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... couples clamor for the “newest” new reproductive technologies, such as uterine transplantation, which is being attempted in the Middle East. Infertile couples are traveling to Dubai, because it is a city with its own technological aspirations. Yet, Dubai is also located in the middle of twenty-first...

... This chapter describes two overseas song shoots, in Switzerland and Dubai, taking the queer relationship between love and landscape in Indian cinema as a way of contesting its heteronormativity. love song queer sexuality landscape ...

... Dubai is the Middle East’s most “global city,” and the only one from the region to make the top-ten list of medical tourism destinations. Through state-sponsored cultural cosmopolitanism, Dubai is becoming an attractive destination for “global cosmopolitans”—mostly young professional couples...

.... A low-cost IVF (LCIVF) movement has emerged in the past decade to make IVF available in resource-poor nations of the global South. Meanwhile, elites from countries lacking IVF services are making their way to Dubai, especially from the Horn of Africa. Once these travelers reach Dubai, they encounter...

... such as Beirut, Tehran, and Dubai. The author recounts her own ethnographic forays into Middle Eastern IVF clinics in several countries, where she met hundreds of traveling infertile couples. However, in Dubai, she encounters an entire world of reproduction in motion, meeting “reprotravelers” from fifty...

...Prologue<subtitle>Rahnia’s Reproductive Journey</subtitle> This chapter chronicles the story of Rahnia, whose reproductive journey to Dubai is told in her own words. Rahnia is an Eritrean-Ethiopian Muslim woman, who is grateful to the United Kingdom for taking her in as a teenage refugee...

... prowess of its director, Dr. Pankaj Shrivastav, who is regarded as Dubai’s “IVF idol” by his patients. This chapter analyzes the “cult of clinical personality” surrounding “Dr. Pankaj” (as his patients call him), and the many reasons why he is regarded as a superior IVF physician. Many reprotravelers...

...” are making their way to Dubai for services that are illegal in their home countries. However, the UAE, which once boasted the Middle East’s most permissive assisted reproduction system, has recently become the world’s most restrictive. In 2010, the UAE passed an Islamically inspired assisted reproduction law...