Struggle and survival in the modern Middle East /
Burke, Edmund,1940-
London : Tauris,
c1993.
Includes bibliographical references.
Middle Eastern societies and ordinary people's lives / Edmund Burke, III -- Assaf : a peasant of Mount Lebanon / Akram F. Khater and Antoine F. Khater -- Yishaq Ben Ya'is Halewi : a Moroccan reformer / Daniel Schroeter -- Shemsigul : a Circassian slave in mid-nineteenth-century Cairo / Ehud R. Toledano -- Journeymen textile weavers in nineteenth-century Damascus : a collective biography / Sherry Vatter -- Ahmad : a Kuwaiti pearl diver / Nels Johnson -- Mohand N'Hamoucha : Middle Atlas Berber / Edmund Burke, III -- Ramadan al-Suwayhli : hero of the Libyan resistance / Lisa Anderson -- Bibi Maryam : a Bakhtiyari tribal woman / Julie Oehler -- The shaykh and his daughter : coping in colonial Algeria / Julia Clancy-Smith -- Izz al-Din al-Qassam : preacher and mujahid / Abdullah Schleifer -- Abu Ali al-Kilawi : a Damascus qabaday / Philip S. Khoury.
M'hamed Ali : Tunisian labor organizer / Eqbal Ahmad and Stuart Schaar -- Muhammad El Merid : the man who became qaid / David Seddon -- Hagob Hagobian : an Armenian truck driver in Iran / David N. Yaghoubian -- Naji : an Iraqi country doctor / Sami Zubaida -- Muhammad Ameur : a Tunisian comrade / Kenneth Brown -- Migdim : Egyptian Bedouin matriarch / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Amir Agha : an Iranian worker / Fakhreddin Azimi -- Rostam : Qashqa'i rebel / Lois Beck -- An Iranian village boyhood / Mehdi Abedi and Michael M.J. Fischer -- Gulab : an Afghan schoolteacher / Ashraf Ghani -- Sumaya : a Lebanese housemaid / Leila Fawaz -- Abu Jamal : A Palestinian urban villager / Joost Hiltermann -- Haddou : a Moroccan migrant worker / David McMurray.