Guests Of The Sheik (9780385014854)

A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman. This volume gives a unique insight into a part of the Midddle Eastern life seldom seen by the West. "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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 368 pages
• Dimensions 127 x 203 x 20mm | 302g
• Publication date 01 Oct 1995
• Publisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
• Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• Edition Statement Reissue
• ISBN10 0385014856
• ISBN13 9780385014854
• Bestsellers rank 501,459

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