An Invitation to Laughter
Subtitle: A Lebanese Anthropologist in the Arab World
Contributors: Richard Antoun (Foreword); Sonia Jalbout Khuri (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: May 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780226434780
Subjects: Anthropology; Biography: general; Social Science; Biography / Autobiography; Sociology; Middle East; Anthropology - General; Educators; Social Scientists & Psychologists; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Arab countries; Biography; Ethnologists; Ethnology; Fieldwork; Lebanon
Description: An autobiography of Fuad I Khuri, both an insider's and an outsider's perspective on life in Lebanon, elsewhere in Middle East, and in West Africa. It provides insights into such issues as mentality of Arabs toward women, eating habits of Arab world impact of Islam on West Africa, and extravagant lifestyles of wealthy Arabs, and more.