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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 3–23.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Peter Drucker Abstract The project of the French Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU) in Morocco in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—to win social and political equality for Jews through European enlightenment—was intertwined with the French imperial project. Moroccan Jewish women...
View articletitled, “Disengaging from the Muslim Spirit”: The Alliance Israélite Universelle and Moroccan <span class="search-highlight">Jews</span>
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Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 150–153.
Published: 01 July 2005
...Arbella Bet-Shlimon The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village , Slyomovics Susan . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1998 . xxv + 294 pp. including appendices, notes, bibliography and index. $19.95 paperback. Copyright © 2005 Association...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 343–362.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., might this signify a desire to problematize Israeli claims to represent all Jews, to reclaim “Jewishness” as closer to “Arabness” than political arguments usually admit? The tragic love story with a historical setting is just one theme in Arab writers’ treatment of Muslim-Jewish amatory relations...
View articletitled, Gender, Conflict, and Muslim-Jewish Romance: Reading ʿAli Al-Muqri’s The Handsome <span class="search-highlight">Jew</span> and Mahmoud Saeed’s The World through the Eyes of Angels
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Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 232–234.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Danya Al-Saleh On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings . Ella Shohat . London : Pluto , 2017 . xv + 464 pages. isbn 9780745399508 (cloth), 9780745399492 (paper). Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Ella...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 71–101.
Published: 01 November 2006
... the first world (Jews of European origins) and the third world (Jews of Middle Eastern origins). That is, the social categories in which girls and boys are captured, allowing ethnic and gender discrimination of Mizrahim in Israeli society, are grounded in a European symbolic repertoire that traditionally...
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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...
View articletitled, “Not a Figure in the Past”: Zionist Imperial Whiteness, the Iraqi Communist Party, and Their Reverberating Histories of Race and Gender, 1941–1951
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Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 24–47.
Published: 01 March 2019
... invisible, enabling reproduction of gender inequality. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Israel Orientalism Jews race/ethnicity whiteness Orientalism posits a global race/gender divide in which women from the cultural West are more liberated than...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 395–415.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the Third Temple movement, the presence of visibly religious Jews entering the Haram ash-Sharif compound surrounded by armed police escorts signals that Temple activists have state support to annex the site in future. Since 2010 religious women activists have played an increasingly important and public...
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View articletitled, Putting Messianic Femininity into Zionist Political Action: The Race-Class and Ideological Normativity of Women for the Temple in Jerusalem
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Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 88–90.
Published: 01 July 2009
..., and the Cinema,” and “Rupture and Return: Zion-
ist Discourse and the Study of Arab-Jews.”
I particularly enjoyed “‘Lasers for Ladies’: Endo Discourse and the
Inscriptions of Science,” where Shohat explores the empowerment of
women through collective viewing, in a supportive community setting...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 56–88.
Published: 01 July 2011
... in
Palestine in 1882, most came after the Holocaust (Lavie 2007). Official
Israeli terminology endows them with the appellation Kehilot Ashkenaz
(Ashkenazi communities) (Ducker 2005, Lavie 1992, Shohat 1988).3 Most
Mizrahim vehemently reject the identity descriptor “Arab Jews,” desig-
nated for them...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 206–208.
Published: 01 July 2020
... such ordinary Jewish women fit into the social order of the tenth- to thirteenth-century Islamic eastern Mediterranean, both as women and as Jews, and how two institutions central to their social order—kinship and law—shaped their lives” (2). Her study contends that a girl’s or woman’s first marriage had...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (1): 1–38.
Published: 01 March 2011
.... Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, both at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Her research focuses on cultural perceptions of Ethiopian Jews in both Ethiopia and Israel, women’s expressive culture and life stories, and present-day Israeli folklore. She is the author...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 264–266.
Published: 01 July 2016
... and religion and in explaining the state’s grip and the failure of antistate social protest by faithful disenfranchised citizens. Last, Wrapped is among the very few works that tie Israeli colonization and military occupation of Palestine with internal colonization of non-European Jews, intra-Jewish racism...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 377–382.
Published: 01 November 2019
... in the region. So why are Israeli peace supporters incapable of engendering change? What are the mechanisms that block the Israeli Left from taking a louder and more effective stand against the occupation? In Sustaining Conflict Natanel focuses on how the Israeli Left (primarily young, educated Jews...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 138–141.
Published: 01 March 2008
... the West Bank are now edited beyond
recognition, with “every word double-checked,” and his very presence in
the offi ce elicits unease and suspicion.
Feeling increasingly unwelcome among Jews, the narrator imag-
ines that life will be better in the Arab village. He wants to be in a place
“where...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 45–74.
Published: 01 November 2007
..., and said that it would
take thousands of new apartments to accommodate local families for the
near future alone, not to mention the next generation. Sigal was visibly
upset by Samira’s speech.
Sigal: “Why do you talk like that? Do you want to create tension here
between Jews...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 72–76.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of Zionism pinkwashes precisely through recruiting/hailing Jewish Israeli LGBTQ+ subjects. In doing so, the state reproduces a capacitated, “rehabilitated,” productive, and reproductive (117) post-Shoah heteromasculinist Jewish Zionist body: the New Jew, which Puar does not reference but which bolsters her...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (1): 129–131.
Published: 01 March 2011
... aspects, such as Jewish dress. Juhasz is
the editor and principal author of Sephardi Jews in the Ottoman Empire:
Aspects of Material Culture (Israel Museum, 1990). She also serves as
the scientific advisor to the Israel Museum Wing of Jewish Art and Life.
Saida Kouzzi is an attorney...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 90–93.
Published: 01 July 2009
... Women’s Studies 2009 90 JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 5:2
“the Jewish state.” And Jews and non-Jews alike, in various parts of
the world (e.g. Muslims and Jews in Spain during the Inquisition, non-
Catholics in Central America during the Spanish Conquest), have had...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 111–113.
Published: 01 March 2015
... and accessible; her powerful account of passing through the Qalandia checkpoint is a highlight (94). In a compelling narrative Schulman provides an alternative script of exile and home and suggests complex, less dichotomous ways of imagining oneself as a queer, a Jew, and an activist for Palestine. Moreover...
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