CivilSocietyIraq
Explore essential books on civil society in Iraq, featuring Francis Fukuyama's America at the Crossroads and Elizabeth Warnock Fernea's Guests of the Sheik—key reads on democracy, social dynamics, and Iraqi culture.
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America at the Crossroads
by Francis Fukuyama
Presents a critique of the Bush Administration's Iraq policy, arguing that it stemmed from misconceptions about the realities of the situation in Iraq and a squandering of the goodwill of American allies following September 11th.
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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.
