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...Peter Limbrick After the American Century: The Ends of U.S. Culture in the Middle East . Edwards Brian . New York : Columbia University Press , 2015 . 268 pages. isbn 9780231174008 (paperback 2017, isbn 9780231174015). Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East...

...Amaney Jamal AMANEY JAMAL is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University. Her current research focuses on democratization and the politics of civic engagement in the Middle East. She extends her research to the study of Muslim and Arab Americans, examining the pathways...

...Chloe Safier American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah , Karim Jamillah . New York : New York University Press , 2009 . Pp. xi, 291 . ISBN 978-0-8147-4810-7 . Copyright © 2010 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2010...

...Leila Ben-Nasr Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging Fadda-Conrey Carol New York : New York University Press , 2014 . 243 pages. isbn 9781479804313 Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies...

...Beth Baron This article looks at the origins of the family planning program in Egypt as a case study in the history of relations between the emerging community of international donors, state officials, and local actors in the postwar period. The paper suggests that Americans and Egyptians were...

...Sarah Eltantawi Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts against Domestic Violence . Juliane Hammer . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2019 . xi + 292 pages. isbn 9780691190877. Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2021 Juliane...

...Enaya Hammad Othman Abstract This article explores American Palestinian women’s discursive strategies and identity politics by which they take control of their marital choices. Through the analysis of sixteen in-depth interviews with second-generation Palestinian women and personal observations...

...Zeena Yasmine Fuleihan [email protected] Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal . Michael W. Suleiman , Suad Joseph , and Louise Cainkar , eds. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press , 2021 . xxi + 488 pages. isbn 9780815637097 . Copyright © 2022...

...Amira Jarmakani Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects , Jamal Amaney Naber Nadine , eds. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press , 2008 . Pp. xiii, 378 . ISBN 978-0-8156-3177-4 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle...

... Mervat F. Hatem. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 234 pages. ISBN 978-0-230-11350-3. Ferial J. Ghazoul, American University in Cairo This slim, but rich, book is an intellectual biography of a pioneering female figure who lived in Egypt and wrote...

...: Family, Law, and Politics Edited by Suad Joseph et al. Leiden: Brill, 2005. xxviii+837. US$326 Reviewed by S. Margot Finn, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan The first two volumes of the six-volume Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC) offer a guide...

..., 2005. Pp. 224. ISBN 1558615105. Reviewed by Ferial J. Ghazoul, American University in Cairo Th is novel is not only engrossing as fi ction, it also tells us intimately about Algeria’s war of national liberation (1954–62) and helps us under- stand what it means to be involved...

..., ed. Boston: Brill, 2006. Pp. xix, 564. ISBN 9789004128194. Reviewed by Hania Sholkamy, American University in Cairo Th is volume of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC) is devoted to the most gendered and critical of intersections between...

... Book Reviews mn Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam Kecia Ali. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010. 262 pages. ISBN 978-0-674-05059-4. Reviewed by Nadia Maria El Cheikh, American University of Beirut...

...) 2003, 56 minutes Reviewed by Rhoda Kanaaneh, Department of Anthropology, American University Ebtisam Maar’ana’s first feature film is a meditation on political and sexual silencing and a powerful statement of her refusal to be silenced. Mara’ana’s questions to the people in her village...

...-2. Reviewed by Evelyne Accad, University of Illinois, Lebanese American University The principal purpose of Hoda Elsadda’s Gender, Nation, and the Ara- bic Novel: Egypt, 1892-2008 is to mark itself within the canon of Arabic literature using gender as its principal framework...

... of us interested in studying the way in which women shape themselves and their world. Mona L. Russell Creating the New Egyptian Woman: Consumerism, Education and National Identity 1863-1922. Palgrave, Macmillan, 2004. Mona Abaza, American...

...: Sunni and Shia Perspectives Marcia C. Inhorn and Soraya Tremayne, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012. 338 pages. ISBN 978-0-85745-490-4. Reveiwed by Jocelyn DeJong, American University of Beirut, Lebanon Even a casual observer would notice the proliferation...

... “Arab family” placed a double duty on women activists in official Arab American public politics. Engagements with normative concepts of belonging to an “American family” entailed a gendered strategy of resistance in which Arab American official politics deployed women’s narratives to humanize...