Rebecca Joubin, The Politics of Love: Sexuality, Gender, and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013.
Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?
Rebecca Joubin..
Rebecca Joubin is Malcolm O. Partin Assistant Professor and Chair of the Arab Studies Department at Davidson College. Her research is centered on gender studies and how topics of identity, family, and social relationships are portrayed in contemporary Syrian art and the media. She is the author of The Politics of Love: Sexuality, Gender, and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama (Lexington, 2013), and the translator of the novel Afsaneh, by Moniru Ravanipur (Ibex, 2013).