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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 161–178.
Published: 01 July 2015
... of anticipation is crushed by a Symbolic world that comes to be dominated by Saddam Hussein and the traumatic eruptions of the Real. The article suggests that by introducing the figure of the mother as le grand autre , Salbi’s autobiography subverts the typical conceptualization of the Lacanian Symbolic order...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 433–449.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Achim Rohde Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 Much has been written about gender-based violence against Iraqi women under the thirty-five-year dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and since the fall of the regime in 2003 (Brown and Romano 2006 , 56, 60–62...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 134–136.
Published: 01 March 2022
... party dictatorship and Saddam Hussein’s legacy, and the US-led invasion and posterior occupation. While doing so, Ali brings forward the lived experiences of the eighty women she interviewed while doing fieldwork in 2010 across Arab Iraq and Iraq Kurdistan, whose voices bear the mark of the particular...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 128–130.
Published: 01 March 2007
... to seven years of the most comprehensive sanctions regime ever inflicted on a country, in addition to the ongoing political repression by the regime of Saddam Hussein. After her initial trip, Ditmars traveled to Iraq on numerous occasions, writing for the New York Times, the Inde- pendent...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 147–151.
Published: 01 November 2005
... to Iraq, where she spent three months, and returned to Iran and Turkey for two months on a second trip. Th e plight of Kurdish minorities in these four countries was overlooked for years and only recently has begun to receive attention in the United States as information about Saddam Hussein’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 63–91.
Published: 01 March 2012
... and the lack of acknowl- edgement and assistance from the Kurdish political leadership added to the suffering of the Anfal women. Saddam Hussein was still in power; the catastrophe could be repeated. The Kurdish political parties focused on the political fight for autonomy and engaged...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 96–98.
Published: 01 March 2016
... in a bomb blast in Lebanon. Khedairi’s Ghayib (2004) features two ill/disabled female characters living in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. The face of the narrator, Dalal, has been scarred, and Ilham has breast cancer. The main character of Bitar’s Imraʾa min Hadha al-ʿAsr (2010) is a twice-divorced cancer...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 101–104.
Published: 01 July 2009
...-tribalism. It would be useful to have details of what, for example, Saddam Hussein and the General Federation of Iraqi Women were saying about the role of Iraqi women during this time. Were their discourses merely refl ecting shift s in gender relations that were already underway, or were...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 105–108.
Published: 01 November 2007
... relating to “peace” remained focused on the brutality of Saddam Hussein’s regime and how the Kurdish nation fought against it. This nationalistic thrust running throughout the entire conference obscured the negative impact of the current war, occupation, and mili- tarization of Iraq...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 144–147.
Published: 01 November 2005
... to Iraq, where she spent three months, and returned to Iran and Turkey for two months on a second trip. Th e plight of Kurdish minorities in these four countries was overlooked for years and only recently has begun to receive attention in the United States as information about Saddam Hussein’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 268–274.
Published: 01 July 2016
... it had been banned during Saddam Hussein’s regime for over thirty years. In the face of random violence and repression, I became preoccupied with the concept of trauma and bereavement, memory and witnessing, and performative embodied and creative practices as sites for the intervention, reinterpretation...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 424–432.
Published: 01 November 2022
... into ethnic enclaves, this has been disrupted, and now a new generation of non-Arabic-speaking Kurds is moving or visiting Baghdad, creating a different dynamic. Roze’s intention of challenging the history written from one side leads us to think about the genocide of the Kurds perpetrated by Saddam Hussein...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 March 2012
... of other idioms of social justice as well as with regard to their ongoing politicization. Susan Slyomovics and Karin Mlodoch both deal with gendered memories in relation to the atrocities of human rights violations under Saddam Hussein of Iraq and Hassan II of Morocco, respectively. Both pay...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 320–328.
Published: 01 July 2022
... Afghani (the nineteenth-century Islamic philosopher who opposed Western imperialism), Sheikh Muhammad Abdou (an Islamic modernist of the 1960s), Abdelaziz Bouteflika (former Algerian president), Jaafar Nimeiri (former Sudanese president), Ali Abdullah Saleh (former president of Yemen who supported Saddam...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 98–112.
Published: 01 November 2011
... in English) to the “grumpy” demonstration held by establishment parties marching behind huge pictures of Saddam Hussein, Bashar Al-Asad, and other dictators (Mandour 2003). 108  mn  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES  7:3 At the time of war, some Lebanese LGBTs chose to associate them...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 43–68.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and construction workers without any formal education who were escaping Saddam Hussein’s Anfal campaign, which killed thousands of Kurds (Hardi 2015 ; Inhorn 2018 ). More than seven thousand of these Kurds settled in other places in the United States before internally migrating to Nashville. Their children...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 174–192.
Published: 01 July 2018
...). In November 1980, around two months after Saddam Hussein invaded Khuzistan, a headline announced the evacuation of women and children. “No unsupervised children remain in the war zone,” the piece proclaimed, 15 apparently excluding boys between ten and fourteen from this category. Although the press...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 90–93.
Published: 01 July 2009
... the Introduction herself, in which she provides historical background for the literary tradition in Iraq leading up to the BOOK REVIEWS  91 post-Saddam present, and situates both her female authorial self and the novel within this tradition. Th e...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 30–53.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., in the middle of a curfew, to come and collect their gas masks in anticipation of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons attacks during the First Gulf War. From the outset, the unexpected news causes panic among residents who find themselves in a catch-22: They must abide by the curfew while...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 337–358.
Published: 01 November 2022
... in their search for autonomy against Saddam Hussein, the Turkey-based Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) was designated a terrorist organization. In the context of the fight against ISIS, US mainstream media discovered the Kurds as a strategic asset—a secular-democratic actor that represents Western liberal values...