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Table of Contents: “…9/11 -- A secret garden -- Falling in love -- My Saudi wedding -- America -- Life with the Bin Ladens -- The patriarch -- Life as an alien -- Two mothers, two babies -- My own chief inmate -- The brothers -- 1979 -- Yeslam -- Little girls -- A Saudi couple -- Sisters in Islam -- Princes and princesses -- Leaving Saudi Arabia.…”

Table of Contents: “…The macroeconomy up to 1997 / Prema-chandra Athukorala -- Openness to trade, capital and labour flows up to the currency crisis: degree and impacts / Jayant Menon -- The 1997 currency crisis and subsequent policy response / Michael Yap Meow-Chung -- Structural change in the Malaysian manufacturing industry / Tan Eu Chye, Mohamed Ariff -- Income distribution in Malaysia / Zainal Aznam Yusof -- Poverty in Malaysia / Nasir Hashim -- The development paradigm shift in Sabah / Pang Teck Wai -- The new realities for Sarawak / Michael Leigh -- Politics after Mahathir / Khoo Boo Teik -- Malaysia's foreign policy / Chandra Muzaffar -- Melayu Baru and modernization of Malay society / Abdul Rahman Embong -- The Chinese in Malaysia / Lee Kam Hing -- The struggle for women's rights within the religious framework: the experience of sisters in Islam / Zainah Anwar -- Non-government organizations (ngos) as a vehicle of social change / Chandra Muzaffar.…”

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Table of Contents: “…The satellite, the prince, and Scheherazade : women as communicators in digital Islam / Fatema Mernissi -- On and off camera in Egyptian soap operas : women, television, and the public sphere / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Singing a new song : bonding and breaking with the past / Sherifa Zuhur -- Wings of freedom : Iranian women, identity, and cyberspace / Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone -- The challenge of globalization in Saudi Arabia / Mai Yamani -- Globalizing equality : Muslim women, theology, and feminism / Asma Barlas -- The veil debate -- again : a view from America in the early twenty-first century / Leila Ahmed -- Feminist theory, agency, and the liberatory subject / Saba Mahmood -- Between religion and secularism : Islamist women of Hamas / Islah Jad -- The prospects for democracy : women reformists in the Iranian parliament / Elaheh Koolaee -- Standing on shifting ground : women and civil society in Iran / Mehrangiz Kar -- Sisters in Islam and the struggle for women's rights / Zainah Anwar -- Women and the dynamics of transnational networks / Meena Sharify-Funk -- Shirin Ebadi : a perspective on women's rights in the context of human rights / Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone.…”