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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 442–447.
Published: 01 November 2022
... was an artist, a painter who lived in Rome. She first met Wael when she was selling some paintings in an open-air market in 1964, two years after she’d arrived in Rome. Janet was thirty-nine; Wael was thirty-one. Janet and Wael fell in love. Janet was on a fast track to learn about Palestine and the Middle...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 141–148.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Rozen Whitworth [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2024 Across the concertinaed pages of a 1970 leporello by the Lebanese American artist, writer, and philosopher Etel Adnan (1925–2021), a poem emerges ( fig. 1...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 110–112.
Published: 01 July 2012
... regional and temporal divides.
Umm Kulthūm: Artistic Agency and the
Shaping of an Arab Legend, 1967–2007
Laura Lohman. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010.
229 pages. ISBN 978-0-8195-7071-0.
Reviewed by Alyson E. Jones...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 233–234.
Published: 01 July 2015
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 287–311.
Published: 01 July 2017
... Mandate Syria and Lebanon (1921–46). The French metropolitan system of regulated prostitution was imported yet transformed in the mandate region as women performers were sorted into legitimate, if morally suspect, foreign artistes and autochthonous performers defined as prostitutes by decrees and codes...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 424–432.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Marta Bellingreri [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 In the center of Baghdad’s Zawraa Park, Roze Muhammed begins her performance. With a red thread attached to a needle, the young artist sews a line onto a thick piece...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 249–257.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Nevine El Nossery [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2023 A few years ago, as I was conducting research for my book on Arab women’s revolutionary art, I learned about Zainab Fasiki, a talented young Moroccan artist who combines art...
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in Tarkib’s Contemporary Arts Festival in Baghdad: Women Artists Play and Perform Memories and New (Hi)stories of Iraq
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 2. One of Tarkib’s artists, Hussain Muttar (right), during his storytelling at the festival. © Alessio Mamo.
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in The Vagina and de Facto Feminism in the Artwork of Naʿama Snitkoff-Lotan
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 March 2017
Figure 5. Naʿama Snitkoff-Lotan, “Openings,” 2009. Video, runtime 5:16. Artist’s collection
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 15–40.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Susan Slyomovics This essay traces the intertwined topics of collaboration and multisited ethnography in the writings of anthropologist Sondra Hale on Sudanese artists and art. Hale’s trajectories and movements in and out of Sudan traverse parallel, sometimes overlapping tracks with the artists she...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Naïma Hachad Abstract In Bullets and Bullets Revisited (2009–14) the Moroccan-born artist Lalla Essaydi invites the onlooker to reflect on the power dynamics of image production and consumption in a globalizing visual culture. As in the artist’s previous series, the photographs present Moroccan...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 80–106.
Published: 01 July 2014
... war are central to their overall reactions to the film. Whether they love or hate the film, it is the critics’ views of the female characters that judge the film as a complete artistic piece. Catherine Sawers is an actor, screenwriter, film scholar, and poet living in Los Angeles, CA. Before...
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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 (2010) 6 (1): 103–116.
Published: 01 March 2010
... women exploring issues of gender, faith, social justice, and human rights across historical and cultural boundaries. I argue that the imaginative recovery of Farrokhzad by Iranian immigrant women writers and artists not only complicates the West’s frequently reductive contemporary representations...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 115–139.
Published: 01 March 2012
... with former militiamen from the Lebanese press, an autobiographical novel, and a play about the war, this paper examines the link between debates about memory and responsibility on one hand, and contentions over norms of masculine behavior on the other. The texts suggest that some Lebanese artists privilege...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 22–42.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Shahar Marnin-Distelfeld Abstract This article examines the works of Israeli woman artist Lilian Weisberger, who creates girlhood images that look naive at first glance but are nonetheless multilayered and radical. This examination of Weisberger’s girlhood images is done here for the first time...
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 2. Joseph Sheppard, Rape of German Refugee Women . Reproduced by permission of the artist.
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in Identity, Displacement, and Coming of Age with Banat Collective
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 1. From Rama Duwaji’s graphic novel Razor Burn . Used by permission of the artist.
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in “Woman” and Diasporic Kurdish Identity in the United States: Gender, Religion, Race, and Resistance
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 3. Beizar Aradini, Field of Memories (with Nothing to Prove It) (2020). Thread and tulle, 10 × 10 in. Photograph by the artist.
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in The Vagina and de Facto Feminism in the Artwork of Naʿama Snitkoff-Lotan
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 March 2017
Figure 4. Naʿama Snitkoff-Lotan, That Place , 2013. Silk paper, 13 cm × 14 cm. Artist’s collection
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