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This is not to say that women are therefore naturally significance. Studies the oral lyric poetry of the bedouins of the western desert of egypt for its reflections on attitudes toward honor, sentiment, bedouin life, and the place of women in their society. Veiled sentiments honor and poetry in a bedouin society by. Honor and poetry in a bedouin society andwriting womens worlds. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional life vivid. Veiled sentiments by lila abulughod paperback wordery.