Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East

NEW TITLES ON THE MIDDLE EAST

Syracuse University Press

Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East 21 YEAR ANNIVERSARY Syracuse University Press invites proposals for book-length works for Syracuse University Press’s Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East series focuses on gender as a category of analysis and as a process, in the study of the Middle East. The series examines the implications of political, social, and cultural developments in the region for women, men, and gender relations.

The books in this path breaking series are cross-cultural in scope and address some of the major issues being debated in the field today. We are particularly interested in texts that reflect the complexity of these issues and illuminate conflicts and contention rather than gloss over them. Among the issues to be addressed are:

 Women, Gender, and Islam  Women’s Rights and Social/Political Movements

For more information: SERIES EDITOR

miriam cooke Duke University mcw@duke.edu Simona Sharoni State University of New York, Plattsburgh simona.sharoni@gmail.com Suad Joseph University of California, Davis sjoseph@ucdavis.edu

 Gender, Work, and Development  Gender, the State, and Civil Society

ACQUISITIONS EDITOR

 Representations of Middle Eastern Women in Media and the Arts

Suzanne Guiod Editor-in-Chief Syracuse University Press seguiod@syr.edu

 Men and Masculinity  Feminism and the Politics of Identity  Women’s Movements and Feminism The series seeks to capture the origins of contemporary debates around gender and power in the Middle East as a whole while paying attention to particularities and differences within the region.

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Interpreters of Occupation

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Gender and the Politics of Belonging in an Iraqi Refugee Network Madeline Otis Campbell “After reading this nuanced, eye-opening ethnography, I will never again hear the deceptively simple phrase ‘military interpreters’ without pausing to think of Meena, of her complex navigations of identities, statuses, obligations, and opportunities. She and the other Iraqi women and men whose lives Campbell brings to life here teach us to think more realistically about the genderings of militarism and the dilemmas faced by refugees.”—Cynthia Enloe, author of Nimo’s War, Emma’s War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War Paper $34.95s 978-0-8156-3437-9 ebook 978-0-8156-5359-2

Anxiety of Erasure Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women’s Writings Hanadi Al-Samman “Anxiety of Erasure is the kind of book we need today—both because we need more studies that focus on women’s texts and struggles and also because these must be linked together in order to actualize the political possibilities.”

—Review of Middle East Studies Cloth $39.95s 978-0-8156-3402-7 ebook 978-0-8156-5329-5

Representing the Unpresentable Historical Images of National Reform from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic of Iran Negar Mottahedeh Winner of the 2008 Latifeh Yarshater Award from the Persian Heritage Foundation This highly original work, signaling a paradigm shift in Iranian studies and gender studies, will be an invaluable resource for scholars.

Cloth $29.95s 978-0-8156-3179-8

No Shame For the Sun Lives of Professional Pakistani Women Shahla Haeri “Together, researcher and these six awe-inspiring Pakistani women have created an amazing representation of women’s agency and ability to construct selves. Both the endeavor and the product are feminist.

They provide inspiring examples of how women have struggled against great adversity and decided to forgo family and community support and approval to lead the lives they decide on for themselves.”—Middle East Journal Paper $24.95s 978-0815629795

Arab and Arab American Feminisms Gender, Violence, and Belonging Edited by Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany, and Nadine Naber Winner of the 2012 Arab American Book Award for Non-Fiction “The volume’s thirty-two intensely personal and rigorous essays on media, forced migration, social justice organizing, pedagogy, and art praxis challenge racism, imperialism, heteropatriarchy, and gendered violence.”—American Quarterly Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3386-0

The Ideal Refugees Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh “A must-read for academic, activist, and lay audiences concerned with women’s rights in the Global South.”—International Journal of Middle East Studies Cloth $39.95s 978-0-8156-3326-6 ebook 978-0-8156-5236-6