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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 109–126.
Published: 01 May 2004
...A. Holly Shissler Beauty Is Nothing to Be Ashamed Of: Beauty Contests
As Tools of Women’s Liberation in Early Republican
Turkey1
A. HOLLY SHISSLER
My concept of beauty pageants has largely been been liberating, even though the introduction of
colored by the analysis and critiques...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 180–192.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Esin Düzel Abstract Beauty can be a source of self-making within a political community, and that self can display moral autonomy via publicly visible and invisible practices while still adhering to a community. At a time of transition during the early 2000s from militarized resistance to urban...
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in Beauty for Harmony: Moral Negotiations and Autonomous Acts in Diyarbakır, Turkey
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 1. Inside Gülnaz's beauty salon, February 2015. Photo by Handan Coşkun.
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in Beauty for Harmony: Moral Negotiations and Autonomous Acts in Diyarbakır, Turkey
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 2. Wall decorations at Gülnaz's beauty salon, February 2015. Photo by Handan Coşkun.
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 81–100.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Camron Michael Amin Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Importing “Beauty Culture” into Iran in the 1920s and
1930s: Mass Marketing Individualism in an Age of Anti-
Imperialist Sacrifice
CAMRON MICHAEL AMIN...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (2): 73–81.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Sunil Sharma Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 -
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The City of Beauties in Indo-Persian Poetic Landscape
SUNIL...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 11.
Published: 01 August 2003
..., while
still informs so much of our academic inquiry. still retaining the ability to admire their beauty. Even as
Beneath the carefully considered prose, the humorous Said laid bare the imperialist assumptions that informed
language and the kindness of Said’s writings—a kind- the English literary...
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Public Performances of Identity Negotiation in the Iranian Diaspora: The New York Persian Day Parade
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 388–410.
Published: 01 August 2011
... of the parade, basically make that family album into the floats.
represented by joining their Web content and Just showing the beautiful parts of Iran that we
organizational bylaws. never got to take our kids back to see. So, that’s...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (3): 525–535.
Published: 01 December 2007
... significant political
action. Indeed, for those unfamiliar with the practices of past kings of the sharifian kingdom,
the Moroccan royal wedding might indeed have appeared to be just another item of passing
interest for the society pages, tabloids, or beauty salon conversation. Yet, as the journalist...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (3): 462–475.
Published: 01 December 2006
... works: the Holy Vedas and the corpus of Ghalib’s
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the Middle East Verse.” Such an attitude toward Ghalib testifi es to the almost unearthly beauty of his verses.
x-2006-026 In spite of his seemingly playful attitude toward religion, he has...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 293–308.
Published: 01 August 2022
... in terms of vilasa ideals. He is nāgaru (i.e., nāgara ) , conforming to the knowing lover-connoisseur typology of rulers, and he resembles Kamadeva, the Hindu god of love, in his attractiveness. 25 The Manchester painters augmented Da'ud's text with a vivid, sensual immersion in the beauties...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (3): 600–616.
Published: 01 December 2005
... This spiritual child, or body is often eroticized as white and beautiful
the “Jesus of the soul,” comes as a concrete as a moon, with round face, narrow eyes, and
proof of the encounter with the Universal intel- small mouth, while the dark-skinned body...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (2): 481–487.
Published: 01 August 2005
... Wife Redgate Anne freedom. warmth, beauty, and feelings, to inner eye her of blind truth a the Fur- turns her. poignantly accords she him thermore, with priv- position the her enjoys ileges and favors, his receives vicious the Sultan, with copulates and sleeps She archy. patri- oppressive brutally...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 96–110.
Published: 01 May 2019
... the beauty-oriented properties and sonic textures of texts, and marked them as tools for self-cultivation and ethical and erotic refinement. 5 This article examines the practices of translation, transliteration, and transmission in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century northern India through the example...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1992) 12 (1): 57–75.
Published: 01 May 1992
... reply overheard by her eavesdropping husband remember my beautiful figure as you saw it then?” Her
is a perfect encapsulation of wifely feudal ideology. desire is to activate his; his is more to do with his
Chandra: “As a wife who asks you to care for her anxieties of potency and masculinity...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (1): 118–126.
Published: 01 May 1997
... in
Ned with the beautiful flowers dear friends had sent West Africa.”
me, I faced my traducers. I called down vengeance on Arriving in Liberia, Amy Ashwood Garvey was ac-
the heads of the slave masters and African collabora- corded royal treatment from the very first moments. A
tors...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 348–355.
Published: 01 August 2022
... toward a political imagination of kingship, wherein the king and the queen/king elder were defined, first and foremost, as constituted in their beauty, love, and devotion toward one another. While recently one historian of northeast India has mentioned the presence of queens posing as shareholders...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 365–385.
Published: 01 December 2010
... included dame” (bai). Rather, he simply calls her one
174 female poets: the majority wrote in Urdu of the beautiful prostitutes (hasinan-i bazari).
but 49 of them wrote in Persian and 3 wrote in In later histories of Urdu literature, she would...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., I want to shift the discussion to the
Ahmadi as inspired by the Garden Suburb model ways in which the KOC promoted the maintenance
introduced the notion of recreational landscap- of the aesthetic beauty of the single housing unit
ing to Kuwait, positioning...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (1): 41–54.
Published: 01 May 1996
... love with her upon hearing descriptions of her in-
South Indian Hindu kingdoms in the early 14th cen- comparable beauty. Jayasi’s narrative, then, is par-
tury. In this panegyric the poet Amir Khusrau (1253- tially woven of narrative strands taken from the fa-
1325) presents Ala al-Din...
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