003eSet against the backdrop of the early American presence in Iran under the Shah, and the burgeoning years of Kuwait's early oil boom, Dancing into the Light is Kathryn Abdul-Baki's memoir of growing up within both the expatriate Western communities and the larger Middle Eastern society of Kuwait and Jerusalem. Hers is a story of belonging to two vastly different cultures and finding her place within both, and the search to find the inherent harmony in worlds at odds with each other. She is already caught in both the joys of and the struggle to be both Arab and American, yet not fully either, when her young life of promise is disrupted by tragedy. But instead of derailing her life, her mother's death opens the door to deeper love and support from other places within Kathryn's family. Dancing into the Light is a story of love, loss, and renewal, and of overcoming devastating early trauma through music, dancing, and the love and devotion of strong American and Arab women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40948517568609,"sku":"9781647425371","price":16.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27546076.jpg?v=1737629937","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781647425371-dancing-into-the-light","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}