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Guests of the Sheik

An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

By: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

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Guests of the Sheik

An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

By: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

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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0307773787

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In Search of Islamic Feminism

By: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

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In Search of Islamic Feminism

By: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

An acclaimed Arab Studies scholar and bestselling author offers a groundbreaking new interpretation of the status and vision of Muslim women—and challenges our own sense of the meaning of feminism. "Islamic feminism" would seem a contradiction in terms to most Westerners. We are taught to think of Islam as a culture wherein social code and religious law alike force women to accept male authority and surrender to the veil. How could feminism emerge under such a code, let alone flourish? Now, traveling throughout Central Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, as well as Islamic communities in the United States, acclaimed Arab Studies scholar and bestselling author Elizabeth Fernea sets out to answer that question. Fernea's dialogue with friends, colleagues, and acquaintances prompts a range of diverse and unpredictable responses, but in every country she visits, women demonstrate they are anything but passive. In Iraq, we see an 85 percent literacy rate among women; in Egypt, we see women owning their own farms; and in Israel, we see women at the very forefront of peacemaking efforts. Poor or rich, educated or illiterate, these women define their own needs, solve their own problems, and determine the boundaries of their own very real, very viable feminism.

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The Arab World

By: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea,Robert A. Fernea

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The Arab World

By: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea,Robert A. Fernea

In the ten years since Anchor first published Elizabeth and Robert Fernea's award-winning The Arab World: Personal Encounters, vast political and economic shifts have taken place: the end of the Iran/Iraq War and the Lebanese civil war; the outbreak of the Gulf War; the historic 1993 peace accords between Israel and the Palestinians, to name just a few. Which is why the Ferneas, leading scholars in Middle Eastern studies, felt a need to return to the same towns and cities they had written about previously-to see how these changes had affected the region and the people who live in it. The authors reveal the human face of the Arab World as they revisit and talk with newsmakers and colleagues, old friends and new. Their forty years of experience in the region help illuminate the human consequences of changes all too often discussed in abstractions and generalizations: the military conflicts, new urbanization, labor migration, religious revival, as well as radical changes in the roles of men, women, and the family. With new chapters on Baghdad, Beirut, Amman, Jerusalem, Marrakech, and Cairo, this new edition of The Arab World will strengthen its reputation as a book "which should be required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the Middle East" (The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs).

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0307773825

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Guests of the Sheik

An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

By: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

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Year of the Elephant

A Moroccan Woman’s Journey Toward Independence

By: Laylá Abū Zayd,Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

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Year of the Elephant

A Moroccan Woman’s Journey Toward Independence

By: Laylá Abū Zayd,Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

In this moving fictional treatment of a Muslim woman's life, a personal and family crisis impells the heroine to reexamine traditional cultural attitudes toward women. Cast out and divorced by her husband, she finds herself in a strange new world. Both obstacles and support systems change as she actively participates in the struggle for Moroccan independence from France. This feminist novel is a literary statement in a modern realist style. Many novels by women of the Middle East that have been translated reflect Western views, values, and education. By contrast, Year of the Elephant is uniquely Moroccan and emerges from North African Islamic culture itself. Its subtle juxtaposition of past and present, of immediate thought and triggered memory, reflects the heroine's interior conflict between tradition and modern demands. The title refers to a famous battle described in the Koran.

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University of Texas Press

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029279603X

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Remembering Childhood in the Middle East

Memoirs from a Century of Change

By: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

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Remembering Childhood in the Middle East

Memoirs from a Century of Change

By: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, a well-known writer of books and documentary films about women and the family in the Middle East, has collected stories of childhoods spent in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey. The accounts span the entire twentieth century, a full range of ethnicities and religions, and the social spectrum from aristocracy to peasantry. They are grouped by eras, for which Fernea provides a concise historical sketch, and include a brief biography of each contributor. The introduction by anthropologist Robert A. Fernea sets the memoirs in the larger context of Middle Eastern life and culture.

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University of Texas Press

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0292725477

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In Search of Islamic Feminism

By: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

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Conquered Populations in Early Islam

Non-Arabs, Slaves and the Sons of Slave Mothers

By: Elizabeth Urban

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Conquered Populations in Early Islam

Non-Arabs, Slaves and the Sons of Slave Mothers

By: Elizabeth Urban

This book traces the journey of new Muslims as they joined the early Islamic community and articulated their identities within it. It focuses on Muslims of slave origins, who belonged to the society in which they lived but whose slave background rendered them somehow alien. How did these Muslims at the crossroads of insider and outsider find their place in early Islamic society? How did Islamic society itself change to accommodate these new members? By analysing how these liminal Muslims resolved the tension between belonging and otherness, Conquered Populations in Early Islam reveals the shifting boundaries of the early Islamic community and celebrates the dynamism of Islamic history.

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Book's by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Guests of the Sheik

Guests of the Sheik

In Search of Islamic Feminism

In Search of Islamic Feminism

The Arab World

The Arab World

Guests of the Sheik

Guests of the Sheik

Year of the Elephant

Year of the Elephant

Remembering Childhood in the Middle East

Remembering Childhood in the Middle East

In Search of Islamic Feminism

In Search of Islamic Feminism

Conquered Populations in Early Islam

Conquered Populations in Early Islam

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