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Making Mr. Gay Syria in Istanbul

Ayşe Toprak
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 242–245.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-6680361
Published: 01 July 2018
...Ayşe Toprak Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 I believe in the power of documentaries to engage hearts and minds beyond the screen and to challenge public attitudes. When the war in Syria started in 2011, I kept seeing Syrian refugees sleeping...
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Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official by miriam cooke

Christa Salamandra
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 111–113.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2009.5.1.111
Published: 01 March 2009
...Christa Salamandra Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official , cooke miriam . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2007 . Pp. viii, 196 . ISBN 978-0-8223-4035-5 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009...
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The Memory Keeper: Gender, Nation, and Remembering in Syria

Faedah M. Totah
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.9.1.1
Published: 01 March 2013
... hampers their efficacy as political agents. In this article I explore political commemoration in Syria as a socially sanctioned venue for apolitical political activity that allows women nonthreatening public visibility. I focus on the work of Dr. Nadia Khost in commemorative practices in Damascus...
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Performers or Prostitutes?: Artistes during the French Mandate over Syria and Lebanon, 1921–1946

Camila Pastor de Maria Campos
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 287–311.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3861312
Published: 01 July 2017
... Mandate Syria and Lebanon (1921–46). The French metropolitan system of regulated prostitution was imported yet transformed in the mandate region as women performers were sorted into legitimate, if morally suspect, foreign artistes and autochthonous performers defined as prostitutes by decrees and codes...
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Women in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations: An Anthology of Cases from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Other Countries

Mary Elaine Hegland
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 408–413.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10022160
Published: 01 November 2022
...Mary Elaine Hegland [email protected] Women in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations: An Anthology of Cases from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Other Countries . S. Behnaz Hosseini , ed. Zurich : Lit , 2020 . 180 pages. isbn 9783643961204 . Copyright © 2022 by the Association...
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Solely Carers and Nurturers?: Challenging Dominant Discourses of Mothering in the Midst of Violent Conflict and Exile

Roxane Caron, Marie Fally, Marie-Jeanne Blain
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11575431.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-11575431
Published: 10 January 2025
..., mothering becomes yet more laden with expectations as mothers are faced with critical situations. The article draws on research from an intersectional perspective that is aimed at a better understanding of the trajectories of refugees from Syria who have settled in Canada and Lebanon and for whom motherhood...
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Depicting Victims, Heroines, and Pawns in the Syrian Uprising

Edith Szanto
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 306–322.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3637532
Published: 01 November 2016
...Edith Szanto Abstract During the onslaught of the Islamic caliphate on Kobanî, Syria, media outlets across the globe broadcast pictures of brave and often unveiled Kurdish women fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), a quintessentially male force of destruction. The images...
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Murad vs. ISIS: Rape as a Weapon of Genocide

miriam cooke
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 261–285.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7720627
Published: 01 November 2019
...miriam cooke Abstract This article analyzes recent Iraqi texts, some authorizing and others condemning rape as a weapon of war. The focus is on Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) perpetrators of sexual violence, their Yazidi victims, and two women’s demands for reparative, restorative justice...
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Lalla Essaydi’s Bullets and Bullets Revisited : Aesthetic and Epistemic Violence in a Globalized Art World

Naïma Hachad
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 1–21.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8790196
Published: 01 March 2021
... of destruction, Essaydi’s photographs are uncritically linked to events and situations as varied as the Arab uprisings, violence in the Palestinian territories, and the wars in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq. Instead of illuminating complex sociopolitical issues and reshaping dominant discourses, they become part...
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Syrian Men’s Disability and Their Masculine Trajectories in the Context of Displacement in Jordan and Turkey

Aitemad Muhanna-Matar
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 305–325.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-9306803
Published: 01 November 2021
... Syrian refugee men who sustained injuries during the war in Syria. It explores how Syrian refugee men with disabilities remake their masculine bodies and selves to create a new version of masculinity that responds to the changes in their socioeconomic circumstances and bodies. The article argues...
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The Painful Road to Freedom in Maram al-Masri’s Elle Va Nue la Liberté ( Freedom Walks Naked )

Brinda J. Mehta
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 260–284.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-9767884
Published: 01 July 2022
...Brinda J. Mehta Abstract This essay examines the poetry of the Francophone author Maram al-Masri, a diasporic feminist poet from Syria who has lived in exile in Paris since 1992. Elle va nue la liberté is an indictment of the regime of Bashar al-Assad and an ode to the creative resilience...
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The “Barbaric” Dabke : Masculinity, Dance, and Autocracy in Contemporary Syrian Cultural Production

Shayna Silverstein
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 197–219.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8949443
Published: 01 July 2021
...Shayna Silverstein Abstract This essay analyzes how dance, gender, and state power function together as a significant node of critique in recent cultural production that addresses authoritarianism in Syria. Identifying the symbolic trope of dabke , a popular dance ubiquitous in Syrian life...
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Figure 1. Awwal (leader), tanni (second), and other dabke participants in a shakl daʿira at a wedding, October 8, 2008. Jable, Syria. Photograph by author.

Awwal (leader), tanni (second), and other dabke participants in a sha...

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Published: 01 July 2021
Figure 1. Awwal (leader), tanni (second), and other dabke participants in a shakl daʿira at a wedding, October 8, 2008. Jable, Syria. Photograph by author. More
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Interrogating the Constructions of Masculinist Protection and Militarism in the Syrian Constitution of 1973

Rahaf Aldoughli
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 48–74.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7273706
Published: 01 March 2019
... rights become challenged by the state’s paternalistic perceptions. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 militarism masculinist protection women Syria constitutions Amid the violence that has spread across Syria since 2011, questions about how women...
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A Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts: Journeys in Kurdistan by Christiane Bird

Nina Laven
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 147–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-2005-4015
Published: 01 November 2005
... 2002; Houston 2001; Lyon 2001). Th is region, which stretches over a vast area from western Iran to eastern Iraq, dipping into the northern tip of Syria and across southeast Turkey, is not an internationally recognized territory and is home to about 24-27 million Kurds, although reliable...
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Understanding Rojava: Representations of Kurdish Women Fighters in US Mainstream Media

Ozum Yesiltas
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 337–358.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10022118
Published: 01 November 2022
... Orientalism to survive disruptions and splits in the colonial discourse? Before addressing these questions it is important to discuss the specific political paradigm and historical roots of feminist practices in Kurdistan, particularly in Turkey and Syria. Throughout the twentieth century Kurds...
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Syrian Women’s Forum for Peace

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 244–245.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-2886649
Published: 01 July 2015
... December 9, 2014 phone: +963 955 444 085 e-mail: [email protected] www.syrianwomenforumforpeace.com Damascus, Syria Syrian Women's Forum for Peace Syrian Women’s Forum for Peace faces many challenges. We are regularly harassed, arrested, and exposed...
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Memoir: No Such Thing as Women’s Literature

Miriam Cooke
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 25–54.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-2005-2002
Published: 01 July 2005
...  NO SUCH THING AS WOMEN’S LITERATURE MIRIAM COOKE  n the fall of 1995, I went to Syria to study women’s writings. I had little idea Iwhat I might find. Even specialists of Arabic literature did not know much about...
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Veiled Voices by Brigid Maher

Hosna Sheikholeslami
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 123–125.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.7.2.123
Published: 01 July 2011
...Hosna Sheikholeslami Veiled Voices , Maher Brigid . Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, USA : Typecast Films , 2009 . 59 minutes. ISBN 4351912238 . Copyright © 2011 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2011 FILM REVIEW mn  123...
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For Sama

Renée Ragin Randall
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 268–270.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8949478
Published: 01 July 2021
... on the Syrian revolution, it was Alan Kurdi. For some, the inescapable image of his drowned body promised the potential to finally interrupt “Western” paralysis in the face of Syria’s war. For others, the circulating image simply signaled another form of voyeurism disguised as humanitarian concern. Indeed...
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