Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Nov 2017 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Kirsten Potter

About this audiobook

A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Elizabeth Warnock Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman. This volume gives a unique insight into a part of the Midddle Eastern life seldom seen by the West.

About the author

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea (1927-2008) and her husband, Robert Fernea, traveled to the Arab world for the first time in 1956. After writing Guests of the Sheik, Professor Fernea wrote The Arab World with Robert Fernea, as well as books about Egypt and Morocco. She also made five films about the lives of Arab women.

Actress Kirsten Potter has performed on stage, film, and television, including roles on Medium, Bones, and Judging Amy. Her narrations have won AudioFile Earphones Awards, and she earned an Audie nomination for her reading of Rise Again by Ben Tripp.