{"product_id":"guests-of-the-sheik-isbn-9780385014854","title":"Guests of the Sheik","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cb\u003eELIZABETH WARNOCK FERNEA\u003c\/b\u003e and her husband Robert Fernea traveled to the Arab world for the first time in 1956. After writing \u003ci\u003eGuests of the Sheik\u003c\/i\u003e, her first book, Professor Fernea wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Arab World\u003c\/i\u003e with Robert Fernea, as well as books about Egypt and Morocco. She also made five films about the lives of Arab women. She dies in 2008.","brand":"Anchor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304587088101,"sku":"NP9780385014854","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780385014854.jpg?v=1767728563","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/guests-of-the-sheik-isbn-9780385014854","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}