I. Melancholy Man 1. Nouri Gana, Bourguiba's Sons: Melancholy Manhood in Modern Tunisian Cinema 2. Banu Helvacioglu, Love as a Metonym for National Mourning? Handan, Ankara and Pause 3. Nancy Van Styvendale, Longing for Recognition: Economies of Masculinity and Mourning in Sahar Khalifeh's Wild Thorns II. Man and Nation 4. Adia Mendelson-Maoz and Heddy Sha'yit, The Rise and Fall of the New Israeli Man: Masculinity, Militarism and the Question of Israeli Male Identity 5. John C.

Hawley, Jihad as Rite of Passage 6. Abir Hamdar, The Crisis of Iraqi Masculinity in Betool Khedairi's Ghayeb III. Contesting Masculinities 7. Jocelyn Sharlet, Voracious Men Meet their Match: Masculinity and the City in Wattar's The Earthquake 8. Brian Gibson, an Island Unto Himself? The Dilemma of Masculinity in Season of Migration to the North 9. Priscilla Ringrose, Nina Bouraoui's Garcon Manquè or The Little Drag Prince of Algiers 10. Tarek Shamma, Men's Knowledge/Men's Power: The Masculine Imaginary in the Arabian Nights 11. Garay Menicucci, Homosexualities in Middle Eastern Cinema.