Everyday life in the Muslim Middle East
Donna Lee Bowen (Author), Evelyn A. Early (Author)
Focuses on the experiences of ordinary men, women, and children from across the Middle East--from Iran and Afghanistan in the east to Morocco in the west--the 35 stories, poems, and essays here vividly convey an intimate sense of life in the Middle East today
Print Book, English, 2002
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Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2002
Aufsatzsammlung
xiv, 411 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
9780253340108, 9780253214904, 0253340101, 0253214904
46884140
Traditional songs from Boir Ahmad / collected and translated by Erika Friedl
Growing up in Morocco / Susan Schaefer Davis
Explosion / Emily Nasrallah
"Of the dust and the wind" : arranged marriage in Afghanistan / Margaret A. Mills
Two weddings / Jenny B. White
Editing al-Fajr : a Palestinian newspaper in Jerusalem / Bishara Bahbah
The son's return ; The funeral / Driss Chraibi
Young women's sexuality in Tunisia : the health consequences of misinformation among university students / Angel Foster
A thorny side of marriage in Iran / Erika Friedl
Harasiis marriage, divorce, and companionship / Dawn Chatty
Oil, fertility, and women's status in Oman / Christine Eickelman
Tamkin : stories from a family court in Iran / Ziba Mir-Hosseini
The veiled revolution / Elizabeth W. Fernea
The doum tree of Wad Hamid / Tayeb Salih
Abortion and the ethics of life / Donna Lee Bowen
Fashioning Casablanca in the beauty salon / Susan Ossman
Chalk and dust : teachers' lives in rural Sudan / W. Stephen Howard
Networks, jobs, and everyday life in Cairo / Diane Singerman
Politics, politics, and more politics : youth life experiences in the Gaza Strip / Brian K. Barber
Islamist activism in Jordan / Quintan Wiktorowicz
Inside the Islamic Reformation / Dale F. Eickelman
The sound of the Divine in daily life / Kristina Nelson
Abu Illya and zakat / Donna Lee Bowen
An American woman on the Hajj / Michael E. Jansen
Abdul Qadar and the sheep of ʻId al-Adha / Donna Lee Bowen
Muslim women and shrines in Shiraz / Anne H. Betteridge
Islamic teaching among Sunni women in Syria / Annabelle Böttcher
Internet Islam : new media of the Islamic Reformation / Jon W. Anderson
Syrian television drama : permitted political discourse / Evelyn A. Early
The Riddle of Ramadan : media, consumer culture, and the "Christmasization" of a Muslim holiday / Walter Armbrust
Moroccan filmmaking : a long voyage through the straits of paradox / Kevin Dwyer
Al-Aris (The bridegroom) : prison literature and human rights / Salah El-Ouadie ; translated and introduced by Susan Slyomovics
"To Mount at-Tiyal he declared" : some poetry from the Yemeni civil war / Steven C. Caton
Sad songs of the Western Desert / Lila Abu-Lughod
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