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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 157–176.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., the formation of early Armenian feminism seemed to be completed on both political and intellectual fronts. While the Armenian women’s organizations founded in early nineteenth-century Constantinople, to which she was no stranger, 12 worked for girls’ education and betterment, Dussap’s literary works marked...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 58–88.
Published: 01 November 2008
... initiative, the second emphasizes the contributions of individual Iranians, especially women, and criticizes the state’s shortcomings and/or ideological agenda (Paidar 1995; Afary 1996; Sanasarian 1982). Most discussions of female educa- tion in Iran often omit or downplay the role of Armenian, Jewish...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 81–86.
Published: 01 July 2008
... and the impact of such violence on women. Houri Berberian (CSU Long Beach) described her current research on the roles of Armenian women 84  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 4:2 in Safavid New Julfa, given the frequent and long-term absence of male Armenian traders from the community...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 350–353.
Published: 01 November 2015
... be studied in terms of Aegean culture. In addition Turkey includes Armenians, Greeks, Jews, and Christians. Today the majority of the population may be Muslim, but as Ahmet Yaşar Ocak ( 1999 , 86) argues, the Ottoman “administrative establishment” replaced the “people’s Islam with Quran-based Sunni Islam...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 141–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Armenian, Greek, and Kurdish ethnic backgrounds (164). Thus, despite proactively reviving the legacy of previously overlooked MENA artists, Under the Skin is associated with the very act that it condemns: the exclusion of a critical narrative that diverges from the norm. What better platform to discuss...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 139–142.
Published: 01 November 2013
.... Such a desire is partially satisfied with her discussion of Zoya Pirzad’s I’ll Turn off the Lights (2001-2). Written by an Armenian fluent in Persian, Pirzad’s novel provides refreshing respite from what might otherwise be seen as a monolithic assemblage of purely Iranian texts. In the absence...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 March 2022
... with the World: Scandinavian Mission, Humanitarianism, and Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1905–1914 .” In Christian Missions and Humanitarianism in the Middle East, 1850–1950: Ideologies, Rhetoric, and Practices , edited by Okkenhaug Inger Marie and Sanchez-Summerer Karene , 90 – 109 . Leiden...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 59–80.
Published: 01 March 2022
... the American University of Beirut’s (AUB) first female medical graduate, Edma Abouchdid, class of 1931, after her graduation. Abouchdid worked at the Royal Hospital in Baghdad, the RMC’s teaching hospital, from 1936 to 1945 (Windsor 2002 : 3). Following in Abouchdid’s path, Anna Sittiyyan, an Armenian Iraqi...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 213–226.
Published: 01 July 2020
... we started with, in terms of social class, region, and religious diversity. Qajar Iran had a whole lot of different communities: Jews, Armenians, Bábís, Bahá’ís, and Zoroastrians. We are trying to make sure we cover that diversity. A lot of books that have been published in English mention...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 31–52.
Published: 01 March 2008
... instituted many civil and political reforms concerning women and family life for instrumental reasons, the TWU and other women’s groups in urban centers actively advocated even deeper changes to benefi t women. Alongside the more visible eff orts of Muslim Turkish women, re- cent scholarship on Armenian...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., and militarism by focusing on cases from various conflict zones (e.g., Su- dan, Palestine, Sierra Leone, and regions containing Kurds, Armenians, and others) where individuals may be actors, warriors, pawns, perpe- trators, collaborators, icons, or symbols and, most significantly, where women...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 337–358.
Published: 01 November 2022
... that is structured based on Öcalan’s doctrine of democratic confederalism. The self-governing principle in Rojava is implemented through small, decentralized units that allow people of all ethnic and religious backgrounds—Christians, Yezidis, Arabs, Turkmens, Chechens, Armenians—to manage their own affairs...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 79–109.
Published: 01 March 2005
... 1970s, Borj Hammoud housed Lebanese, Syrians, Pales- tinians, Greeks, Jordanians, and Egyptians. About forty percent of the popu- lation was Armenian (mostly Orthodox but also Catholic and Protestant).5 About another forty percent was Lebanese Shi’a. The remaining twenty per- cent was Maronite...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 326–347.
Published: 01 November 2021
... interruptions. They, too, were nearly all first-time proletarians: 90.9 percent of Ottoman leatherworkers (Syrians and Turks together) had been landless tenant farmers in the Ottoman Empire. 19 In all three types of factory labor, Syrian workers joined other Ottoman subjects—Turks, Armenians, and ethnic...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 43–63.
Published: 01 March 2021
...), 10.60.3, August 27, 1950, 2. 10. Baransel (1897–1967) is one of the well-known Turkish generals of the early Cold War years. Promoted to full general in 1951, Baransel led the Turkish Third Army until 1954. The Third Army was responsible for controlling the Armenian and Georgian parts...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 25–54.
Published: 01 July 2005
... with a god that is not so much the transcendent deity of Islam but rather a deeply personal, universal spirit. Watching the Armenian painter Gregorian illustrate 28  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES her poem inspired her to experiment in art, and she threw herself into paint- ing...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 382–410.
Published: 01 November 2016
...” but people with smiling faces. They were not just numbers in human rights reports. They did not simply disappear and die. They were disappeared and killed. They were workers, Kurds, students, journalists, Turks, Armenians, poets, and publishers. Above all, they were citizens of Turkey. Criticizing...
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