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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11575509.
Published: 10 January 2025
...Birgitte Stampe Holst [email protected] Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time, and Subjectivity . Charlotte Al-Khalili . UCL Press , 2023 . 213 pages. isbn 9781800085053 . Copyright © 2025 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2025...
View articletitled, Waiting for the <span class="search-highlight">Revolution</span> to End: <span class="search-highlight">Syrian</span> Displacement, Time, and Subjectivity
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 260–284.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of ordinary people during the Syrian revolution (2011). This essay demonstrates how al-Masri’s poetry grafts landscapes of pain and resistance in a poetics of the gut that bears witness to horror, trauma, and resistance. It focuses on the trope of blood writing, documentary poetry or poésie-vérité...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 268–270.
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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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 367–372.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., and violence. But often embedded in acts of speaking about oppression are acts of resistance. In a close reading of Samar Yazbek’s ( 2012 ) Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution , Hanadi Al-Samman emphasizes the concept of waʾd —the pre-Islamic practice of burying newborn girls alive. Al...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 306–322.
Published: 01 November 2016
... on earlier drafts of this article. 1. This article refers to the ongoing events in Syria as the Syrian uprising. These events are sometimes called the Syrian Revolution or are referred to as a civil war in academic articles and the public media. I prefer uprising , however, since it describes...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 197–219.
Published: 01 July 2021
... visibility in the 2000s, when a generation of emerging filmmakers advanced the work of their predecessors in Syrian film and later became the “voice of cinematographic resistance” during the revolution (Wessels 2019 ). Here I juxtapose fiction by Khaled Khalifa and Mustafa Khalifa with a documentary film...
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View articletitled, The “Barbaric” Dabke : Masculinity, Dance, and Autocracy in Contemporary <span class="search-highlight">Syrian</span> Cultural Production
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 133–136.
Published: 01 March 2018
... . 2010 . Nazira Zeineddine: A Pioneer of Islamic Feminism . Oxford : Oneworld . cooke miriam . 2016 . Dancing in Damascus: Creativity, Resistance, and the Syrian Revolution . London : Routledge . Most recently, miriam and I have written about the feminisms surfacing in visual...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 129–132.
Published: 01 March 2018
... through Literature (2001), Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official (2007), Tribal Modern: Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf (2014), and Dancing in Damascus: Creativity, Resilience, and the Syrian Revolution (2016). She has published biographical works on key thinkers in the region...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 109–115.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., as when she contemplated an image by Abed Naji during a gallery tour of an exhibition she collaborated on called The Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution . 1 Discussing the absence of corpses in the imagery, cooke addressed Naji’s work in terms of understanding how to live after being traumatized...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 March 2013
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head of the central bank or something. Anyway he was the son of one
of the rebels during the Syrian revolution in 1920 when they [French]
first entered…. He was condemned to death and was closely related to
Yusef al-Azmeh his uncle, cousin, or something very close I went
to his...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 48–74.
Published: 01 March 2019
....” This emphasis on militaristic values can be seen in the following words: In the Syrian Arab region, the masses [ jamahīr ] of our people [ shaʿab ] continued their struggle after independence. Through their progressive march they were able to achieve their big victory by setting off the revolution...
View articletitled, Interrogating the Constructions of Masculinist Protection and Militarism in the <span class="search-highlight">Syrian</span> Constitution of 1973
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 50–67.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Rebecca Joubin Abstract Syrian miniseries engage in multifaceted discourses of fatherhood inherently linked with the rise and fall of the qabaday (tough man). Before the uprising, while the avowed focus was on gender constructions, in truth, politics lay at the heart of the messages...
View articletitled, The Politics of the Qabaday (Tough Man) and the Changing Father Figure in <span class="search-highlight">Syrian</span> Television Drama
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 473–478.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of Trafficking in Women .” Gender Issues 18 , no. 1 : 23 – 50 . Gualtieri Sarah M. A. 2009 . Between Arab and White Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian American Diaspora . Berkeley : University of California Press . Heshmat Dina . 2020 . Egypt 1919: The Revolution in Literature...
View articletitled, Afifa’s Migration: <span class="search-highlight">Syrian</span> Prostitutes and Port Said’s “White Slave Trade” in Local and Transnational Perspective
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 337–358.
Published: 01 November 2022
... , Flach Anja , and Ayboğa Ercan . 2016 . Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women’s Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan . London : Pluto . Krieg Andreas . 2016 . “ Externalizing the Burden of War: The Obama Doctrine and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East .” International...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 1–3.
Published: 01 July 2013
... Adıvar, who wrote her life, or a fictional Sudanese,
Syrian, or Palestinian woman fighting for survival, each was a product
of national turmoil and betrayal. These essays consider the struggles of
women not only to survive but also to assert their right to a place in the
national story...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 387–407.
Published: 01 November 2022
... suzerainty is characterized as an opportunity for the people’s, the nation’s, and women’s reemergence (“Saʿadat al-nasl al-muqbil” [“The Happiness of the Next Generation”]; “al-Fajr” [“The Dawn”]). In July 1919 the Syrian National Congress convened to consider the future of Greater Syria. 1 With its...
View articletitled, Fashioning Women Citizens in al-Fajr : Reading the Domestic as National in a Conversation between a Mother and a Daughter, 1919–1920
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 113–116.
Published: 01 March 2009
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phy but ignoring whole worlds of creative expression, cooke asserts that
Syrian “public culture revolves around the president and his two sons”
(156). Th is leads her to read fear into ambiguous gestures such as facial...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 25–54.
Published: 01 July 2005
... the cultural scene inside Hafiz Asad’s Syria of the 1990s. Many assumed
that such a regime is so repressive that writers of conscience are either in jail,
like Nizar Nayyuf, or in exile, like Zakaria Tamer. In 1992, the critic Jean Fon-
taine reduced the whole of Syrian literature to nightmare...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 301–302.
Published: 01 November 2016
... revolutions. Analyzing the coverage of Arab and Kurdish women’s participation in the Syrian turmoil, Szanto questions the stakes of Anglophone media in representing women as victims, heroines, or pawns, arguing that this typology masks as much as it reveals. Tadros turns our attention away from Egyptian women...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 305–325.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Aitemad Muhanna-Matar Abstract This article analyzes the relationship between men’s physical disability and the trajectories of negotiating masculinities in the context of Syrian refugee displacement in Jordan and Turkey. The article draws its analysis from the personal narratives of five displaced...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Syrian</span> Men’s Disability and Their Masculine Trajectories in the Context of Displacement in Jordan and Turkey
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