Guests of the Sheik

Guests of the Sheik
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Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 9780307773784
ISBN-13 : 0307773787
Rating : 4/5 (787 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Guests of the Sheik by : Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Download or read book Guests of the Sheik written by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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