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.
A portrait of daily life for women in Islamic countries at the end of the 20th century. Fernea, a professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas, spent two years travelling in Uzbekistan, Morocco, Kuwait, Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Israel to determine the conditions of life for women in those countries and to find out ...
"In this breakthrough of startling, refreshing voices, superficially simple women's lore (like the singing of lullabies) comes alive." --Whole Earth Review This volume is a collection of autobiographical and biographical writings by and about Middle Eastern women. Many of the selections have been translated by the editors from Arabic, Persian, or ...
In an updated and expanded edition of their classic, "The Arab World", Robert and Elizabeth Fernea revisit the Middle Eastern towns and cities they have known since the 1950s in light of the cataclysmic social and political upheavals that have occurred since the book's original publication. The authors reveal the human face of the Arab world as ...
This award-winning volume offers a vivid human portrait of daily life in the Arab countries, based on three decades of personal experience. It provocatively examines the changes that have taken place since the 1950s and clarifies for the Western reader an often misunderstood scene, laden with conflict, civil war, and profound change.
The female voice plays a more central role in Sufi ritual, especially in the singing of devotional poetry, than in almost any other area of Muslim culture. Female singers perform sufiana-kalam, or mystical poetry, at Sufi shrines and in concerts, folk festivals, and domestic life, while male singers assume the female voice when singing the myths ...
Growing up is a universal experience, but the particularities of homeland, culture, ethnicity, religion, family, and so on make every childhood unique. To give Western readers insight into what growing up in the Middle East was like in the twentieth century, this book gathers thirty-six original memoirs written by Middle Eastern men and women ...
This book is a collection of previously unpublished documents, essays, stories, life histories, poems, and reports-all constituting a progress report on the status of women and the family in the modern Middle East.
The determination of ordinary people to end regional and global conflicts is a powerful force for peace in today's world. The Struggle for Peace explores how average citizens on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are working for peace. New essays by noted scholars are juxtaposed with profiles of individual Israelis and Palestinians ...
A portrait of daily life for women in Islamic countries at the end of the 20th century. Fernea, a professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas, spent two years travelling in Uzbekistan, Morocco, Kuwait, Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Israel to determine the conditions of life for women in those countries and to find out ...
This work is a personal account by a junior member of the former Egyptian royal family, of life before 1952 and of the people within Egypt's ruling class. The author offers insights into the lives of Muhammad Ali and King Farouk, and the lives of the royal wives, cousins, aunts and associates. It is an evocative account of a time and a social ...
Today nearly half of all people in the Middle East are under the age of fifteen. Yet little is known about the new generation of boys and girls who are growing up in a world vastly different from that of their parents, a generation who will be the leaders of tomorrow. This groundbreaking anthology is an attempt to look at the current situation of ...
New stories by Leila Abouzeid, the noted Moroccan writer, constitute an event for both East and West, for, as in her critically acclaimed novel, "Year of the Elephant", the author cuts across cultural and national boundaries to offer fiction that has meaning for both Western and Middle Eastern readers. The stories in this volume deal with issues ...
These essays examine the struggles and hardships of women in the Middle East, their vital economic activities and their perception of Islam. They also look at the female-centred informal economy and its importance in the lives of Middle Eastern women.
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