Literature Recommendations

Literature (alphebetized by title):

Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution
Farman, Sattareh Farmaian. New York: Anchor Books, 1992.
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
Sasson, Jean. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1992.
Princess Sultana's Circle
Sasson, Jean. Van Nuys: Windsor-Brooke Books, 2002.
Princess Sultana's Daughter
Sasson, Jean. New York: Dell Publishing, 1995.
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
Oufkir, Malika and Michele Fitoussi. New York: Hyperion, 1999.

The Dance in Ancient Greeece
Lawlwer, Lillian B. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1964.
Looking for Little Egypt
Carlton, Donna. Bloomington: IDD Books, 1994.
Serpent of the Nile
Buonaventura, Wendy. New York: Interlink Books, 1998.
Time and the Dancing Image
Jowitt, Deborah. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Choreographic Politics: State Fold Dance Companies, Representation, and Power
Shay, Anthony. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2002.
Choreophobia: Solo Improvised Dance in the Iranian World
Shay, Anthony. Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 1999.
Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece
Cowan, Jane K. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
Fonseca, Isabel. New York: Vintage Departures, 1995.
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock. Nre York: Anchor Books, 1965.
Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
Bates, Daniel and Amal Rassam. Englewood Cliffs: Printice-Hall, 1983.
A Street in Marrakech
Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock. Garden City: Anchor Books, 1980.
A Trade Like Any Other: Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt
Van Nieuwkerk, Karin. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.
Women of Deh Koh: Lives in an Iranian Village
Friedl, Erika. New York: Penguin Books, 1991.
Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories
Abu-Lughod, Lila. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
Abu-Lughod, Lila. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

A History of Medieval Spain
O'Callaghan, Joseph F. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1975.
Lord of Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire
Goodwin, Jason. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1999.
A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of Life, Letters and History
Lewis, Bernard. New York: The Modern Library, 2001.
The Muslim Discovery of Europe
Lewis, Bernard. New York: W.W.Norton & Company, 2001.
What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
Lewis, Bernard. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage, and Piety
Hambly, Gavin ed. New York: St. Marin's Press, 1999.

Woman's Body, Woman's Word: Gender and Discourse in Arabo-Islamic Writing
Malti-Douglas, Fedwa. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Women in Islam
Walther, Wiebke. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1999.
Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage, and Piety
Hambly, Gavin ed. New York: St. Marin's Press, 1999.

The Book of The Thousand Nights and One Night
Burton, Richard F. (Translator and Annotator). New York: Heritage Press, 1962.
The Red Tent
Diamant, Anita. New York: Picador USA, 1997.
Skinny Legs and All
Robbins, Tom. New York: Bantam Books, 1990.

The Art and Architecture of Islam: 650-1250
Ettinghausen, Richard and Oleg Grabar. New York: Penguin Books, 1991.
Islamic Ornament
Baer, Eva. Washington Square: New York University Press, 1998.

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