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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-30 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 352
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-22 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
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Language: en
Pages: 354
Pages: 354
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-12-09 - Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Language: en
Pages: 325
Pages: 325
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-01 - Publisher: University of Texas Press
In the Western imagination, the Middle Eastern harem was a place of sex, debauchery, slavery, miscegenation, power, riches, and sheer abandon. But for the women