Children in the Muslim Middle East - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 029272490X ISBN 13: 9780292724907

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 1995

Synopsis

Today nearly half of all people in the Middle East are under the age of fifteen. Yet little is known about the new generation of boys and girls who are growing up in a world vastly different from that of their parents, a generation who will be the leaders of tomorrow. This groundbreaking anthology is an attempt to look at the current situation of children by presenting materials by both Middle Eastern and Western scholars. Many of the works have been translated from Arabic, Persian, and French.

The forty-one pieces are organized into sections on the history of childhood, growing up, health, work, education, politics and war, and play and the arts. They are presented in many forms: essays in history and social science, poems, proverbs, lullabies, games, and short stories. Countries represented are Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, Israel/West Bank, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Lebanon, Turkey, Yemen, and Afghanistan.

This book complements Elizabeth Fernea's earlier works, Women and the Family in the Middle East and Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speak (coedited with Basima Bezirgan). Like them, it will be important reading for everyone interested in the Middle East and in women's and children's issues.

About this title

About the Author:

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea (1927–2008) was Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 029272490X
• ISBN 13: 9780292724907
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 495
• Editor: Fernea Elizabeth Warnock