Middle Eastern societies and ordinary people's lives / Edmund Burke III and David N. Yaghoubian
Assaf: a peasant of Mount Lebanon / Akram F. Khater and Antoine F. Khater
Shemsigul: a circassian slave in mid-nineteenth-century Cairo / Ehud R. Toledano
Journeymen textile weavers in nineteenth-century Damascus: a collective / Sherry Vatter
Ahmad: a Kuwaiti pearl diver / Nels Johnson
Mohand N'Hamoucha: Middle Atlas Berber / Edmund Burke III
Bibi Maryam: a Bakhtiyari tribal woman / Julie Oehler
The Shaykh and his daughter: coping in colonial Algeria / Julia Clancy-Smith
Izz al-Din al-Qassam: preacher and mujahid / Abdullah Schleifer
Abu Ali al-Kilawi: a Damascus qabaday / Philip S. Khoury
M'hamed Ali: Tunisian labor organizer / Eqbal Ahmad and Stuart Schaar
Hagob Hagobian: an Armenian truck driver in Iran / David N. Yaghoubian
Naji: an Iraqi country doctor / Sami Zubaida
Migdim: Egyptian bedouin matriarch / Lila Abu-Lughod
Rostam: Qashqai rebel / Lois Beck
An Iranian village boyhood / Mehdi Abedi and Michael M. [ths] J. Fischer
Gulab: an Afghan schoolteacher / Ashraf Ghani
Abu Jamal: a Palestinian urban villager / Joost Hiltermann
Haddou: a Moroccan migrant worker / David Mcmurray
Nasir: Sa'idi youth between Islamism and agriculture
Ghada: village rebel or political protestor? / Celia Rothenberg
Khanom gohary: Iranian community leader / Homa Hoodfar
Nadia: mother of the believers / Baya Gacemi
June leavitt: West Bank settler / Tamara neuman
Talal Rizk: a Syrian engineer in the Gulf / Michael Provence.