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Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 28 - Issue 2 - December 1994

Religious & Legal Studies

Book Reviews

Marriage on Trial: A Study of Islamic Family Law, by Ziba Mir-Hosseini. (Society and Culture in the Modern Middle East) 245 pages, tables, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. London & New York: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 1993. $55 (Cloth) ISBN 1-85043-685

Zoroastrianism: Its Antiquity and Constant Vigor, by Mary Boyce. (Columbia Lectures on Iranian Studies, No. 7. Bibliotheca Persica) 204 pages, Foreword by Ehsan Yarshater, bibliography, index. Costa Mesa, CA & New York: Mazda Publishers, 1992. $16.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-939214-90-3

Anthropology, Sociology & Folklore

Book Reviews

Mass Media, Modernity, and Development: Arab States of the Gulf, by Fayad E. Kazan. Foreword by Frederick Frey. 291 pages, maps, tables, figures, appendices, bibliography, index. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1993. $55 (Cloth) ISBN 0-275-94533-2

Arab Comic Strips: Politics of an Emerging Mass Culture, by Allen Douglas & Fedwa Malti-Douglas. 263 pages, illustrations, notes, sources, index. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. $19.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-253-20831-9

Home and Homeland: The Dialogics of Tribal and National Identities in Jordan, by Linda L. Layne. 188 pages, figures, table, references, index. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. $29.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-691-09478-0

Money Makes Us Relatives: Women’s Labor in Urban Turkey, by Jenny B. White. 190 pages, photos, figures, notes, references, index. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994. $30.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0292790775

Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East, by Valentine M. Moghadam. (Women and Change in the Developing World) 311 pages, photos, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1993. $17.95 (Paper) ISBN 1-55587-354-5

Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatima Mernissi. 242 pages, photographs by Ruth V. Ward. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1994. $23 (Cloth) ISBN 0-201-626497

Change Within Tradition Among Jewish Women in Libya, by Rachel Simon. 221 pages, map, tables, photographs, bibliography, index. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992. $30 (Cloth) ISBN 0-295-97167-3

For Our Soul: Ethiopian Jews in Israel, by Teshome G. Wagaw. 293 pages, notes, glossary, index, maps, tables, figures. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993. $42.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-8143-2442-8

Arabs in Exile: Yemeni Migrants in Urban Britain, by Fred Halliday. 166 pages, maps, tables, illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. New York & London: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1992. $59.50 (Cloth) ISBN 1-85043-499-9

Muslim Identity and Social Change in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Louis Brenner. 250 pages, maps, figures, index. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993. $14.95 (Paper) ISBN 025331269x

Wasta: The Hidden Force in Middle Eastern Society, by Robert B. Cunningham & Yasin K. Sarayrah. 209 pages, bibliography, index. Westport, CT & London: Praeger Publishers, 1993. $47.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-275-9440-2-6

In Transition: Essays on Culture & Identity in Middle Eastern Societies, edited by M.R. Ghanoonparvar & Faridoun Farrokh. 105 pages, illustrations. Austin: Texas Association of Middle East Scholars, 1994. $10.00 (Paper) No ISBN.

Literature & Language

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The Genesis of Arabic Narrative Discourse: A Study in the Sociology of Modern Arabic Literature, by Sabry Hafez. 325 pages, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. London: Saqi Books, 1993. $45 (Cloth) ISBN 0-86356-149-7

The Zephyrs of Najd: The Poetics of Nostalgia in the Classical Arabic Nasib, by Jaroslav Stetkevych. 326 pages, appendix, notes, bibliography, index Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1993. $21.00 (Paper) ISBN 0-226-77336-1.

In the Eye of the Sun, by Ahdaf Soueif. 791 pages, glossary. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992. $24.50 (Cloth) ISBN 0-679-40948-3

Variations on Night and Day, by Abdelrahman [‘Abd al-rahman] Munif. Translated by Peter Theroux. 342 pages. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. $23.50 (Cloth) ISBN 0-394-57673-X

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