Slavery in the Modern Middle East and North Africa

Elena Andreeva is a Professor of History at Virginia Military Institute, USA. She is the author of Russia and Iran in the Great Game (2007) and Russian Central Asia in the Works of Nikolai Karazin, 1842-1908 (2021), and co-editor (with Rudi Matthee) of Russians in Iran (2018).Kevin McNeer is the author of several documentary films including Stalin Thought of You, On One Day of the Days of God and Frame by Frame. He has filmed extensively in the Middle East and edited and translated numerous books and articles related to Eastern Studies, including Storied Land: Kurdish Culture Through the Eyes of Russian Scholars (2014), and Victims of their Faith (upcoming, with Touraj Atabaki and Lana Ravandi-Fadai).

• 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, USA2. On the Multivalence of Women’s Captivity Narratives, Irvin Cemil Schick, Istanbul Sehir University, TurkeyPart Two: Resistance and Abolition3. The Gradual Elimination of Female Slavery in the late Ottoman Empire: Institutional Change, Kadir Yildirim, Rice University, USA4. 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, Poland5. Iranian and Russian Slaves in Turkestan as Seen Through the Art of Nikolai Karazin (1842-1908), Elena Andreeva, Virginia Military Institute, USAPart Three: Preserving Identity and Tradition6. Afro-Baloch Communities in Modern Iran and Their Healing Traditions, Maryam Nourzaei, Uppsala University, Sweden7. 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, Spain8. Mercy Releases: Manumission Practices in Tetouan, Morocco (1860–1960)Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, SpainPart Four: Slavery in a Post-Slavery World9. The ‘Street Children’ of Egypt: a case of modern-day slavery by Dina Al Raffie, Duquesne University, USA10. ‘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

The essays in this wide-ranging collection reveal lost worlds and bring readers to the cutting edge of research on slavery and captivity. An important volume, filled with revelations.