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The Saadawian Androgyny
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 71–86.
Published: 01 March 2017
... is a powerful way to deconstruct patriarchy, because it breaks the hierarchized binary thought on which patriarchy is based. Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 Nawal El Saadawi Circling Song gender identity patriarchy In 1973 the newly dismissed former...
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Remembering Nawal El Saadawi
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 158–161.
Published: 01 March 2022
... myths,” I said. “It recalls Hamidu and Hamida in Circling Song .” “ Circling Song ? The story of the twins?” Nawal’s eyes widened, intrigued by any connection between her novel and this Chinese ink-and-wash painting. I explained that those two fish were an artistic presentation of yin-and-yang...
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Egyptian Women’s Writings
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 69–70.
Published: 01 March 2017
... to behave. Within the context of El Saadawi’s vast oeuvre, Niu looks at one of her least-known novels, The Circling Song (1973). Using the Taoist lens of yin and yang, in which masculine and feminine are coherent, complementary, and not hierarchical, Niu demonstrates that for El Saadawi “cultural...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 March 2017
... introduces a themed section of three articles on Egyptian women writers. While each author zooms in on a different literary work—Zimu Niu on Nawal El Saadawi’s Circling Song , Valerie Anishchenkova on Miral al-Tahawy’s Blue Aubergine , and Caroline Seymour-Jorn on al-Tahawy’s Tent —all explore how...
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The “Barbaric” Dabke : Masculinity, Dance, and Autocracy in Contemporary Syrian Cultural Production
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 197–219.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., to whom he admits: Doctor, I have a problem . . . a dabke problem. . . . I just hear the sound of any shaʿbī [street music] song, and I can’t possess myself at all, I can’t control myself. . . . As you know, Doctor, I am a general manager, and it is necessary in my position to join in every national...
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Popular Culture, Gender, and Revolution in Egypt
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 137–146.
Published: 01 March 2021
... the unpopular rule of the Muslim Brotherhood. See, e.g., PPC n.d.-c. 5. For more information about the BuSSy Project, see bussy.co/en. 6. Zap Tharwat is a rapper known for his songs addressing social issues facing youth. The NCW has supported his performances, which tackle sexual harassment...
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Himmelstochter : A Muslima in German Public Spheres
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 27–55.
Published: 01 July 2011
...-
ter this announcement, Kandemir sang religious, but also secular, songs
from her earlier repertoire.
Examining Kandemir’s (2005) book, Himmelstochter: Mein Weg
vom Popstar zu Allah (Daughter of heaven: My way from pop star to
Allah), which chronicles her earlier life...
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Ethnographic and Literary Reflections on Miral Al-Tahawy’s The Tent
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 107–123.
Published: 01 March 2017
... character who greedily collects Bedouin material culture, horses, songs, and folktales. I approach the novelist’s manner of writing about emotion and imaginativeness by attending to aesthetic processes themselves, aspects often ignored by anthropologists looking at fiction (Arebi 1994 ; Schmidt...
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La Vie en Rouge
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 173–176.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of my song. Nawal’s face lights up in excitement and delight; she ululates as she urges the band to keep playing and for me to keep singing, the moon shyly spreading apart the blanket of a dark night. Nawal, to the end, was an unswerving secularist, committed to separation of state and religion...
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Go Underground, Young Women: Writing Selves in Miral al-Tahawy’s The Tent
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 265–286.
Published: 01 July 2017
... in Zahwa’s allegorical world echo the symbols of birds as women in Fatima’s experiences aboveground, which in turn echo the symbols of birds as women in the quoted Bedouin proverbs, expressions, and songs in al-Tahawy’s world (al-Tahawy 1999 , 20, 65, 69, 62). In her study of “desert novels,” al-Tahawy...
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“It Used to Be Forbidden”: Kurdish Women and the Limits of Gaining Voice
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... reigned among the singers. They felt that they had not been given a prominent enough place during the program—their performance was scheduled at the very end—and the organizers had not allowed them to perform all the songs they had prepared. In fact, one woman did not sing at all because the organizers...
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From Women’s Revolution to Jiyanist Democracy
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 458–468.
Published: 01 November 2023
... presence in the everyday. Having breakfast, too, is quite symbolic, announcing that a new era has begun. Another instance of the power of everyday life is the song “Baraye” (“For . . . ”) from Shervin Hajipour, which quickly turned into the ballad of the movement. Its melody and lyrics embracing...
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Belly Dancing and the (En)Gendering of Ethnic Sexuality in the “Mixed” Brazilian Nation
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (2): 86–114.
Published: 01 July 2010
... to the actors. Finally, the
music director contracted the aforementioned Syrian singer Tony Mou-
zayek to compose songs for the series, some of which would ultimately
be released on its soundtrack as well. All told, two Arab Brazilian men
and one non-Arab Brazilian woman served as “community...
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Pieces of Us: The Intimate as Imperial Archive
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 268–291.
Published: 01 November 2018
... in the midst of the Lebanese civil war ( fig. 2 ). Figure 2. Fadia Basrawi to the left, Adnan Khayat in the center, and Munira Khayyat on her tenth birthday in Beirut in October 1986. Adnan launches into birthday song as Munira and her mother light the candles on the ballerina birthday cake. Smiling...
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Race against Time: Racial Temporality and Sexuality in Modern Iran
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (3): 270–288.
Published: 01 November 2024
... with the female lead frolicking in a sari. 29 Notably, mock Hindi endures and resurfaces in an Iranian music video from 2016, in the pop song “Murcha Dara” (“It Has Ants”), by Sih Baradar Khudavirdi (The Three Khudavirdi Brothers). This song proved popular and inspired several parodies and numerous lip...
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Abjection of Mother(land): A Psychoanalytic Reading of Laleh Khadivi’s The Age of Orphans
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 69–88.
Published: 01 March 2024
... it, seeing his father and the knife in the ceremony, “the boy is no longer aligned with him and no longer cares for the game of the father . . . and wants nothing but the crisscross of his maman’s knees and shins and the sad songs that sing him to sleep.” The boy, despite his resistance, was circumcised...
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Territories of Desire: A Geography of Competing Intimacies in Cairo
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 166–180.
Published: 01 July 2016
... love is also a central subject in the sad songs at coffee shops. The larger the group, the more likely boasting about sex will come up. In large gatherings the people present are often loosely acquainted with each other. More sensitive conversations unfold in a close circle of friends. They rely...
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Weddings and War: Marriage Arrangements and Celebrations in Two Palestinian Intifadas
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 11–35.
Published: 01 November 2009
... a small group of masked militants would suddenly
appear, sing revolutionary songs in honor of the new couple, and just as
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quickly disappear. During their wedding party in Fahmi’s village near
Nablus, one of Fahmi’s brothers, a “wanted person...
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Critical Pious Agency and Muslim Feminists’ Activism in the Age of Authoritarianism: The 2019 Feminist Night Walk in Turkey
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 26–49.
Published: 01 March 2023
... orientation. As the organizers explain, an antireligion agenda has never been part of the Feminist Night Walk; what brings women from different backgrounds together is the stress on “feminist revolt.” Since the very beginning the demonstrations have been very colorful, with songs, musical instruments...
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A Palestinian Woman’s Writings: Reflections on Hegemony and Resistance
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 173–198.
Published: 01 July 2024
... 2005 ; Sayigh 2013 ), Palestinians have found creative ways to confront the occupation through songs, poems, writings, paintings, comics, and other forms of artistic expression (Ball 2012 ; Boullata 2004 ; Kanaaneh et al. 2013 ; Peteet 1996 ; Tamari 2005 ). A good example emerges in the work...
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