Articles

Norma Claire Moruzzi

Trying to Look Different: Hijab as the Self-Presentation of Social Distinctions
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(2): 225-234 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2008-001 [PDF]  

Masserat Amir-Ebrahimi

Blogging from Qom, behind Walls and Veils
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(2): 235-249 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2008-002 [PDF]  

Fatemeh Sadeghi

Negotiating with Modernity: Young Women and Sexuality in Iran
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(2): 250-259 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2008-003 [PDF]  

Faridullah Bezhan

Women's Causes in Spozhmai Zaryab's Narrative Works
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(2): 260-272 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2008-004 [PDF]  

Rola el-Husseini

Women, Work, and Political Participation in Lebanese Shia Contemporary Thought: The Writings of Ayatollahs Fadlallah and Shams al-Din
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(2): 273-282 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2008-005 [PDF]  

Homa Katouzian

Private Parts and Public Discourses in Modern Iran
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(2): 283-290 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2008-006 [PDF]  

Mir Hekmatullah Sadat

The Afghan Experience Reflected in Modern Afghan Fiction (1900–1992)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(2): 291-309 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2008-007 [PDF]  

Rini Bhattacharya Mehta

The Missionary Sannyasi and the Burden of the Colonized: The Reluctant Alliance between Religion and Nation in the Writings of Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(2): 310-325 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2008-008 [PDF]  

Kyle T. Evered

Symbolizing a Modern Anatolia: Ankara as Capital in Turkey's Early Republican Landscape
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(2): 326-341 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2008-009 [PDF]  

James De Lorenzi

"Listening for History" in an Amharic Histoire Universelle: Gabra Krestos Takla Haymanot, Cosmopolitanism, and World Historiography, 1892–1932
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(2): 342-350 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2008-010 [PDF]  

Mehdi Noorbaksh

Politics, Economy, and the Threats of AIDS in Africa: The Case of Botswana
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(2): 351-366 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2008-011 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Udaya Wagle

Himalayan People's War: Nepal's Maoist Rebellion
Himalayan People's War: Nepal's Maoist Rebellion
Michael Hutt, ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004 322 pp., $60.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(2): 367-370 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2008-012 [PDF]  

Magdy El-Shamma

Middle East Historiographies: Narrating the Twentieth Century
Middle East Historiographies: Narrating the Twentieth Century
Israel Gershoni, Amy Singer, and Y. Hakan Erdem, eds. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006 336 pp., $30.00 (paper)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(2): 370-371 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2008-013 [PDF]  

Hormoz Ebrahimnejad

Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Vol. 3: Family, Body, Sexuality, and Health
Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Vol. 3: Family, Body, Sexuality, and Health
Suad Joseph, ed. Leiden: Brill, 2006 XXIV, 564 pp., $356.00 (cloth)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(2): 372-373 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2008-014 [PDF]  

Paul Sedra

The Struggle for Constitutional Power: Law, Politics, and Economic Development in Egypt
The Struggle for Constitutional Power: Law, Politics, and Economic Development in Egypt
Tamir Moustafa Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 x, 328 pp., $85.00 (cloth)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(2): 373-374 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2008-015 [PDF]  

Kouross Esmaeli

Iran: A People Interrupted
Iran: A People Interrupted
Hamid Dabashi New York: New Press, 2007 324 pp., $17.95 (paper)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(2): 375-377 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2008-016 [PDF]  

Ziad Fahmy

Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics
Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics
Beth Baron Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007 302 pp., $24.95 (paper)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(2): 377-379 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201x-2008-017 [PDF]  

Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(2): 380-381 (2008); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-28-2-380 [PDF]  

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