...Karen G. Ruffle The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual: Devotional Practices of Pakistan and India , Abbas Shemeem Burney . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2002 . Pp. xxx + 209 . $45.00 Copyright © 2005 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2005...

...Saba Abbas Abstract This article provides insight into the fashionable veiling trend in Amman, Jordan. Drawing on interviews I conducted in 2011 and 2012, I argue that the women in this study understand veiling to be a means for enhancing, rather than containing, the beauty of the body. Through my...

... the title Malak Qasim Mirza, much to the dismay of his prime minister at the time, Mirza Aqa Khan Nuri (Mʾazi n.d .). Notable scholars, including Abbas Amanat ( 2008 : 333), have argued that the rivalry between Jayran and the shah’s prime minister, in particular his initial resistance to her son being...

... I found Kahraman’s “skin” progress shot conceptually evocative in the process of working with JMEWS article manuscripts for issue 11:2, which were not intended to be part of a thematic issue. For example, could we consider veiling sartorial practices in Saba Abbas’s article as a kind...

... to the port city of Bandar Abbas in the south, lasting some 22 hours. She weaves the story of this woman’s life and experiences with that of the cities and towns they pass through, including Qom, Kashan, Yazd, Kirman and finally, the port city of Bandar Abbas. In Qom, we see...

... December 5, 2014 [email protected] Reem Abbas, journalist and member of NOW There is also a debate inside NOW regarding whether to register as a civil society organization. One group argues that this will give them more resources for work on women’s rights, while another...

... (imprisonment without trial or charge) and the subsequent mass hunger strike in the spring of 2012. Earlier, Palestinian President Mah- moud Abbas’s speech at the United Nations brought political prisoners, at least temporarily out of the political shadows,11 as did the dramatic prisoner...

... by the family of the Khedive, in particular the crown prince Tawfiq, who married Amina Ilhami, the granddaughter of the late viceroy, Abbas Hilmi. Their marriage marked a turning point in Egypt because it signaled the decision of the Khedival family to eschew slave concubinage and polygyny in favor of monogamy...

... biased views about the fellahin as being simple, dirty, and ignorant people. One of her pertinent observations is that if Turkish was the language of the ruling elites during Mohammed Ali, Khedive Isma‘il encouraged French and Arabic. While Abbas Helmi II’s first language...

... are either passive, progressive, and contemplative (Talal, Mohammad), or violent, fanatical, and instinctive (Abbas, Ranger). Th e female charac- ters occupy the space between these two extremes. As Camilia explains, “Mohammad and Ranger were my whole world, they were the two ends...

.... The increasingly authoritarian state institutions shape and govern university administrations and social and physical spaces within campuses through ideological, political, and often partisan interventions (Abbas and Zalta 2017 ; Gambetti and Gökarıksel 2022 ; Vatansever 2020 ). As of January 2021, academic...

..., and in the weaving together of separate spheres, including literature, ethnology, and geography. She gives us sparkling vignettes of Egyptian thinkers, including geographer and anthropologist ‘Abbas Mustafa ‘Ammar, student of Raymond Firth, ex- tender of the medieval philosophical legacy...

... . “ Armenia from the Fall of the Cilician Kingdom (1375) to the Forced Emigration under Shah Abbas (1604) .” In Foreign Dominion to Statehood: The Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century . Vol. 2 of The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times, edited by Hovannisian Richard G. , 1 – 50...

... considered women’s outdoor exercise a problem, or even un-Islamic, now pro- motes it as a solution to women’s health problems. n the Abbas Abad hills in northeast Tehran is the Mothers’ Paradise, Ione of the city’s 1,357 parks and the first of its four women-only parks. Founded...

... for an abusive boss. Ten-year-old Ebrahim narrated his story: “Until five years ago, I lived with my mother, father, younger brother and sister in the village of Gasht. Abbas-Ali, whose blind brother Rajab-Ali worked in my village, came to my father and said, ‘Send Ebrahim to Tehran with me, he can work and help...

... Nubia between them. Gamal Abdel Nasser’s building of the Aswan High Dam required the forced resettlement of these communities for the sake of national development (Abbas 2014 ). Leftah’s narrator explains, “Islam’s parents told him how they had been settled by the government in this village [Om Kombo...

... Ahmad . 2003 . An takuna ʿAbbas al-ʿAbd: Riwayah (To Be ʿAbbas al-ʿAbd: A Novel). Cairo : Mirit li-al-Nasr wa-al-Maʾlumat . al-Ayidi Ahmad . 2006 . Being Abbas El Abd , translated by Davies Humphrey . Cairo : American University in Cairo Press . Badran Margot . 1995...

... (1990). On its treatment in Syrian literature, see Abbas (2009). 18. In prison literature see Mustafa (2008), Samuel (1990), Jibai (1994), and Bayrakdar (2012). Prominent novels on the 1980s include Hallum (2009), Yazbek (2011), Hassan (2009), and Sarraj (2007). 19. Khalifa...

... the journalist Hisham Allam, the filmmaker Islam Azazi, and the human rights advocate Wael Abbas. 9 New Instagram accounts such as @gangrapistsofcairo , which exposed the details of the Fairmont case, emerged using the same tactics. In response to these cases, online influencers and celebrities like the TV...