...Rania Kassab Sweis Bridging literature on modern governance with youth subjectivity, this article examines the globalization of female youth in contemporary Egypt through transnational humanitarian interventions. Drawing on over twenty-seven months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Egypt...

... and hegemonic theories of male trouble render illegible the social realities of twenty-first-century multipolar geopolitics and the changing shapes of racialism, humanitarianism, nationalism, security governance, and social movement. In order to help generate new kinds of critical research on Middle East...

... statues from matchsticks. The idea stuck in his mind, and he learned that craft very quickly. He also contacted humanitarian organizations that support Syrian refugees. He showed them his work and persuaded them to use it in fundraisers to support Syrians. He earned some money, but not enough to support...

... traces the origins and intersections of new patterns of police militarization, security governance, humanitarian intervention, and state restructuring in the megacities of the global South. He specializes in international security studies, political sociology, global ethnography, and gender/ race...

... (ranging from the veil to the honor crime) that have been “deployed in current political projects of destructive warfare, chilling xenophobia, and lucrative humanitarianism” (226). The new framework she proposes is one based on “careful analysis, critical self-reflection, and constant recognition of our...

..., in particular the emerging humanitarian concern with trafficking, public health, and women’s and children’s rights. The book centers on the 1920s and 1930s, when colonial officials, voluntary associations, and commissions formed by the League of Nations focused increasingly on “regulated prostitution...

... on the Syrian revolution, it was Alan Kurdi. For some, the inescapable image of his drowned body promised the potential to finally interrupt “Western” paralysis in the face of Syria’s war. For others, the circulating image simply signaled another form of voyeurism disguised as humanitarian concern. Indeed...

... of biopoiltical control and as central to a scientifically authorized humanitarian economy” (128). Indeed, “the politics of maiming is a productive one” claiming to be a “humanitarian approach of warfare” (128, 129), which, in turn, invests political capital in Israel’s claim to being a democracy with “the most...

... scientists, economists, humanitarian and development practitioners, and local and international activists of the centrality of gender in women’s lives but also, fundamentally, Iraqi politics and nation-building processes. Ali’s unique contribution is to fill the gap in and take issue against research...

... alienation of Sudanese in Egypt impedes humanitarian assistance. They often find it impossible to satisfy their basic needs or enjoy fundamental human rights (such as free movement). Living in an ambiguous space, not covered by state regulations but subject to control and sanctions, transforms them...

... nation, with an estimated 150,000 Syrians killed, 2.5 million refugees outside the country, 4.25 million internally displaced persons, a total of 9.3 million, or 42 percent of the Syrian population, who have fled their homes, and more than 6.8 million in need of urgent humanitarian...

... .” In Christian Missions and Humanitarianism in the Middle East, 1850–1950: Ideologies, Rhetoric, and Practices , edited by Okkenhaug Inger Marie and Sanchez-Summerer Karene , 41 – 61 . Leiden : Brill . Bartal Nira . 2005 . Hemla Ve-Yeda: Prakim Be-Toldot Ha-Siʿud Be-Eretz Israel, 1918...

... Studies. Rania Kassab Sweis holds the Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Georgetown University. She is a medical anthropologist who specializes in gender and transnational processes. Broadly, Sweis’s research lies at the intersection of the politics of humanitarianism and the social...

..., security governance, humanitarian intervention, and state restructur- ing in the megacities of the global South. He specializes in international security studies, political sociology, global ethnography, and gender/ race/postcolonial theory. Amar’s books include The Security Archipelago: ‘Human...

... there. The past two decades have witnessed significant growth in activism inside Sudan. Particularly noteworthy have been the role of international non-governmental humanitarian organizations such as UNICEF and CARE; the support provided to national NGOs by European governments and aid...

... and the absence of key stakeholders from United Nations–led peace talks. With terrorism threatening to engulf the country one city at a time and the humanitarian deterioration reaching frightening levels, all parties to the conflict must fully recognize the need to put an end to political fragmentation. We need...

... the water and electricity infrastructures, maiming bodies with certain weapons. This debilitation is justified through claims of the humanitarian “sparing” of life, of shooting to maim rather than to kill, a policy narrated in life-preservationist terms. And yet the injured have few resources to heal...

... ethnographic research examines two aspects of transnational migration in Israel: configurations and experiences of “illegality” among undocumented West African and Filipino migrant workers in Tel Aviv, and how Israeli human rights and humanitarian organizations have imagined, constructed, and responded...

... to carry out humanitarian interventions on behalf of oppressed groups in other nations, actions that would have been considered interference in the internal aff airs of other nations and unac- ceptable infringements of national sovereignty before the end of the Cold War. To expand human rights...

... that relies on, “a single, or paramount, religiously-grounded discourse taking the Qur’an as its central text” (300). Secular feminism however, “draws upon and is constituted by multiple discourses, includ- ing secular nationalist, Islamic modernist, humanitarian/human rights and democratic” ideas (300...