Courtship, Sex, and Marriage in the Muslim World and Beyond

COURTSHIP, SEX, AND MARRIAGE IN THE MUSLIM WORLD AND BEYOND

My recent work has focused on contemporary courtship practices in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and evolving attitudes about sex, marriage, religion, and democracy among youth.

PROJECTS

Survey on Love, Marriage and Religion

I co-lead with Roger Friedland (UCSB-NYUAD) and Maria Charles (UCSB) a survey on Courtship, Marriage, and Religion in MENA. Employing popular social networking sites, such as FaceBook, we have conducted survey research on the intimate lives of young people in a number of Muslim-Majority countries such as Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Palestine, Tunisia, and Turkey. More


Iranian Romance in the Digital Age: From Arranged Marriage to White Marriage (Sex, Family and Culture in the Middle East). Link

"Critical theory, authoritarianism, and the politics of lipstick from the Weimar Republic to the contemporary Middle East." Article coauthored with Roger Friedland. Critical Research on Religion, December 2018. Link (A version of the same article in Persian is available here.)


"Digital Romance: The Sources of Facebook Love in the Muslim World.” Article co-authored with Ramina Sotoudeh and Roger Friedland. Media, Culture, and Society. Sage Press. February 2017. Link


"Love in the Middle East: The Contradictions of Romance in the Facebook World.” Article co-authored by Roger Friedland, Janet Afary, P. Gardinali, and C. Naslund Critical Research on Religion. Sage Press. Fall 2016. Link