p.h.d student in history. in order to have an exact historical, cultural and political study of arabia before the advent of islam it's necessary to study the bedouin and nomads' lives in the following cases. sources: the pre.islamic arabs' poems and the interpretation and .1 proverbs which are remained of them will be used. history: the lives of inhabitants and desert dwellers wh...

The purpose of this article is to deepen our understanding of twentieth-century masculinity by considering the social function of facial hair. The management of facial hair has always been a medium of gendered body language, and as such has elicited a nearly continuous private and public conversation about manliness. Careful attention to this conversation, and to trends in facial hairstyles, il...

This essay traces some of the narratives and cultural politics of work on reality television after the economic crash of 2008. Specifically, it discusses the emergence of paid labor shows like Ax Men, Black Gold and Coal and a resurgent interest in working bodies at a time when the working class in the US seems all but consigned to the dustbin of history. As an implicit response to the crisis o...

This article explores how hegemonic masculinity forged discourses of modern statesmanship in the United States and Italy first three decades twentieth century. It unpacks ‘presidential masculinity’ Theodore Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson compares these gendered performances political leadership to Benito Mussolini's Fascist rule during 1920s. In doing so, this contends that manliness leaders rested o...