Guests of the Sheik by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Guests of the Sheik

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

255 pages first pub 1968 (editions)

nonfiction travel challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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.

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