Arab society and culture: an essential reader

1. Promises of the sociological and literary imagination. My father's suitcase / Orhan Pamuk

The promise / C. Wright Mills

From The native's point of view : on the nature of anthropological understanding / Clifford Geertz

Three malaises / Charles Taylor

What I have lived for / Bertrand Russell

2. Cultural variations in everyday life. Hüzün / Orhan Pamuk

The veil becomes a movement / Fadwa El Guindi

Women's community service in Beirut / Lara Deeb

Growing up in Morocco / Susan Schaefer Davis

3. Negotiating identities in dissonant worlds. Between world / Edward Said

Damaged identities and violence / Amin Maalouf

Living between worlds / Roseanne Saad Khalaf

Maghrebi youth : between alienation and integration / Mohamed Farid Azzi

Saudi identity : negotiating between tradition and modernity / Mai Yamani

4. Behavioral departures and alternative lifestyles. Circumcision of girls in Egypt / Nawal El Saadawi

A dishonorable affair : chastity and honor killing in Syria / Katherine Zoepf

The commercialization of sexual outlets in Lebanon / Samir Khalaf

Transition Beirut : gay identities, lived realities : the balancing act in the Middle East / Jared McCormick

5. The empowerment of marginalized groups. On root and routes : the reassertion of primordial loyalties / Samir Khalaf

Maroc-hop : music and youth identities / Miriam Gazzah

Between empowerment & paternalism / Egbert Harmsen

6. Gender revisited. Youth, gender, and the state in Cairo : marginalized masculinities and contested spaces / Salwa Ismail

Consumption, display, and gender / Christa Salamandra

Missed opportunities : me and my gender / Mai Ghoussoub

7. Shifting family patterns. Marriage, family, and household in Cairo / Homa Hoodfar

Brother-sister relationships : connectivity, love, and power in the reproduction of patriarchy in Lebanon / Suad Joseph

Wives or daughters : structural differences between urban and Bedouin Lebanese co-wives / Najla S. Hamadeh

8. Religion and ritual. Immigrant children in Europe : constructing a transnational identity / Nadia Hashmi

Karbala as sacred space among North American Shi'a / Vernon James Schubel

Piety, privilege and Egyptian youth / Asef Bayat

9. The construction of space : local and global identities. Al-Dahiyya : sight, sound, and season / Lara Deeb

Re-imagining the global : relocation and local identities in Cairo / Farha Ghannam

The Bourj as cosmopolitan public sphere / Samir Khalaf

"This is a Muslim house" : signs of difference in the African-American row house / Aminah Beverly McCloud

10. Eroticism, desire and sexual identity. Variations on eroticism : misogyny, mysticism and Mujun / Abdelwahab Bouhdiba

Narration and desires : Shahrazâd / Fedwwa Malti-Douglas

Worlds apart : sexual life for women and men in Iraq, attitudes towards sex / Sana Al-Khayyat

Breaking the silence : what AUB students really think about sex / Roseanne Saad Khalaf

11. Beyond expectations : the new media in the Arab world. Mass media in the Middle East : patterns of political & societal change / Kai Hafez

The Arabic satellite news network : Al-Jazeera / Ahmed Abdalla

The music video and Muslim piety : satellite television and Islamic pop culture in Egypt / Patricia Kubala

12. Focus on transnational Islam. To be a European Muslim / Traiq Ramadan

Muslim migrants in Europe : between Euro-Islam and ghettoization / Bassam Tibi

Travelling Islam : mosques without minarets / Jan Nederveen Pieterse

Sexuality and the politics of the veil / Joan Scott.