Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Childhood in the Muslim Middle East / Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
  • Children in the Arab Gulf States : some important and urgent issues / Hassan al-Ebraheem
  • The code of children's rights in Islam / Muhammad Abdelkebir Alaoui M'Daghri ; translated by Moncef Lahlou
  • Growing up
  • Adoption in Islamic society : a historical survey / Amira al-Azhary Sonbol
  • Children of Amman : childhood and child care in squatter areas of Amman, Jordan / Seteney Shami and Lucine Taminian
  • Kuwaiti lullabies / translated and introduced by Farha Ghannam
  • Changing child-rearing patterns in an Egyptian village / Judy H. Brink
  • Love conquers all? Changing images of gender and relationship in Morocco / Susan Schaefer Davis and Douglas A. Davis
  • Sudanese lullabies and adolescent songs / collected and translated by Teirab AshShareef
  • To my son Mehmet, I present our fruits / Bedri Rahmi Eyuboglu ; translated by N. Menemencioglu and Sascha B. Cohen
  • My religion series / M. Yasar Kandemir ; translated by Akilé Gürsoy
  • Teach your children the love of God's messenger / Muhammad Abdo Yamani ; translated and summarized by FarhaGhannam
  • Orphanages in Egypt : contradiction or affirmation in a family-oriented society / Andrea B. Rugh
  • Children's health
  • Child care and child health in low-income neighborhoods of Cairo / Homa Hoodfar
  • Bodily mutilation of young females / Cairo Family Planning Association
  • Life and health of Jordanian children / Staffan Janson
  • Child mortality and the changing discourse on childhood in Turkey / Akilé Gürsoy
  • Women's laments for children who have died / collected by Jamal Zaki ad-Din al-Hajjaji ; translated by Susan Slyomovics and Suzanne Qualls
  • Children and work
  • The child as economic investment : preliminary reflections / Aicha Belarbi ; translated by Moncef and Wafaa Lahlou
  • Children's contribution to social security and the family in Egypt / Helmi R. Tadros
  • Working children in Cairo : case studies / Eftetan O. Farrag
  • The rungs of the ladder / Daisy al-Amir ; translated by Caroline Attieh
  • An unmarried girl and a grinding stone : a Turkish girl's childhood in the city / Jenny B. White
  • Children's education
  • Early education in Kuwait : a brief description of the nursery curriculum / Aʼishaal-Haj Hasan and Luʼluʼa al-Qattami ; translated by Ahmed Sweity
  • Revolution for children in Saudi Arabia / Jerine B. Bird
  • Turkish first-grade text / from Jinn Ali starts school, Cin Ali Publications
  • Alternative education under the Intifada : the Palestinian response to Israeli policy in the Occupied Territories / Abdalla al-Kurd and Barton R. Herrscher
  • Childhood and education in highland North Yemen / Susan Dorsky and Thomas B. Stevenson
  • Gender roles in Iranian public school textbooks / Adele K. Ferdows
  • Changing perceptions of Iranian identity in elementary textbooks / Patricia J. Higgins and Pirouz Shoar-Ghaffari
  • Children, politics, and war
  • The rights of the child under Islamic law : prohibition of the child soldier / Maryam Elahi
  • Children of fire (Ribat al-fatah) / Hoda al-Namani ; translated by Najib Mokhtari and Christopher Middleton
  • Girls' participation in combat : a case study from Lebanon / Kari H. Karamé
  • Attitudes of teenage girls to the Iranian Revolution / Farhad Khosrokhavar.