...Işıl Karacan No single book can encompass everything. However, The Power of the People adeptly addresses mainstream historiographical questions, including top-down state-building strategies and the so-called societal backwardness of ordinary people, providing a nuanced and insightful analysis...

... Susan Slyomovics  mn  15 “EVERY SLIGHT MOVEMENT of the people. . . is EVERYTHING” SONDRA HALE AND SUDANESE ART Susan Slyomovics mn Abstract This essay traces the intertwined topics...

...Mehrdad Alipour Abstract Muslim jurists have issued several fatwas (Islamic legal opinions) permitting gender-confirming surgery (GCS) for various groups of intersex and/or transgender people. However, these fatwas have been critiqued for conceiving of intersex and transgender individuals...

... of ordinary people during the Syrian revolution (2011). This essay demonstrates how al-Masri’s poetry grafts landscapes of pain and resistance in a poetics of the gut that bears witness to horror, trauma, and resistance. It focuses on the trope of blood writing, documentary poetry or poésie-vérité...

... feminists would especially benefit from regional transnational links—given the nature of the social, economic, political, and geopolitical challenges that face the women and the people of the region in an age of capitalist globalization and empire—the paper warns that some dominant feminisms in the region...

...Asli Zengin Abstract This article is about how sex, gender, and sexuality are governed in Turkey at the intersection of intimate contact and mandated encounters with medicolegal institutions and the bodies of sex/gender transgressive people. To explore this question, it brings two institutional...

... and the public spheres. In the past two decades, gradual transgressions of urf and sharia have become a sign of modernity and resistance for many women and young people who wish to generate changes in their situation. Since 2001, the trend of willfully neglected veiling (bad-hejabi) in physical space has been...

...Diane Singerman Uprisings are complex, rare phenomenon, and this article suggests that the shared regional diffusion of protest in the Arab Spring was lubricated by the economic inequalities of neoliberalism. Young people in Egypt and the larger Middle East have been disproportionately...

... as imperial agents of health, biomedicine, and hygiene, they had exercised professional, cultural, and racial authority over indigenous people. At the same time, their gender, vocation, and marital status have limited their scope of influence within a male-dominated medical hierarchy, as well as locate them...

... and the Egyptian people. Aimed exclusively at women, such ads stressed values like pleasure, abundance, affordability, and leisure—a vision of society where every housewife could achieve her dreams and every family could have a modern kitchen. These idealized images were not a new feature of household...

... on social-media platforms, among them that culturally important gatherings were sources of a new anxiety. Given that qualitative works engaging the sociocultural aspects of people’s experiences, internal reflections, and the ways they navigate vulnerability are essential to a holistic view of COVID-19’s...

... broadly interpreted by the authorities, the courts, and police to target queer people, even though since 2009 several lower courts (and the high appellate court of Mount Lebanon) have rejected prosecution cases based on this colonial-era law. Nevertheless, the number of arrests under this article...

... to do with the end of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. People often ask me, what were you doing working on transsexuality, how did you shift from those ideas? That was definitely driven by anger. In 2003–4 there was a huge amount of attention to the phenomenon of transsexuality...

... with a population of three million people. I conducted one-on-one interviews in a room at the back of an Antalya bookstore with eleven members (six women, four men, and one self-identified transsexual) between twenty and twenty-seven years old in the summer of 2014, finding participants with the help of LGBT...

...- ham 2000; Hassoun 2005). In the city of Dearborn in Greater Detroit, they make up 39% of the population, or approximately 40,000 people.1 The majority are Lebanese Shi‘ite Muslims from southern Lebanon near the border with Israel.2 In the summer of 2006, during the period...

... in Rome, holding Per un palestinese, 2006. Reproduced by permission of the estate of Janet Venn-Brown. Through her personal story of Wael, Janet told the story of the occupation of Palestine and the dispossession of the Palestinian people, to be told again and again to everyone around her...

... what the public’s reaction would be. Indeed, people enjoyed and became part of my artwork. By threading the needle, they became active participants, performers, and so artists as well. The performance of the art is the connection.” The participatory artwork comes from the artist’s desire to let...

... of structural conditions that shape Kurdish migrants’ everyday realities. It provides a vast range of “discourse fragments” that reflect the tensions, contradictions, and dilemmas of Kurdish people. However, it would be a bit more engaging if we were given a closer look into how people work through...