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...Banu Gökarıksel Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 Scholars of Middle East women’s studies have much cause for alarm today. The increasing prevalence of anti-Muslim rhetoric and action, the unabashed reassertion of white male power, and recent attempts...

...) that, among other things, sought to limit immigration from seven countries with Muslim-majority populations and drastically reduce resettlement for all refugees, while halting it permanently for Syrians. 3 Referring to the EO as a “Muslim ban,” as the president and his supporters, the media...

...Hanadi Al-Samman References Chow Kat . 2017 . “ In Times Square, Protesters Take to the Streets to Say ‘I Am Muslim Too.’ ” NPR , February 19 . www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/19/516137660/in-times-square-protesters-take-to-the-streets-to-say-i-am-muslim-too . Eligon...

... Park and the Arab Revolutions .” In Freedom without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions , edited by Hasso Frances S. and Salime Zakia , 221 – 58 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Gökarıksel Banu , and McLarney Ellen . 2010 . “ Introduction: Muslim...

...Amaney A. Jamal Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 On March 6, 2017, the president of the United States issued a second executive order that targets Muslims. This Muslim ban has already had a variety of negative outcomes, including limiting basic...

..., “it is only at home that people are critical of how we dress.” Others cling to the habit wherever they are because they believe it is incumbent upon them as modest Muslim women. A vocal few claim they have no choice. Sexuality in Muslim Contexts: Restrictions...

...Joan W. Scott This book is Abu-Lughod’s intervention, an anthropologist’s insistence that observation, understanding, and respect ought to replace a rush to the salvation of (the oversimplified category of) “Muslim women.” She wants to do away with deceptively simple (mis)representations...

... is currently working on a history of women’s human rights movements in Muslim societies. Copyright © 2005 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2005 96  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS...

...Christine Fergus Muslim Women in the United Kingdom and Beyond: Experiences and Images , Jawad Haifaa Benn Tansin , eds., 2003 . Leiden, Boston : Brill . Pp.xxvi + 180 . $96.00 /cloth. Copyright © 2005 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2005 130  JOURNAL...

...Rachel L. Kaplan On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era , Nouraie-Simone Fereshteh , ed. New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York , 2005 . Pp. 282. $18.95 paper. Copyright © 2006 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2006...

...Zohreh Ghavamshahidi 112  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out Fawzia Afzal-Khan, ed. Massachusetts: Olive Branch Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 338. $20 paperback. Reviewed by Zohreh Ghavamshahidi...

... were assigned, as mothers and wives, a special role in the AIU’s efforts: to help Jewish boys and men pursue commercial or professional careers in French-dominated society. The AIU schools set out to win Moroccan Jews away from despised Muslim gender and sexual norms by Europeanizing Jews’ marriage...

... of Gender in Muslim Societies Azza Basarudin, University of California, Los Angeles Research Roundtable of Southern California Scholars held at the AUniversity of California, Los Angeles, on February 13, 2008, brought together sixteen faculty and graduate students to share...

...Karen Leonard Muslim Diaspora: Gender, Culture and Identity , Moghissi Haideh , ed. New York : Routledge , 2006 . Pp. xxv, 238 . ISBN 9780415770811 . Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Schirin Amir-Moazami The Production of the Muslim Woman: Negotiating Text, History, and Ideology , Zayzafoon Lamia Ben Youssef . Lanham : Lexington Books , 2005 . Pp. xii, 213 . ISBN 0-739-10962-6 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009 94...

...Lila Abu-Lughod Rather than arguing about whether “Muslim women” do or do not have rights, I suggest that we begin from the premise that the concept of, and the practices around, “Muslim women’s rights” have an active social life today that can and should be studied ethnographically. The kinds...

...Chloe Safier American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah , Karim Jamillah . New York : New York University Press , 2009 . Pp. xi, 291 . ISBN 978-0-8147-4810-7 . Copyright © 2010 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2010...

...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...

...Lynne Dahmen Women’s Writing and Muslim Societies: The Search for Dialogue, 1920 – Present , Gemie Sharif . Cardiff : University of Wales Press , 2013 . 194 pages. ISBN 100708325408 . Copyright © 2014 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2014...

... with the other, this rupture of dominant ideologies opens up new ways of thinking about identity but may also end with those disruptions being suppressed and crushed. This article uses Layoun’s ideas to inform a close reading of two recent novels written in Arabic, both of which depict Muslim-Jewish amatory...