Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World

Al-Raida: What About Masculinity?

Volume XXI, No. 104–105 Winter/Spring 2004

Feature	Page
Editorial	2
Opinion	4
Research	6
Quote/Unquote	7
News Briefs	8
IWSAW News	9
File: What About Masculinity?
Introduction	11
An Anthropology of Power and Absence	12
Masculinity, Modernity, and National Identity in Interwar Egypt	23
Male Infertility, Masculinity, and New Reproductive Technologies in the Arab World	38
New Constructions of Masculinity: Understanding the Dynamics of Conflict: Insights from the Case of Algeria	46
Female Genital Mutilation and Constructions of Masculinity in Twentieth Century Egypt	52
Adolescent Boys’ Response to Gender Equitable Programming in Rural Upper Egyptian Villages: Between ‘Ayb and Haram	64
Humiliation and Masculine Crisis in Iraq	70
The Preferred Partner: An Investigative Field Study of Lebanese Youth	74
No Comment	84
“Dancing Against the Norms” — A Profile of Mosbah Baalbaki	86
Masculinity in Morocco	88
The 2004 Mudawwana Reforms and the Problem of Moroccan Masculinity	99
Masculinity as Violence in Arab Women’s Fiction	105
Masculine Identity in Hoda Barakat’s The Stone of Laughter	111
Masculinity, Manhood and Machismo in Radwan El-Kashef’s Arak El-Balah	113
Special Features
Report: Gender-Based Discrimination in the Area of Nationality	118
Book review: Imagined Masculinities: Male Identity and Culture in the Modern Middle East	119