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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 152–155.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Margot Badran Revolutionary Womanhood: Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser’s Egypt , Bier Laura . New York : Stanford University Press , 2011 . 246 pages. ISBN 978-0-8047-7439-0 . Copyright © 2014 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2014 152 mn Journal...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., “The magnificent industrial revolution whose flame was ignited by President Gamal Abdel Nasser, the great leader of Arab nationalism, continues its march to the glorious summit: Ideal Refrigerators and kitchens!” ( al-Jil , May 16, 1960, n.p.). Another ad for Ideal products, which pitched kitchens, refrigerators...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 299–300.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Yasmine Nasser Diaz [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 Graduation Day is part of my soft powers series of velvet fiber etchings. The notion of soft power is understood as the ability to attract and co-opt, rather than...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 129–133.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Moneera al-Ghadeer Al-Nasser Abdallah , translated by Dina Bosio and Christopher Tingley. Interlink, 2004 . 124 pp. Copyright © 2006 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2006 BOOK REVIEWS 129
theless performed...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 23–42.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., which offered a strong Marxist critique of the sixties generation’s compromises with the Nasser regime, especially the decision to dissolve the independent Egyptian Communist Party (al-Hizb al-Shuyuʿi al-Misri; ECP) and the Democratic Movement for National Liberation (al-Haraka al-Dimuqratiyya li-l...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 122–130.
Published: 01 March 2023
... with the will of an ant and would stay an ant forever.” Yoav Di-Capua ( 2021 : 25) suggests that sovereign power in postcolonial Egypt was to be located not in the state but in the Man Himself: Nasser. 15 And this sovereignty, forged in the throes of decolonization and personified in Nasser’s person and body...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 19–40.
Published: 01 March 2020
... continually reminds us of the first few episodes, set during the Nasser years and documenting Zaat’s childhood. Instead of financial struggle and a decaying public infrastructure and social services, we see a family home insulated from broader political changes; the only time politics enters the intimate...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 1–26.
Published: 01 July 2011
... MODERNISM
In an attempt to appreciate the extent to which the revolution of 1952
created a society that appealed to and tested Abdel Rahman’s status as
an unlikely heroine, I discuss Gamal Abdel Nasser’s views of the ancien
régime and the characteristics of the new one. Then, I review some...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 126–129.
Published: 01 March 2006
..., and anyone interested in
the history of gender studies in Morocco, North Africa, and the Islamic
world in general.
The Tree and Other Stories
Abdallah Al-Nasser, translated by Dina Bosio and Christopher Tingley. Interlink,
2004. 124 pp.
Reviewed...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 110–112.
Published: 01 July 2012
... on how Umm
Kulthum portrayed herself publicly as a mother, believer, humanitar-
ian, national symbol, and political activist, and artist. She argues that
through careful self-presentation and strategic actions, the singer sus-
tained her career after Gamal Abdel Nasser’s death...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 119–122.
Published: 01 November 2006
... of the process of modernizing Egypt from the nineteenth cen-
tury until King Farouq in 1952, Children of the Waters takes us to the
daily lives of Egyptians under the regimes of Nasser and Sadat. Con-
temporary Egyptian society and waves of globalization are the subject
of Dunyazad.
Seeds...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 307–329.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., and Social Change under Nasser . New York : Random House . Amin Yalal . 2007 . “ Tahia Carioca, aw tamanun ʿaman min hayat al-misriin ” (“Tahia Carioca or Eighty Years from Egyptian’s Lives”). In Shakhsiyat laha tarikh , 205 – 18 . Cairo : Dar al Shuruq . Ayad Christophe . 1995...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 31–57.
Published: 01 November 2008
... with
population increase, President Gamal Abdel Nasser changed course.
Th e Charter of 1962 raised the issue of rapid population growth and
diminishing resources. Th e regime then came out unequivocally in
favor of family planning, promoting it as offi cial policy.3 Still, years of
organization...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 317–336.
Published: 01 November 2023
... place and gives her plenty of time to write. As this example shows, women transform their right to join the public workforce acquired during the Nasser era into the spatiotemporal zones of self-care where they can pursue their personal projects of self-realization. While women do struggle to achieve...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 157–178.
Published: 01 July 2019
..., and imaginations are constructed from an early age following internal (re)circulation of affective exchange. While financial negotiations are central to courtship periods (Hoodfar 1997 ; Singerman 1995 ), they do not deprive the couple of reciprocal feelings of love (Adely 2016 ; Nasser El-Dine 2018 ). When...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 116–119.
Published: 01 July 2012
... in
power—is itself instructive. During the “Arab Cold War,” which pitted
Gamal Abdel Nasser’s pan-Arabist socialism against the Wahabism of
the Saudis, they were jailed in Egypt; but in the 1970s when Anwar Sa-
dat embraced Islam, they were welcomed back and became important
participants...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 155–158.
Published: 01 July 2014
... of Egypt,” a film that Bier
does not mention.
In opening the door wide on the politics and practices of the Nasser
state’s directed agenda for women, as part of its overall drive to develop
the nation, Bier’s work calls for careful reading. Appearing in 2011, the
year the ongoing revolution...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 158–161.
Published: 01 July 2014
... century codification
of family law in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Bahrain.
As much as the book is a scholarly endeavor, it is also a political
project. Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser—wife of the newly retired Emir of
Qatar and the Chair of the Qatar Foundation—wrote the Foreword...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 122–125.
Published: 01 November 2005
... for
backwardness” (87). Th erefore, from 1840 until 1952, a duality existed
that fi nancially and culturally separated the kh∂ssa from the ῾∂mma.
During Nasser’s rule, very much like the Mamluk rule, the mili-
tary became the dominant fraction that enjoyed tremendous power and
privileges. Th e “Free Offi...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 193–212.
Published: 01 July 2018
... Nubia between them. Gamal Abdel Nasser’s building of the Aswan High Dam required the forced resettlement of these communities for the sake of national development (Abbas 2014 ). Leftah’s narrator explains, “Islam’s parents told him how they had been settled by the government in this village [Om Kombo...
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