Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Ingvild Flaskerud -- Justice without drama : observations from Gaza city Sharia Court / Nahda Younis Shehada -- From the army of G-d to the Israeli armed forces : an interaction between two cultural models / Yohai Hakak -- To give the boys energy, manliness, and self-command in temper : the Anglican male ideal and St. George's school in Jerusalem, c. 1900-40 / Inger Marie Okkenhaug -- Women students at the American University of Beirut from the 1920s-1940s / Aleksandra Majstorac Kobiljski -- Women's voluntary social welfare organizations in Egypt / Beth Baron -- Nineteenth-century Protestant missions and Middle Eastern women : an overview / Heleen Murre-van den Berg -- The paradox of the new Islamic woman in Turkey / Jenny B. White -- Visions of Mary in the Middle East : gender and the power of a symbol / Willy Jansen -- An army of women learning Torah / Leah Shakdiel -- Stones and stories : engaging with gender and complex emergencies / Nefissa Naguib -- Tradition and change : Afghan women in an era of war and displacement / Karin Ask -- Vows, mediumship and gender : women's votive meals in Iran / Azam Torab.

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