Guests of the Sheik
An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
Nonfiction, History, Middle East, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Women&
| 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.
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.
