This is a link to my mother's memoirs on the Caltech website. Fascinating reading.......at least to me. Keep in mind, when she says "Islamist," she means someone in academia who studies the historical/cultural/religious aspects of Islam, not someone who is a radical Muslim.
When you read how exotic my mother's life was, you'll maybe have a much better appreciation for why I am as crazy as I am.

....that baby is me.ASPATURIAN: So in Morocco you had a baby. But then you came back to France?
SMITH: We went to America. But first we came through France to say goodbye to my family. David had bought an MG in England; and so in 1953 we crossed France, then America, in an MG with a six-month-old baby in the little compartment in the back.
Anyway, for your reading pleasure.....