Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

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 unique insight into a part of the Midddle Eastern life seldom seen by the West.

“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.