Middle Eastern Belongings

"Middle Eastern Belongings makes important ethnographic contributions to current debates on "belonging"... The theme of violence is juxtaposed with the question of gender without the assumption of a feminist paradigm. In this sense, it follows Saba Mahmood's call for anthropologists of the Middle East and scholars of contemporary Islam to look at how Muslim women (and men) inhabit norms, rather than trying to look for the ways in which they overturn norms." - Edith Szanto, University of Toronto, Canada; American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 2012.