"Attempts to challenge the virtual exclusion of the male prespective from Middle Eastern studies of gender. The text investigates the ways in which men are acting, reacting and adapting to the structural upheaval of the "traditional" family and to new images of virility and resp…
Writings on gender in the Middle East have tended to focus overwhelmingly on the status of women, on the rise of Islamist politics and veiling, and on the social construction of female identity. In the process issues of male identity in a region which has seen enormous social tr…
Writings on gender in the Middle East have tended to focus overwhelmingly on the status of women, on the rise of Islamist politics and veiling, and on the social construction of female identity. In the process issues of male identity in a region which has seen enormous social tr…
Beirut, I love you
Beirut, I love you
"This is the story of Zena, a young woman who has fallen under the spell of a city that threatens to engulf her in war, grief and love affairs." "In the streets armed militias carve out their territories, while ragged construction workers rebuild the city. Refugees sleep five to…
The body in Islamic culture
