Class structure and social change in the Arab world / Samih K. Farsoun -- Change in Saudi Arabia : a view from "Paris of Nejd" / Soraya Altorki and Donald P. Cole -- State, legitimacy and democratization in the Maghreb / Abdelbaki Hermassi -- From demographic explosion to social rupture / Philippe Fargues -- State, women and civil society : an evaluation of Egypt's population policy / Saad Eddin Ibrahim -- Fertility and social change in Oman : women's perspectives / Christine Eickelman -- Women's autonomy and the limits of population policy in Egypt / Barbara Ibrahim, Laila Nawar, and Cynthia B. Lloyd -- Manshiet Nasser : a Cairo neighborhood / Belgin Tekçe, Linda Oldham, and Frederic C. Shorter -- Childhood and childcare in squatter areas of Amman, Jordan / Seteny Shami and Lucine Taminian -- Haddou : a Moroccan migrant worker / David McMurray -- Changing gender relations in a Moroccan town / Susan Schaefer Davis -- Brother-sister relationships : connectivity, love, and power in the reproduction of patriarchy in Lebanon / Suad Joseph -- We'll talk later / Rhoda Kanaaneh -- Economic aspects of the qat industry in north-west Yemen / Shelagh Weir -- Small farmer households and agricultural sustainability in Egypt / Nicholas S. Hopkins -- Shayks, peasants, and party comrades : political changes in northern Syria / Sulayman N. Khalf -- The 'Bread Revolt' in rural Tunisia : notables, workers, peasants / Mouldi Lahmar -- Pluralism in the Arab World / Iliya Harik -- Economic liberalization and the lineages of the rentier state : Iraq and Saudi Arabia compared / Kiren Aziz Chaudhry -- The peace process, national reconstruction, and the transition to democracy in Palestine / Khalil Shikaki -- Kuwaiti women at a crossroads : privileged development and the constraints of ethnic stratification / Anh Nga Longva -- A tale of two factories / Khaled Kamel -- Environmental threats in Jordan and Syria / Marc Lavegne -- The human and ecological impact of the civil war in the Sudan / Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed -- Human rights and cultural specificity : some reflections / Rashad Antonius -- Organizing for the rights of women : Tunisian voices / Kevin Dwyer -- Zar as modernization in contemporary Sudan / Susan M. Kenyon -- Islam and the gendered discourses of death / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Authority and the mosque in upper Egypt : the Islamic preacher as image and actor / Patrick D. Gaffney -- Economic change, social structure and religious fanaticism / Galal Amin.