Description: An 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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Book Title: Guests of the Sheik : an Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
Item Length: 8in.
Publisher: Doubleday
Original Language: English
Publication Year: 1969
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 0.8in.
Author: ElizabethW. Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Features: Reprint
Genre: History, Social Science
Topic: Middle East / Iraq, Islamic Studies, Women's Studies, Customs & Traditions
Item Width: 5in.
Item Weight: 10.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
