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Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod

Joan W. Scott

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 108–110.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-2832385

Published: 01 March 2015

...Joan W. Scott This book is Abu-Lughod’s intervention, an anthropologist’s insistence that observation, understanding, and respect ought to replace a rush to the salvation of (the oversimplified category of) “Muslim women.” She wants to do away with deceptively simple (mis)representations...

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Gender Perceptions of Male and Female Teachers in the Arab Education System in Israel

Khaled Abu Asbah, Muhammed Abu Nasra, Khawla Abu-Baker

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 109–124.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.10.3.109

Published: 01 November 2014

...Khaled Abu Asbah; Muhammed Abu Nasra; Khawla Abu-Baker This study examines gender perceptions and attitudes of Arab male and female teachers in Israel. This quantitative study includes 302 Arab Muslim male and female teachers in the Arab education system. The results show that participants believe...

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On Social Networks, Anonymous Testimonies, and Other Tools of Feminist Activism against Sexual Violence in Egypt

Reem Awny Abuzaid, Yosra Sultan

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 301–310.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-9767968

Published: 01 July 2022

View articletitled, On Social Networks, Anonymous Testimonies, and Other Tools of Feminist Activism against Sexual Violence in Egypt

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“Foreign Funding” Case No. 173/2011: The Implications of State Encroachment on the Feminist Community in Egypt

Reem Awny Abuzaid

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 237–243.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7491157

Published: 01 July 2019

View articletitled, “Foreign Funding” Case No. 173/2011: The Implications of State Encroachment on the Feminist Community in Egypt

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The Active Social Life of “Muslim Women’s Rights”: A Plea for Ethnography, not Polemic, with Cases from Egypt and Palestine

Lila Abu-Lughod

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 1–45.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2010.6.1.1

Published: 01 March 2010

...Lila Abu-Lughod Rather than arguing about whether “Muslim women” do or do not have rights, I suggest that we begin from the premise that the concept of, and the practices around, “Muslim women’s rights” have an active social life today that can and should be studied ethnographically. The kinds...

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Islamic Feminism in Kuwait: The Politics and Paradoxes by Alessandra L. González

Jane Bristol-Rhys

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 161–163.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.10.2.161

Published: 01 July 2014

... Bristol-Rhys, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi Islamic Feminism in Kuwait is the product of extensive research and inter- views in Kuwait, and the volume is densely packed with data and excerpts from the author’s thirty-five interviews and surveys conducted with 1,000 college students. González...

View articletitled, Islamic Feminism in Kuwait: The Politics and Paradoxes by Alessandra L. González

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Financial Empowerment of Women in the United Arab Emirates

Toni Briegel, Jaye Zivkovic

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 87–99.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2008.4.2.87

Published: 01 July 2008

..., Zayed University, Abu Dhabi INTRODUCTION ontrary to stereotyped beliefs, Arab women in the Middle East have Ccontrol of their own money. Men are expected to pay all household bills and are not allowed to touch any funds with which women may have entered the marriage...

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Palestinian Working Women in Israel: National Oppression and Social Restraints

Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 78–101.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.8.2.78

Published: 01 July 2012

...Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud The paid labor force participation of women in Arab states has always been among the lowest in the world. The same is true for Palestinian Arab women who are citizens of Israel. In sharp contrast, the paid labor participation of Jewish women in Israel is among the highest...

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Weddings and War: Marriage Arrangements and Celebrations in Two Palestinian Intifadas

Penny Johnson, Lamis Abu Nahleh, Annelies Moors

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 11–35.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2009.5.3.11

Published: 01 November 2009

...Penny Johnson; Lamis Abu Nahleh; Annelies Moors In our comparison of marriage arrangements and wedding celebrations during the first and the second intifada in Palestine, we focus on “political marriages” wherein the political activism and affiliation of the marital partners are of considerable...

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Caught in the Crosshairs: Confronting Compulsory Unveiling in Faiza Ambah’s Mariam

Nadine Sinno

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 1–18.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8016462

Published: 01 March 2020

.... Mariam must also deal with her liberal father, who opposes the hijab because of his own internalization of Islamophobic narratives that have become widespread in France. Engaging with feminist and cultural studies by such scholars as Saba Mahmood, Mohja Kahf, Lila Abu-Lughod, and Sara Ahmed, this article...

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Saving the Modern Woman: Politics of Gender during Egypt’s Transitional Period

Liina Mustonen

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 50–71.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10256155

Published: 01 March 2023

... in what Lila Abu-Lughod calls the “politics of modernity.” By delving into the world of Cairo’s wealthy and fashionable producers of lifestyle magazines, the article shows how specific bodily techniques and vocabularies of neoliberal feminism helped construct the idea of a “modern” woman. The “modern...

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The Palestinian Cinematic Wedding

Nadia Yaqub

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 56–85.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2007.3.2.56

Published: 01 July 2007

...Nadia Yaqub This article examines the role of the wedding in three Palestinian movies, Wedding in Galilee, Rana’s Wedding , and Paradise Now . It describes how filmmakers Michel Khleifi and Hany Abu-Assad harness the power of the wedding to construct Palestinian selves (and especially gendered...

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Egyptian Family Planning Commercials: Mothers Bear Children, Fathers Bear Responsibility

Salam Al-Mahadin

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 341–345.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8637480

Published: 01 November 2020

...Salam Al-Mahadin Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 In January 2019 the Egyptian Ministry of Social Solidarity released three family-planning commercials as part of its “Two Are Enough: Abu Shanab Campaign” aimed at tackling Egypt’s rapid population...

View articletitled, Egyptian Family Planning Commercials: Mothers Bear Children, Fathers Bear Responsibility

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Intersex Bodies in Premodern Islamic Discourse: Complicating the Binary

Indira Falk Gesink

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 152–173.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-6680205

Published: 01 July 2018

... pre-Islamic in origin, jurists claimed it for their own juristic lineage: the Fatimid judge attributed it to ʿAli; Hanafi Sunnis sometimes attributed the test to Abu Hanifa, founder of the Hanafi school of law (al-Sarakhsi 2001b , 116–17). ʿIbadi jurist Jabir Ibn Zayd (d. ca. 721) proposed...

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The Body under Siege: Corruption and the Female Body in Betool Khedairi’s Ghāyib

Kimberly Canuette Grimaldi

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 240–255.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8949457

Published: 01 July 2021

... occurs during a period of intense bombing that directly impacts the apartment building and its surroundings. Ghāyib tells the story of Dalal, an orphan who was adopted by her aunt. Though they have become parents through this adoption, her aunt’s husband chooses instead to go by the name Abu Ghāyib...

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The Politics of the Qabaday (Tough Man) and the Changing Father Figure in Syrian Television Drama

Rebecca Joubin

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 50–67.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3422523

Published: 01 March 2016

..., which were concerned with Western imperialism and articulating an Egyptian modernity, representations of masculinity in Syrian drama since the 1960s primarily speak to the state and regime legitimacy. On September 19, 2009, the actress Lora Abu-Asʿad appeared on al-Jazeera Mubasher . A male caller...

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“My Veil Makes Me Beautiful”: Paradoxes of Zeena and Concealment in Amman

Saba Abbas

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 139–160.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-2886514

Published: 01 July 2015

..., however. Abu Mohammad Ibn Husayn Al-Baghawi ( 1988 , 34), Abu-Jafar Muhammad Ibn Jareer Al-Tabari ( 2004 , 118–19), and Abu al Qasem Mahmud Ibn Omar Al-Zamakhshari ( 2009 , 726–27) argue that a woman’s “hidden” zeena includes all of her body with the exception of her hands and face. I focus...

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Ethnographic and Literary Reflections on Miral Al-Tahawy’s The Tent

Caroline Seymour-Jorn

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 107–123.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3728679

Published: 01 March 2017

... into her novel about Fatima, the young daughter of a Bedouin lord. In a carefully contextualized manner, she also incorporates Bedouin poems and stories into the narrative, along with references to popular belief in spirits and spirit possession. Anthropologists such as Lila Abu-Lughod and Steve Caton have...

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“I Do What I Please, but Even So, I See a Psychologist”: Palestinian Divorced and Widowed Mothers in Israel

Tal Meler

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 306–324.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3142449

Published: 01 November 2015

..., friends, and state authorities. Very often family “giving” to such women is a set of demands seeking to regulate them and reshape their conduct. The researchers Khawla Abu-Baker ( 2003 ), Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia ( 1995 , 2000 ), Rivka Savaya ( 1998 ), and Savaya and Orna Cohen ( 2005 ) show that seeking...

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Learning Desire: Relational Pedagogies and the Desiring Female Subject in Lebanon

Suad Joseph

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 79–109.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-2005-1005

Published: 01 March 2005

... in non-Western societies is needed (Kondo 1990; Abu-Lughod 1986; Lutz 1988; Roland 1988; Khan 2002). Relatively little cross-cultural ethno- graphic work exits, however, that challenges Western assumptions about the idea of desire, particularly in relation to the desiring female subject...

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Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod

Gender Perceptions of Male and Female Teachers in the Arab Education System in Israel

On Social Networks, Anonymous Testimonies, and Other Tools of Feminist Activism against Sexual Violence in Egypt

“Foreign Funding” Case No. 173/2011: The Implications of State Encroachment on the Feminist Community in Egypt

The Active Social Life of “Muslim Women’s Rights”: A Plea for Ethnography, not Polemic, with Cases from Egypt and Palestine

Islamic Feminism in Kuwait: The Politics and Paradoxes by Alessandra L. González

Financial Empowerment of Women in the United Arab Emirates

Palestinian Working Women in Israel: National Oppression and Social Restraints

Weddings and War: Marriage Arrangements and Celebrations in Two Palestinian Intifadas

Caught in the Crosshairs: Confronting Compulsory Unveiling in Faiza Ambah’s Mariam

Saving the Modern Woman: Politics of Gender during Egypt’s Transitional Period

The Palestinian Cinematic Wedding

Egyptian Family Planning Commercials: Mothers Bear Children, Fathers Bear Responsibility

Intersex Bodies in Premodern Islamic Discourse: Complicating the Binary

The Body under Siege: Corruption and the Female Body in Betool Khedairi’s Ghāyib

The Politics of the Qabaday (Tough Man) and the Changing Father Figure in Syrian Television Drama

“My Veil Makes Me Beautiful”: Paradoxes of Zeena and Concealment in Amman

Ethnographic and Literary Reflections on Miral Al-Tahawy’s The Tent

“I Do What I Please, but Even So, I See a Psychologist”: Palestinian Divorced and Widowed Mothers in Israel

Learning Desire: Relational Pedagogies and the Desiring Female Subject in Lebanon

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