Life as politics how ordinary people change the Middle East / by Bayat, Asef, ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions, ProQuest (Firm)

Table of Contents: “…The art of presence -- The quiet encroachment of the ordinary -- The poor and the perpetual pursuit of life chances -- Feminism of everyday life -- Reclaiming youthfulness -- The politics of fun -- Battlefield Tehran -- Streets of revolution -- Does radical Islam have an urban ecology? …”
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Family in the Middle East : ideational change in Egypt, Iran, and Tunisia / by PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Familism and critical Arab family studies / Suad Joseph -- International feminism and the women's movement in Egypt, 1904-1923 : a reappraisal of categories and legacies / Mary Ann Fay -- From birth control to family planning : population, gender, and the politics of reproduction in Egypt / Laura Bier -- Family law and family planning policy in pre- and post-revolutionary Iran / Homa Hoodfar -- From nationalism to feminism : family law in Tunisia / Mounira M. …”
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The Great War and the remaking of Palestine / by Tamārī, Salīm, JSTOR

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Rafiq Bey's public spectacles -- Arabs, Turks, and monkeys : the ethnography and cartography of Ottoman Syria -- The sweet smell of holy sewage : urban planning and the new public sphere in Palestine -- A scientific expedition to Gallipoli : the Syrian-Palestinian intelligentsia divided -- Two faces of Palestinian orthodoxy : Hellenism, Arabness, and the Osmenlilik -- The farcical moment : narratives of revolution and counter-revolution in Nablus -- Adele Azar's notebook : charity and feminism in WWI -- Ottoman modernity and the biblical gaze : the war photography of Khalil Raad.…”
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A shadow over Palestine : the imperial life of race in America / by Feldman, Keith P.

Table of Contents: “…Moving toward Home: Women of Color Feminisms and the Lebanon Conjuncture -- Epilogue: America's Last Taboo.…”
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Life as politics : how ordinary people change the Middle East / by Bayat, Asef

Table of Contents: “…The quiet encroachment of the ordinary ; The poor and the perpetual pursuit of life chances ; Feminism of everyday life ; Reclaiming youthfulness ; The politics of fun -- Part 2: Street politics and the political street. …”

Women and globalization in the Arab Middle East : gender, economy, and society /

Table of Contents: “…Women in Tunisia: between state feminism and economic reform /…”

Organizing women : formal and informal women's groups in the Middle East /

Table of Contents: “…Moghadam -- The reproduction of political process among women activists in Lebanon : 'shopkeepers' and feminists / Suad Joseph -- Domesticity reconfigured : women in squatter areas of Amman / Seteney Shami -- Women in groups in Africa : female associational patterns in Senegal and Morocco / Eva Evers Rosander -- Bahraini women in formal and informal groups : the politics of identification / May Seikaly -- The impact of social and economic factors on women's group formation in Egypt / Shahida El-Baz -- Feminism and contemporary debates in Egypt / Nadje Sadig Al-Ali -- From gender equality to female subjugation : the changing agendas of women's groups in Kuwait / Haya al-Mughni -- Women organized in groups : expanding the terms of the debate / Nancy Lindisfarne.…”

On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements : Selected Writings of Ella Shohat. by Shohat, Ella

Table of Contents: “…Breaking the Silence; 4. Mizrahi Feminism: The Politics of Gender, Race, and Multiculturalism; 5. …”
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Dispatches from Pakistan /

Table of Contents: “…-Pakistan Alliance -- Junaid Rana -- I'll be Your Mirror: The Politics of Pakistan's Populism -- Madiha Tahir -- Feminism and 'Fundamentalism' in Pakistan -- Amina Jamal -- Punjab in Play -- Humeira Iqtidar -- Blood on the Path of Love: Faisalabad, Punjab -- Qalandar Bux Memon -- Balochistan Betrayed -- Mahvish Ahmad -- A Tempest in My Harbour: Gwadar, Balochistan -- Hafees Jamali -- Swat in Transition -- Sultan-i-Rome -- Inside Militancy in Waziristan -- Iqbal Khattak -- Poetic Reflection and Activism in Gilgit-Baltistan -- Nosheen Ali -- The Nature of Conservation: Conflict and Articulation in Northern Pakistan -- Shafqat Hussain -- An Art of Extremes -- Hammad Nasar -- Kya Tum Poora Chaand Na Dekhoge (Will You Not See the Full Moon) -- Fehmida Riyaz -- Contributors -- Index.…”
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Constructions of masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa : literature, film, and national discourse / by JSTOR

Table of Contents: “…-- Crises of masculinity in Huba Barakat's war literature -- Mahfouz, al-Mutanabbi, and the canon: poetics of deviance from the masculine nationalist discourse of al-Sukkariya -- Diasporic queer Arabs in Europe and North America: sexual citizenship and narratives of inclusion and exclusion -- Of knives, mustaches, and headgears: the fall of the Qabaday in Zakariya Tamir's latest works -- Romancing Middle Eastern men in North and South America: two mid-century texts -- Tough guys, martyrs, dandies, and marginalized men: changing masculine roles in Iranian cinema -- Men and modernity in postcolonial Tunisian cinema -- Construction of masculinity in Palestinian film -- Gendered politics in late nineteenth-century Egyptian nationalist discourse -- Men at work: the politics of professional pride in Ottoman Beirut -- "You are like a virus": dangerous bodies and military medical authority in Turkey -- Gendered memories and masculinities: Kurdish Peshmerga on the Anfa campaign in Iraq -- Militarist masculinity, militarist feminity: a gendered analysis Jordan's war on the Islamic State.…”
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Embodying geopolitics : generations of women's activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon / by Pratt, Nicola Christine, Ebook Central

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Embodying geopolitics : generations of women's activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon / by Pratt, Nicola Christine, JSTOR

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Orientalism : a reader / by JSTOR

Table of Contents: “…Orientalism, hinduism and feminism / Richard King -- 35. Orientalism reconsidered / Edward Said -- 36. …”
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