Michael M Meguid (35 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Roots & Branches is rooted in a story of love and longing based on a fatal accident in an upper Egyptian village over a century ago. In this rich and powerful story Meguid explores his remarkable early life based on a journal, letters and photos, which amply illustrate the book. How does a four-year-old boy uprooted from a cozy Egyptian family endure abandonment in impoverished post-war Germany? In this vivid biography of his formative years Meguid traces his childhood-alone, forsaken and often threatened with corporal punishment. Born to an Egyptian father and a German mother, his earliest memories of Cairo are idyllic, but his mother's refusal to adapt to Egyptian life results in upheaval. At the age of four, his parents leave him in Hamburg with his German grandparents, where life becomes defined by the rigid rules of his Prussian grandfather. The desertion leaves him with a gaping hole, howling loneliness, and a longing that ripples through him. When his parents collect him five years later, they take him to England, where once again he has to adapt to being an outsider. When he eventually returns to his beloved Egypt, he was gone so long that he no longer quite fits in. His father's premature death thrusts Meguid into an existential crisis. Facing conscription and an uncertain future, Meguid learns to navigate his own path.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Roots & Branches is rooted in a story of love and longing based on a fatal accident in an upper Egyptian village over a century ago. In this rich and powerful story Meguid explores his remarkable early life based on a journal, letters and photos, which amply illustrate the book. How does a four-year-old boy uprooted from a cozy Egyptian family endure abandonment in impoverished post-war Germany? In this vivid biography of his formative years Meguid traces his childhood-alone, forsaken and often threatened with corporal punishment. Born to an Egyptian father and a German mother, his earliest memories of Cairo are idyllic, but his mother's refusal to adapt to Egyptian life results in upheaval. At the age of four, his parents leave him in Hamburg with his German grandparents, where life becomes defined by the rigid rules of his Prussian grandfather. The desertion leaves him with a gaping hole, howling loneliness, and a longing that ripples through him. When his parents collect him five years later, they take him to England, where once again he has to adapt to being an outsider. When he eventually returns to his beloved Egypt, he was gone so long that he no longer quite fits in. His father's premature death thrusts Meguid into an existential crisis. Facing conscription and an uncertain future, Meguid learns to navigate his own path.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Volume 1: Roots & Branches At four years old, he was left behind in postwar Hamburg. Decades later, he would become a surgeon. Michael Meguid was born in Cairo in 1944 to an Egyptian father and a German mother. His earliest memories are of a warm Egyptian household. Then his mother's unhappiness in Egypt tears the family apart, and the small boy is sent to live with his grandparents in impoverished, rule-bound postwar Germany. What follows is a childhood spent between countries: Hamburg under a strict Prussian grandfather, Manchester, and a Cairo that no longer feels like home. When his father dies suddenly, eleven-year-old Michael must find his own way, with conscription looming and his future uncertain. Drawing on family journals, letters and photographs, this memoir traces a family story that begins with a fatal accident in an Upper Egyptian village more than a century ago. Inside this memoir- Childhood in 1940s and 1950s Cairo, postwar Hamburg and Manchester- Abandonment, loneliness and the long search for belonging- A family saga across Egypt, Germany and England, illustrated with original photographs- The early life of a boy who would grow up to be an internationally recognised surgeonHonorable Mention, Biography, 2021 New York Book Festival and Hollywood Book Festival.Book 1 of A Surgeon's Tale. The story continues in Mastering the Knife, his years at medical school in 1960s London. Start the series today.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Volume 2: Mastering the Knife For England, he was too dark. For Egypt, he had been away too long. He decided to become a surgeon anyway. In 1960s London, a young Egyptian-German student enters University College Hospital Medical School carrying self-doubt, a fractured family history and a dream he has held since an appendectomy at age eleven.Mastering the Knife follows him from a Manchester school where classmates abused him with racial slurs, through anatomy labs, ward rounds and the rituals of British surgical training, to the fellowship exam that tests everything he has become. Along the way he marries a fellow student, and his private life grows as complicated as his professional one.Inside this memoir- Medical school in London in the 1960s, told from the inside- The technical and moral lessons that shape a surgeon- Racism, outsiderhood and the search for belonging- Love, marriage and the mistakes of a young man in a hurryBook 2 of A Surgeon's Tale. Read Roots & Branches for his childhood, and continue with Surgeon & Lover.…