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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2021
... are also problematic because of how they reify the idea of revolution and, to a certain extent, aestheticize popular protest. Nonetheless, the images they contain reveal an aesthetics of dissent that resolutely departs from the exoticizing, globalizing, and aestheticizing of Middle East and North Africa...
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View articletitled, Lalla Essaydi’s Bullets and Bullets Revisited : <span class="search-highlight">Aesthetic</span> and Epistemic Violence in a Globalized Art World
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 348–365.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of Armenian women through an aesthetic imagination. To discuss gendered depictions within genocidal narratives, I will identify certain problems and milestones relevant to coming to terms with the Armenian Genocide before analyzing gendered depictions in the three video works. Although the subject...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 95–97.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Renée Michelle Ragin Feminism and Avant-Garde Aesthetics in the Levantine Novel . Kifah Hanna . New York : Palgrave MacMillan , 2016 . 198 pages. isbn 9781137548702. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Kifah Hanna’s Feminism...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 131–139.
Published: 01 March 2023
... aesthetics and actions that can be at once ambient, daring, and enriching. Given the transnational and diasporic backgrounds of both artists and their audiences, it would be misleading to single out a “Western lens” or an “Arab” one, for that matter. Indeed, the trajectories of both Bahbah and Abdul Hadi...
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View articletitled, Toward New Feminist <span class="search-highlight">Aesthetics</span>: Notes about the Photography of Sarah Bahbah and Tamara Abdul Hadi
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (1): 1–38.
Published: 01 March 2011
... at achieving the aesthetic ideals of dramatic weight gain and “shining and whitening” of the skin. This paper offers a critical reading of the representation of the female body in postcards and travelogues, in descriptions written by members of the Tunisian Jewish community, and in interviews conducted...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 107–123.
Published: 01 March 2017
... as a culturally significant element of Bedouin women’s lives. I approach the novelist’s manner of writing about emotion and imaginativeness by attending to aesthetic processes themselves, which are often ignored by anthropologists looking at fiction. Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 42–62.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., Fuʾad al-Takarli, and Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, this article argues that the innovative aesthetic forms and themes adopted by men writers and their dedication to political and cultural renewal ( tajdid ) and social reform used the figure of the prostitute to articulate a vision of women’s liberation...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 181–202.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Claudia Liebelt Abstract Based on research in Istanbul in 2013–14, the article describes a changing urban geography of beauty, which has multiple repercussions on women’s spatialized notions of femininity, intimate bodily grooming, and aesthetics. Beauty salons in two neighborhoods typically placed...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 71–97.
Published: 01 November 2011
... on tours with LebTour from 2007 to 2011, and those men in the region who are increasingly identifying as bears. This research hopes to complicate the oft cited local/global bifurcation of sexuality. What becomes most interesting are the changing affinities, conceptions of rights, and aesthetics...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 23–42.
Published: 01 March 2024
... literary symbolism and aesthetics, the article attempts to make clear the resonance of her analytic method in the field of modern Arabic literature—especially Egyptian literature—and to point out how literature and critique are implicated in the social and political changes that forged and solidified...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 267–290.
Published: 01 November 2023
... by the contemporary Tunisian artists Meriem Bouderbala and Najah Zarbout invoke the aesthetics and ideologies of surrealism to mediate the ground between the embodied self and the observer self through portrayals of female sexuality as constituted by multilayered selves. In doing so, they evoke a surrealist history...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11575483.
Published: 10 January 2025
...Wael J. Salam Abstract This article explores the thematic and aesthetic depictions of the colonized in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account (2014) by extending the postcolonial theory of the subaltern. This Moroccan American novel reconstructs the colonial history of the sixteenth-century Spanish...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 141–148.
Published: 01 March 2024
... aesthetics thickens the texture of our understandings of diaspora and the creative potential of thinking diasporically. Another 2022–23 exhibition, In the Heart of Another Country: The Diasporic Imagination in the Collections of the Sharjah Foundation , at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, captured and centered...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 105–107.
Published: 01 July 2012
... to Egyptian stylistic norms, and is modeled after classi-
cal Arab musical forms. Rasmussen argues that this paradox hinges on
a productive tension between the global flow of Arab musical aesthetics
and the processes of oral transmission by which these are localized.
Aesthetic ideals...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 348–350.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., the uses of archives are not limited to their symptomatic and therapeutic appearance in times of revolution. Archive is also among the preferred critical terms used to theorize subversive aesthetics and politics today. A weighty anthology, Dissonant Archives features the work of over thirty...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 83–85.
Published: 01 March 2018
... female dancers have consistently been sites for contending discourses within the Iranian nation-state in the Pahlavi era (1925–79) and the post-1979 Islamic Republic. Meftahi employs the Foucauldian framework of biopolitics to analyze how dancers on national stages embody moral, aesthetic, and gendered...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 135–138.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of discursive, aesthetic
“conversation” has nowhere else been so eff ectively demonstrated. Th e
lack of this aesthetic dimension in conventional Western therapy may
explain why Rothenberg’s informants did not resort to such psychiatric
cures—which are positioned by Rothenberg (albeit skeptically...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 197–219.
Published: 01 July 2021
.... Not insignificant to this allegory are the rhythmic aesthetics of dabke . As described earlier, the rhythmic precision of footwork that plays with, around, and on the beat is a highly regarded skill among those who excel at dabke . When Musa likens the perpetrator’s shouts to the rhythmic footwork of dabke...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 246–251.
Published: 01 July 2018
... for at least two-thirds of total theater receipts (Cain 2017 ). Using an ethical-aesthetic approach, Felix Guattari ( 1995 , 14) argues that an artistic production “detaches itself from . . . connotations that are as much cognitive as aesthetic,” enabling the consumer to become “a co-creator...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 227–229.
Published: 01 July 2018
... and the Middle East. This historical account includes analysis of three predominant European tropes in representations of Middle Eastern homoeroticism: the beautiful boy, sodomy, and the hammam . Boone calls attention to the romantic and aesthetic elements in these tropes to challenge Orientalist assumptions...
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