Guests of the Sheik
Author: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2010-11-03
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0307773787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.