Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307773784
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/03/2010
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	215,546
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea teaches English and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She and her husband, Robert A. Fernea, have traveled extensively throughout North Africa and the Arab Peninsula and are the co-authors of The Arab World.