Fatma Müge Göçek is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire: Ottoman Westernization and Social Change, editor of Political Cartoons in the Middle East: Cultural Representation in the Middle East, and coeditor (with Shiva Balaghi) of Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East: Tradition, Identity, and Power.

"I know of no comparable works in which nationalistic issues and cultural issues are joined in a study of the Middle East. The volume is superb, and should attract a lot of attention." — Robert L. Canfield, Washington University

• 1. Introduction: Narrative, Gender and Cultural Representation in the Constructions of Nationalism in the Middle EastFatma Müge Göçek PART I: NARRATIVE 2. Decline of the Ottoman Empire and the Emergence of Greek, Armenian, Turkish and Arab Nationalisms/ Fatma Müge Göçek 3. Turkish Nationalism and the Young Turks,1889–1908Sükrü Haniogðlu 4. (Re)Presenting Nations: Demonstrations and Nationalism in Pre-Mandate SyriaJames L. Gelvin PART II: NARRATIVE 5. Humanist Nationalism and Lebanese Women's TextsMiriam Cooke 6. Nationalism and Sexuality in PalestineJulie M. Peteet 7. Civil Society, the Public/Private, and Gender in LebanonSuad Joseph PART III: CULTURAL REPRESENTATION 8. The Iranian as Spectator and Spectacle: Theater and Nationalism in the Nineteenth CenturyShiva Balaghi 9. The Rise and Fall of Nationalism in the Egyptian CinemaWalter Armbrust 10. Visions of Iran: Persian-Language Television in the United StatesMandana E. Limbert

Fatma Müge Göçek is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire: Ottoman Westernization and Social Change, editor of Political Cartoons in the Middle East: Cultural Representation in the Middle East, and coeditor (with Shiva Balaghi) of Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East: Tradition, Identity, and Power.

"I know of no comparable works in which nationalistic issues and cultural issues are joined in a study of the Middle East. The volume is superb, and should attract a lot of attention." — Robert L. Canfield, Washington University

• 1. Introduction: Narrative, Gender and Cultural Representation in the Constructions of Nationalism in the Middle EastFatma Müge Göçek PART I: NARRATIVE 2. Decline of the Ottoman Empire and the Emergence of Greek, Armenian, Turkish and Arab Nationalisms/ Fatma Müge Göçek 3. Turkish Nationalism and the Young Turks,1889–1908Sükrü Haniogðlu 4. (Re)Presenting Nations: Demonstrations and Nationalism in Pre-Mandate SyriaJames L. Gelvin PART II: NARRATIVE 5. Humanist Nationalism and Lebanese Women's TextsMiriam Cooke 6. Nationalism and Sexuality in PalestineJulie M. Peteet 7. Civil Society, the Public/Private, and Gender in LebanonSuad Joseph PART III: CULTURAL REPRESENTATION 8. The Iranian as Spectator and Spectacle: Theater and Nationalism in the Nineteenth CenturyShiva Balaghi 9. The Rise and Fall of Nationalism in the Egyptian CinemaWalter Armbrust 10. Visions of Iran: Persian-Language Television in the United StatesMandana E. Limbert