Sharifa, by Cornelia Dalenberg

SHARIFA, by Cornelia Dalenberg; Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1983; 233 pp., $11.95 (paper). (Reviewed by Prof. H. Hanko) This interesting book is part of "The Historical Series of the Reformed Churches in America." The name, "Sharifa," is the Arabic name of the author, a name which she received while serving as a missionary-nurse in the Middle East. In the book she tells of her experiences while laboring in Bahrain, Qatar, and Iraq over a period of more than forty years. She went to...