Buy Prior to Your First Iraq Deployment
Prepare for your first Iraq deployment with this essential reading list. Featuring cultural insights from *Guests of the Sheik* by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and the psychological depth of *On Killing*, this curated collection of books on deployment and Iraq offers crucial perspective for military personnel before heading overseas.
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Guests of the Sheik
by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
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.
