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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 140–143.
Published: 01 July 2005
...I. Okwuje States and Women’s Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco , Charrad Mounira M. . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2001 . xviii + 341 pp. Bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-520-07323-1 ; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-520-22576-7...
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Engendering or Endangering Politics in Algeria? Salima Ghezali, Louisa Hanoune and Khalida Messaoudi
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 60–85.
Published: 01 July 2006
... in Algeria. Equally, he acknowledged the rise of active women who have been fighting to make their voices heard and to break into the public sphere, which has so often been judged as men’s sphere. Armed with professional expertise, social science data, and political commitment, these women campaigned...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 199–215.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Jakob Krais Abstract Algeria is often seen as a major instance of women’s emancipation in the Middle East of the mid-twentieth century. Whereas the scholarly focus has often been on colonial policies, French views, or the female participation in the war of independence, this article looks...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 383–385.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Amy Kallander Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory, and Gender in Algeria, 1854–2012 . Natalya Vince . Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2015 . xxi + 274 pages. isbn 9781526106575 . Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Natalya...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 105–133.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Dongxin Zou Abstract Sent by the Chinese government on medical missions, Chinese female ob-gyns have served in rural and small-town public hospitals in Algeria and Morocco for more than fifty years. Yet little is known about the medical encounters or how the ob-gyns perceived patients...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 227–229.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Valentine M. Moghadam My critique notwithstanding, scholars and students alike will learn a great deal about the politics of crowds in Algeria in 1988–89 and in Tunisia and Libya in 2011. In addition, they will generate discussions among themselves about the political and gender dynamics of mass...
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in From Guerrilla Girls to Zainabs: Reassessing the Figure of the “Militant Woman” in the Iranian Revolution
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 2. Committee for Peace in Algeria, “Against O.A.S. Fascism,” 1961.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 292–313.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., Morocco, and Algeria. Analysis of Islamic jurisprudence and opinions, court decisions, and state laws since 1999 shows that the crisis of abandoned children combined with the biological truth revealed by DNA testing have helped produce a paradigm shift. Islamic legal opinions now argue for the need...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 104–108.
Published: 01 March 2018
... the Mediterranean Sea between Algeria and France were likened to the passage of the Seine River through the center of Paris. Any history of bodies of water, cooke reminds us, represents more than mere liquid content or geopolitical orientations; instead, water becomes an “episteme, not merely as property...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11412065.
Published: 19 September 2024
...Roger Friedland; Janet Afary Abstract This article examines the nature of informal marriages using data from a 2018 survey of over ten thousand Facebook users in seven Muslim-majority countries: Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Palestine, Tunisia, and Turkey. The article explores current attitudes...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 80–107.
Published: 01 July 2013
... as on novelistic and journalistic accounts of Palestinian female suicide bombers from the United States and Algeria/France: Barbara Victor’s Army of Roses: Inside the World of Palestinian Suicide Bombers (Rodale, 2003) and Yasmina Khadra’s The Attack (Doubleday, 2005). It argues that sentimental terror narratives...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 March 2022
... histories of female medical practitioners by looking at case studies spanning the twentieth century from Algeria, Palestine, Israel, Iran, and Iraq. The introduction to this issue offers an overview of existing scholarship and charts sources and directions for future research and historical actors yet...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 283–305.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Sarah Ghabrial Abstract Between 1870 and 1930 the French colonial state in Algeria expanded its regulatory prerogatives in the governance of Muslim “personal status law” without abandoning its policy commitments to “respect local custom.” This article examines this fraught historical process...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 286–306.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the novel was such a success, and her unique status has made her one of the most widely read contemporary authors writing in Arabic. It is perhaps unsurprising that such a monumental literary first would generate attention, coming as it supposedly did more than thirty years after Algeria’s independence from...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 80–106.
Published: 01 July 2014
... Pontecorvo’s masterpiece of simulated docu-
Bmentary footage and newsreels that reenact the struggle over Algiers
during Algeria’s war of independence (1954-62). Bataille d’Alger took
the Grand Prize at Venice Film Festival in 1966, amid a torrent of ac-
cusations—no doubt correct...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 98–103.
Published: 01 March 2015
... Algeria and elsewhere around the basin around 1900. In her 1998 work Italy’s “Southern Question”: Orientalism in One Country Jane Schneider poses the problem of the “many Italies,” as does Illuzzi’s research. Illuzzi argues that not only was imperialism on Italy’s Fourth Shore manipulated as an antidote...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 296–300.
Published: 01 July 2016
... own experiences. Appropriating the voices of colonizer and colonized across time, Djebar creates a chronotope, a kind of temporal landscape in which French, the language of the colonizer, becomes her own to the extent that she inhabits it. Shortly after Algeria’s independence, the narrator...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 110–146.
Published: 01 March 2005
... East was part of a process first
known as the internationalization of productive and financial capital and now
called (economic) globalization. The large MENA countries, such as Iran,
Egypt, Turkey, and Algeria, pursued import-substitution industrialization
(ISI), where machinery...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 6–34.
Published: 01 March 2007
... years of this third millenium. The first was the reform
in 2003 of Morocco’s personal status code (the Mudawwana), grant-
ing Moroccan women new rights, following a long struggle to which a
women’s network, the Collectif 95 Maghreb Egalité,3 had made an im-
portant contribution. Algeria also...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 438–441.
Published: 01 November 2017
... book claims that it “analyzes the links between creative dissidence and inscriptions of violence in the writings of a selected group of postcolonial Arab women,” including Assia Djebar, Leïla Sebbar, and Maïssa Bey (Algeria and France); Aïcha Ech-Chenna and Laila Lalami (Morocco and the United States...
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