Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. A Note on Transliteration and Translation ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. ONE Inciting Critique in the Feminist Classroom 21
8. TWO “And Is It Impossible to Be Good Everywhere?” Love and Badness in America and the Arab World 37
9. THREE Suspicious Bodies. Madame Bomba Performs against Death in Lebanon 49
10. FOUR “Jihad Jane” as Good American Patriot and Bad Arab Girl: The Case of Nada Prouty after 9/11 63
11. FIVE Paying for Her Father’s Sins Yasmin as a Daughter of Unknown Lineage 78
12. SIX The Making of Bad Palestinian Mothers during the Second Intifada 92
13. SEVEN “They Are Not Like Your Daughters or Mine” Spectacles of Bad Women from the Arab Spring 112
14. EIGHT “Fuck Your Morals” The Body Activism of Amina Sboui 132
15. NINE Syrian Bad Girl Samar Yazbek: Refusing Burial 146
16. TEN Reel Bad Maghrebi Women 167
17. ELEVEN New Bad Girls of Sudan Women Singers in the Sudanese Diaspora 185
18. TWELVE Being a Revolutionary and Writerly Rebel 199
19. Afterword 212
20. Afterword MIRAL AL-TAHAWY TRANSLATED BY SAMIA HISSEN DOANY 216
21. Contributors 223
22. Index 229