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

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<p>Konstantina Isidoros is Lecturer in Anthropology at St Catherine's College and Research Affiliate of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford. She is author of <i>Nomads and Nation-Building in the Western Sahara: Gender, Politics and the Sahrawi</i>.</p>
<p>Marcia C. Inhorn is William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs and Chair of the Council on Middle East Studies at Yale University. She is the author of six books, including <i>America's Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins</i>; <i>Cosmopolitan Conceptions: IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai</i>; and <i>The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East</i>. </p>
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<p>Isidoros and Inhorn have edited a remarkable volume and I applaud them and all of their authors for the invaluable insights that are advanced in this book. For far too long, Middle East Studies has explored questions surrounding gender only in relation to women in the region, and the analysis of masculinity in the field is much more recent. <i>Arab Masculinities</i> is a welcome response to the urgent need for more scholarship in this domain. The authors model the best of contemporary and cutting-edge research at the intersection of anthropology, masculinity studies, and the greater Middle East. Drawing upon fieldwork in Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and beyond, these authors demonstrate how masculine subjectivities in the region are shaped not only by economic and political conditions, but also by social transformations at the level of the individual, family, and broader society. The men at the center of these ethnographies challenge preconceived notions about how they relate to the women in their lives and how they perform their gender in the face of stress, hopes, fears, and dreams. As a result, <i>Arab Masculinities</i> is a rich, groundbreaking, and nuanced collection that gives voice to the emergent masculinities that are charting the future of the Middle East and North Africa.</p>

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