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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 119–123.
Published: 01 November 2007
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Tavakoli Targhi, Mohamad
2001 Refashioning Iran: Orientalism, Occidentalism and Historiography.
New York: Palgrave.
Another Sea, Another Shore: Persian
Stories of Migration
Shouleh Vatanabadi and Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami, eds. and trans...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 157–176.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., namely, the palimpsestic mode of writing. Finally, the reading suggested in this article is linked to another underrated work, the mythical tale of Arachne. Reworking Nancy K. Miller’s theory of “Arachnologies” into the context of Armenian women’s literature, the analysis of Arachne’s tale...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 81–109.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Rita Stephan The Arab Women’s Solidarity Association United (AWSA United) is a pluralistic, transnational, and scholastic women’s advocacy group that emerged in cyberspace in 1999. Arab women in the diaspora sought cyberspace as a safe space to connect with one another in their activism for women’s...
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in Exercising in Comfort: Islamicate Culture of Mahremiyet in Everyday Istanbul
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 July 2016
Figure 3. Women’s exercise often begins with a fast walk followed by a workout on the equipment. There are only two men in this photo: one is walking against the stream (Zeki, in the front, facing away from the camera), and another comes with his spouse. Cumhuriyet Park. Photo: Sertaç Sehlikoglu
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 93–96.
Published: 01 July 2009
...-011-5.
Reviewed by Hala Khamis Nassar, Yale University
Telegram Press, responsible for a series of volumes of short stories by
Iranian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Czech, and Irish women, has recently
added two anthologies by women in yet another confl ict zone, namely
Palestine...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 463–465.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of movement, organizing, and exchange across borders, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We demonstrate the many ways in which women in the Middle East and North Africa collaborated with one another and with women in other world regions in the name of national independence, women’s rights...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 423–429.
Published: 01 November 2019
... was to further cross-cultural understanding by creating spaces for women to explore artistic practices and bring their voices to local and global audiences. Over the course of the four-day workshop, participants engaged in dialogues that enabled them to become more considerate of one another’s problems...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 337–345.
Published: 01 July 2017
... for participants or else charge a symbolic amount to cover costs. They hold film showings in donated theater space, charging small fees to fund other activities such as renting a bus for girls and women to attend an event in another city. They believe that this kind of activism builds goodwill, trust...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 118–119.
Published: 01 July 2007
.... On another level, the
work is a Bildungsroman, a book of self-education: “Travelling is the most
beautiful way to learn” (44). Th e self is trained and educated through a
life pursuit that has many stations; the individual moves forward on a
horizontal trajectory, from one place to another and from...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 362–364.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and equal job opportunities for women. The collective continues to distribute the pamphlets across the Tehran metropolitan area and other cities in Iran. These pamphlets popularized the slogan “Safe streets for all.” In another project Bidarzani filed a legal complaint against the National Organization...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 102–106.
Published: 01 March 2016
... between private and public, the Beirut Decentrists defy death, and most of their heroines become martyrs. Zahra is killed by her lover-sniper; Marie Rose refuses to be exchanged with her Palestinian lover and proudly faces death; Umm Ali, the fighter, dies in the street battles; and Noha, another...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 157–162.
Published: 01 July 2005
... to marry just for the sake of being married. She is not hopeful,
however, that she can find the kind of man she hopes to marry.
Sadegh-Vaziri’s camera moves effortlessly from one woman’s narrative
to another and from one location to the next. However, I wish she had made
greater...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2017
... with another set of shorthand terms (e.g., “Egyptian marriages” or “Pakistani marriages”) that refer to marriages among Muslims of the same ethnonational background. Second, Muslim marriages is a term they use to gesture toward the religious questions raised by marriages among Muslims of different linguistic...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (2): 86–114.
Published: 01 July 2010
... referent—serves as another lens to more critically ex-
amine belly dance performances that bring together Syrian-Lebanese
men and non-Middle Eastern Brazilian women. Generally considered
to be white ethnics in Brazil, Arab men are positioned in the role of
Freyre’s lighter-skinned masters...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 419–422.
Published: 01 November 2022
... transforming the ways we relate to one another, and as feelings of grief and fear that came with the pandemic are now augmented by feelings of grief and fear for the global consequences of the Russian invasion and, as of the spring of 2022, the literal destruction of Ukraine—a fear familiar to Middle Eastern...
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Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 98–100.
Published: 01 March 2023
... and charisma and asserts that men also associate their ancestry with their mothers. The second part, “Heiresses,” deals with inheritance as another significant aspect of bilateral descent. This part focuses on the idea that women can inherit blood and property from their families of origin. In this way...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 424–432.
Published: 01 November 2022
.... A member of the audience takes the needle and pulls it through to the other side of the cloth, while Roze plays lightheartedly with the thread and speaks. “History cannot be written from one side, so the needle passes from one side to another, and only with the presence of another person can I sew...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 268–270.
Published: 01 July 2021
... on the Syrian revolution, it was Alan Kurdi. For some, the inescapable image of his drowned body promised the potential to finally interrupt “Western” paralysis in the face of Syria’s war. For others, the circulating image simply signaled another form of voyeurism disguised as humanitarian concern. Indeed...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 348–365.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., converted during the period of the genocide, whose kinship narrations often come through a female lineage. Margosyan’s words also point to another crucial aspect of the current rendition practices woven around the genocide, namely, their gendered nature. Unsurprisingly, people who live on a genocidal...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 1–20.
Published: 01 November 2007
..., or 10 percent) ended up undergoing
testicular aspirations or biopsies, another invasive genital operation
in which sperm are drawn out directly from the testicles. Thus, in
total, 64 of the 120 infertile controls in the study—or 53 percent—had...
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