Literature Recommendations

Auto-Biographies/Biographical Novels

• Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution
  Farman, Sattareh Farmaian. New York: Anchor Books, 1992.
• Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
  Sasson, Jean. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1992.
• Princess Sultana's Circle
  Sasson, Jean. Van Nuys: Windsor-Brooke Books, 2002.
• Princess Sultana's Daughter
  Sasson, Jean. New York: Dell Publishing, 1995.
• Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
  Oufkir, Malika and Michele Fitoussi. New York: Hyperion, 1999.

Dance History

• The Dance in Ancient Greeece
  Lawlwer, Lillian B. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1964.
• Looking for Little Egypt
  Carlton, Donna. Bloomington: IDD Books, 1994.
• Serpent of the Nile
  Buonaventura, Wendy. New York: Interlink Books, 1998.
• Time and the Dancing Image
  Jowitt, Deborah. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Dance Studies/Ethnographies

• Choreographic Politics: State Fold Dance Companies, Representation, and Power
  Shay, Anthony. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2002.
• Choreophobia: Solo Improvised Dance in the Iranian World
  Shay, Anthony. Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 1999.
• Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece
  Cowan, Jane K. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Ethnographies

• Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
  Fonseca, Isabel. New York: Vintage Departures, 1995.
• Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
  Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock. Nre York: Anchor Books, 1965.
• Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
  Bates, Daniel and Amal Rassam. Englewood Cliffs: Printice-Hall, 1983.
• A Street in Marrakech
  Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock. Garden City: Anchor Books, 1980.
• A Trade Like Any Other: Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt
  Van Nieuwkerk, Karin. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.
• Women of Deh Koh: Lives in an Iranian Village
  Friedl, Erika. New York: Penguin Books, 1991.
• Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories
  Abu-Lughod, Lila. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
• Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
  Abu-Lughod, Lila. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

History

• A History of Medieval Spain
  O'Callaghan, Joseph F. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1975.
• Lord of Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire
  Goodwin, Jason. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1999.
• A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of Life, Letters and History
  Lewis, Bernard. New York: The Modern Library, 2001.
• The Muslim Discovery of Europe
  Lewis, Bernard. New York: W.W.Norton & Company, 2001.
• What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
  Lewis, Bernard. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage, and Piety
  Hambly, Gavin ed. New York: St. Marin's Press, 1999.

Women's Studies

• Woman's Body, Woman's Word: Gender and Discourse in Arabo-Islamic Writing
  Malti-Douglas, Fedwa. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
• Women in Islam
  Walther, Wiebke. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1999.
• Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage, and Piety
  Hambly, Gavin ed. New York: St. Marin's Press, 1999.

Fiction

• The Book of The Thousand Nights and One Night
  Burton, Richard F. (Translator and Annotator). New York: Heritage Press, 1962.
• The Red Tent
  Diamant, Anita. New York: Picador USA, 1997.
• Skinny Legs and All
  Robbins, Tom. New York: Bantam Books, 1990.

Islamic Art and Architecture

• The Art and Architecture of Islam: 650-1250
  Ettinghausen, Richard and Oleg Grabar. New York: Penguin Books, 1991.
• Islamic Ornament
  Baer, Eva. Washington Square: New York University Press, 1998.