Introduction: narrative, gender, and cultural representation in the constructions of nationalism in the Middle East / Fatma Müge Göçek -- Decline of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of Greek, Armenian, Turkish, and Arab nationalisms / Fatma Müge Göçek -- Turkish nationalism and the young Turks, 1889-1908 / Şükrü Hanioǧlu -- (Re)presenting nations: demonstrations and nationalism in pre-mandate Syria / James L. Gelvin -- Humanist nationalism and Lebanese women's texts / Miriam Cooke -- Nationalism and sexuality in Palistine / Julie M. Peteet / Civil society, the public/private, and gender in Lebanon / Suad Joseph -- The Iranian as spectator and spectacle: theatre and nationalism in the nineteenth century / Shiva Balaghi -- The rise and fall of nationalism in the Egyptian cinema / Walter Armbrust -- Visions of Iran: Persian-language television in the United States / Mandana E. Limbert