This is a very timely and original book that makes an important contribution to both masculinity studies, which so far has not engaged deeply with questions of migration and displacement, and to migration and refugee studies that has overlooked the question of masculinity. It makes a convincing case about the importance of this relationship

Mahiye Seçil Dagta?, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Waterloo, Canada

Suerbaum offers a revealing account of male experiences of displacement
and new forms of masculinity after the Syrian uprising. Insightful and timely in its analysis, the
book shows how the efforts of young men to “reclaim middle-classness”
play out on fragile ground in Egypt, and how these are bound up with new ideas and practices of manhood. The first-hand narratives Suerbaum presents have an unforgettable immediacy. Through them, she deftly
explores the contradictions men face as they renegotiate their status in
Egypt in the labour market and the marriage market, all the while
suspended between two authoritarian states.

Paul Anderson, Cambridge University, UK