Introduction: Middle East Anthropology and the Gender Divide: Reconceiving Arab Masculinity in Precarious Times, by Marcia C. Inhorn and Konstantina Isidoros
Part I. Masculinity and Precarity: Class Conflict and Economic Indignity
1. Egyptian Middle-Class Masculinity and its Working-Class Others, by Bård Helge Kårtveit
2. Al-Ustura ("The Legend"): Folk Hero or Thug? Class and Contested Masculinity in Egypt, by Jamie Furniss
3. Al-Hogra—A State of Injustice: Portraits of Moroccan Men in Search of Dignity and Piety in the Informal Economy, by Hsain Ilahiane
Part II. Masculinity and Displacement: Moving, Settling, and Questions of Belonging
4. Repeating Manhood: Migration and the Unmaking of Men in Morocco, by Alice Elliot
5. "I Am a Good Man—I'm a Gardener!": Arab Migrant Fathers' Reactions to Mistrusted Masculinity in Denmark, by Anne Hovgaard Jørgensen
6. Doing Gender in Shatila Refugee Camp: Palestinian Lads, Their Pigeons, and an Ethnographer, by Gustavo Barbosa
7. Welcoming Ban Ki-Moon: From Warrior-Nomads to Sahrawi Refugee-Statesmen in North Africa, by Konstantina Isidoros
Part III. Masculinity and Familial Futures: Sex, Marriage, and Fatherhood under Threat
8. Desiring the Nation: Masculinity, Marriage, and Futurity in Lebanon, by Sabiha Allouche
9. Masculinity under Siege: The Use of Narcotic Pain Relievers to Restore Virility in Egypt, by L. L. Wynn
10. Palestinian Sperm-Smuggling: Fatherhood, Political Struggle, and Israeli Prisons, by Laura Ferrero
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