Slavery in the Modern Middle East and North Africa

Introduction, Elena Andreeva and Kevin McNeer, Virginia Military Institute, USA

Part One: Gender and Sexuality: Female Slaves

1. Ziba Khanum of Yazd: An Enslaved African Woman in Nineteenth-Century Iran, Anthony A. Lee, UCLA, USA

2. On the Multivalence of Women's Captivity Narratives, Irvin Cemil Schick, Istanbul Sehir University, Turkey

Part Two: Resistance and Abolition

3. The Gradual Elimination of Female Slavery in the late Ottoman Empire: Institutional Change, Kadir Yildirim, Rice University, USA

4. The Social Construction of Slavery, Injustice and Manumission on the Gulf Coast of Arabia and Oman in the 1920s and 1930s, Jerzy Zdanowski, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University, Poland

5. Iranian and Russian Slaves in Turkestan as Seen Through the Art of Nikolai Karazin (1842-1908), Elena Andreeva, Virginia Military Institute, USA

Part Three: Preserving Identity and Tradition

6. Afro-Baloch Communities in Modern Iran and Their Healing Traditions, Maryam Nourzaei, Uppsala University, Sweden

7. Identity Preservation Among the Descendants of Slaves on the Island of Soqotra: music, handicrafts, and lexicon, Kevin McNeer, independent scholar, and Sarali Gintsburg, University of Navarra, Spain

8. Mercy Releases: Manumission Practices in Tetouan, Morocco (1860-1960)
Josep Lluis Mateo Dieste, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain


Part Four: Slavery in a Post-Slavery World

9. The 'Street Children' of Egypt: a case of modern-day slavery by Dina Al Raffie, Duquesne University, USA

10. 'Ask Her, She is Not Afraid To Tell You': Sexual Enslavement of Yezidi Women by ISIS: causes and aftermath, Lana Ravandi-Fadai, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia