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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 261–285.
Published: 01 November 2019
...miriam cooke Abstract This article analyzes recent Iraqi texts, some authorizing and others condemning rape as a weapon of war. The focus is on Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) perpetrators of sexual violence, their Yazidi victims, and two women’s demands for reparative, restorative justice...
FIGURES
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 150–155.
Published: 01 March 2022
... deep knowledge of the Qurʾan led her to question all who subverted its message of justice was also smiling. My living connection with the daughter of Isis has been cut. The dozens of faxes from all over the world have faded to white. I did not archive the earliest emails. So I snatch bits...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 306–322.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Edith Szanto Abstract During the onslaught of the Islamic caliphate on Kobanî, Syria, media outlets across the globe broadcast pictures of brave and often unveiled Kurdish women fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), a quintessentially male force of destruction. The images...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 337–358.
Published: 01 November 2022
... despite its differences from the previous discursive constitutions of Muslim women in US media. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 Rojava gender Kurdistan Orientalism Although the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2014...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 408–413.
Published: 01 November 2022
... Ethnologist 10 , no. 1 : 1 – 22 . Kanaaneh Rhoda Ann . 2002 . Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel . Berkeley : University of California Press . Moaveni Azadeh . 2019 . Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS . New York : Random House...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 71–86.
Published: 01 March 2017
...-Maʾarif . El Saadawi Nawal . 1999 . A Daughter of Isis , translated by Hatata Sherif . London : Zed . Al-Sawah Firas . 1985 . Lugz Ishtar: Al-Uluha al-Muʾannatha wa asl al-din wa al-ustura (Riddle of Ishtar: Goddesses and the Origin of Religion and Myth). Damascus : Dar...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 131–136.
Published: 01 March 2021
... on Twitter, in which he reported on daily realities on the ground in an ISIS-occupied part of Syria. The collaboration between Hisham and Crabapple combines Hisham’s analytic biographical lens with Crabapple’s subjective realist illustrations to present personalized perspectives that give a sense...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 350–353.
Published: 01 November 2015
... a “dilemma” attached to supporting a new form of secular democracy because of the conditions the rebellion against the AKP produced. Moreover, secularism is less demonized in the Kurdish area today, given the 2014 siege of Kobanê and ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) violence. As Houzan Mahmoud ( 2014...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 114–117.
Published: 01 July 2008
... and
before the civil war, her life in exile in London, and her skills as an artist
and playwright. Leaving Beirut isis notnot anan academicacademic oror scholarlyscholarly researchedresearched
work, although it deals with themes that have been extensively explored
and written about, namely...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 284–287.
Published: 01 July 2016
... Modernity: Era of Woman’s Revolution .” In Liberating Life: Woman’s Revolution . Neuss : International Initiative Edition with Mesopotamian Publishers . Platt Gareth . 2014 . “ A Kurdish Female Fighter’s War Story: ‘I Don’t Know How Many I’ve Killed in Kobani—I Don’t See Isis as Human...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 158–161.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and spiritual. She urged her readers to discern the “patriarch” intertwined with the image of “God” in Abrahamic religions. Constantly accused of being “Westernized,” Nawal was, on the contrary, rooted in her Egyptian experience. She was, as she concluded in her autobiography, a daughter of Isis. Refuting...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 423–426.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and protection units in Rojava and Shingal, and to women’s solidarity and the first women-led organizations in a post-ISIS Mambij. Both the section on history and the layered and complex historical narratives in the section on practices provide a contextualized social historical account, distinguishing the book...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 126.
Published: 01 July 2007
.... She is the author of Between Two Empires: Ahmet Ağaoğlu and
the New Turkey (2003)(2003) andand variousvarious articlesarticles includingincluding “Beauty“Beauty IsIs NothingNothing toto
Be Ashamed Of: Beauty Contests as Tools of Women’s Liberation in Early
Republican Turkey...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 129–130.
Published: 01 March 2021
... herself. The camp’s residents were Syrian Kurds, displaced by fundamentalist rebels, the regime, ISIS, poverty, or some combination of the four. Many were passing time until they could scrape together the money to pay a smuggler to take them to Germany. This issue’s cover art is a portrait, based...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 137–138.
Published: 01 November 2008
... articlesarticles includingincluding “Beauty“Beauty IsIs NothingNothing
To Be Ashamed Of: Beauty Contests as Tools of Women’s Liberation in
Early Republican Turkey,” in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa
and the Middle East (20042004), andand anan earlierearlier articlearticle onon...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 89–118.
Published: 01 November 2008
..., urf isis deeplydeeply
infl uenced by Islam and Iranian tradition, yet insofar as it is a part of
peoples’ lives, it is also infl uenced by modernism and everyday experi-
ence.
Th e third set of standards in this Iranian triptych is based on mod-
ernization and Westernization...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 423–429.
Published: 01 November 2019
... who were kidnapped and sexually assaulted by ISIS militants when they invaded their villages in the north of Iraq in 2014. She interviewed Yazidi women while assisting them in camps for displaced families and women survivors of the ISIS invasion of Mosul. Herself a war survivor and now a women’s civil...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 112–113.
Published: 01 November 2006
..., University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out isis a ccollectionollection
of academic and non-academic pieces written by Muslim women in
the United States and addresses the most controversial questions sur-
rounding Muslim women post-9/11...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 425–432.
Published: 01 November 2016
... massacred; they were sold into sexual slavery; they were priced at $10 to attract ISIS recruits; and then they were forced to undergo abortions in order to be resold at Islamist slave markets. This series is composed of eleven artworks (six are shown here), each representing an aspect of the terrifying...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 147–149.
Published: 01 March 2022
... into English as Daughter of Isis and Walking through Fire , as well as her controversial play God Resigns at the Summit Meeting . She was writing the third volume of her autobiography when she died. I have quoted the course description at length because it responds so powerfully to the carping...
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