Everyday life in the Muslim Middle East / edited by Donna Lee Bowen and Evelyn A. Early.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowen, Donna Lee, 1947-

Early, Evelyn A.

Series:

Indiana series in Middle East studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs.

Middle East--Social life and customs.

Middle East.

Africa, North--Social life and customs.

Africa, North.

North Africa.

Middle East Region.

Physical Description:

xiv, 411 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2002]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-392) and index.

ISBN:

0253340101

0253214904

OCLC:

46884140