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Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477327029
Pub Date: April 18th, 2023
Format: Hardcover
232 Pages
An investigation of how the expansion of modern medicine in Turkey transformed young boys’ experiences of circumcision.
The Right Kind of Suffering
Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477326725
Pub Date: January 3rd, 2023
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
An examination of Arab asylum seekers who feel compelled to package their tales of disenfranchisement and suffering to satisfy a deeply reluctant immigration system.
Egypt’s Football Revolution
Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477323175
Pub Date: July 27th, 2021
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
A detailed account of the entanglement of Egyptian football with surging nationalist politics as the sport’s appeal waxed and waned before and after the 2011 Revolution.
Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt
Navigating the Margins of Respectability
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477317075
Pub Date: November 23rd, 2018
Format: Paperback
256 Pages
Combining vivid stories of love affairs with classic anthropological theories of kinship, gift-giving, and honor, this rich ethnography documents how ideals of relationships and respectability clash with the reality of life in modern Cairo.
Nurturing Masculinities
Men, Food, and Family in Contemporary Egypt
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781477307106
Pub Date: November 1st, 2015
Format: Paperback
156 Pages
Dispelling the illusion that Middle Eastern men can be fully understood through the lenses of domination and patriarchy, this book looks at contemporary Egyptian foodways to better understand how men enact masculinity in displays of caregiving and love th
Modernizing Patriarchy
The Politics of Women's Rights in Morocco
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781477312209
Pub Date: September 15th, 2015
Format: Paperback
251 Pages
This ethnographic study breaks the silence on women’s rights and contemporary development in Morocco, where legal and educational advances are actually leaving some women behind, especially educated, single women.
Foodways and Daily Life in Medieval Anatolia
A New Social History
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781477309926
Pub Date: November 30th, 2014
Format: Paperback
261 Pages
Bringing to life an overlooked aspect of the dawn of the Ottoman empire, this illuminating study uses the prism of food—from farming to mealtimes, religious rituals, and commerce—to understand how Anatolian society gave rise to a superpower.
Children of Afghanistan
The Path to Peace
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477309889
Pub Date: November 15th, 2014
Format: Paperback
388 Pages
A sweeping examination of Afghanistan’s most vulnerable individuals and the myriad of problems that confront them, Children of Afghanistan not only explores the host of crises that has led the United Nations to call the country “the worst place on earth t
Kurdish Awakening
Nation Building in a Fragmented Homeland
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477309896
Pub Date: November 15th, 2014
Format: Paperback
384 Pages
Kurdish Awakening is a comprehensive examination of the sweeping developments in “Greater Kurdistan” over the past few decades, analyzing the growth of this nationalistic yet fragmented movement and illuminating its geopolitical implications.
Queer Beirut
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477309919
Pub Date: October 15th, 2014
Format: Paperback
307 Pages
Queer Beirut paves the way for a timely anthropological conversation about gender and queer identities in both Middle Eastern studies and urban studies.
Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477327029
Pub Date: April 18th, 2023
Format: Hardcover
232 Pages
The Right Kind of Suffering
Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477326725
Pub Date: January 3rd, 2023
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
Egypt’s Football Revolution
Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477323175
Pub Date: July 27th, 2021
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt
Navigating the Margins of Respectability
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477317075
Pub Date: November 23rd, 2018
Format: Paperback
256 Pages
Nurturing Masculinities
Men, Food, and Family in Contemporary Egypt
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781477307106
Pub Date: November 1st, 2015
Format: Paperback
156 Pages
Dispelling the illusion that Middle Eastern men can be fully understood through the lenses of domination and patriarchy, this book looks at contemporary Egyptian foodways to better understand how men enact masculinity in displays of caregiving and love th
Modernizing Patriarchy
The Politics of Women's Rights in Morocco
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781477312209
Pub Date: September 15th, 2015
Format: Paperback
251 Pages
Foodways and Daily Life in Medieval Anatolia
A New Social History
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781477309926
Pub Date: November 30th, 2014
Format: Paperback
261 Pages
Children of Afghanistan
The Path to Peace
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477309889
Pub Date: November 15th, 2014
Format: Paperback
388 Pages
Kurdish Awakening
Nation Building in a Fragmented Homeland
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477309896
Pub Date: November 15th, 2014
Format: Paperback
384 Pages
Queer Beirut
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477309919
Pub Date: October 15th, 2014
Format: Paperback
307 Pages