Joseph Publications Articles

Articles in Press:

In Press  “Dreaming with Fatima: Trespassing and Other Inspirations.” In Eds. Minoo Moallem and Paola
Bacchetta. Fatima Mernissi for Our Time. Eds. Minoo Moallem and Paola Bacchetta. Syracuse U.
Press.

Articles and Book Chapters:

Submitted “Who is the Subject of Trauma? An Interdisciplinary Scoping Review of Trauma and Selfhood in
the Arab Region.” Nadine Hosny, Osama Tanous, Patriock Marius Koga, Bruce Abbott, Suad
Joseph. Social Science & Medicine.

Submitted “Collaboration: Decolonizing Knowledge Production. Essay in Honor of Nicholas Hopkins.” Cairo Papers. American University in Cairo.

Submitted “How Switzerland was Lost to the West: The Orientalization of Lebanon in the New York Times.”
In. Ed. Hatem Bazian. Islamophobia Production and Re-Defining Global “Security” Agenda for
the 21st Century.

2023 "Reporting Islam: Decolonizing the Representation of Muslim Women in News Media.” In. Ed.
Suad Joseph. Reporting Islam: Muslim Women in the New York Times, 1980-2011. London: I.B.
Tauris. Pp. 1-35.

2023 with Zeina Zaatari. “Introduction: Handbook on Women in the Middle East.” In Eds. Suad Joseph
and Zeina Zaatari. Handbook on Women in the Middle East. London: Routledge. Pp. 1-15

2022 “Categorical Boundaries. The Political Production of Kinship and Citizenship.” Citizenship Studies. Vol 26. No. 6, 885-892.

2022 “The Politics of Training for Engaged Gender Research.” In Eds. Suad Joseph, Lena Meari, Zeina
Zaatari. The Politics of Engaged Gender Research in the Arab Region. Feminist Fieldwork and
the Production of Knowledge. London: I.B. Tauris. Pp. 33-47.

2022 with Lena Meari and Zeina Zaatari. “Introduction: Knowledge Production on Women and Gender
in the Arab Region: Local Contexts. In In Eds. Suad Joseph, Lena Meari, Zeina Zaatari. The
Politics of Engaged Gender Research in the Arab Region. Feminist Fieldwork and the Production
of Knowledge. London: I.B. Tauris. Pp. 1-31.

2022 with Patrick Marius Koga, Nadine Hosny, Osama Tanous. “Whose Trauma? De-colonizing Post-
Traumatic Stress Disorder and Refugee Mental Health Frameworks.” Harvard Medical School Primary Care Review. 2022. January 27. https://info.primarycare.hms.harvard.edu/review/whose-trauma-

2022 “Self, Relation and Gender Rights. (Un)bounding Rights and Personhood.: In Eds. Julia Roth, Alexandra Scheele and Heidemarie Winkel. Global Contestations of Gender Rights. Bielefeld
University, Germany: Bielefeld University Press. Pp. 149-161.

2021 “God, Workers, Women, and Self: Convergences, Accidents, and Other Uncertainties in Half a
Century of Fieldwork in Lebanon.” Ethnologie Francaise special issue Lebanese Anthropologies.
Vol. 52. No. 2.

2021 “Brothers and Sisters, Husbands and Wives: Love, Power, and Being an In-law. In Eds. Ann
Buchanan, Anna Rotkirch. Brothers and Sisters: Sibling Relationships Across the Life Course.
Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.Pp. 105-121.

2021 “Cooking in the Cauldron: Middle East Studies: 1966-2020. Arab Studies Quarterly Online. youtube.com/watch?v=uRdwN-p4Uv8&feature=youtu.be |
facebook.com/Jadaliyya/videos/446795856303515/ |
arabstudiesjournal.org/asj-online/cooking-in-the-cauldron-middle-east-studies-1966-2020

2021 “Tribute to Michael Suleiman.” In Eds. Michael W. Suleiman, Suad Joseph, Louise Cainkar. Arab
American Women: Representation and Refusal. Syracuse: Syracuse U. Press. Pp. xv-xxi.

2021 “Arab American Women: Intersectional Genealogies and Trajectories.” In Eds. Michael W.
Suleiman, Suad Joseph, Louise Cainkar. Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal.
Syracuse: Syracuse U. Press. Pp. 1-17.

2021 “Arab American Gender Representations in the New York Times: 1851-1919. In Eds. Michael W.
Suleiman, Suad Joseph, Louise Cainkar. Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal.
Syracuse. Syracuse U. Press. Pp. 329-364.

2021 “Introduction.” Vol. 8. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures 2010-2020. Leiden: Brill. Pp. xxviii-xxx.

2021 “Introduction.” Vol. 7. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures 2010-2020. Leiden: Brill. Pp. xxviii-xxx.

2021 “Introduction.” Vol. 6. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures 2010-2020. Leiden: Brill. Pp. xxvii-xxix.

2021 “Introduction.” Vol. 5. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures 2010-2020. Leiden: Brill. Pp. xxv-xxvii.

2020 “Introduction.” Vol. 4. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures 2010-2020. Leiden: Brill: Pp. xv-xvi.

2020 “Introduction.” Vol. 3. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures 2010-020. Leiden: Brill. Pp. xxviii-xxix.

2020 “Introduction.” Vol. 2. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures 2010-2020. Leiden: Brill. Pp. xxvi-xxvii.

2020 “Introduction.” Vol l. I. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures 2010-2020. Leiden: Brill. Pp. xxviii-xxix.

2020 “The EWIC Project.” Vol 1. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures 2010-2020. Leiden: Brill. Pp. xvii-xxvii.

2020 Foreword. In Women Rising: Resistance, Revolution, and Reform in the Arab Spring and Beyond.  Edited by Mounira Charrad and Rita Stephan. New York:  New York University Press. 

2018 “Introduction:  Family in the Arab Region:  State of Scholarship.” In Ed. Suad Joseph. Arab Family Studies: Critical Reviews. Syracuse U. Press.  

2018 “Conclusion:  Research on Arab Family Matters.” In Ed. Suad Joseph. Arab Family Studies: Critical Reviews. Syracuse U. Press.

2017 “Chaos as a Political Strategy of Governance.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies. 13:3:486-88.

2015 “Theory and Thematics in the Anthropology of the Middle East. In Ed. Soraya Altorki. A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East. Wiley-Blackwell.  Pp.15-39. 

2013 “Anthropology of the Future: Arab Youth and the State of the State".  In Eds. Susan Slyomovics and Sherine Hafez.  State of the Art: Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa.  Indiana U. Press. 

2012 “History and Its Histories:  Story-Telling the Present.”  Presidential Address, Middle East Studies Association.  Review of Middle East Studies. Vol 46. No. 1. Summer. Pp 6-23.

2012 “Thinking Intentionality.  Arab Women’s Subjectivity and its Discontents.” 2010 JMEWS Distinguished Lecture.  Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies.  Vol 8. No 2. Spring. Pp. 1-25.

2012 with Benjamin D’Harlingue. “The Wall Street Journal’s Muslims: Representing Islam in American Print News Media.” Islamophobia Studies Journal. Volume 1. No. 1 (Spring.). Pp.  132-164. Center for Race and Gender. UC Berkeley.

2011 “The Future Today:  Youth and Adolescents of the Middle East and North Africa. In Situation Analysis on Adolescents and Youth in MENA. In: Situation Analysis on Youth in the Arab World. Oct.  Beirut and Amman:  Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs/UNICEF. 

2011 “Political Familism in Lebanon”.  Eds. Julia Adams & Mounira M. Charrad. Patrimonial Power in the Modern World.  Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Vol. 636. July 2011. Pp. 150-163.  

2010 “The Arab Families Working Group Project: Beginnings.” Framings: Rethinking Arab Family Projects. Vol. I. Arab Families Working Group. www.afwg.info

2010 “The Arab Families Working Group Project: Beginnings.” Arab Families Working Group, Eds.  Rethinking Arab Family Projects. AFWG Works Online:  www.afwg.info

2010 “Gender and Citizenship in the Arab World.”  Al-Raida. Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World. Spring/Summer. No 129-30: 8-18. (Adaptation of 2000, Introduction to Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East in Suad Joseph, Ed., Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East. Syracuse:  Syracuse U. Press. 

2009 with Penny Johnson. “Introduction.” War and Transnational Arab Families. Special Issue. Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 5.3 (Fall): 1-10. 

2009 “Geographies of Lebanese Families: Women as Transnationals and Men as Nationals, and Other Problems with Transnationalism.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 5:3 (Fall): 120-144. 

2008 with Benjamin D’Harlingue, with Ka Hin Wong. “Arab Americans and Muslim Americans in the New York Times, Before and After 9/11.” From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects: Arab American Identities Before and After 9/11. Eds. Amaney Jamal and Nadine Naber. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. 229-275.

2008 “Sectarianism as Imagined Sociological Concept and as Imagined Social Formation.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 40.4: 553-554.

2008 “Preface.” Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Vol. VI: Supplement and Index. Ed. Suad Joseph. xxi-clxxiv.

2008 “Familism and Critical Arab Family Studies.” Family Ties and Ideational Change in the Middle East. Eds. Kathryn Young and Hoda Rashad. New York: Routledge. 25-39.

2007 with Benjamin D’Harlingue. “Media Representations and the Criminalization of Arab Americans and Muslim Americans.” Women’s Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. Eds. Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. 464-468.

2007 “Women and Islamic Cultures.” Volume I. Introduction. Excerpts. Senses Magazine 3.1: 36.

2007 “Women and Islamic Cultures.” Interviewed by Kelly Dunleavy. Senses Magazine 3.1: 36.

2007 “Preface.” Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Vol. V: Practices, Interpretations and Representations. Ed. Suad Joseph. xix-xx.

2007 “Preface.” Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Vol. IV: Economics, Education, Mobility and Space. Ed. Suad Joseph. xxiii-xxv.

2006 “Preface.” Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Vol. III: Family, Body, Sexuality and Health. Ed. Suad Joseph. xx1-xxiii.

2006 “(Mis)Representing Arab and Muslim Americans: Recurring Patterns in U.S. Print Media.” Arab-US Media Forum. Queenstown, MD: The Aspen Institute (Autumn): 2-3.

2005 “The Kin Contract and Citizenship in the Middle East.” Women and Citizenship. Ed. Marilyn Friedman. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 149-169.

2005 “Teaching Rights and Responsibilities: Paradoxes of Globalizations and Children’s Citizenship in Lebanon.” Journal of Social History 38.4 (Summer): 1007-1026.

2005 “Preface.” Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Vol. I: Methodologies, Paradigms, and Sources. Ed. Suad Joseph. xxi-xlix.

2005 “Preface.” Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Vol. II: Family, Law and Politics. Ed. Suad Joseph. xxvii-xxviii.

2005 “Learning Desire: Relational Pedagogies and the Desiring Female Subject in Lebanon.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 1.1 (Winter): 79-109.

2004 “Conceiving Family Relations in Post-War Lebanon.” Journal of Comparative Family Studies 35.2 (Spring): 271-294.

2003 “Introduction.” Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Preview. Leiden: Brill.

2003 “Introduction.” Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Vol. I: Methodologies, Paradigms and Sources. xxi-xlix.

2003 “Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures.” ISIM Newsletter 13 (Dec.): 45.

2003 “Among Brothers: Patriarchal Connective Mirroring and Brotherly Deference in Lebanon.” The New Arab Family. Ed. Nicholas Hopkins. Cairo: The Cairo Papers in Social Science. 241.2 (Spring/Summer): 165-179.

2003 “Current Challenges Facing the Arab Women’s Movement.” Al-Raida 20.100 (Winter): 75-78.

2002 “Gender and Citizenship in the Arab World.” United Nations Development Program. New York.

2002 “Eyes of Indirection.” Remembering Childhood in the Middle East. Ed. Elizabeth Warnock Fernea. Austin: U. of Texas Press. 302-309.

2002 “Civil Society, The Public/Private and Gender in Lebanon.” Social Constructions of Nationalism in the Middle East. Ed. Fatma Muge Gocek. Albany: State U. of New York Press. 167-189.

2001 and Susan Sylomovics. “Introduction.” Women and Power in the Middle East. Eds. Suad Joseph and Susan Slyomovics. Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania Press. 1-19.

2001 “Women and Politics in the Middle East.” Women and Power in the Middle East. Eds. Suad Joseph and Susan Slyomovics. (Reprint). Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania Press. 34-40.

2000 “Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East: Introduction.” Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East. Ed. Suad Joseph. Syracuse: Syracuse U. Press. 3-32.

2000 “Civic Myths, Citizenship, and Gender in Lebanon.” Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East. Ed. Suad Joseph. Syracuse: Syracuse U. Press. 107-136.

1999 “Women Between Nation and State in Lebanon.” Between Women and Nation: Feminism and Global Issues. Eds. Norma Alarcon, Caren Caplan, and Minoo Moallem. Durham, NC: Duke U. Press. 162-181.

1999 “Searching for Baba.” Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self, and Identity. Ed. Suad Joseph. Syracuse: Syracuse U. Press [Revision of 1996 article.] 53-75.

1999 “My Son/Myself, My Mother/Myself: Paradoxical Relationalities of Patriarchal Connectivity.” Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self, and Identity. Ed. Suad Joseph. Syracuse: Syracuse U. Press. 174-190.

1999 “Intimate Selving: Theories and Dynamics of Self, Gender and Identity in Arab Families.” Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self, and Identity. Ed. Suad Joseph. Syracuse: Syracuse U. Press. 1-17.

1999 “Gender and Citizenship in Muslim Communities: Introduction.” Citizenship Studies 3.3: 293-294.

1999 “Gender and Citizenship in Muslim Communities.” The Review of Middle East Women's Studies 16.3/4 (Fall/Winter): 24. 

1999 “Gender and Citizenship in Lebanon: Introduction.” Gender and Citizenship in Lebanon. Eds. Najla Hamadeh, Jean Said Makdisi, and Suad Joseph. Beirut: Dar al Jadid Press. 35-45. (In Arabic).

1999 “Descent of the Nation: Kinship and Citizenship in Lebanon.” Citizenship Studies 3.3: 295-318.

1999 “Children's and Women's Rights: Gender, Relationality and Patriarchy in Rights Practices in Lebanon.” Gender and Citizenship in Lebanon. Eds. Najla Hamadeh, Jean Said Makdisi, and Suad Joseph. Beirut: Dar al Jadid Press. 325-342. (In Arabic).

1999 “Brother/Sister Relationships: Connectivity, Love, and Power in the Reproduction of Arab Patriarchy.” Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self, and Identity. Ed. Suad Joseph. Syracuse: Syracuse U. Press. 113-140. Reprinted In Ed.  Samir Khalaf and Roseanne Saad Khalaf. Arab Society and Culture. An Essential Reader. London: Saqi Books. 2009.  Pp. 278-292.

1999 “Against the Grain of the Nation - The Arab-.” Issues in Arab America. Ed. Michael Suleiman. Philadelphia: Temple U. Press. 257-271. Reprinted in Arab America. Ed. Michael Suleiman. Beirut: Centre for Arab Unity Studies.  (In Arabic). 2003. 375-396.

1998 “Marcel: Straddling Formal and Informal Lebanese Economies in the 1970s.” Middle Eastern Women in the Invisible Economy. Ed. Richard Lobban. Gainesville, FL.: U. of Florida Press. 233-244.

1997 “The Public/Private. The Imagined Boundary in the Imagined Nation/State/Community: The Lebanese Case.” Feminist Review 57 (Autumn): 73-92.

1997 “Shopkeepers and Feminists: The Reproduction of Political Process Among Women Activists in Lebanon.” Women in Groups in the Middle East. Eds. Dawn Chatty and Annika Rabo. Berg Press. 57-80. Translated Moueen Al Emam. Damascus: Dar al Mada. 51-86. (In Arabic).

1997 “Secularism and Personal Status Codes in Lebanon.” Interview of Marie Rose Zalzal. Middle East Reports. 27.203.2: 37-39.

1996 “Searching for Baba: Personal Notes on Rights and Postcolonialities.” Stanford Humanities Review 4. 2 (Fall): 140-151.

1996 “Relationality and Ethnographic Subjectivity: Key Informants and Construction of Personhood in Fieldwork.” Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork. Ed. Diane Wolf. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 107-121.

1996 “Patriarchy and Development in the Arab World.” Gender and Development 4.2: 14-19.

1996 “Gender and Citizenship in Middle Eastern States.” Middle East Reports 26.1 (Jan-Mar): 4-10.

1995 “Selfhood and Ethnographic Writing.” Bahithat 2 (Fall): 141-153.

1994 “Problematizing Gender and Relational Rights: Experience from Lebanon.” Social Politics 1.3 (Fall): 271-285.

1994 “Gender and Family in the Arab World.” Middle East Reports. Fall. Booklet. Reprinted In Arab Women. Between Defiance and Restraint. Ed. Suha Sabbagh. New York: Olive Branch Press, 1996. 194-202.

1994 “Brother/Sister Relationships: Connectivity, Love and Power in the Reproduction of Arab Patriarchy.” American Ethnologist 21.1 (February): 50-73. Reprinted in In Arab Society: Class, Gender, Power, and Development. Eds. Nicholas S. Hopkins and Saad Eddine Ibrahim. Cairo: The American U. in Cairo Press, 1997. 227-262. Reprinted in Arab Society and Culture. An Essential Guide. Eds. Samir Khalaf and Roseanne Saad Khalaf. London: Saqi Press, 2009.

1993 “Gender and Relationality Among Arab Families in Lebanon.” Feminist Studies 19.3 (Fall): 465-486.

1993 “Gender and Civil Society: An Interview with Suad Joseph with Joe Stork.” Middle East Reports. 23.183.4 (July-August): 22-26. Reprinted in Arab Women: Between Defiance and Restraint. Ed. Suha Sabbagh. New York: Olive Branch Press, 1996. 203-210. Reprinted in Political Islam. Eds. Joel Beinin and Joe Stork. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1996. 64-70.

1993 “Fieldwork and Psychosocial Dynamics of Personhood.” Frontiers 13.3: 9-32.

1993 “Connectivity and Patriarchy Among Urban Working Class Arab Families in Lebanon.” Ethos 21.4 (December): 452-484.

1991 “Elite Strategies for State Building: Women, Family, Religion and State in Iraq and Lebanon,” Women, Islam and the State. Ed. Deniz Kandiyoti. London: MacMillan. 176-200.

1990 “Working the Law: A Lebanese Working Class Case.” The Politics of Law in the Middle East. Ed. Daisy Dwyer. South Hadley, MA. J. F. Bergin Publishers. 143-160.

1988 “Feminization, Familism, Self and Politics: Research as a Mughtaribi.” Studying Your Own Society: Arab Women in the Field. Eds. Soraya Altorki and Camillia F. El Solh. Syracuse: Syracuse U. Press. 25-47. Translated into Arabic. Cairo: Noor. 1990 and Beirut: Center for the Study of Arab Unity, 49-75. 1993.

1988 “Family, Religion and State: Middle Eastern Models.” Dialectics and Gender. Anthropological Approaches. Eds. Richard R. Randolph, David M. Schneider, May N. Diaz. Boulder, Co.: Westview Press. 240-259; Bib. 455-463.

1986 “Women and Politics in the Middle East.” Middle East Reports, Middle East Research and Information Project 138: 3-7. Reprinted in Global Studies: The Middle East. 2nd ed. Dushkin Publishing Group, 1988. Reprinted in Women and Power in the Middle East. Eds. Suad Joseph and Susan Slyomovics. Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. 34-40.

1986 “Ruling Elites and the Young: A Comparison of Iraq and Lebanon.” Social Legislation in the Contemporary Middle East. Eds. Laurence O. Michalak and Jeswald W. Salacuse. Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, U. of California. 191-237. 

1984 “Local-level Politics and Development in Lebanon: The View From Borj Hammoud.” Local Politics and Development in the Middle East. Eds. Louis J. Cantori and Iliya Harik. Boulder, Co.: Westview Press. 142-165.

1983 “Working Class Women's Networks in a Sectarian State: A Political Paradox.” American Ethnologist 10.1: 1-22.

1982 “The Mobilization of Iraqi Women Into the Wage Labor Force.” Studies in Third World Societies 16: 69-90.

1982 “The Family as Security and Bondage: A Political Strategy of the Lebanese Urban Working Class.” Towards a Political Economy of Urbanization in Third World Countries. Ed. Helen Safa. New Delhi: Oxford U. Press. 151-171. Reprinted in Arab Society in Transition. Eds. Nicholas S. Hopkins and Saad Eddine Ibrahim. Cairo: American U. in Cairo Press. 1985. 241-256.

1978 “Women and the Neighborhood Street in Borj Hammoud, Lebanon.” Women in the Muslim World. Eds. Lois Beck and Nikki Keddie. Cambridge: Harvard U. Press. 541-557. 

1978 “Strategies of Local Development in the Middle East.” Forum for Middle East Research 2.3: 7-10.

1978 “Muslim-Christian Conflicts: A Theoretical Perspective.” Muslim-Christian Conflicts: Economic, Political and Social Origins. Eds. Suad Joseph and Barbara L. K. Pillsbury. Boulder, Co.: Westview Press. 1-60.

1978 “Muslim-Christian Conflict in Lebanon: A Perspective in the Evolution of Sectarianism.” Muslim-Christian Conflicts:  Economic, Political and Social Origins. Eds. Suad Joseph and Barbara L. K. Pillsbury. Boulder, Co.: Westview Press. 63-90.  

1977 “Zaynab: An Urban Working Class Lebanese Woman.” Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speak. Eds. Elizabeth W. Fernea & Basima Q. Bezirgan. Austin: U. of Texas Press. 359-371.

1964 “Where the Twain Shall Meet: The Lebanese in Cortland County.” Folklore Quarterly, New York, 20.3: 175-191.