Table of Contents:
  • Middle Eastern Societies and Ordinary People's Lives / Burke, E.
  • Part One : Precolonial Lives
  • Assaf : A peasant of Mount Lebanon / Khater, A. F. ; Khater, A. F.
  • Yishaq Ben Ya'is Halewi : A Moroccan reformer / Schroeter, D.
  • Shemsigul : A Circassian slave in mid-nineteenth-century Cairo / Toledano, E. R.
  • Journeymen Textile Weavers in Nineteenth-Century Damascus : A collective biography / Vatter, S.
  • Ahmad : A Kuwaiti pearl diver / Johnson, N.
  • Mohand N'Hamoucha : Middle Atlas Berber / Burke, E.
  • Ramadan al-Suwayhli : Hero of the Libyan resistance / Anderson, L.
  • Bibi Maryam : A Bakhtiyari tribal woman / Oehler, J.
  • Part Two: Colonial Lives
  • The Shaykh and his Daughter : Coping in colonial Algeria / Clancy-Smith, J.
  • Izz al-Din al-Qassam : Preacher and Mujahid / Schleifer, A.
  • Abu Ali al-Kilawi : A Damascus Qabaday / Khoury, P. S.
  • M'hamed Ali : Tunisian labor organizer / Ahmad, E. ; Schaar, S.
  • Muhammad El Merid : The man who became Qaid / Seddon, D.
  • Hagob Hagobian : An Armenian truck driver in Iran / Yaghoubian, D. N.
  • Naji : An Iraqi country doctor / Zubaida, S.
  • Muhammad Ameur : A Tunisian comrade / Brown, K.
  • TLS, 24/09/93, p. 22
  • Part Three: Contemporary Lives
  • Migdim : Egyptian Bedouin Matriarch / Abu-Lughod, L.
  • Amir Agha : An Iranian Worker / Azimi, F.
  • Rostam : Qashqa'i rebel / Beck, L.
  • An Iranian Village Boyhood / Abedi, M. ; Fischer, M. M. J.
  • Gulab : An Afghan schoolteacher / Ghani, A.
  • Sumaya : A Lebanese housemaid / Fawas, L.
  • Abu Jamal : A Palestinian urban villager / Hiltermann, J.
  • Haddou : A Moroccan migrant worker / McMurray, D.