Introduction, Elena Andreeva and Kevin McNeer , Virginia Military Institute, USA Part One: Gender and Sexuality: Female Slaves 1. Ziba Khanum of Yazd: An Enslaved African Woman in Nineteenth-Century Iran, Anthony A. Lee , UCLA, USA 2. On the Multivalence of Women's Captivity Narratives, Irvin Cemil Schick , Istanbul Sehir University, Turkey Part Two: Resistance and Abolition 3. The Gradual Elimination of Female Slavery in the late Ottoman Empire: Institutional Change, Kadir Yildirim , Rice University, USA 4. The Social Construction of Slavery, Injustice and Manumission on the Gulf Coast of Arabia and Oman in the 1920s and 1930s, Jerzy Zdanowski , Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University, Poland 5. Iranian and Russian Slaves in Turkestan as Seen Through the Art of Nikolai Karazin (1842-1908), Elena Andreeva, Virginia Military Institute, USA Part Three: Preserving Identity and Tradition 6. Afro-Baloch Communities in Modern Iran and Their Healing Traditions, Maryam Nourzaei , Uppsala University, Sweden 7.

Identity Preservation Among the Descendants of Slaves on the Island of Soqotra: music, handicrafts, and lexicon, Kevin McNeer, independent scholar, and Sarali Gintsburg, University of Navarra, Spain 8. Mercy Releases: Manumission Practices in Tetouan, Morocco (1860-1960) Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Part Four: Slavery in a Post-Slavery World 9. The 'Street Children' of Egypt: a case of modern-day slavery by Dina Al Raffie, Duquesne University, USA 10. 'Ask Her, She is Not Afraid To Tell You': Sexual Enslavement of Yezidi Women by ISIS: causes and aftermath, Lana Ravandi-Fadai, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.