Everyday life in the Muslim Middle East /
edited by Donna Lee Bowen and Evelyn A. Early.
- 2nd ed.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2002.
- xiv, 411 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- Indiana series in Middle East studies .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-392) and index.
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 °Id al-Adha / Donna Lee Bowen -- Muslim women and shrines in Shiraz / Anne H. Betteridge -- Islamic teaching among Sunni women in Syria / Annabelle Bčottcher -- 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.
Middle East--Social life and customs. Africa, North--Social life and customs. Oriente (Cercano Oriente)--Vida social y costumbres. Africa del Norte--Vida social y costumbres.