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

Contributor(s): Bowen, Donna Lee, 1947- | Early, Evelyn A
Material type: TextTextSeries: Indiana series in Middle East studies: Publisher: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2002Edition: Second editionDescription: xiv, 411 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0253214904 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0253340101 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Middle East -- Social life and customs | Africa, North -- Social life and customs | Arab countries -- Social life and customsDDC classification: 956 LOC classification: DS57 | .E94 2002Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-392) and index.
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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [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 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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