Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

368 pages first pub 1968 (editions)

nonfiction travel challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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