Description: Contents: Part 1 Generations and Life Passages Traditional Songs from Boir Ahmad Erika Friedl; Growing Up in Morocco Susan Shaefer Davis; Explosion Emily Nasrallah; 'Of the Dust and the Wind': Arranged Marriage in Afghanistan Margaret Mills; Two Weddings Jenny White; Editing al-Fajr: A Palestinian Newspaper in Jerusalem Bishara Bahbah; The Son's Return Driss Chraibi; The Funeral Driss Chraibi Part 2: Gender Relations Sexuality and Sexual Health of Young Tunisian Women Angel Foster; A Thorny Side of Marriage in Iran Erika Friedl; Harasiis Marriage, Divorce and Companionship Dawn Chatty; Oil, Fertility and Women's Status in Oman Christine Eickelman; Law Stories Ziba Mir-Hosseini; The Veiled Revolution Elizabeth Fernea Part 3: Home, Community, and Work The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid Tayeb Salih; Abortion and the Ethics of Life Donna Lee Bowen; Worlds of Beauty in Morocco Susan Ossman; Chalk and Dust: Teachers' Lives in Rural Sudan Steve Howard; Networking in Cairo Diane Singerman; Politics, Politics, and More Politics: Youth Life Experience in the Gaza Strip Brian Barber; Islamist Activism in Jordan Quintan Wiktorowicz; Part 4: Popular Expression of Religion Inside the Islamic Reformation Dale Eickelman; The Sound of the Divine in Daily Life Kristina Nelson; Abu Illya and Zakat Donna Lee Bowen; An American Woman on the Hajj Michael E. Jansen; Abdul Qadar and the Sheep of 'Aid al-Adha Donna Lee Bowen; Women and Shrines in Shiraz Anne H. Betteridge; Transmission of Sunni Islamic Knowledge in Syria Annabelle Boucher; Islam's New Interpreters Jon W. Anderson Part 5: Performance and Entertainment Syrian Television Drama: Permitted Political Discourse Evelyn A. Early; Christmatizing Ramadan Walter Armbrust; Moroccan Film-making: A Long Voyage through the Straits of Paradox Kevin Dwyer; Prison Literature and Human Rights Susan Slyomovics; "To Mount at-Tiyal He Declared": Some Poetry from the Yemeni Civil War Steven C. Caton; Sad Songs of the Western Desert Lila Abu-Lughod

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