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Pieces of Us: The Intimate as Imperial Archive
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 268–291.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and recognizes that mixing and migrations, forced or desired, shape and define all families. It explores the look, feel, and sounds of lifeworlds in the US imperial outpost of Aramco using an immense archive of family photographs and Fadia Basrawi’s memoir, Brownies and Kalashnikovs: A Saudi Woman’s Memoir...
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“Woman” and Diasporic Kurdish Identity in the United States: Gender, Religion, Race, and Resistance
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 43–68.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., gender, and race. The category of “woman” becomes an important venue to manage statelessness, create an important archive for Kurds, challenge ongoing colonialism in Kurdistan, and challenge US imperialism. Therefore “Kurdish woman” constitutes an important spatial and historical terrain for Kurdish...
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Subjectivity and Imperial Masculinity: A British Soldier in Dhofar (1968–1970)
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 60–80.
Published: 01 July 2008
..., this paper finds that the soldier justified British imperialism in Dhofar through his implicit assumptions of “knowing more” and “knowing better” than the Dhofaris/Arabs, even concerning their own nature, desires, and interests. Using these assumptions, the soldier was able to imagine himself as an “imperial...
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Sondra Hale’s “Ethnographic Residuals”: Silence and Non-Silence on Female Genital Cutting
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 105–127.
Published: 01 March 2014
.... In light of the escalating use of FGC in inflamed journalism, misplaced condemnations, and the continuing globalization of the movement for change, I argue we must not cede terrain to the arrogance of such voices, lest we find ourselves complicit with the conflagration undermining human dignity...
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The Female Imperial Agent and the Intricacies of Power: British Nurses in Mandate Palestine
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 12–35.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Hagit Krik Abstract British women have hitherto been almost absent from the history of British colonialism in the Middle East, and particularly in Mandate Palestine (1918–48). By using an individual tale of a British nurse as a vantage point, the article explores the personal and professional...
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Interpreters of Occupation: Gender and the Politics of Belonging in an Iraqi Refugee Network
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 448–450.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the interpellations of US power structures and their strategic renderings of Iraqi culture. One of the book’s greatest strengths is its success at describing the convergences between US imperial feminist traditions and the dominant gendered models of a “war generation” (27–36) of Iraqis preoccupied with male...
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An Aramcon road, with the smoke and fires of the oil refineries in the back...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 November 2018
Figure 9. An Aramcon road, with the smoke and fires of the oil refineries in the background disrupting its tidiness and ordinariness and reminding us of the imperial context of the “suburban” scene and its artifice in 1948. The back of the photograph includes Basrawi’s Arabic notations
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Threats to Public Order and Health: Mobile Men as Syphilis Vectors in Late Ottoman Medical Discourse and Practice
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 222–243.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Seçil Yılmaz Abstract Late Ottoman physicians used medical advice literature to impact syphilis transmission and treatment by cultivating men’s rather than women’s hygiene, self-care, and sexual practices. Soldiers and migrant workers were understood to be the main vectors of syphilis beginning...
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Lalla Essaydi’s Bullets and Bullets Revisited : Aesthetic and Epistemic Violence in a Globalized Art World
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2021
... be added to the list of US think tanks, university centers, and other organizations that Dabashi mentions as examples of forums where the production of knowledge about the Middle East is policy oriented and intimately tied to the culture of imperialism. Creative Dissent and Before the 14th...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 265–267.
Published: 01 November 2018
... on the Aramco campus in Dhahran from the 1940s through the 1960s. There the extraction of oil to reinforce US imperialism also fed repressive forms of local government in Saudi Arabia. The authors’ account of their lives during and since the Lebanese civil war shows how imperialism manifested itself...
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(Some) Turkish Transnationalism(s) in an Age of Capitalist Globalization and Empire: “White Turk” Discourse, the New Geopolitics, and Implications for Feminist Transnationalism
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 35–57.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., and class-specific biases, there is the potential
danger that if and when Turkish feminists do engage in a dialogue
with other feminists in the Middle East, this might very well take place
in roles assigned to Turkish feminists by US imperialism or the self-
prescribed roles...
View articletitled, (Some) Turkish Transnationalism(s) in an Age of Capitalist Globalization and Empire: “White Turk” Discourse, the New Geopolitics, and Implications for Feminist Transnationalism
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Gendered Badness and Revolutionary Enactments: Women’s Resistance in North Africa and West Asia
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 367–372.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Uncompromised , distances herself from her Arabness while also using her Lebanese Druze background to construct a public identity ultimately centered on loyalty to US imperialism. The chapters consistently demonstrate that the consequences of being labeled bad girls are stigmatization, exclusion...
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Rendering Absence in the War on Terror: Molly Crabapple’s Sequential Art
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 131–136.
Published: 01 March 2021
... paradoxically transcends the particularistic and the parochial through detailed yet subjective illustrations of scenes from the global war on terror. Her gritty style appeals to an aesthetic dimension that demands an engaged reckoning with the complex realities of US imperialism. In striving to render...
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Wonder Woman : Goddess of Fictional and Actual Wars
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 246–251.
Published: 01 July 2018
.... This reading precludes a more intersectional radical critique of the person and the film that examines her status as an enthusiastic Israeli soldier and citizen and the film’s valorization of US imperial militarism. Wonder Woman tells the story of Diana, the daughter of Queen Hippolyta. Diana was raised...
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Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 398–400.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Sudan in their attempts to impose specific ways of wearing tobes on Sudanese women. One of the book’s critical interventions is to argue that Sudanese women use their bodies to “talk back,” employing their tobes (174) as vehicles to express and communicate their status, feelings, and intentions...
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Sheikhs and Shahrazad: Transnational Feminist Methods for Reading Diasporic and Popular Literatures of the Middle East
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 124–127.
Published: 01 March 2017
... contexts and how the writers’ social position as diasporic women informs their literary production. For Jarmakani, the American desert romance novel, marked by the use of the desert and the sheikh as tropes, models imperial constructions of gender and sexuality that not only produce heteronormative...
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“Not a Figure in the Past”: Zionist Imperial Whiteness, the Iraqi Communist Party, and Their Reverberating Histories of Race and Gender, 1941–1951
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 41–61.
Published: 01 March 2020
... rejected (structurally speaking, as Mizrahim) by the Zionist imperial whiteness that they thought would save them. The hope of Iraqi Zionists was muddled. Some remained perpetually disillusioned as the intractability of their new reality revealed itself, while some used this spurning to fuel more staunch...
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“Contrary to the Order of Nature”: Complicities in Algorithmic Surveillance between SWANA and the Global North
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 122–131.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and political entanglement between SWANA and settler-colonial economies in the global North is an imperial project of geopolitical consolidation using the data economy as a means of securing state sovereignty where it is increasingly challenged by gender- or sexually deviant subjects. For example, the Canadian...
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Decolonizing Transnational Feminism: Lessons from the Afghan and Iranian Feminist Uprisings of the Twenty-First Century
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2024
... are used as a ruse to promote Western geopolitical agendas and conveniently ignored when those agendas shift. Hence this article’s insistence on putting prominent movements for women’s rights in Afghanistan and Iran in conversation with one another in the context of imperial feminism. As we have...
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Turkish Men and the History of Ottoman Women: Studying the History of the Ottoman Dynasty’s Private Sphere through Women’s Writings
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 53–82.
Published: 01 July 2009
...’ lives.
In both cases, the fi nal result, in terms of the newly emerging nation-
alist discourse of the 1950s, was the portrayal of an image of strong
and infl uential Ottoman women. In terms of women’s history, the use
of sources found in the harem archives, mostly written by imperial...
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