Blogs in February 2020

Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village 15th February 2020

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...

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A Street in Marrakech 1st January 1970

The author and her husband have managed to delve into life in the Medina, discovering the life of the women behind the walls of the Medina, as they spoke Arabic, a real asset in those days. A vivid portrayal...

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