"Brothers" or Others?: Propriety and Gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt: 22 (Studies in Forced Migration)

by Anita Fabos (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $148.43

  Muslim Arab Sudanese in Cairo have played a fundamental role in Egyptian history and society during many centuries of close relations between Egypt and Sudan. This book presents an ethnographic study which shows that Sudanese ethnic identity is created from deeply held social values, especially those concerning gender and propriety.