Book Reviews 205 

Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East 

Donna Lee Bowen and Evelyn A. Early, eds. 

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002, 2d ed 411 pages. 

Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East, now in its second edition, is a 
collection of songs, articles, poems, and letters, as well as manuscripts, 
related to life in the Muslim Middle East. The authors, a mix of well-







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Lughod's essay on Egyptian Bedouin women's poems as expressions of 
their thoughts, feelings, and problems. 

Overall, this new edition of Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East 
is an excellent addition to the literature on Middle E ast studies. The 
essays are accessible and convey a sense of ordinary life in the Muslim 

Middle East to a western reader. A concluding section that tied the themes 

together would have been useful. 

Nazia Khandwala 

Asian and Jslamic Studies Major 

The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas