1. Marginalized Histories of Global Modernity: Social Housing in the Middle East / Kivanc Kilinc, Mohammad Gharipour Part I: Settings of Social Housing: Politics, Agency, and Social Reform 2. Legitimizing the Jordanian State through Social Housing / Eliana Abu-Hamdi 3. Workers' and Popular Housing in Mid-Twentieth-Century Egypt / Mohamed Elshahed 4. Neoliberal Islamism and the Cultural Politics of Housing in Turkey / Bulent Batuman Part II: Histories of Social Housing: Identity, Nation, and Beyond 5. Constructing Dignity: Primitivist Discourses and the Spatial Economies of Development in Postcolonial Tunisia / Nancy Demerdash 6. Nation-Building in Israel: Negotiations over Housing as Grounds for the State-Citizen Contract, 1948-1953 / Yael Allweil 7. Social Housing in Colonial Cyprus: Contestations on Urbanity and Domesticity / Michalis Sioulas and Panayiota Pyla 8. Constructed Marginality: Women, Public Housing, and National Identity in Kuwait / Mae Al-Ansari Part III: Design and Construction: Transnational Systems and Localized Practices 9. Rabbis, Architects, and the Design of Ultra-Orthodox City-Settlements / Noam Shoked 10. Notions of Class and Culture in Housing Projects in Tehran, 1945-1960 / Jaleh Jalili and Farshid Emami 11. Discrepant Spatial Practices: Contemporary Social Housing Projects in Izmir / Gulsum Baydar, Kivanc Kilinc, and Ahenk Yilmaz Index