Guests of the Sheik

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Guests of the Sheik

Author	: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Publisher	: Anchor
Release Date	: 03 November 2010
ISBN	: 9780307773784
Pages	: 368 pages
Rating	: 4/5 (7 users)

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A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman. This volume gives a unique insight into a part of the Midddle Eastern life seldom seen by the West. "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.

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