Mary Winifred Bushakra

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Mary Winifred Bushakra was an American writer.

Bushakra met her future husband, a native of Lebanon, in 1923 while studying at the University of Seville in Spain. They both returned to New York after their studies, where they married and lived for 12 years. In 1937 she left her home and a successful career to accompany her husband to Lebanon where she spent the remainder of her life. She and her husband built their home, "Eagle's Eyrie," on an isolated mountaintop. At the suggestion and with the encouragement of her friend Ruth Richardson, Mrs. Bushakra published an account of her experiences in I Married an Arab, New York : Day Co., 1951.

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• Finding Aid for the Mary Winifred Bushakra Letters, 1952-1959 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.