Download or read book Guests of the Sheik written by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1995-10-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful account of one woman's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman. "A most enjoyable book abouut [Muslim women]—simple, dignified, human, colorful, sad and humble as the life they lead." —Muhsin Mahdi, Jewett Professor of Arabic Literature, Harvard Unversity. A wonderful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study that offers a unique insight into a part of the Midddle Eastern life seldom seen by the West.
Download or read book Guests of the Sheik written by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful account of one woman's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman. "A most enjoyable book abouut [Muslim women]—simple, dignified, human, colorful, sad and humble as the life they lead." —Muhsin Mahdi, Jewett Professor of Arabic Literature, Harvard Unversity. A wonderful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study that offers a unique insight into a part of the Midddle Eastern life seldom seen by the West.
Download or read book Blood and Fire written by Brian R. Solomon and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The captivating story of how The Sheik captured the imagination of a generation, conquered the wrestling business, and lost it all in a blaze of flame and glory He was the most vicious, bloodthirsty, reviled villain in the history of the ring. During the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, he drew record crowds everywhere he went and left a trail of burned and bloody opponents in his wake. He was The Sheik: the mysterious and terrifying madman from Syria whose wanton destruction and mayhem are the stuff of wrestling legend. But what those legions of fans screaming for his head never knew was that The Sheik was really Eddie Farhat. From Lansing, Michigan, and the son of Arab immigrants, Farhat served his country proudly in World War II and was fulfilling the American dream through hard work and tireless dedication to his craft. And when he wasn’t screaming unintelligibly and attacking his enemies with sharp objects, he was busy being the owner and operator of World Wide Sports, one of the most successful wrestling companies in North America. This is Blood and Fire: The Unbelievable Real-Life Story of Wrestling’s Original Sheik.
Download or read book Guests of the Sheik written by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Arab World written by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider's view of real life in the Arab world today, written by a couple who has spent 25 years living and working in the Middle East.
Download or read book Guests of the Sheik written by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures written by Suad Joseph and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003 with total page 873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family, Law and Politics, Volume II of the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, brings together over 360 entries on women, family, law, politics, and Islamic cultures around the world.
Download or read book New Moon Rising written by John S. Kistler and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Moon Rising is a work of historical fiction, based upon many events in the Persian Gulf during the months prior to and following the fall of Reza Shah Pahlav in 1979. the names of the characters in the story are fictitious, but represent many of the Navy men I sailed with aboard USS LaSalle (AGF-3) from 1978 to 1980.
Download or read book Oriental Stories Vol 1 No 1 October November 1930 written by Farnsworth Wright and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first issue of Oriental Stories, edited by Farnsworth Wright, includes work by such "Weird Tales" regulars as Robert E. Howard, Frank Owen, Otis Adelbert Kline, and many more.
Download or read book The Sheik s Ruby written by Jennifer Moore and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shelby wants to break away from the mold of her small town and make a name for herself in the big-city journalism world. While skiing, she meets mysterious stranger Hakim who is actually the prince of the Middle Eastern kingdom of Khali-dar. When his enemies learn of Hakim’s connection to an American girl, they target Shelby. Fleeing to the safety of Khali-dar, Shelby falls deeper in love not only with the prince, but with his country. As she struggles to survive terrorist attacks, withstand the Sheik’s prejudice, and find her place in a world she doesn’t understand, she must choose which life she is willing to sacrifice—the comfortable one she has worked so hard to create, or the one with the man she loves.
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Download or read book The Sheik s Secret Bride written by Susan Mallery and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Single mom Liana Archer has read her share of romance novels featuring dashing, passionate Sheiks. Despite her fascination with the genre, she is astonished when sinfully handsome Malik Khan, Crown Prince of exotic El Bahar, hijacks her and her young daughter off an airliner and into his lavish desert palace. What does this sexy prince want with a passably pretty, slightly overweight schoolteacher from San Bernadino? Dazed, breathless and mesmerized with desire, Liana quickly becomes Malik's royal bride after an intimate desert ceremony she does not understand. When she learns she is in fact married, she must face whether she can entrust her daughter, or her heart to a man would give them everything...except his love. How might a caring American mother and child finally move this proud, imperious monarch and make his kingdom complete?
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