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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 41–61.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Chelsie May Abstract This article uses the racial divisions encouraged by European Zionism in early-state Israel among European and Middle Eastern Jews as a point of departure to explore racialization and gendering among Iraqi Jewish women during the years 1941–51 from a sociopolitical standpoint...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 24–47.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of Bourgeois Iraqi and Polish Jews Who Immigrated to Israel in the 1950s .” Israel Studies 19 , no. 2 : 70 – 93 . Lerner Julia , Rapoport Tamar , and Lomsky-Feder Edna . 2007 . “ The Ethnic Script in Action: The Regrounding of Russian Jewish Immigrants in Israel .” Ethos 35...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 232–234.
Published: 01 July 2019
...). Important political events—the anti-Zionist resistance among Arab Jews, Mizrahim, and Sephardim, which has been subsumed under Euro-Zionist narratives (chaps. 3, 4, 5, 8, and 15)—are documented in what is also an archive of Shohat’s personal memories growing up as an Iraqi Jew in Israel (chaps. 6 and 26...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 25–44.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Orit . 2010 . “ To Educate an Iraqi Jew; or, What Can We Learn from Hebrew Autobiographies about Arab Nationalism and the Iraqi Education System (1921–1952) .” In World Yearbook of Education 2010 , edited by Mazawi Andre E. and Sultana Ronald G. , 163 – 83 . London : Routledge...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 90–93.
Published: 01 July 2009
... developed between fi ve Iraqi women
living in exile in the city of London, UK. Set in the 1990s, the series of
events takes place aft er the fi rst Gulf War, during the Western-imposed
economic sanctions and the U.S. military air strikes upon Baghdad.
Th e author has written...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 53–82.
Published: 01 March 2008
.... Her dissertation, “Intellectuals in Monarchic Iraq, 1921–1941,” looks at the construction of the Iraqi public sphere and the emergence of democratic discourses during the interwar period. Her publications include articles on the history of Arab Jews in Iraq, Iraqi history, and Arabic literature...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 92–114.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Andrea Fischer-Tahir In 1988 the Iraqi regime launched the Anfal campaigns against the Kurdish peshmerga and their civil supporters in the rural areas. This article investigates narrations about Anfal constructed by peshmerga ten years after the events. It compares the memoirs of a leading...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 343–362.
Published: 01 November 2016
... that—like many Iraqi Jews—Sumaya never identified fully with Israel and sees it not as a safe homeland but as a “usurper” that divided her from the land and the boy she loves, forcing her to die separated from both. Even after all the Jews in Mosul disappear, it takes several days before those left...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 145–146.
Published: 01 March 2008
.... at Princeton University in 2004. Her
dissertation, “Intellectuals in Monarchic Iraq, 1921–1941,” looks at the
construction of the Iraqi public sphere and the emergence of democratic
discourses during the interwar period. Her publications include articles
on the history of Arab Jews in Iraq, Iraqi...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 140–142.
Published: 01 March 2012
... research
focuses on Iraqi Kurdistan and the Iraq, and her research interests
include issues of identity, memory, gender, urban-rural dynamics, and
knowledge production. Her Ph.D. thesis on resistance and the making
of collective identity in Iraqi Kurdistan was published in 2003...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 301–302.
Published: 01 November 2016
... demonstrators in Cairo to men who have also been targeted for sexual violence. Why, she asks, have attacks on the men supporting women protesters been silenced? Sarah Irving and Dana Olmert read Israeli, Iraqi, and Yemeni literature to understand fraught and often violent relationships between Jews/Israelis...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 59–80.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Sara Farhan Abstract This article explores the history of Iraqi women’s participation in the medical profession as accredited physicians in the first half of the twentieth century. It begins with a discussion of women’s exclusion from late Ottoman medical education faculties and their reliance...
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Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 88–90.
Published: 01 July 2009
... by Rima Hassouneh, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Th is is the story of a friendship developed between fi ve Iraqi women
living in exile in the city of London, UK. Set in the 1990s, the series of
events takes place aft er the fi rst Gulf War, during the Western-imposed
economic...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 43–68.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., Tennessee, is home to the largest Kurdish community in the United States; this community comprises mostly Kurds from Iraq and Iran. After the fall of the Kurdish rebellion against the Iraqi nation-state in the mid-1970s, men who were often formally educated and linked to civil society fled to Iranian...
FIGURES
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 445–447.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., lighthearted, yet powerful feminism in the show. More stark and bleak assessments of the various theaters of war throughout the Middle East are offered by Palestinian photojournalist Rula Halawani and Iraqi-born Janane Al-Ani. Halawani’s Negative Incursions series (2002) features large-format photographs...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 56–88.
Published: 01 July 2011
.... Its members were Yemenis
Yonit Mansour, Yael Zadok, and Ronit Dagan-Timsit; Iraqis Ilana Sha-
mai, Rutie Gur, Irit Daloumi, and Shosha Goren; Egyptian Vicki Shiran;
and Iranian Zehava Goldstein. All were Zionists, but all criticized the
60 mn JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 7:2...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 238–259.
Published: 01 July 2022
... cities and resisted Iraqi forces. This genre also documents the existence of mass graves of Arab Iranian women who killed themselves when they faced the prospect of war rape (Hamidi and Jamshidiha 2007 ). 9. “Like most Middle Eastern countries, census in Iran is highly sensitive and can have...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 March 2012
... in the Arab world
and in all of which memory politics from “above” and “from below” play
a crucial role: the Iraqi case consisting of an externally imposed regime
change, the Lebanese case consisting of a post-civil war situation, and
the Moroccan case consisting of a moment of broadened political par...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 124–128.
Published: 01 November 2011
..., and politi-
cal paralysis, not to mention the evacuation of pleasure, meaning, and
spirituality from daily life.
Achim Rohde examines the Iraqi state’s production of cultural
representations of masculinity and femininity during the war with Iran
in the 1980s. Similar to Ahmed, Rohde examines...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 45–74.
Published: 01 November 2007
... of
modern state formation entailed institutional reconstructions and the
reconstitution of local culture:
The Iraqi elite used the state as an agent of legal reform, attempting to
change family structure and the position of women. The Lebanese elite
shied away from legal...
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