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contrast between the Arapesh and the Mundugumor of New Guinea.  See Margaret
Mead,  Male and Female: A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World, Dell
Publishing, New York, 1968 (first published in 1949), pp. 76-77, 86-88, 117,
134-135.  Also see the summary of Mead's findings in H.R. Hays, From Ape to
Angel: An Informal History of Social Anthropology, p. 347.
99.  Halim Barakat, "The Arab Family and the Challenge of Social Transformation,"
in Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, ed., Women and Family in the Middle East: New
Voices of Change, University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, 1985, pp. 27, 31, 32,
37, 44.
100.  Juliette Minces, The House of Obedience: Women in Arab Society, Michael
Pallis, trans., Zed Press, London, 1982, p. 33.  Soraya Altorki, Women In Saudi
Arabia: Ideology and Behavior Among the Elite, Columbia University Press, New
York, 1986, p. 31.
101.  Ibn Ishaq, Biography of the Messenger of God, excerpted in The Islamic
World, ed. by William H. McNeill and Marilyn Robinson Waldman, University of
Chicago Press, 1983, pp. 16-17.
102.  Juliette Minces, The House of Obedience: Women in Arab Society,  pp.
33-34.
103.  Cairo University professor of psychology Dr. Yousry Abdel Mohsen says that
a similar coldness in the relationship between city men and women lay behind a
rash of Egyptian murders during the late '80s in which wives did away with their
husbands, stabbing them as many as 20 times, or cutting them in small pieces "for
easy disposal."  (Alan Cowell, "Egypt's Pain: Wives Killing Husbands," New York
Times, September 23, 1989, p. 4.)
104.  Lila Abu-Lughod, "Bedouin Blues," Natural History, Vol. 96, No. 7, July, 1987,
pp. 24-33.
105.  Uris spent years in travel and research preparing for The Haj.  He employed a
research associate on the project--Diane Eagle-- whom he credits with "pulling a
thousand and one brilliant reports."  His goal was to place his fiction in a thoroughly
authentic, factual setting.  (See the acknowledgements and introduction to  Leon
Uris,  The Haj, [on un-numbered pages at the front of the book], Bantam Books,
New York, 1985.  Uris has also discussed the thoroughness of his research in
personal communication with the author.)
106.  Halim Barakat cites Shirabi's "important study of
the Arab family" which concludes that "the most repressed elements of Arab society
are the... women, and the children."  Halim Barakat, "The Arab Family and the
Challenge of Social Transformation," in Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, ed., Women
and Family in the Middle East: New Voices of Change, University of Texas Press,
Austin, Texas, 1985, pp. 27, 31, 32, 37, 44.
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