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Intro -- Middle Eastern and North African Societies in the Interwar Period -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Approaching Societies in the Interwar Middle East and North Africa -- 2 State-Society Relations through the Lens of Urban Development -- 3 Beirut's Musical Scene: A Narrative of Modernization and Identity Struggles under the French Mandate -- 4 Tourism and Mobility in Italian Colonial Libya -- 5 The Call of Communication: Mass Media and Reform in Interwar Morocco -- 6 Doctors Crossing Borders: The Formation of a Regional Profession in the Interwar Middle East -- 7 There She is, Miss Universe: Keriman Halis Goes to Egypt, 1933 -- 8 Taking Health to the Village: Early Turkish Republican Health Propaganda in the Countryside -- 9 The Provision of Water to Istanbul from Terkos: Continuities and Change from Empire to Republic -- 10 Reforms or Restrictions? The Ottoman Muslim Family Law Code and Women's Marital Status in Mandate Palestine -- 11 Mapping Social Change through Matters of the Heart: Debates on Courtship, Marriage and Divorce in the Early Turkish Republican Era (1923-1950) -- Bibliography -- Index

This book argues that misogyny is too complex to eradicate with superficial changes. Like a national anthem, misogyny in the MENA region has acquired a sacred status. Rather than exaggerate Western agency, this book makes Muslim agency visible. Stories of violence need to be told boldly because the non-West, too, is deserving of feminist critique.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Overviews -- Women's Activism in the Middle East: A Historical Perspective -- Women and Politics in the Middle East -- Women and Work in the Arab World -- The Politics of Gender and the Conundrums of Citizenship -- Part II. Country Case Studies, West to East -- State and Gender in the Maghrib -- Sex, Lies, and Television: Algerian and Moroccan Caricatures of the Gulf War -- An Interview with Heba Ra'uf Ezzat -- Women on Women: Television Feminism and Village Lives -- Sudanese Women and the Islamist State -- For the Common Good? Gender and Social Citizenship in Palestine -- Women and the Palestinian Movement: No Going Back? -- Searching for Strategies: The Palestinian Women's Movement in the New Era -- Gender and Citizenship: Considerations on the Turkish Experience -- Women in Saudi Arabia: Between Breadwinner and Domestic Icon? -- Women's Organizations in Kuwait -- The Dialectics of Fashion: Gender and Politics in Yemen -- The Political Economy of Female Employment in Postrevolutionary Iran -- Notes -- Comprehensive Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments.

Peoples' practising of religious ritual is never isolated from the social and political setting in which it takes place. It is therefore inevitable that ritual practice somehow contends with the current social context. Examining Muslim ritual practices across the Middle East, the authors of the articles in this special issue discuss religious ritual as a tool for accomplishing something in the real world. They provide examples of which social concerns are addressed in ritual practice, who is involved and how the ritual practice is affected. The studies show that current ritual practices are embedded in multi-actor social spaces, and they also reflect on the ritual as a multi-actor space where the power to define ritual form, meaning and importance shifts between different categories of actors.

Address before the Academy of political and social science, Philadelphia, Apr. 6-7, 1951.

Intro -- Family History in the Middle East -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration and Pronounciation -- List of Tables and Figures -- 1. Introduction by Beshara Doumani -- I. Family and Household -- 2. Family and Household in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cairo by Philippe Fargues -- 3. Size and Structure of Damascus Households in the Late Ottoman Period as Compared with Istanbul Households by Tomoki Okawara -- 4. From Warrior-Grandees to Domesticated Bourgeoisie: The Transformation of the Elite Egyptian Household into a Western-style Nuclear Family by Mary Ann Fay -- II: Family, Gender, and Property -- 5. Women's Gold: Shifting Styles of Embodying Family Relations by Annelies Moors -- 6. "Al-Mahr Zaituna": Property and Family in the Hills Facing Palestine, 1880-1940 by Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez Smith -- III: Family and the Praxis of Islamic Law -- 9. Text, Court, and Family in Late-Nineteenth-Century Palestine by Iris Agmon -- 10. Property, Language, and Law: Conventions of Social Discourse in Seventeenth-Century Tarablus al-Sham by Heather Ferguson -- IV: Family as a Discourse -- 11. Ambiguous Modernization: The Transition to Monogamy in the Khedival House of Egypt by Kenneth M. Cuno -- 12. "Queen of the House?" Making Immigrant Lebanese Families in the Mahjar by Akram F. Khater -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- SUNY Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East.

Countries across the Middle East face a number of social problems such as poverty, unemployment, housing, internal immigration and caring for vulnerable groups such as children, women, the disabled and the elderly. Providing an overview of the wide range of social issues addressed by social work practitioners, this book reveals the impact of the region's distinct historical and cultural factors, traditions, and customs and applications on social welfare and social work practice.Examining social work education and practice across a number of countries including Egypt, Palestine, Jorda

"Countries across the Middle East face a number of social problems such as poverty, unemployment, housing, internal immigration and caring for vulnerable groups such as children, women, the disabled and the elderly. Providing an overview of the wide range of social issues addressed by social work practitioners, this book reveals the impact of the region's distinct historical and cultural factors, traditions, and customs and applications on social welfare and social work practice. Examining social work education and practice across a number of countries including Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Oman and Sudan this book examines and assesses the diverse nature of social work in these countries and the role of the profession in providing essential services to different client groups. This in turn illustrates how social work as a profession contributes to the welfare system in the Middle East, and the relationship and interaction between social work professionals and governments. Further, the contributors demonstrate the religious, historical, ideological, cultural and geographical factors that influence social work practice and delivery in the region, with particular attention paid to the role of Islam in guiding and shaping social welfare institutions and the practice of social services. Bringing together the work of scholars from across the Middle East, this book will be welcomed by students, scholars and practitioners interested in the sociology, politics and culture of the Middle East, international social work and social welfare."--Publishers website