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Creating Solidarity in Cyberspace: The Case of Arab Women’s Solidarity Association United
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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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Pages from “Militia” booklet, published by the Association of Students and ...
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Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 11. Pages from “Militia” booklet, published by the Association of Students and Muslim Students in Tehran in support of Khomeini’s “twenty million army,” late 1979–early 1980. Berelian Collection, Box 22.
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Rafidayn Women’s Coalition Association
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 124–125.
Published: 01 March 2015
... September 1, 2014 President, Rafidayn Women’s Coalition Association Hanaʾa Hammoud ʿAbbas Our second challenge is the formation of an Iraqi government. Iraq is gravitating toward creating a government ruled by political deals and sectarian quotas. In contrast to the promises...
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Association Tounissiet
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 365–367.
Published: 01 November 2015
... Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015 In May 2011 twenty women of different profiles, including academics, housewives, lawyers, and engineers, established the Association Tounissiet in Tunis. We met two months after the revolution to help establish...
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The Nature of Transnational Alliances in Women’s Associations in the Maghreb: The Case of AFTURD and ATFD in Tunisia
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 6–34.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., strengthened by the transnational Islamist dynamic, was calling for a referendum on the PSC, its promulgator, President Habib Bourguiba, was deposed. The second Republic chose to continue the policy of the first, and brought the women’s movement into association with other Tunisian political forces...
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Cruising Baghdad: Desire between Men in the 1930s Fiction of Dhu al-Nun Ayyub
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 25–44.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of heterogeneity and vitality in a nationalist, militarist, and heteronormalizing setting that increasingly associated homosexuality with moral dissolution and backwardness. References Ahmad ʿAbd al-Ilah . 1966 . Nashʾat al-Qissa al-Qasira fi al-ʿIraq (The Origins of the Short Story in Iraq...
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Aspirational Maternalism and the “Reconstitution” of Single Mothers in Morocco
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 45–67.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Jessica Marie Newman Abstract This article interrogates how employees at single-mother associations in Morocco construct the mère célibataire (single mother) as an archetypal, aspirational figure. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork (2013–15), this article traces how counselors work...
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Efféminés, Gigolos, and MSMs in the Cyber-Networks, Coffeehouses, and “Secret Gardens” of Contemporary Tunis
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 89–112.
Published: 01 November 2012
... of their associated onto-epistemic instantiations. While the principal focus is on the movement of the categories of éffeminés, gigolos, and MSMs, it also considers the conditions of possibility for the emergence of a gay movement in Tunisia, enhanced by Internetbased technologies. Analysis is derived from...
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Saving or Spending Money: Women Making Decisions in Rural Iran
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 110–125.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Soheila Alirezanejad As a microfinance project, an association of women in central Iran began to keep bees for honey in 2000. Initially they made money, which transformed some skeptical family members’ expectations, but, by 2004, most of the women had lost their bees and thus their source...
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Gendering Landscapes of War Through the Narratives of Soldiers’ Mothers: Military Service and the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 47–68.
Published: 01 March 2017
... once their children are asked to become the potential victims, and perpetrators, of the conflict. But this questioning does not develop into a full-fledged critique of the service and ends up reinforcing the tropes associated with Kurds and the “East” as backward, unruly, and resistant to change. Thus...
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"Every Slight Movement of the People … is Everything": Sondra Hale and Sudanese Art
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 15–40.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., Asmara, Addis Ababa, Oxford, the Hales’ Los Angeles home, as well as in American venues for meetings of the Sudan Studies Association. Susan Slyomovics is professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. Among her publications...
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Roads Less Traveled in Middle East Anthropology—And New Paths in Gender Ethnography
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 62–86.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Marcia C. Inhorn Marcia C. Inhorn is the recipient of the 2013 Middle East Distinguished Scholar Award, given by the Middle East Section (MES) of the American Anthropological Association. This biennial award was established in 2006 to recognize the efforts of “a senior scholar in Middle Eastern...
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Engendering or Endangering Politics in Algeria? Salima Ghezali, Louisa Hanoune and Khalida Messaoudi
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 60–85.
Published: 01 July 2006
... the values of the regime, and “criticaloppositional women,” who oppose and combat the existing order. This paper also explores the ways the Algerian regime has tried to maneuver women’s organizations, such as the main state association, whose raison d’être supposedly represents women’s needs within...
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The Feminization of Public Space: Women’s Activism, the Family Law, and Social Change in Morocco
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 86–114.
Published: 01 July 2006
... public debates that preceded, accompanied, and followed the new Family Law; these debates involved practically all public actors ranging from social, to economic, religious, and political actors and, along with the Family Law, shows that women’s feminist ideas and associations were inserting themselves...
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Marketing the Modern Egyptian Girl: Whitewashing Soap and Clothes from the Late Nineteenth Century to 1936
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 19–57.
Published: 01 November 2010
... Modern Egyptian Girl was no different from her sisters worldwide. She appeared in the postwar period and was associated with a variety of commodities. Depicted as white and Europeanized, her Egyptian incarnation coincided with the emergence of similar political iconography. The male elite desired...
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Women, Freedom, and Agency in Religious Political Movements: Reflections From Women Activists in Shas and the Islamic Movement in Israel
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 81–107.
Published: 01 November 2013
... experience agency in acts of submission rather than in resistance and that the association of agency with emancipatory desire and action is an expression of a patently Western tradition that celebrates the fiction of the autonomous individual. I find that women activists’ interpretations of agency in piety...
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The Birth of a Character: The Prostitute and the Early Novels in Twentieth-Century Iran
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 307–325.
Published: 01 November 2020
... novel, The Horrible Tehran , by Murtiza Mushfiq Kazimi. Associating prostitution with economic corruption, political and administrative decay, and religious hypocrisy, Iranian male writers directed their attention toward representing the sexually wayward woman. By scrutinizing the image...
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Lalla Essaydi’s Bullets and Bullets Revisited : Aesthetic and Epistemic Violence in a Globalized Art World
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and the Middle East. Her violent aesthetics further account for curatorial and marketing practices that neutralize the subversive content of art by women originating in North Africa and the Middle East. Often shown in exhibitions featuring similar images and associating women with the veil, weapons, and scenes...
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The Ritual Fusion: Individuality, Tradition, and Sensory Memory in Iranian Women’s Islamic Gatherings in Los Angeles
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 216–237.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Afsane Rezaei Abstract This article explores domestic religious practices of Iranian Muslim women in Los Angeles. In the diasporic context, Iranian women’s voluntary engagement in vernacular Islamic practices is often associated with an unreflexive pursuit of religion and lack of agency...
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The “Barbaric” Dabke : Masculinity, Dance, and Autocracy in Contemporary Syrian Cultural Production
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 197–219.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., selected films, literature, and choreography, this essay argues that the discussed works dislodge dabke from its feminized association with authenticity, folk culture, and nationhood to instead represent dabke as a form of hegemonic masculinity that perpetuates sovereignty, patriarchy, and autocracy...
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