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I was inspired to write this book by my experiences serving for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in a small rural Muslim community in southern Jordan at the height of the so-called “War on Terror.”

This book emerges from my commitment to study how sovereignty and gender frame the life of a nation. While in the book I take Pakistan as a case in point, the intersection of masculinity and militarism, and the instrumentalization of Islam to regulate people, a..

In the morning of 10 July 2020, an expectant crowd gathered outside the Hagia Sophia museum, a World Heritage Site laden with political and religious meaning and marked by controversy. The Byzantine basilica, a cultural icon of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, served as the imperial cathedral unti..

It started in a basement in Fairfax, Virginia. It was hot and I was sweating. Omar and I were screaming over Arabic pop, techno beats, and thumping base. Even in such a setting, it turns out, you can still have animated discussions about performativity, the sta..

(Call for Papers proposed by Sara Tafakori, LSE and Sabiha Allouche, SOAS for Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication - MJCC.)

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Elisabeth R. Anker, Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.

Jadaliyya (J): Wh..