Constructions of masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa : literature, film, and national discourse / edited by Mohja Kahf and Nadine Sinno

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Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Colonial to Postcolonial Masculinities in the Middle East and North Africa -- 1. Exotic and Benighted, or Modern yet Victimized? The Modern Predicament of the Arab Queer -- 2. Of Heroes and Men: The Crisis of Masculinity in the Post-Oslo Palestinian Narrative -- 3. "I get to deflower at least one. It's my right!": The Precariousness of Hegemonic Masculinity in Rashid Al-Daif's Who's Afraid of Meryl Streep? -- 4. Crises of Masculinity in Huda Barakat's War Literature -- 5. Mahfouz, al-Mutanabbi, and the Canon: Poetics of Deviance from the Masculine Nationalist Discourse of al-Sukkariya -- 6. Diasporic Queer Arabs in Europe and North America: Sexual Citizenship and Narratives of Inclusion and Exclusion -- 7. Of Knives, Mustaches, and Headgears: The Fall of the Qabaday in Zakariya Tamir's Latest Works -- 8. Romancing Middle Eastern Men in North and South America: Two Mid-century Texts -- 9. Tough Guys, Martyrs, Dandies, and Marginalized Men: Changing Masculine Roles in Iranian Cinema -- 10. Men and Modernity in Postcolonial Tunisian Cinema -- 11. Constructions of Masculinity in Palestinian Film -- 12. Gendered Politics in Late Nineteenth-Century Egyptian Nationalist Discourse -- 13. Men at Work: The Politics of Professional Pride in Ottoman Beirut -- 14. "You Are Like A Virus": Dangerous Bodies and Military Medical Authority in Turkey -- 15. Gendered Memories and Masculinities: Kurdish Peshmerga on the Anfal Campaign in Iraq -- 16. Militarist Masculinity, Militarist Femininity: A Gendered Analysis of Jordan's War on the Islamic State.