-A courageous analysis of Arab writers, addressing the connections between masculinity, violence, and nationalism.- --Robin Morgan, Ms..
-Rarely have sexuality and war been treated with such poignancy and historical concreteness .... The force of these often intertwined phenomena endemic to the human condition are considered with incisive and wrenching specificity from within one of the most baneful convergences of sexuality and war in recent history.- --Djelal Kadir, editor, World Literature Today.