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Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society, (2nd Edition) by Lila Abu-Lughod, L. Abulughod Paperback, 356 Pages, Published 2000 ISBN-10: 0-520-22473-6 / 0520224736 ISBN-13: 978-0-520-22473-5 / 9780520224735 This updated edition is presented with a new Preface. Lila Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the e |