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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 250–251.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Khalid Hadeed Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015 This dissertation explores the relations between gender and crisis in Arabic literature from the late 1960s to the present. Working in a regional Arab context, I define crisis as an endemic situation...
View articletitled, Late Modern <span class="search-highlight">Arabic</span> <span class="search-highlight">Literature</span>: Gender as Crucible of Crisis
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 96–98.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Kristina Richardson The Female Suffering Body: Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature Hamdar Abir Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press , 2014 . 166 pages. isbn 9780815633655 Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016...
View articletitled, The Female Suffering Body: Illness and Disability in Modern <span class="search-highlight">Arabic</span> <span class="search-highlight">Literature</span> by Abir Hamdar
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 93–95.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Leila Ben-Nasr Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging Fadda-Conrey Carol New York : New York University Press , 2014 . 243 pages. isbn 9781479804313 Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies...
View articletitled, Contemporary <span class="search-highlight">Arab</span>-American <span class="search-highlight">Literature</span>: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging by Carol Fadda-Conrey
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Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 23–42.
Published: 01 March 2024
... literary symbolism and aesthetics, the article attempts to make clear the resonance of her analytic method in the field of modern Arabic literature—especially Egyptian literature—and to point out how literature and critique are implicated in the social and political changes that forged and solidified...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 286–306.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., placed side by side, suggest new avenues for our understanding of gender, literary genre, and the postcolonial dynamics of world literature. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Zhor Wanisi Ahlam Mosteghanemi first Arabic-language novel Nearly every...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 149–151.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., engaged in scientific research, translation, and, above all, the publication of many works, also of high popularization. We shared a passion for contemporary Arabic literature and, like her, I also thought that fiction should be published by commercial publishers because that was the only way to spread...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 122–123.
Published: 01 July 2013
... of the Middle East Studies Center at Duke Uni-
versity. Her early writings focused on the intersection of gender and war
in modern Arabic literature and on Arab women writers’ constructions
of Islamic feminism. Cooke’s more recent interests have turned to Arab
cultural studies...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 140–141.
Published: 01 March 2013
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of eroticism in contemporary Islamic advice manuals and the impact of
such texts on the thinking and practices of Muslims in the United States.
Nadine Sinno is Assistant Professor of Arabic literature and language
in the Middle East Institute at Georgia State University. Her research...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 149–182.
Published: 01 November 2010
...: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt (2001), and editor of Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces (forthcoming). She has also published on early Arabic fiction and emergent gender activisms, auto/biography, literature of colloquial Arabics, translation theory/practice, masculinities...
View articletitled, “The Muslim Woman” as Celebrity Author and the Politics of Translating <span class="search-highlight">Arabic</span>: Girls of Riyadh Go on the Road
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 July 2015
... and victims in colonialism.” Abouzeid uses content and language choices to portray Leila’s struggle to liberate an unencumbered voice as part of the nation’s struggle to find its own voice through Arabic language and literature and an ethical political project. I argue that while Leila’s story can be read...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 343–362.
Published: 01 November 2016
... formulation suggest for readings of literature from an Arabic context, in relation to the Muslim/Jewish dichotomy, which is often portrayed as a feature of the region’s cultural and political landscape? According to Pierre Cachia ( 1990 , 209), “Modern Arab writers have all but denied themselves...
View articletitled, Gender, Conflict, and Muslim-Jewish Romance: Reading ʿAli Al-Muqri’s The Handsome Jew and Mahmoud Saeed’s The World through the Eyes of Angels
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 126–128.
Published: 01 November 2014
...-2.
Reviewed by Evelyne Accad, University of Illinois, Lebanese American University
The principal purpose of Hoda Elsadda’s Gender, Nation, and the Ara-
bic Novel: Egypt, 1892-2008 is to mark itself within the canon of Arabic
literature using gender as its principal framework...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 69–70.
Published: 01 March 2017
... a psychiatrist’s meeting with a woman prisoner the night before her execution for killing her pimp was quickly recognized as a classic. It was translated into English as Woman at Point Zero in 1983 and became essential reading in courses on Arabic literature. In 1986 the first international women’s book fair...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 422–424.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of modern Arabic literature, broadly defined, with novels by young authors such as Renée Hayek, lesser-known works such as Jordanian Muʾnis al-Razzaz’s Ahyaʾ fi al-Bahr al-Mayyit (1982), or work that has not yet received much critical attention, such as Rabee Jaber’s Biritus (2005) and Sonallah...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 31–49.
Published: 01 March 2016
... field surveys existing literature up to 1999. Madawi Al-Rasheed’s ( 2013 ) recent book on Saudi Arabia has one chapter on women’s literature; however, it leaves out some important writers, such as ʿAlim and Hifni. Saudi women writers have brought a new vision and new techniques to Arabic literature...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 95–97.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Standard Arabic used in male-dominated Arabic literature. In the last section of the book Hanna argues that Huda Barakat renders impossible the continuation of a “traditional” Lebanese masculinity during the civil war in her novels published between 1990 and 2004. For Hanna, Barakat illustrates...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 200–202.
Published: 01 November 2010
... Spaces (forthcoming). She has also published on early
Arabic fiction and emergent gender activisms, auto/biography, literature
of colloquial Arabics, translation theory/practice, masculinities in Ara-
bic literature, the pressures of censorship, and the emergence of print
culture...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 133–137.
Published: 01 March 2007
... of the Association of Tunisian Women for Research and
Development (AFTURD).
Samia Mehrez is Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the Ameri-
can University in Cairo. She is the author of Egyptian Writers between
History and Fiction: Essays on Naguib Mahfouz, Sonallah Ibrahim and
Gamal...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 1–3.
Published: 01 July 2013
...miriam cooke Miriam cooke is Braxton Craven Distinguished Professor of Arab Cultures and Director of the Middle East Studies Center at Duke University. Her early writings focused on the intersection of gender and war in modern Arabic literature and on Arab women writers’ constructions...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 143–151.
Published: 01 July 2018
... in Moslem Societies and Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe’s ( 1997 ) Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature , were accused of being Orientalist, and the first even of being racist. 4 Twenty-first-century studies include Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500–1800 (El...
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