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 The Shehr Comparative Urban Landscapes Network announces two new publications: GENDERING URBAN SPACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST,  SOUTH ASIA AND AFRICAEd. Martina Rieker &#38; Kamran Ali. Palgrave: 2008  Introduction: Gendering Urban Space, Kamran Asdar Ali and Martina Rieker.1 Gendering Urban Colonial Casablanca: The Case of Quartier Réservé of Bousbir, Driss Maghraoui.2 Morphologies of Social Flows: Segregation,  Time, and the Public Sphere, Susanne Dahlgren.3 Pulp Fictions: Reading Pakistani Domesticity, Kamran Asdar Ali.4 Race, Security, and Spatial Anxieties  in thePostapartheid City, Thomas Blom Hansen.5 Remaking Urban Socialities:  The Intersection of the Virtual  and the Vulnerable in Inner-city Johannesburg, AbdouMaliq Simone.6 Thin Lines on the Pavement: The Racialization and Spatialization of Violence in Postcolonial (Sub)Urban France, Paul A. Silverstein.  ************** SOCIAL TEXT 95Urban Margins: Envisioning the Contemporary Global South Special Issue Editors: Kamran Asdar Ali and Martina Rieker Introduction: Urban Margins : Kamran Asdar Ali and Martina Rieker.1 Emergency Democracy and the “Governing Composite”, AbdouMaliq Simone.2 “City of Whores”: Nationalism, Development and the Global Garment Workers in Sri Lanka, Sanday Hewamanne.3 Urban Modernity on the Periphery: A New Middle Class Reinvents the Palestinian City, Lisa Taraki.4 In the Ruins of Bahla: Reconstructed Forts and Crumbling Walls in an Omani Town, Mandana E. Limbert.