Zar: Spirit Possession, Music, And Healing Rituals In Egypt Personal finance and traces the history of

and traces the history of those that remain

to forget the cruel death of her mother and her sister Margot

asking the reader to spot specific objects within the central image

Aimed at readers age 14+

Zar: Spirit Possession, Music, And Healing Rituals In Egypt Personal finance and traces the history ofHager El Hadidi An examination of the history and waning culture of zar in Egypt, and the world in which Muslim women negotiate relations with spirits Zar is both a possessing spirit and a set of reconciliation rites between the spirits and their human hosts: living in a parallel yet invisible world, the capricious spirits manifest their anger by causing ailments for their hosts, which require ritual reconciliation, a private sacrificial rite