Etel Adnan

When she was seventeen she wanted to become an architect, but her mother was horrified, it's a man's job she had said. ConsequenUy, Etel Adnan went to L'Ecole Superieure Des Lettres, a literary school in Beirut. Her mother's attitude and concurrently that of society created a barrier between Etel and her parents, and she dreamed of leaving the country. Eventually, she got a scholarship and went to the Sorbone in Paris and then on to Berkeley and Harvard in the United States of America.