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Children in the Muslim Middle East / edited by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea.

By: Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock
Language: English Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 1995.Description: xviii, 477p. : ill., tables ; 23cm.ISBN: 029272490X
Contents:
Contents: I, Childhood in the Muslim Middle East / E.W. Fernea; Children in the Arab Gulf States / Hassan al-Ebraheem; The code of children's rights in Islam / M.A. Alaoui M'Daghiri; II, Growing up. Adoption in Islamic society / A.A. Sonbol; Children of Amman: in squatter areas of Amman, Jordan / S. Shami, L. Taminian; Kuwaiti lullabies / F. Ghannam; Changing child rearing patterns in an Egyptian village / J.H. Brink; Love conquers all? Changing images of gender and relationship in Morocco / S. Schaefer Davis, Douglas A. Davis; Sudanese lullabies and adolscent songs / T. AshShareef; To my son Mehmet, I present our fruits / B.R. Eyuboglu; My religion series / M.Y. Kandemir; Teach your children the love of God's messenger / M. Abdo Yamani; Orphanages in Egypt / A.B. Rugh; III, Children's health. Child care and child health in low-income neighbourhoods of Cairo / H. Hoodfar; Bodily mutilation of young females / Cairo Family Planning Association; Life and 16,25h of Jordanian children / S. Janson; Child mortality and the changing discourse on childhood in Turkey / A. Gürsoy; Women's laments for children who have died / J.Z. ad-Din al-Hajjaji; IV, Children and work. The child as economic investment / A. Belarbi; Children's contribution to social security and the family in Egypt / H.R. Tadros; Working children in Cairo / E.O. Farrag; The rungs of the ladder / Daisy al-Amir; An unmarried girl and a grinding stone: a Turkish girl's childhood in the city / Jenny B. White; V, Children's education. Early education in Kuwait / A'isha al-Haj Hasan, Lu'lu'a al-Qattami; Revolution for children in Saudi Arabia / Jerine B. Bird; Turkish first-grade text; Alternative education under the Intifada / Abdalla al-Kurd, B.R. Herrscher; Childhood education in highland north Yemen / S. Dorsky, Thomas B. Stevenson; Gender roles in Iranian public school textbooks / A.K. Ferdows; Changing perseptions of Iranian identity / P.J. Higgins, P. Shoar-Ghaffari; VI, Children, politics and war. The rights of the child under Islamic law: prohibitons of the 16,ld soldier / M. Elahi; Children of fire (ribat al-fatah) / H. al-Namani; Girls' participation in combat: a case study from Lebanon / K.H. Karamé; Attitudes of teenage girls to the Iranian revolution / F. Khosrokhavar; Poetry and pageants: growing up in the Syrian vanguard / Evelyn Early; VII, Children and play, children and the arts. Children's games and songs in Egypt / M. Omran; Patterns of musical development among children in Afghanistan / V. Doubleday, J. Baily; The small lamp / G. Kanafani; Children's games and songs from Tunisia / Sabra Webber; Themes reflected in Palestinian children's literature / T. Alqudsi-Ghabra; "Open sesame" and children in Baghdad / Misbah al-Khayr, Hashim al-Samira'i.
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Includes bibl. references.

Contents: I, Childhood in the Muslim Middle East / E.W. Fernea; Children in the Arab Gulf States / Hassan al-Ebraheem; The code of children's rights in Islam / M.A. Alaoui M'Daghiri; II, Growing up. Adoption in Islamic society / A.A. Sonbol; Children of Amman: in squatter areas of Amman, Jordan / S. Shami, L. Taminian; Kuwaiti lullabies / F. Ghannam; Changing child rearing patterns in an Egyptian village / J.H. Brink; Love conquers all? Changing images of gender and relationship in Morocco / S. Schaefer Davis, Douglas A. Davis; Sudanese lullabies and adolscent songs / T. AshShareef; To my son Mehmet, I present our fruits / B.R. Eyuboglu; My religion series / M.Y. Kandemir; Teach your children the love of God's messenger / M. Abdo Yamani; Orphanages in Egypt / A.B. Rugh; III, Children's health. Child care and child health in low-income neighbourhoods of Cairo / H. Hoodfar; Bodily mutilation of young females / Cairo Family Planning Association; Life and 16,25h of Jordanian children / S. Janson; Child mortality and the changing discourse on childhood in Turkey / A. Gürsoy; Women's laments for children who have died / J.Z. ad-Din al-Hajjaji; IV, Children and work. The child as economic investment / A. Belarbi; Children's contribution to social security and the family in Egypt / H.R. Tadros; Working children in Cairo / E.O. Farrag; The rungs of the ladder / Daisy al-Amir; An unmarried girl and a grinding stone: a Turkish girl's childhood in the city / Jenny B. White; V, Children's education. Early education in Kuwait / A'isha al-Haj Hasan, Lu'lu'a al-Qattami; Revolution for children in Saudi Arabia / Jerine B. Bird; Turkish first-grade text; Alternative education under the Intifada / Abdalla al-Kurd, B.R. Herrscher; Childhood education in highland north Yemen / S. Dorsky, Thomas B. Stevenson; Gender roles in Iranian public school textbooks / A.K. Ferdows; Changing perseptions of Iranian identity / P.J. Higgins, P. Shoar-Ghaffari; VI, Children, politics and war. The rights of the child under Islamic law: prohibitons of the 16,ld soldier / M. Elahi; Children of fire (ribat al-fatah) / H. al-Namani; Girls' participation in combat: a case study from Lebanon / K.H. Karamé; Attitudes of teenage girls to the Iranian revolution / F. Khosrokhavar; Poetry and pageants: growing up in the Syrian vanguard / Evelyn Early; VII, Children and play, children and the arts. Children's games and songs in Egypt / M. Omran; Patterns of musical development among children in Afghanistan / V. Doubleday, J. Baily; The small lamp / G. Kanafani; Children's games and songs from Tunisia / Sabra Webber; Themes reflected in Palestinian children's literature / T. Alqudsi-Ghabra; "Open sesame" and children in Baghdad / Misbah al-Khayr, Hashim al-Samira'i.