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Gulf Women ed. by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 158–161.
Published: 01 July 2014
... 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...
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Immodest Modesty: Accommodating Dissent and the ‘Abaya-as-Fashion in the Arab Gulf States
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 46–74.
Published: 01 March 2010
...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...
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Are They Married?: Muslim Marriages and the Interrelationship between Transnationalism and Ethnonationalism in the Gulf
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2017
...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...
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Crossing the Gulf: Love and Family in Migrant Lives
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 107–109.
Published: 01 March 2019
...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...
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Questioning the Discursive Construction of Trafficking and Forced Labor in the United Arab Emirates
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 6–35.
Published: 01 November 2011
... 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...
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The “Boyah” and the “Baby Lady”: Queer Mediations in Fatima Al Qadiri and Khalid al Gharaballi’s Wawa Series (2011)
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 139–142.
Published: 01 November 2012
... 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...
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Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran by Shahla Talebi
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 155–158.
Published: 01 July 2014
... 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...
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Regarding the Images of Others
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 216–220.
Published: 01 July 2015
... 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...
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The Body under Siege: Corruption and the Female Body in Betool Khedairi’s Ghāyib
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 240–255.
Published: 01 July 2021
... 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...
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Role-Playing in the Classroom: Gender Differences in Reactions of Bahraini Students
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 89–102.
Published: 01 July 2011
... 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...
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Islamic Feminism in Kuwait: The Politics and Paradoxes by Alessandra L. González
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 161–163.
Published: 01 July 2014
...
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...
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Gender and Nation Building in Qatar: Qatari Women Negotiate Modernity
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 344–366.
Published: 01 November 2019
... 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...
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Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 110–112.
Published: 01 March 2019
... 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...
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America’s Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 125–128.
Published: 01 March 2021
... 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...
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Roads Less Traveled in Middle East Anthropology—And New Paths in Gender Ethnography
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 62–86.
Published: 01 November 2014
...
Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Bahrain
Drugs, Deviance and Democracy...
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Arab Images: Musings on Disjointed Grief for Palestine
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2025) 21 (1): 122–131.
Published: 01 March 2025
... 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...
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Queer Imaginaries: Tensions in Academic and Activist Frames
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 331–336.
Published: 01 November 2015
... 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...
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Women’s Shi‘i Ma’atim in Bahrain
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (2): 31–58.
Published: 01 July 2010
... 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...
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Characteristics, Motivations, and Challenges of Women Entrepreneurs in Oman’s Al-Dhahira Region
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 135–151.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., 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...
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Cover Art Concept
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 235–236.
Published: 01 July 2019
... 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...
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