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KARIN VAN NIEUWKERK, A Trade Like Any Other: Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995). Pp. 237. $35.00 cloth; $11.98 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2003

Extract

A Trade Like Any Other explores the status of freelance women singers and dancers in Egypt. In her Introduction, Nieuwkerk states the twofold goal of her book: to de-exoticize the entertainment trade and to generate more sympathy for male and female entertainers among Egyptians and Westerners alike.

Type
Book Review
Copyright
2003 Cambridge University Press

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