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... 1980s as she moved painfully from defiance to compliance on the television screen. Gulf Women Amira El-Azhary Sonbol, ed. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2012. 454 pages. ISBN 978-0-8156-3309-9. Reviewed by Bridget...

...Noor Al-Qasimi This article examines how the phenomenon of the ‘abaya-as-fashion is accommodated by the hegemonic order of Islamic patriarchy in the region of the Arab Gulf states. The traditional ‘abaya, or body veil commonly worn by national women across the Arab Gulf, is juxtaposed against...

...Attiya Ahmad Abstract In recent years marriages among Muslims of different ethnonational backgrounds have developed in the Gulf region. While proponents of these “Muslim marriages” depict them as transnational alternatives to ethnonational forms of affinity and belonging, as I discuss...

...Emanuela Buscemi Crossing the Gulf: Love and Family in Migrant Lives . Pardis Mahdavi . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2016 . 216 pages. isbn 9780804798839. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Pardis Mahdavi’s Crossing...

... discourses on migration, trafficking, and prostitution in the Gulf countries. Pardis Mahdavi is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Pomona College. Her research interests include gendered labor, migration, sexuality, human rights, youth culture, transnational feminism and public health...

... with gendered and sexual representa- tions of femininity and queerness with reference to the local, namely, Kuwait, as well as the regional, that is, the Arab Gulf and the Arab world at large. In both photographs, references to the Arab Gulf and Kuwait are specifically manifest in the queer. Butch...

... in the early 1980s as she moved painfully from defiance to compliance on the television screen. Gulf Women Amira El-Azhary Sonbol, ed. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2012. 454 pages. ISBN 978-0-8156-3309-9. Reviewed by Bridget...

... and ecology and debates about the loss of cultural identity that have surfaced with the dramatic overhaul of the Gulf as a seat of power and commerce. Al Saadi and Mater were among a number of artists in Here and Elsewhere who explored subjective experiences while alluding to political currents and upending...

... uranium shells left behind after the First Gulf War. As Chen illustrates, toxic people, not just chemicals, arise in discourses on toxicity (190). Poison may corrupt not only one body but the relationships that the body has with other bodies. In Chen’s exploration of US panic regarding lead in children’s...

... satisfaction rate and few gender differences in reactions towards role-playing, with uniquely interest- ing implications for both educational institutions and gender studies. INTRODUCTION he Kingdom of Bahrain is a small island located in the Arab Gulf Tregion...

... dialogue about Gulf histories and the contributions of women to them. Islamic Feminism in Kuwait: The Politics and Paradoxes Alessandra L. González. New York: Palgrave, 2013. 254 pages. ISBN 978-1-137-30473-5. Reviewed by Jane...

... in the context of the Qatari state’s developmental initiatives, and this article seeks to contribute to the scholarship on women in the Gulf states. Jocelyn Sage Mitchell et al. ( 2014 : 1) explore the conflict between Qatari women’s increased participation in the educational sphere and workplace...

... In Everyday Conversions Attiya Ahmad explores the experiences of South Asian domestic workers converting to Islam in Kuwait. Tens of thousands of people have converted to Islam over the past twenty years in the Gulf, the majority of them women domestic workers. Such conversions have been examined from two...

... is aided by a detailed summary of the global political timeline that leads to the crescendo of the global “refugee crisis,” providing necessary context for the claims on US moral responsibility for Arab refugee resettlement and care. Her own study begins at the outset of the Second Gulf War and ends...

... Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf    Bahrain Drugs, Deviance and Democracy...

... It was the mid-1990s, in the aftermath of the Gulf War, and we were celebrating a high school classmate s birthday. The dismaying question, far from rhetorical, had been asked by an ordinary boy, seemingly no different from the other kids in the room. But I was reminded that I was. His words targeted Arabs who...

... contextualization. He discussed the mega-infrastructure and construction-centered basis of the alliance between Persian Gulf governments and Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and the alliance’s pattern of upper-middle-class moral wars to restore its political power in the face of the deterioration of state...

... minorities (2002, 173). In Bahrain, recent Shi‘i activism has economic and political roots. Th e Gulf and the surrounding oil-producing regions constitute the homeland of the Shi‘a. Shi‘i communities are found in Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia...

..., and migration in developing countries, particularly those in transition (Gamage 2003, Mathew 2010, Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry 2006, Singh and Belwal 2008). The coverage of female entrepreneurship is sparse in many Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and data on female...

... Wings series at the Athr Gallery in Jeddah in 2017, as part of a sequence of exhibits featuring women artists from the Gulf. Al Khalifa’s series is about “intimacy and vulnerability, but also strength and perseverance” (Al Khalifa 2017 ). References Al Khalifa Hala . 2017 . She Wore Her...