...Sherene Seikaly The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism Amar Paul Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2013 . 328 pages. isbn 9780822353843 Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015...

..., Sexuality, and Health Suad Joseph, ed. Boston: Brill, 2006. Pp. xix, 564. ISBN 9789004128194. Reviewed by Hania Sholkamy, American University in Cairo Th is volume of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC) is devoted...

... doing, also show the reproduction of the sexual and racial hierarchies in Brazilian nationalist ideology. 86  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 6:2 BELLY DANCING AND THE (EN)GENDERING OF ETHNIC SEXUALITY IN THE “MIXED” BRAZILIAN...

... with a brief review of recent Egyptian economic history, focusing on metaphorical colonization and the policing of gender and sexuality. Also important for contextualizing of this study is a review of identity formation and national identity, as well as of recent issues surrounding censorship. In order...

...Katja Žvan Elliott Femininity, Masculinity, and Sexuality in Morocco and Hollywood: The Negated Sex . Osire Glacier . Cham : Palgrave Macmillan , 2017 . ix + 193 pages. isbn 9783319532851. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Osire...

...Jared McCormick This inquiry explores questions of movement and tourism in relation to sexuality within the context of Lebanon’s nascent gay travel industry. The first section examines how imagery of Arab men is mediatized and circulated, with (un)intended effects. Many of the images take form...

...Samar Habib Deconstructing Sexuality in the Middle East , İlkkaracan Pınar , ed. Hampshire; Burlington, VT : Ashgate , 2008 . 218 pages, ISBN 978-0-7546-7235-7 Copyright © 2011 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2011 BOOK...

...Anna J. Secor Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 The theme of this issue, “Gendered and Sexual Mobilities,” opens onto several possibilities regarding the significance of mobility for our understanding of difference—gendered and sexual difference...

...Edna Bonhomme Medicine and Morality in Egypt: Gender and Sexuality in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century . Gadelrab Sherry Sayed . London : Tauris , 2016 . 216 pages. isbn 9781780767512. Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017...

...Tamar Shirinian Gender and Sexuality in Armenian Studies . Graduate Student Workshop. University of Michigan . April 21–23 , 2017 . Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 In April 2017 the Armenian Studies Program (ASP) at the University...

...Claire Oueslati-Porter Hammad’s book illuminates a working women’s feminist history often occluded by the bourgeois-dominated feminism of the interwar period. For those of us who research and teach gender and labor in the Middle East and North Africa, Industrial Sexuality is a profound account...

...Jarrod Hayes References Amer Sahar . 2008 . Crossing Borders: Love between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press . Babayan Kathryn , and Najmabadi Afsaneh , eds. 2008 . Islamicate Sexualities: Translations...

... that simultaneously embraces and disavows its constitutive traditions and attempts to formulate its own episteme. Living in Egypt, a queer diaspora for a Moroccan, Leftah employs queer male sexuality in a Sufialist text that tells the story of Niʿmat, an Egyptian retired army officer who pursues a love affair...

...Wilson Chacko Jacob The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World . Marwan M. Kraidy . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2017 . 304 pages. isbn 9780674980051. The Politics of Female Circumcision in Egypt: Gender, Sexuality and the Construction...

...Farshid Kazemi Liminalities of Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Iranian Photography: Desirous Bodies . Staci Gem Scheiwiller . London : Routledge , 2017 . 240 pages. isbn 9781138201293 . Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020...

... and National Memory in Iranian History . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press . Najmabadi Afsaneh . 2005 . Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity . Berkeley : University of California Press . Najmabadi Afsaneh . 2006...

...Sinan Goknur 1. The abbreviation for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (previously transvestite and transsexual), intersex, and other sexual orientations and gender identity used in the queer movement in Turkey has varied over time from LGBT, LGBTT, and LGBTI to, most recently, LGBTI...

...Mostafa Abedinifard The Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan . Sima Shakhsari . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2020 xxiii + 284 pages. isbn 9781478006657. Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies...

... in the current sociopolitical moment, when critical analysis, gender and sexuality studies, and feminist and queer scholarship are under attack by conservative, neo-authoritarian, and neofascist regimes worldwide. It would have benefited the readers if the editors had delved into a more profound introductory...

..., “it is only at home that people are critical of how we dress.” Others cling to the habit wherever they are because they believe it is incumbent upon them as modest Muslim women. A vocal few claim they have no choice. Sexuality in Muslim Contexts: Restrictions...