"Correspondence"

Abstract

Essay on advantages and disadvantages of Syrian/Arab emigration. Advantages: Collect a fortune; learn English; tourism; experience dichotomy between East and West. Disadvantages: Death of many emigrants; failure for some; harm to economy of old homeland; bad reputation in U.S., especially for women peddlers; displeasure of Ottoman authorities in cases of illegal emigration; loss of Arabic language for the young. Kashshee peddling is attacked as demeaning and no longer profitable.