Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock |
| Publisher: | Anchor |
| Date: | 10/1/1995 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.
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