The Private Life Of Islam

Ian Young was educated in London and Paris. He qualified as a doctor in London and apart from a few interruptions has worked there ever since.Ian Young spent a summer as a medical student in a provincial maternity unit in Algeria. This book is taken from the diary he began on arrival, when he found himself the privileged witness of the insides not just of Kabyl women, but also some much-trumpeted ideology. The immediate villains are a couple of expatriate Bulgarian gynaecologists. Dr Vasilev,