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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 69–88.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Zhila Gholami Abstract This article presents a psychoanalytic reading of The Age of Orphans , the first installment of a trilogy by the Kurdish Iranian American novelist Laleh Khadivi. Drawing on Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection and using close reading, this study explores different forms...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 359–361.
Published: 01 November 2018
... the rights of the needy, poor, orphaned, and drifters” (62). In other words, food distribution is central to these young male pious activists’ identities and ideal vision of society. Naguib shows how the intersection of age and gender among these activists fractures the category of even that Egyptian...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 168–172.
Published: 01 March 2017
... their parents, we try to bring them closer. We are not saying that marriages are successful 100 percent of the time, but we see the partner as one who protects her, keeps her secret ( yistir ʿalayha ). The problem is that if a girl leaves home at this age, her problems will follow her to adulthood and so...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 107–111.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of writing the female body and the possibilities of “language” for giving expression to sexualized and gendered bodies. Intersectionality is a useful concept with which we can analyze the multilayered exploration of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and age in Turkish women’s literature. More contemporary...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 36–53.
Published: 01 November 2009
... in the orphanage,
the staff at Falah were in close contact with the mothers of orphans (a
fatherless child is defi ned as an orphan), and decided to address their
problems. According to ‘Amer Sultan (2007), fi nancial director of the
Falah Society, “We felt that young widows need more than...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 74–101.
Published: 01 November 2009
... EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 5:3
experience of her mother, Lina, who in 1938, at the age of 13, received a 5-
year-old Syrian orphan girl named Sobhiya, whom Lina’s family adopted
de facto. Lina married in 1940 at the age of 15, and subsequently had
twelve children. Her daughter Dima...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 July 2008
... Islam, mut‘a is a union
between an unmarried Muslim woman and a married or unmarried
Muslim man, which is contracted for a fi xed time period in return for
a set amount of money. It is practiced in Iran (Haeri 1989), as well as in
other parts of the Shia world. In the past, middle-aged and older...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 1–26.
Published: 01 July 2011
...
Rahman also decided to dedicate his second daughter’s life to religious
studies. He finally named a third daughter, Zaynab, after the Prophet’s
granddaughter.
In this religious family world, ‘A’isha Abdel Rahman started to
attend the village kuttab (religious school) at the age...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 23–52.
Published: 01 July 2009
..., Local Babies, Global Science (2003), Infertility and Patriarchy (1996), and Quest for Conception (1994). She was a visiting faculty member at the American University of Beirut and the American University of Sharjah, where she conducted studies on Middle Eastern masculinities in the age of new...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 July 2014
.... When I asked him whether women were aware of their right to get
married without their wali, he replied that only if they were over the age
of nisab, which, according to him denotes a girl who “is over the age of
twenty-five or [who] is an orphan or doesn’t have a father. Otherwise
she must...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 326–347.
Published: 01 November 2021
... contemporaries found disreputable (Shakir 1997 : 68–71). Syrian women combated these stereotypes, sometimes by positioning factory women as contributors, and other times emasculating men who derided working women. Among feminists, the degraded aging bachelor emerged as a symbol in the press, a caricatured...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 51–77.
Published: 01 July 2012
... in the global “age of development.” Sara is also the managing editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies . Copyright © 2012 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2012 sara pursley mn 51
DAUGHTERS OF THE RIGHT PATH
FAMILY...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 343–362.
Published: 01 November 2016
... between social norms and personal desires are dramatized to an epic level (ibid., 3)—hence the appeal of such stories across ages and cultures. The power of this motif is seen not only in Arabic literature going back to the Umayyad period (Kilpatrick 1995 , 10) but also in the enthusiastic reception...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 103–116.
Published: 01 March 2010
... ourishes—divorce, sexual inde-
pendence, artistic self-invention—scandalized the Iran of her day. Her
death in 1967 at the age of 32 cast a spell that has only intensifi ed in
intervening years. First inside and now outside Iran, her life has been
conscripted time and time again to tell...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 45–67.
Published: 01 March 2018
... .” Le360 , June 24 . www.le360.ma/fr/societe/les-femmes-clament-leur-indignation-devant-le-parlement-17253 . Bargach Jamila . 2002 . Orphans of Islam: Family, Abandonment, and Secret Adoption in Morocco . Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield . Bernal Victoria , and Grewal...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 260–284.
Published: 01 July 2022
... parts by the state, “when your breasts swell / and harden from pain” (87). 12 The monstrous apparatus of the prison complex has a long history. Its age-old legacy is consolidated by the innumerable violations against women within its confines. Equally monstrous is this history...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 86–105.
Published: 01 March 2007
... and orphans.” As dominant frame for life
stories, this contains generational specificity, since it was women of the
“generation of the Disaster,” whose brothers, husbands, and sons were
of an age to join the Resistance, who suffered most losses. There is an
element of regional specificity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 58–88.
Published: 01 November 2008
...
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of Shah Tahmasp, reportedly mastered Islamic law, jurisprudence, and
poetry writing and was a patron to poets (Gholsorkhi 1995). Her father
sponsored schools for orphaned boys and girls, where girls were taught
by mu’allima (female teachers) (Szuppe 1998).
Female...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 174–192.
Published: 01 July 2018
... class Many observers of the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) argue that religious zealotry explains why Iranian boys, most between ten and fourteen years of age, fought in the war. Highlighting their religiosity and the deceptive methods used by the Islamic Republic to convince minors to enlist, Christiane...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 307–329.
Published: 01 November 2019
... with marriage to the leading male character; as for Nana, she is luckier than Shafaʾat in that she finds a wealthy aged man as a partner—though she does not marry him. Here we can see the essence of the femme fatale, whose ambition goes beyond love. She is shown throughout the film fighting for Farid’s love...
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