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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 161–178.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Wisam Khalid Abdul-Jabbar Abstract This article explores Zainab Salbi’s autobiography, Between Two Worlds ( 2005 ), using a Lacanian analysis. The Lacanian reading of the early Mirror Stage of ego formation can be extended to better understand Salbi’s narration of her childhood and how this world...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 199–215.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Noha F. Abdelmotagally Abstract The 1985 autobiography of the Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuqan (1917–2003), Rihla Jabaliyya, Rihla Saʿba: Sira Dhatiyya , translated into English as A Mountainous Journey: A Poet’s Autobiography (1990), has been studied in diverse critical works. Unlike most scholars, I...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Ariel M. Sheetrit Abstract This article presents an analysis of the Moroccan writer Leila Abouzeid’s Rujuʿ ila al-tufula ( 1993 ; Return to Childhood: The Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman , 1998) through the prism of relational theories of autobiography. It exposes narrative strategies of voice...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 286–306.
Published: 01 November 2019
... as an autobiography rather than a novel, and in the converse (but intimately related) process by which critics, readers, and journalists crowned Mosteghanemi as the first novelist of her kind, consecrated her as a star of “world literature,” and subjected her to plagiarism scandals that assumed that a male author...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 265–286.
Published: 01 July 2017
...-Tahawy al-Khibaʾ ( The Tent ) Arab women writers autobiography authorial double The creative artist is always in a state of agitation and rebellion and cannot accept the place without interrogating it, even if possessed by fears. —Miral al-Tahawy (quoted in al-Khalil 2007...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 147–149.
Published: 01 March 2022
... available, cheap book that made the case that this “heretic” should be put to death. It was at Duke that she first taught undergraduates. Her Dissidence and Creativity classes inspired countless students. It was at Duke that she wrote Awraqi Hayati , the first two volumes of her autobiography, translated...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 356–358.
Published: 01 November 2018
... from scholarship that she argues focuses on curricular content or institutional history, Ryzova explores modern schooling as a social practice, an important insight developed especially in chapters 4 and 5, which engage mainly with autobiographies and novels to reconstruct self-narratives...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 4–31.
Published: 01 July 2013
... autobiography as “a
major document in the history of Egyptian feminism [that] also con-
tributes to expanding and refining feminist theory in general.” Both
Badran (1992, 271) and Mona Mikhail (1979, 35 – 6) point out that al-
though Musa does not employ explicitly feminist language she expresses...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 25–44.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Orit . 2010 . “ To Educate an Iraqi Jew; or, What Can We Learn from Hebrew Autobiographies about Arab Nationalism and the Iraqi Education System (1921–1952) .” In World Yearbook of Education 2010 , edited by Mazawi Andre E. and Sultana Ronald G. , 163 – 83 . London : Routledge...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 291–295.
Published: 01 July 2016
... returned to their country only after Atatürk’s death in 1938. Edip wrote her autobiography, focused on the silenced voices of the Turkish nation, in English in response to Atatürk’s Nutuk (see also Adıvar 2007 ). Coming from a Mevlevi Sufi family, she was sympathetic to the story of the Prophet’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 87–106.
Published: 01 March 2017
... .” In Women, Autobiography, Theory , edited by Smith Sidonie and Watson Julia , 145 – 55 . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press . Bhattacharji Jaya . 2004 . “ Interview with Miral Al-Tahawy: The Quest for Freedom .” Frontline 21 , no. 14 . www.frontline.in/static/html/fl2114...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 233–234.
Published: 01 July 2015
... is experienced by some women in psychoanalysis)? In the articles on autobiographies in this issue, I wondered about skin as the package of the embodied relational self, discussed in different ways by Ariel M. Sheetrit and Noha F. Abdelmotagally. Skin is also a surface of interiority and a seemingly whole...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 150–155.
Published: 01 March 2022
... while they were at Duke. Might they try teaching? They had never taught before, but they were game to try. They relished the challenge, the students loved them (some of the students’ reactions appear in Bruce B. Lawrence’s tribute), and Nawal was inspired. She was inspired to write her autobiography...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 69–70.
Published: 01 March 2017
... an anthropologically informed close reading of this remarkable narrative of a girl struggling to thrive in a deeply patriarchal tribal community transitioning to modernity. Seymour-Jorn argues, in some cases against other critics, that this novel, weaving as it does between fiction, tribal poetry, and autobiography...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 423–429.
Published: 01 November 2019
... . San Francisco : City Lights . Gilmore Leigh . 2001 . The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Haddad Joumana . 2010 . I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman . London : Saqi . Khouri Norma . 2003...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 354–355.
Published: 01 November 2018
... the masculine space of publishing by participating in the women’s press and by issuing poetry and autobiographies. Yousef examines two technologies that impacted literacy and consumption: the postal service and the telegraph. While these two institutions in Egypt have been examined before, no scholar has...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 166–168.
Published: 01 March 2022
... the physician had already spoken the language of feminism in fiction and autobiography. In 1972 she had exposed often-hidden sexual injuries and injustices in her book Al-marʾa wa al-jins ( Woman and Sex ). With The Hidden Face of Eve she issued a rallying cry for feminist political organizing...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 131–133.
Published: 01 November 2014
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into the waters of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and the study
of travel writing as she tackles a corpus of 100 texts by women writers.
She sets out to explore cross-cultural transfer, its successes and failures,
as seen through autobiographies, travel writings, and memoirs written
by women who...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 1–3.
Published: 01 July 2013
... went further than any other woman
of her time when she decided to write her autobiography. Asserting her
empowered sense of self, Musa penned a personal story enmeshed in the
collective history of her nation.
This is what the famous Turkish warrior and nationalist Halide...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 114–117.
Published: 01 July 2008
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Th e Foreword by Maggie Gee describes Leaving Beirut as “a subtle and
profound book, a fascinating mixture of autobiography, semi-autobio-
graphical fi ction and meditations on how human behavior is distorted
by war, cunningly woven together by one central story that seems to
come...
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