
A Middle Eastern Affair First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Edition
Author(s): Ellis Douek (Author)
- Publisher: Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
- Publication Date: 11 Oct. 2004
- Edition: First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 1870015878
- ISBN-13: 9781870015875
Book Description
When Ellis Douek was nine, his mother insisted that he take up embroidery, in case he became a surgeon when he grew up. Of course she was right, for he became consultant ENT surgeon at Guys Hospital in London. The Douek parents had the unerring quality of belonging in whichever country they lived?Egypt, the Sudan, Columbia and, finally, England. Ellis Doueks memoirs describe the hedonism of life in Egypt, the Suez Crisis which uprooted them, 1950s Bradford, and Paris. He began his medial training in Paris where he, his sister Claudia, and brother Zaki lived free of adult supervision. His training continued in London during a time of smog, digs, and landladies. Elliss days as an army medic provide hilarious accounts of whisky-sodden soldiers, circumcisions, and bureaucratic procedures.
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