Introduction Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Ingvild Flaskerud 'Justice without Drama: Observations from Gaza City Sharia Court' Nahda Younis Shehada, Institute of Social Studies, the Hague 'From the Army of God to the Israeli Armed Forces: An Interaction Between Two Cultural Models' Yohai Hakak 'To Give the Boys Energy, Manliness, and Self-Command in Temper: The Anglican Male Ideal and St. George's School in Jerusalem, c. 1900-1940' Inger Marie Okkenhaug, University of Bergen, Norway 'Women Students at the American University of Beirut 1920s-1940s' Aleksandra Majstorac Kobiljski 'Women, Social Welfare, and the State in Egypt' Beth Baron, City University of New York 'Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Middle-Eastern Women: An Overview' Heleen Murre-van den Berg, University of Leiden 'The Paradox of the New Islamic Woman in Turkey' Jenny B. White, Boston University 'Visions of Mary in the Middle East: Gender and the Power of a Symbol' Willy Jansen, University of Nijmegen 'An Army of Women Learning Torah' Leah Shakdiel 'Stones and Stories: Engaging with Gender and Complex Emergencies' Nefissa Naguib, Oslo University College 'Tradition and Change: Afghan Women's Contribution to Spiritual Capital' Karin Ask, Christian Michelsen's Institue, Bergen 'Vows, Mediumship and Gender: Women's Votive Meals in Iran' Azam Torab, University of Cambridge