Guests of the Sheik

An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

Nonfiction, History, Middle East, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Women&
Cover of the book Guests of the Sheik by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Author: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea ISBN: 9780307773784
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: November 3, 2010
Imprint: Anchor Language: English
Author: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
ISBN: 9780307773784
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: November 3, 2010
Imprint: Anchor
Language: English

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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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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