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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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    A Paperback / softback by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

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      Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
      Publication Date: 01/10/1995
      ISBN13: 9780385014854, 978-0385014854
      ISBN10: 0385014856
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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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