Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
"A valuable contribution in many areas, giving us new dimensions  of  nomadic and Arab culture, poetry, women, and gender roles and a fresh  way of  looking at the interrelatedness of the ideology and politics of  sentiment. An  outstanding anthropological ethnography of the Bedouin of the Egyptian  desert,  as well as an unusually skillful analysis of gender and social structure  as it  is expressed through womens poetic discourse.   --International Journal  of  Middle East Studies