Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Approaching Societies in the Interwar Middle East and North Africa 2 State-Society Relations through the Lens of Urban Development3 Beirut’s Musical Scene: A Narrative of Modernisation and Identity Struggles under the French Mandate 4 Tourism and Mobility in Italian Colonial Libya5 The Call of Communication: Mass Media and Reform in Interwar Morocco6 Doctors Crossing Borders: The Formation of a Regional Profession in the Interwar Middle East 7 There She is, Miss Universe: Keriman Halis Goes to Egypt, 19338 Taking Health to the Village: Early Turkish Republican Health Propaganda in the Countryside 9 The Provision of Water to Istanbul from Terkos: Continuities and Change from Empire to Republic 10 Reforms or Restrictions? The Ottoman Muslim Family Law Code and Women’s Marital Status in Mandate Palestine 11 Mapping Social Change through Matters of the Heart: Debates on Courtship, Marriage and Divorce in the Early Turkish Republican Era (1923-1950) Bibliography Index