نساء عربيات ومسلمات

This is the first book to offer a distinct portrait of women in Saudi Arabia. It presents the views, thoughts and beliefs of a selection of educated and professional Saudi women. It is based on a series of personal interviews carried out by Dr Mona Al Munajjed with twenty-four of Saudi Arabia's remarkable women. It is the first time that these outstanding Saudi women have been interviewed and talk about themselves.

In Women in the Middle East, Ramsay Harik and Elsa Marston draw from personal experiences and interviews, and from a thorough study of the research and writings about the region, to create a vivid, informative picture of both the historical and the current scenes. The voices of the women- describing their lives and hopes, speaking through literature and art, and struggling to honor their religion and culture and to find their own identities- provide a unique and enthralling commentary, allowing us to gain an appreciation of their world and of the many challenges they face.

A brilliant and illuminating exploration of one man's sexual odyssey, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" and "A Hole in the World.""Making Love" marks the first time a major author has written with such unapologetic candor of his most intimate experiences, fantasies, and thoughts. From his sexual coming of age to his work with ESO (Extended Sexual Orgasm), Richard Rhodes has created both an insightful memoir and a provocative treatise on sex, taboo, love, and power.

Arguing that Islam is a lyrical view of life in which sexuality enjoys a privileged status, this work represents an attempt to integrate the religious and the sexual. It examines the problem of whether this harmony of sexuality and religious faith is achieved in practice. Drawing on both Arabic and Western sources, the author describes the place of sexuality in the traditional Islamic view of the world.

The scope covers the entire history of modern Arabic literature--poetry, the novel and the short story--from the late nineteenth century to the end of the 1980s. Examples are drawn from countries as diverse as Algeria and Kuwait. Although the main accent is on the prose of Egypt and the countries of the Mashreq, North African literature is also included.

This book tackles questions related to the why and how do women present themselves in autobiographies through the exploration of Arab women’s biographical writings. The author applies a variety of Western critical theories, including Marxism, colonial discourse, feminism and narrative theories to the autobiographies of Huda Shaarawi, Fadwa Tuqan, Nawal Saadaoui and others to demonstrate what these critical methodologies can reveal about Arab women’s writings.

This book dispels some of the common views of the homogeneous impact of religion and culture on women, and it does so through the theoretical lense of sociology. The author argues that if Islam were the single greatest predictor of women’s social status, then, women’s status across the Arab region would be similar rather than dissimilar.

This is the second edition of this volume and includes a generous selection of texts produced by Arab women challenging the widely accepted view of Middle Easter women as submissive non-thinkers to whom feminism is a foreign concept. Themes include sexuality and the body, war and violence, relationships, breaking through the glass ceiling, cyber networking, migration and the expanded use of Islamic discourse by Arab women

This volumes features several essays examining the dramatic rise of mass media in the Arab world and its impact on transforming music practices in the region.  Authors address issues gender and sexuality, Islam, class, economy, power and nation as refracted through the culture of mediated music.The book is a resource to study contemporary Arab society and culture.

 
Set against the background of the recent revolts and upheavals in the MENA region, this book attempts at providing an analysis of the “democratization process from below” through an ethnographic study of women activists in Egypt.