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Book Review of Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
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I really enjoyed this book. It gives an inside look into the life of women living behind the veils in Iraq prior to the Saddum era. It was pretty hard to put down. This was written in the late sixties, but I suspect many of the conditions these women faced are still present in the Middle East today.