Bücher der Reihe Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East

Despite their significant contributions, women are largely absent from studies on the Iran-Iraq war. Drawing on primary sources such as memoirs, wills, interviews, print media coverage, and oral histories, Farzaneh chronicles in copious detail women's participation on the battlefield, in the household, and everywhere in between.

Examines spor meraki as an object of desire shared by a broad and diverse group of Istanbulite women. Sehlikoglu follows the latest anthropological scholarship that defines desire beyond the moment it is felt, experienced, or even yearned for, and as something that is formed through a series of social and historical makings.

Does the study of aesthetics have tangible effects in the real world? Does examining the work of diaspora writers and artists change our view of "the Other"? In this thoughtful book, Ebrahimi argues that an education in the humanities is as essential as one in politics and ethics, critically training the imagination toward greater empathy.

Sheds light on Palestinian Muslim women's agency in shari`a courts from the British Mandate period to the present. Brownson's archival research on wife-initiated maintenance claims, divorce, and child custody cases deepens our understanding of women's position in the courts, demonstrating Muslim women's active participation in their legal affairs.

Traces the transformation of the Palestinian women's movement from the 1930s to the post-Oslo period and through the Second Intifada to examine the often-fraught relationship between women and nationalism in Palestine. Jad also explores the impact of emerging feminist NGOs in depoliticizing the secular Palestinian women's movement.

Moving beyond rigid portrayals of Islamic patriarchy and female oppression, this book analyses debates about manhood in early twentieth-century Iran, particularly around questions of race and sexuality. DeSouza presents the larger implications of Pahlavi hegemonic masculinity in creating racialized male subjects and "productive" sexualities.

The early modern Ottoman poet Mihri Hatun (1460-1515) succeeded in drawing considerable renown during a time when few women were accepted into the male-dominated intellectual circles. Her poetry collection is among the earliest bodies of women's writing in the Middle East. With this volume, Havliog-lu investigates the factors that allowed Hatun to survive and thrive.

Charts the arc of the Egyptian women's movement, capturing the changing dynamics of gender activism over the course of two decades. Tadros explores the interface between feminist movements, Islamist forces, and three regime ruptures in the battle over women's status in Egyptian society and politics.

During the Iraq War, thousands of young Baghdadis worked as interpreters for US troops. In Interpreters of Occupation, Campbell traces the experiences of twelve individuals from their young adulthood as members of the Ba'thist generation, to their work as interpreters, through their navigation of the US immigration pipeline, and finally to their resettlement in the United States.

Takes an insightful look at how entire households, families, and individuals "cope," negotiate their lives, and plan to achieve goals in Occupied Palestine. This book posits that household dynamics cannot be fully grasped unless linked to the traumas of the past and worries of the present.

Arab and Arab American feminists enlist their intimate experiences to challenge simplistic and assumptions about gender, sexuality, and commitments to feminism and justice-centred struggles. Contributors hail from multiple geographical sites, spiritualities, occupations, sexualities, class backgrounds, and generations.

This volume introduces new sources for the study of the past and present life of Muslim women that challenge paradigms about the ways in which they""have been studied in the past veiled, exoticised and outside of general women's history. Amira El-Azhary Sonbol and the contributors deconstruct the past and offer fresh new perspectives.