Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa

A multi-disciplinary exploration of how masculinity in the MENA region is constructed in film, literature, and nationalist discourse

Constructions of masculinity are constantly evolving and being resisted in the Middle East and North Africa. There is no "before" that was a stable gendered environment. This edited collection examines constructions of both hegemonic and marginalized masculinities in the MENA region, through literary criticism, film studies, discourse analysis, anthropological accounts, and studies of military culture. Bringing together contributors from the disciplines of linguistics, comparative literature, sociology, cultural studies, queer and gender studies, film studies, and history, Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa spans the colonial to the postcolonial eras with emphasis on the late twentieth century to the present day. This collective study is a diverse and exciting addition to the literature on gender and societal organization at a time when masculinities in the Middle East and North Africa are often essentialized and misunderstood.



Contributors:



Jedidiah Anderson, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, USA

Amal Amireh, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

Kaveh Bassiri, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA

Oyman Basran, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, USA

Alessandro Columbu, University of Manchester, England

Nicole Fares, independent scholar

Robert James Farley, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Andrea Fischer-Tahir, independent scholar

Nouri Gana, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Kifah Hanna, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Sarah Hudson, Connors State College, Warner, Oklahoma, USA

Mohja Kahf, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA

John Tofik Karam, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

Kathryn Kalemkerian, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Ebtihal Mahadeen, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Matthew Parnell, American University in Cairo, Egypt

Nadine Sinno, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA