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Guests of the Sheik

by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
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A delightful account of one woman's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman. 

"A most enjoyable book abouut [Muslim women]—simple, dignified, human, colorful, sad and humble as the life they lead." —Muhsin Mahdi, Jewett Professor of Arabic Literature, Harvard Unversity.
A wonderful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study that offers a unique insight into a part of the Midddle Eastern life seldom seen by the West.
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Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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  • Release date: November 3, 2010

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  • ISBN: 9780307773784
  • Release date: November 3, 2010

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  • ISBN: 9780307773784
  • File size: 2364 KB
  • Release date: November 3, 2010

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subjects

History Sociology Women's Studies Nonfiction

Languages

English

A delightful account of one woman's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman. 

"A most enjoyable book abouut [Muslim women]—simple, dignified, human, colorful, sad and humble as the life they lead." —Muhsin Mahdi, Jewett Professor of Arabic Literature, Harvard Unversity.
A wonderful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study that offers a unique insight into a part of the Midddle Eastern life seldom seen by the West.
Expand title description text
History Sociology Women's Studies Nonfiction