ABOUT THIS BOOKSex in the Middle East and North Africa examines the sexual practices, politics, and complexities of the modern Arab world. Short chapters feature a variety of experts in anthropology, sociology, health science, and cultural studies. Many of the chapters are based on original ethnographic and interview work with subjects involved in these practices and include their voices.
The book is organized into three sections: Single and Dating, Engaged and Married, and It's Complicated. The allusion to categories of relationship status on social media is at once a nod to the compulsion to categorize, recognition of the many ways that categorization is rarely straightforward, and acknowledgment that much of the intimate lives described by the contributors is mediated by online technologies.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYL. L. Wynn is a professor of anthropology at Macquarie University, Australia.
Angel M. Foster is a professor in the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
REVIEWS"Sex in the Middle East and North Africa rewards its readers with the breadth and depth it offers in problematizing and countering the pervasive orientalist images of the voiceless, sexless, veiled Muslim women and repression of sexual minorities—the most potent symbols of Muslim-majority societies—in the popular imagination of the West."
—Gul Ozyegin, author of New Desires, New Selves: Sex, Love, and Piety among Turkish Youth— -