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Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea was professor emeritus of English and Middle East studies at the University of Texas-Austin.

MER Article

Daghara Dispatch

In 1996, five years after the Gulf war, my anthropologist husband Robert Fernea and I returned to Daghara, a predominantly Shi'i Muslim provincial town on a tributary of the Euphrates in south central Iraq. We had lived there for two years before the Iraqi revolution of 1958 against British colonial

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea • 4 min read

MER Article

Two Films

Shadows Over the Future, A film by Wolfgang Bergmann. 1985. 92 mins, 16mm. Last Exit: Berlin, A film by Marilyn Gaunt. 1988. 28 mins. video.

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea • 3 min read