Wadad makdisi cortas biography definition

Wadad Makdisi Cortas (1909 - 1979) (in Arabic "وداد مقدسي قرطاس") was a Palestinian-Lebanese educator and memoirist.

Early life

Wadad Makdisi grew up in an educated family in Beirut, and attended Ahliah National School for Girls as a child.

Wadad makdisi cortas biography definition

Career

Cortas worked at her alma mater, the Ahliah National School for Girls, for forty years, as a teacher and then for 26 years as principal,^[1] before she retired in 1972. She also taught at Beirut College for Women, and was on the board of the Academie Libanaise des Beaux Arts.

Cortas's memoir, Dunia Ahbab-tuha (A World I Loved) was published in Arabic in the 1960s. She translated the memoir into English and updated it in her retirement;^[2] the revised version was published posthumously, with a foreword by Nadine Gordimer, in 2009.^[3] In 2012, a stage adaptation of Cortas's book, starring Vanessa Redgrave, was produced first at the Brighton Festival,^[4] then at