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Children in the Muslim Middle East
Häftad, 1995
500 kr
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Today nearly half of all people in the Middle East are under the age of fifteen. Yet little is known about the new generation of boys and girls who are growing up in a world vastly different from that of their parents, a generation who will be the leaders of tomorrow. This groundbreaking anthology …
Remembering Childhood in the Middle East
Memoirs from a Century of Change
Häftad, 2002
407 kr
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Growing up is a universal experience, but the particularities of homeland, culture, ethnicity, religion, family, and so on make every childhood unique. To give Western readers insight into what growing up in the Middle East was like in the twentieth century, this book gathers thirty-six original …
Struggle for Peace
Israelis and Palestinians
Av Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, Mary Evelyn Hocking
Häftad, 1992
399 kr
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The determination of ordinary people to end regional and global conflicts is powerful despite the forces opposing them. The Struggle for Peace explores how average citizens on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict worked for peace in the late twentieth century. Essays by noted scholars are …
Guests of the Sheik
An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
E-bok, 2010
188 kr
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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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Arab World
Av Robert A. Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
E-bok, 2011
226 kr
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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 …
In Search of Islamic Feminism
E-bok, 2010
214 kr
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"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, …
