Over there on the shelf lays a book that caught my attention couple of times while passing by the supermarket
OMG ! a foreigner marring a Bedouin even I as an Arab wouldn't dare to do it !
she must be looking for adventure or seriously not aware of what she brought herself into !
these were my initial thoughts and my motivation to read this book
my mom rolled her eyes asking me to stop reading about women who had unusual marriages in their lives but that was exactly the beauty of it and the reason to make me excited about my own marriage!
was it bad?
was it good?
was it worth it ?!
"Married to A Bedouin"
by Marguerite van Geldermalsen
Marguerite is a New Zealander tourist who was traveling down the Middle East with her girlfriend when they came to stop by Jordan down in Petra around the late 1970s !
Another proof that love can happen regardless of your background and language
She met Mohammed (her husband) who was good in English and ambitious bedouin she had the urge to extend her stay in Petra and fate played its magic on getting them two together despite the huge difference between their worlds
Through the book only two thought were on my mind
when she's gonna quit?; stating that she didn't speak Arabic
and how she maintained her health eating bread and sweet tea and little milk diary only?
but she lived through it all, learned the language, became a Bedouin, raise her 3 kids and lived the true adventure to retell it in her book
How a Bedouins society function is simply like this; people act based on their nature and without any formalities! seems too simple but its way simple for a complex person coming from a modern society
that what you will be living with Marguerite description about the people who lived there and I guess the childhood spirit and the curiosity helped her a lot
The author included phrases written in Jordanian Bedouin accent which I had to read the line twice to get, but was a pleasant addition to her stories beside the personal pictures from Petra in the middle of the book !
All in all, I can't ruin this simple book anymore; she put it all beautifully and ended it beautifully too !
Peace,
Amna
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