Aymon Kreil is Assistant Professor for the Anthropology of the Middle East at Ghent University, Belgium. He worked before at the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Lucia Sorbera isChair of the Department of Arabic Language and Cultures at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Serena Tolino is Associate Professor in Islamic/Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Previously she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

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Introduction. The Many Names of Desire: On the Study of Sexual Practices, Norms and Binaries in the Middle East, Aymon Kreil, Lucia Sorbera and Serena Tolino

Part I. Who's Who: Beyond the Gender Binary
1. Locating Discourses on the Gender Binary (and Beyond) in Pre-modern Islamicate Societies, Serena Tolino
2. Illusions of Androgyny: Crossdressing Women (Ghulamiyyat) in Abbasid Society, Johannes Thomann
3. Contesting Masculinity in Pre-Modern Arab Societies. Intoxication, Desire and Antinomian Mysticism, Danilo Marino
4. Three Genders, Two Sexualities: the Evidence of Ottoman Erotic Terminology, Irvin Cemil Schick

Part II. Subverting the Sexual Norm in Modern Arab Cultural Productions
5. Eros and Etiquette - Reflections on the Ban of a Central Theme in Nineteenth Century Arab Writings, Nadia Al-Bagdadi
6. Women's Literature as Counter-Narrative in Ba'thist Iraq?, Achim Rohde
7. Framing the Closet: Gay Men in Egyptian Cinema in the 1970s, Koen M. Van Eynde

Part III: Sexuality, Power and Resilience in the Middle East and North Africa Today
8. Living Archives of the Egyptian Human Rights Movement: the Political Biography of Aida Seif al-Dawla, Lucia Sorbera
9. Sex Work in Tangier and the Emergence of New Youthful Subjectivities, Mériam Cheikh
10. The Straight Story - Challenging Heteronormativity in Beirut, Erica Li Lundqvist
11. Palestinian Queers and the Debate on Sexual Identity and Religious Normativity, Nijmi Edres

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