Julie Hill
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In her memoirs, Julie Hill paints the picture of a childhood in cosmopolitan Alexandria of the early twentieth century. Her family came as refugees from regions of the Ottoman Empire and were privileged to find in Alexandria, and become part of, a more prosperous middle class than the one they left behind. Julie evokes the life of a Greek family and community with its traditions and customs blending with other communities and local Egyptians. Cosmopolitan...
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An engaging and richly appreciative account of life in Afghanistan in Pre-Taliban times.
Another Afghanistan: A Pre-Taliban Memoir is set in the mid-1970s, when Julie Hill was posted with her husband, a United Nations Development Program Representative in Kabul, in between the fall of the old monarchy and the takeover of the country by the Taliban in the 1990s. The book fills a void in what most people know about that country, which has been largely...
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This collection of 27 travel essays written over the last decade is based on Julie Hills journeys to far-flung destinations of the world. Often welcomed by her hosts not as a customer or a trader but as a confessor and a friend, Julie Hill vindicates their trust and repays their kindness by bringing their stories to life in this book. She goes where most others cannot or would not, emerging with priceless observations and insights on places and lifestyles...
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This story is about a woman that suffered domestic abuse with her diseases of Fibromyalgia and Rheumatoid Arthritis, that took her life, and her partner did not understand what was going on. She tried to escape and Ben, a doctor on his way home, took her hand and changed her life, even though her last confrontation with her partner left her stabbed and bleeding. Falling in love was the last thing on either of their minds.