Bidding a Bridge Hand Bidding a Bridge Hand

Title	:	Bidding a Bridge Hand
Author	:	Terence Reese
Rating	:	4.69 (437 Votes)
Asin	:	0486228304
Format Type	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	254 Pages
Publish Date	:	1972-11-13
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Bidding a Bridge Hand

Editorial :

I'm on chapter 8 and could not wait any longer to write a review. An anthropologist of Iranian origins teaching at Concordia University, the author spent a decade in Cairo doing research. While she had to study Egyptian Arabic to converse with the people, she lived with them, and was able to understand many more facets of their culture in a different way than a westerner would have, and she was also more accepted and trusted by them because she was a Muslim (and her knowledge of Islam was extensively tested by her subjects in her early months of research). The section on "Tips" straight from Fats is priceless. Again, even having lived in Morocco for 12 years, and even having married into the society, these things were never clear to me before, as they really are now.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is seriously trying to understand the THINKING of both men and women in Arabic cultures, and how that thinking, and the subsequent actions which follow from that thinking, is