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Simply one of the best books I have ever read about the experience of a westerner living among the Arabs.
The author went on to become a founder of the Middle Eastern Studies department at the University of Texas and a leader in womens' studies as it pertains to the Middle East, and wrote several more books, all of which I recommend.
She was one the greatest humans I have ever had the privilege to know, as a student. Always kind, caring, and funny, but no nonsense and a very serious scholar.
She passed away last year. She will be missed.
Simply one of the best books I have ever read about the experience of a westerner living among the Arabs.
The author went on to become a founder of the Middle Eastern Studies department at the University of Texas and a leader in womens' studies as it pertains to the Middle East, and wrote several more books, all of which I recommend.
She was one the greatest humans I have ever had the privilege to know, as a student. Always kind, caring, and funny, but no nonsense and a very serious scholar.
She passed away last year. She will be missed.
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Re: Guests of the Shiek
Thu, June 11, 2009 - 9:06 PMI don't know if she ever knew what a profound influence she had on me. I was also one of her students.
I cried like a baby at her memorial. I hardly knew anyone there. I recognized some people from the department, and her family, but I was a stranger to them. My classmates from that time, they're all expats in the foreign service, I guess they couldn't make it back to Austin in time.
But I was glad I went. It was one of those memorials that was filled with celebration of a life, of a person who made the most of life and made a huge difference to so many people.
