What is life like for women in the Middle East? As the region continues to make headlines, more and more people in the West have begun to ask this question. Unfortunately, stereotypes abound. In Memory of a Promise: Short Stories by Middle Eastern Women, female authors from sixteen nations, from Morocco to Uzbekistan, provide a look at a broad range of women's experiences and do much to dispel notions of the region as homogenous. Writer, filmmaker, and anthropologist Elizabeth Warnock Fernea spent so much of her career, starting with the publication of Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village in 1965, striving to create a comprehensive view of the lives of women from all over the Middle East that it seems only fitting to honor her with this anthology. Editor Annes McCann-Baker worked closely with those authors and translators "BJ" Fernea championed to create this selection of short stories that showcases the talents of both established women writers in the region and those just beginning their career. The varied list of authors included in this collection ranges from Goli Taraghi to Hoda Barakat and Orly Castel-Bloom to Erendiz Atasu.
- ISBN10 0292743513
- ISBN13 9780292743519
- Publish Date 25 November 2012
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 1 October 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Texas Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 275
- Language English