Hoda Elsadda is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo University, Egypt. She previously held a Chair in the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at Manchester University, UK and was Co-Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World in the UK. She is Co-founder of the Women and Memory Forum in Egypt (www.wmf.org.eg) and was Carnegie Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University in 2014-15. She is author of Gender, Nation and the Arabic Novel: Egypt: 1892-2008 (2012); and co-editor of Oral History in Times of Change: Gender, Documentation and the Making of Archives (2018). Seteney Shami is founding Director-General of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences, Lebanon. She has been Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley, Georgetown University, University of Chicago and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences. She has also been a program director at the Population Council regional office in Cairo and at the Social Science Research Council in New York. Her most recent book is Seeing the World: How U.S. Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era (2018).

This superb volume features leading scholars in the field and captures the state of the art in gender studies in the Arab world. Its breadth, depth, and interdisciplinarity are impressive, and its cutting-edge research and cogent analysis demonstrate the vibrancy of the field.

• Introduction: Gendering the Cultural Histories of the Arab WorldHoda Elsadda and Seteney ShamiPart One: Histories and Communities of Practice1- Gendering the Interpretive TraditionHadia Mubarak2- Writing the History of Islamic Family Law: The Arab WorldJudith E. Tucker,3- Gendering Histories of EducationFida Adely4- A Labor Analysis of Gender and Resistance in the Middle East and North Africa RegionFayrouz Yousfi5- Gendering Protest in the Arab WorldLeyla Dakhli6- Women Doctors and Narratives of Resistance in EgyptSoha BayoumiPart Two: Representations7- Reading Egyptian Popular Culture Through a Gender-Sensitive LensMounira Soliman8- Performativity and the Gendered Body in “Arab” Cinema(s)Viola Shafik9- Binaries and Beyond: Gendering the Arabic Literary TraditionMarlé Hammond10- Arwa Salih’s ‘The Premature’: Gendering the History of the Egyptian LeftHanan HammadPart Three: Narrative Sites of Cultural Memory11- Nakba Generation Women Resist the ‘Gender Logic’ Embedded in Colonial DiscourseLaura Khoury12- Memories from the Alleys of Cairo: Childhood and Adolescent Years of ‘Um Badriya, 1940s-1950sMalak Rouchdy13- Gendering Histories of Autobiographical Traditions in the Arab WorldNawar Al-Hassan Golley14-Gendered Memory and Memorialization: Online Sites of Remembrance since the Arab RevolutionsLoubna H. SkalliPart Four: Material Culture15-Gendering Arab Food Histories: Critical Approaches to Culinary Knowledge, Space, and LaborAnny Gaul16-Feminist Transcultural Resistance through Art in the Maghreb and its DiasporaSiobhan Shilton17-Gendering Histories of Modern Arab ArtKirsten Scheid and Jessica Gerschultz18-Women and gold: multiple meanings and ambiguous trendsAnnelies MoorsPart Five: The Body19-Urban Masculinities: The Making of Men in Arab CitiesFarha Ghannam20-Remembering War and Migration: Masculinities and identities in Rural EgyptReem Saad21-Gendering the history of biomedical technologies in the Arab world: The medicalisation of women’s sexual and reproductive health in Jordan and TunisiaIrene Maffi22-Wars and Destruction Again: Echoes of Health and Gender Struggles in the Arab WorldLivia Wick and Mane Basmadjian

Hoda Elsadda is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo University, Egypt. She previously held a Chair in the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at Manchester University, UK and was Co-Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World in the UK. She is Co-founder of the Women and Memory Forum in Egypt (www.wmf.org.eg) and was Carnegie Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University in 2014-15. She is author of Gender, Nation and the Arabic Novel: Egypt: 1892-2008 (2012); and co-editor of Oral History in Times of Change: Gender, Documentation and the Making of Archives (2018). Seteney Shami is founding Director-General of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences, Lebanon. She has been Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley, Georgetown University, University of Chicago and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences. She has also been a program director at the Population Council regional office in Cairo and at the Social Science Research Council in New York. Her most recent book is Seeing the World: How U.S. Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era (2018).

This superb volume features leading scholars in the field and captures the state of the art in gender studies in the Arab world. Its breadth, depth, and interdisciplinarity are impressive, and its cutting-edge research and cogent analysis demonstrate the vibrancy of the field.

• Introduction: Gendering the Cultural Histories of the Arab WorldHoda Elsadda and Seteney ShamiPart One: Histories and Communities of Practice1- Gendering the Interpretive TraditionHadia Mubarak2- Writing the History of Islamic Family Law: The Arab WorldJudith E. Tucker,3- Gendering Histories of EducationFida Adely4- A Labor Analysis of Gender and Resistance in the Middle East and North Africa RegionFayrouz Yousfi5- Gendering Protest in the Arab WorldLeyla Dakhli6- Women Doctors and Narratives of Resistance in EgyptSoha BayoumiPart Two: Representations7- Reading Egyptian Popular Culture Through a Gender-Sensitive LensMounira Soliman8- Performativity and the Gendered Body in “Arab” Cinema(s)Viola Shafik9- Binaries and Beyond: Gendering the Arabic Literary TraditionMarlé Hammond10- Arwa Salih’s ‘The Premature’: Gendering the History of the Egyptian LeftHanan HammadPart Three: Narrative Sites of Cultural Memory11- Nakba Generation Women Resist the ‘Gender Logic’ Embedded in Colonial DiscourseLaura Khoury12- Memories from the Alleys of Cairo: Childhood and Adolescent Years of ‘Um Badriya, 1940s-1950sMalak Rouchdy13- Gendering Histories of Autobiographical Traditions in the Arab WorldNawar Al-Hassan Golley14-Gendered Memory and Memorialization: Online Sites of Remembrance since the Arab RevolutionsLoubna H. SkalliPart Four: Material Culture15-Gendering Arab Food Histories: Critical Approaches to Culinary Knowledge, Space, and LaborAnny Gaul16-Feminist Transcultural Resistance through Art in the Maghreb and its DiasporaSiobhan Shilton17-Gendering Histories of Modern Arab ArtKirsten Scheid and Jessica Gerschultz18-Women and gold: multiple meanings and ambiguous trendsAnnelies MoorsPart Five: The Body19-Urban Masculinities: The Making of Men in Arab CitiesFarha Ghannam20-Remembering War and Migration: Masculinities and identities in Rural EgyptReem Saad21-Gendering the history of biomedical technologies in the Arab world: The medicalisation of women’s sexual and reproductive health in Jordan and TunisiaIrene Maffi22-Wars and Destruction Again: Echoes of Health and Gender Struggles in the Arab WorldLivia Wick and Mane Basmadjian

Hoda Elsadda is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo University, Egypt. She previously held a Chair in the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at Manchester University, UK and was Co-Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World in the UK. She is Co-founder of the Women and Memory Forum in Egypt (www.wmf.org.eg) and was Carnegie Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University in 2014-15. She is author of Gender, Nation and the Arabic Novel: Egypt: 1892-2008 (2012); and co-editor of Oral History in Times of Change: Gender, Documentation and the Making of Archives (2018). Seteney Shami is founding Director-General of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences, Lebanon. She has been Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley, Georgetown University, University of Chicago and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences. She has also been a program director at the Population Council regional office in Cairo and at the Social Science Research Council in New York. Her most recent book is Seeing the World: How U.S. Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era (2018).

This superb volume features leading scholars in the field and captures the state of the art in gender studies in the Arab world. Its breadth, depth, and interdisciplinarity are impressive, and its cutting-edge research and cogent analysis demonstrate the vibrancy of the field.

• Introduction: Gendering the Cultural Histories of the Arab WorldHoda Elsadda and Seteney ShamiPart One: Histories and Communities of Practice1- Gendering the Interpretive TraditionHadia Mubarak2- Writing the History of Islamic Family Law: The Arab WorldJudith E. Tucker,3- Gendering Histories of EducationFida Adely4- A Labor Analysis of Gender and Resistance in the Middle East and North Africa RegionFayrouz Yousfi5- Gendering Protest in the Arab WorldLeyla Dakhli6- Women Doctors and Narratives of Resistance in EgyptSoha BayoumiPart Two: Representations7- Reading Egyptian Popular Culture Through a Gender-Sensitive LensMounira Soliman8- Performativity and the Gendered Body in “Arab” Cinema(s)Viola Shafik9- Binaries and Beyond: Gendering the Arabic Literary TraditionMarlé Hammond10- Arwa Salih’s ‘The Premature’: Gendering the History of the Egyptian LeftHanan HammadPart Three: Narrative Sites of Cultural Memory11- Nakba Generation Women Resist the ‘Gender Logic’ Embedded in Colonial DiscourseLaura Khoury12- Memories from the Alleys of Cairo: Childhood and Adolescent Years of ‘Um Badriya, 1940s-1950sMalak Rouchdy13- Gendering Histories of Autobiographical Traditions in the Arab WorldNawar Al-Hassan Golley14-Gendered Memory and Memorialization: Online Sites of Remembrance since the Arab RevolutionsLoubna H. SkalliPart Four: Material Culture15-Gendering Arab Food Histories: Critical Approaches to Culinary Knowledge, Space, and LaborAnny Gaul16-Feminist Transcultural Resistance through Art in the Maghreb and its DiasporaSiobhan Shilton17-Gendering Histories of Modern Arab ArtKirsten Scheid and Jessica Gerschultz18-Women and gold: multiple meanings and ambiguous trendsAnnelies MoorsPart Five: The Body19-Urban Masculinities: The Making of Men in Arab CitiesFarha Ghannam20-Remembering War and Migration: Masculinities and identities in Rural EgyptReem Saad21-Gendering the history of biomedical technologies in the Arab world: The medicalisation of women’s sexual and reproductive health in Jordan and TunisiaIrene Maffi22-Wars and Destruction Again: Echoes of Health and Gender Struggles in the Arab WorldLivia Wick and Mane Basmadjian