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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 2–30.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Elyse Semerdjian Abstract This article examines the legal bargaining of Armenian women in the dual Armenian and Islamic legal system in Aleppo. This study based on twenty-two cases of Armenian conversion to Islam informs how conversion, while rare, affected women who found themselves suddenly...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Armenian</span> Women, Legal Bargaining, and Gendered Politics of Conversion in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Aleppo
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 157–176.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Maral Aktokmakyan Abstract Mayda (1883), Serpouhi Dussap’s first eponymous novel, quickly met the patriarchal reaction among the Armenian male intelligentsia of Constantinople over the issue of female emancipation. Today the significance of Dussap’s best-known novel and feminist ideology is both...
View articletitled, Serpouhi Dussap’s Mayda ; or, The Birth of <span class="search-highlight">Armenian</span> Women’s Literature through the Palimpsestic Narrative of Feminism
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Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11575496.
Published: 10 January 2025
...Dzovinar Derderian [email protected] Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces . Talin Suciyan . Syracuse University Press , 2023 . 280 pages. isbn 9780815638193 . Copyright © 2025 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2025 REVIEW Outcasting...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 348–365.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Nora Tataryan Aslan Abstract Through a consideration of three film works— Ravished Armenia/Auction of Souls (1919), Testimony (2007), and Remembering (2019), which all represent the testimonies of Armenian women to form truths of the catastrophe—this article problematizes how such portrayals might...
FIGURES
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 386–388.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Meltem Şafak Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey . Lerna Ekmekçioğlu . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2016 . 222 pages. isbn 9780804796101 . Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 The Armenian...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 217–220.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Tamar Shirinian Gender and Sexuality in Armenian Studies . Graduate Student Workshop. University of Michigan . April 21–23 , 2017 . Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 In April 2017 the Armenian Studies Program (ASP) at the University...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 58–88.
Published: 01 November 2008
... initiative, the second
emphasizes the contributions of individual Iranians, especially women,
and criticizes the state’s shortcomings and/or ideological agenda (Paidar
1995; Afary 1996; Sanasarian 1982). Most discussions of female educa-
tion in Iran often omit or downplay the role of Armenian, Jewish...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (3): 289–307.
Published: 01 November 2024
... Armenian handwriting was straight. . . . My queasiness and boredom went away little by little. Like water boiling and evaporating bit by bit. I felt free and unburdened, I felt good. I thought, so he was interested in what I said? So, he wasn’t bored? I remembered his hands under his chin and his watch...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 423.
Published: 01 November 2022
... there. Stories lurk on each of the historical streets that crisscross Mardin and turn it into a labyrinth—my town with the ocher atmosphere. Armenians, Arabs, Syriacs, Chaldeans, Mahallamis, Kurds: in this town we have all lived together for centuries. At times the history of the powerful led us to kill one...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 81–86.
Published: 01 July 2008
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in social movements to war, militarization, occupation, and genocide
and the impact of such violence on women. Houri Berberian (CSU Long
Beach) described her current research on the roles of Armenian women
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in Safavid New Julfa, given the frequent...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 147–151.
Published: 01 November 2005
...-
enization programs implemented under successive dictators alienated
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Kurdish as well as Armenian and Assyrian groups. Kurdish publications
were outlawed in 1958, a year aft er the formation of the Kurdistan Demo-
cratic Party of Syria. When...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 59–80.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and British-mandated Iraq. Women like Bint Sawmman, an Armenian lay practitioner known for her expertise in eye disease, also practiced during the latter Ottoman period (al-ʿAlawchi 1967 : 376). Others included the apothecarist and midwife known as Rakhita, who ran her practice out of a small property rented...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 47–68.
Published: 01 March 2017
... gave the women a survey with questions about their personal background. While I did not particularly search for an ethnically homogeneous or diverse group, two of my interviewees self-identified as Armenian, while one self-identified as Bosnian. All of the other women self-identified as Turkish. While...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in the Middle East. Early beginnings include individual missionary initiatives. Beth Baron ( 2020 ) describes, for example, the nursing training of manumitted women in the American Missionary Hospital in Tanta. Inger Marie Okkenhaug ( 2020 ) shows that Scandinavian and German missionary nurses trained Armenian...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 125–127.
Published: 01 November 2005
... into schism. If East Syrians
had accepted the Council of Ephesus in 431, Constantinople would no
doubt have approved their use of their own languages, and likewise for
the West Syrians, Armenians, and Copts had they accepted the Council
of Chalcedon in 451. Baum is more convincing later...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 350–353.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and Kurds as on Islam. Patriarchal constructs could also be studied in terms of Aegean culture. In addition Turkey includes Armenians, Greeks, Jews, and Christians. Today the majority of the population may be Muslim, but as Ahmet Yaşar Ocak ( 1999 , 86) argues, the Ottoman “administrative establishment...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 141–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Armenian, Greek, and Kurdish ethnic backgrounds (164). Thus, despite proactively reviving the legacy of previously overlooked MENA artists, Under the Skin is associated with the very act that it condemns: the exclusion of a critical narrative that diverges from the norm. What better platform to discuss...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 136–139.
Published: 01 November 2014
...,” but equally to other segregated neighborhoods
and communities such as Armenians (mainly residing in segregated
neighborhoods in the North West Provinces), Assyrians (in the North-
ern and Western provinces), Indians/Pakistanis (in the South East) of
Iran, and also older, more ethnic, segregated...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 139–142.
Published: 01 November 2013
... (2001-2). Written by an Armenian fluent in Persian, Pirzad’s
novel provides refreshing respite from what might otherwise be seen as
a monolithic assemblage of purely Iranian texts. In the absence of such
examples, there is the risk of assuming full congruity between the Per-
sian language...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 153–156.
Published: 01 July 2005
...). This is not the case in Iran (other
than among Armenians and Assyrians), Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and most
areas of Turkey and Iraq, where people have been drinking tea for many
decades.
Notwithstanding these small criticisms, I feel the authors have done
wonderful work in presenting...
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