A multidisciplinary exploration of how masculinity in the MENA region is constructed in film literature and nationalist discourse now in paperbackConstructions of masculinity are constantly evolving and being resisted in the Middle East and North Africa. There is no before that was a stable gendered environment. This edited collection examines constructions of both hegemonic and marginalized masculinities in the MENA region through literary criticism film studies discourse analysis anthropological accounts and studies of military culture. Bringing together contributors from the disciplines of linguistics comparative literature sociology cultural studies queer and gender studies film studies and history Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa spans the colonial to the postcolonial eras with emphasis on the late twentieth century to the present day. This collective study is a diverse and exciting addition to the literature on gender and societal organization at a time when masculinities in the Middle East and North Africa are often essentialized and misunderstood.Contributors Jedidiah Anderson Furman University Greenville South Carolina USA Amal Amireh George Mason University Fairfax Virginia USA Kaveh Bassiri University of Arkansas Fayetteville USA Oyman Basran Bowdoin College Brunswick Maine USA Alessandro Columbu University of Manchester England Nicole Fares independent scholar Robert James Farley UCLA Los Angeles CA USA Andrea FischerTahir independent scholar Nouri Gana UCLA Los Angeles CA USA Kifah Hanna Trinity College Hartford Connecticut USA Sarah Hudson Connors State College Warner Oklahoma USA Mohja Kahf University of Arkansas Fayetteville USA John Tofik Karam University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign USA Kathryn Kalemkerian McGill University Montreal Canada Ebtihal Mahadeen University of Edinburgh Scotland Matthew Parnell American University in Cairo Egypt Nadine Sinno Virginia Tech Blacksburg Virginia USA