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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 115–118.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Moneera al-Ghadeer Disciples of Passion , Barakat Hoda , translated by Booth Marilyn . Syracuse : Syracuse University Press , 2005 . 136 pp. Copyright © 2006 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2006 BOOK REVIEWS 115...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 95–97.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and Avant-Garde Aesthetics in the Levantine Novel offers serialized readings of Arabic novels by Ghada al-Samman, Sahar Khalifeh, and Huda Barakat, whose fiction portrays war’s destruction of oppositional gender relations and constructs in the Arab world. Hanna locates the birth of an “interstitial...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 114–115.
Published: 01 November 2006
... of Passion
Hoda Barakat, translated by Marilyn Booth. Syracuse:
Syracuse University Press, 2005. 136 pp.
Reviewed by Moneera al-Ghadeer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Hoda Barakat delves inside the psyche, describing a realm of memories,
obscurity, fragility...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 93–96.
Published: 01 July 2009
.... In the
Lebanese story “Th e Language of the Secret,” by Najwa Barakat, a young
boy runs away from the burdens of responsibility as a provider for his
mother during the war, to embark on a mysterious religious quest. We
fi nd stories like “Chat,” by Hoda Barakat, about Lebanese children...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 72–76.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Stephen Sheehi The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability . Jasbir K. Puar Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 . 267 pages. isbn 978082269189 . Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 References Barakat Rana . 2018...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 96–101.
Published: 01 July 2009
...,” by Najwa Barakat, a young
boy runs away from the burdens of responsibility as a provider for his
mother during the war, to embark on a mysterious religious quest. We
fi nd stories like “Chat,” by Hoda Barakat, about Lebanese children of the
diaspora chatting on the Internet in their own...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 78–101.
Published: 01 July 2012
... than the “pluralism” (Barakat 1993). The constants account for
the status of Arab women. Even the United Nations (2005) report on
women’s inequality in Israel sought cultural explanations for Palestinian
women’s marginalization in the labor force stating, “Low unemploy-
ment among...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
... women surveyed in urban centers like Cairo and Alexandria, 1,348 had at least one appliance (the most prevalent was a stove, followed by a refrigerator), and 744 lived in households with multiple appliances (United Arab Republic 1964: 225). In 1966 Ruqiya Barakat conducted a study of household...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 306–324.
Published: 01 November 2015
...-colonial institutions. Palestinian families in Israel are characterized by a patriarchal structure organized according to age and gender hierarchies (Barakat 1993 , 102; Hassan 1991 ; Sharabi 1988 ) and further attenuated by conservative Muslim norms (Layish 1995 ). The ideal family is an extended...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 346–348.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of patriarchy, domestic and militia violence, and the future of Lebanon. In part 3, Hartman engages the world literature framework by looking at questions of circulation and translation between English, Arabic, and French in postwar Lebanese literature. In her reading of Leila Barakat’s Sous les vignes du...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 200–202.
Published: 01 November 2010
... in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Arab societies. She is an
award-winning translator of contemporary Arabic fiction into English.
Among her translations are Disciples of Passion and The Tiller of Waters
by Hoda Barakat, Thieves in Retirement by Hamdi Abu Golayyel, The
Open Door by Latifa...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 124–127.
Published: 01 March 2017
.... Al-Samman’s Anxiety of Erasure traces two common references in Arab women’s diasporic literature: Shahrazad, the storyteller of The Thousand and One Nights and the mawʾudah, the buried female infant. Through an exploration of six authors (Ghada Samman, Hanan al-Shaykh, Hamida Naʾnaʾ, Hoda Barakat...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 March 2006
...” between state and society, such as the family
and informal mechanisms (for examples of the latter approach, see Grey
1998; Akman 1998; White 2002; Carapico 1998; Wiktorowicz 2001; Jo-
seph 1993).6 Yet buffers do not only take on a formal associational cast.
Halim Barakat suggests the “family...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 291–316.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Bakhit al-Mutiʿi (d. 1935), a scholar at Cairo’s mosque-university al-Azhar, transcribed large sections verbatim into his own work (Quadri 2014 : 95). Everett’s Principles , too, circulated beyond Beirut, as her students moved to Cairo, Jerusalem, and Philadelphia (Barakat 1912 : 67–70; Booth 2002...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 307–329.
Published: 01 November 2019
... , dir. Niazy Mustafa, 1944), Habib al ʿumr ( The Love of the Life , dir. Henry Barakat, 1946), and L’abet al sitt ( The Lady’s Puppet , dir. Wali al Din Samih, 1946) deployed them as honorable banat al balad , working as dancers who followed a dream to become big stars. Without exception...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 31–49.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., is insensitively improper,” states Halim Barakat ( 1975 , 126–27). Contemporary Saudi women have tackled the imbalance of wealth, the clash between modernity and tradition, the struggle of liberals against the politicized Sahwa (religious awakening) movement, 4 the conflict between a Sunni government...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 197–219.
Published: 01 July 2021
... for the Fifth of June , in which Wannous portrays folk troupes as employees of the state whose work spurs propaganda rather than expresses social truths (see Wannous 2019 ). 9. For detailed analyses of Syrian prison literature, see cooke 2011 and Taleghani 2017 . 10. The original clip (Barakat...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 36–70.
Published: 01 November 2011
... that they could turn it into something curable” (El Shakry, forthcom-
ing). Al-Samman draws upon an example from Hoda Barakat’s (1995)
The Stone of Laughter, in which an androgynous and effeminate boy is
gradually ground down by the abuse of the secret police, militarized
society, and the prevalent...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 79–109.
Published: 01 March 2005
... that embed desire within relational matrices.
And while work on Middle Eastern patriarchies abounds, one must turn to
literary (Mahfouz 1990; Altorki 1999; Al-Nowaihi 1999; Al-Shaykh 1986;
Barakat 1995; cooke and Badran 1990; Jabbour 1989; Samman 1995; Soueif
1992; Rifaat 1983) rather...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 50–67.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of the qabaday culminates during Ramadan in 2011 with two miniseries, Nseir and Hassan Sami Yussef’s al-Sarab ( Mirage , dir. Merwan Barakat) and Fadi Qoshaqji’s Taʿb al-Mishwar ( Exhaustion of the Path , dir. Seif al-Din Sbai‘i), which focus on the father as protector of a daughter’s sexuality from...
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