Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
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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.
"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.
PUBLISHER:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10:
0385014856
ISBN-13:
9780385014854
BINDING:
Paperback
PUBLICATION YEAR:
1995
NUMBER OF PAGES:
368
BOOK DIMENSIONS:
0.75(H) x 5.05(W) x 7.91(D)
AUDIENCE TYPE:
General / adult
LANGUAGE:
English