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The Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 5:3 (Fall 2009).SPECIAL ISSUE: War and Transnational Arab Families- PENNY JOHNSON &#38; SUAD JOSEPHIntroductionESSAYS- PENNY JOHNSON, LAMIS ABU NAHLEH, &#38; ANNELIES MOORSWeddings and War: Marriage Arrangements and Celebrations in Two Palestinian Intifadas- ISLAH JADThe Politics of Group Weddings in Palestine: Political and Gender Tensions- JIHAD MAKHOUL &#38; MARY GHANEMDisplaced Arab Families: Mothers’ Voices on Living and Coping in Postwar Beirut- RAY JUREIDINIIn the Shadows of Family Life: Toward a History of Domestic Service in Lebanon- MONA CHEMALI KHALAFMale Migration and the Lebanese Family: The Impact on the Wife Left Behind- SUAD JOSEPHGeographies of Lebanese Families: Women as Transnationals, Men as Nationals, and Other Problems withTransnationalism- NADINE NABERTransnational Families Under Siege: Lebanese Shi`a in Dearborn, Michigan, and the 2006 War on LebanonBRIEF COMMUNICATIONS- DIANE JAMESWomen’s Memory Symposium: Women’s Library and Information Center, Istanbul- NAAZNEEN DIWANViolence That Bleeds Borders: Transnational Engagement in the Women in Conflict Zones SymposiumBOOK REVIEWS- RANA SHARIFWomen, Water and Memory: Recasting Lives in Palestine, by Nefissa Naguib- MAYA MIKDASHIWild Mulberries, and B as in Beirut, by Iman Humaydan Younes