...Omnia El Shakry Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics , Baron Beth . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2005 . Pp. xv, 287 . ISBN 0520238575 . Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008 106  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES...

...Beth Baron This article looks at the origins of the family planning program in Egypt as a case study in the history of relations between the emerging community of international donors, state officials, and local actors in the postwar period. The paper suggests that Americans and Egyptians were...

... ideological movements in Turkey. Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics Beth Baron. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 287. ISBN 0520238575. Reviewed by Omnia El Shakry, University of California, Davis Egypt...

... (Baron), education (Rostam-Kolayi), or the expression of feelings related to gender and sexuality (Amir-Ebrahimi). Powerful men some- times appropriated these ideas, oft en erasing their originators’ names from history; sometimes rejected these ideas; and sometimes ignored them. Yet many...

... has been an Associated Researcher with Le Monde Iranien et Indien, CNRS–Paris. Her research focuses primarily on Tehran, women, youth, public space, the public sphere, cyberspace, and weblogging. Beth Baron is Professor of History at City College and the Graduate Center of the City...

... with the move- ment toward Egyptian independence, and advertisers appealed to senti- ments and images of nationalism to sell goods. Furthermore, Modern Girl bore striking similarities to the icon of “Egypt as a woman” that male nationalists fashioned in the press during the 1920s (Baron 2005...

..., for example, it was about 0.2 percent by the end of the century—few women had access to higher education, and few also had the means to enter medical schools (Baron 1994 ). However, as more women acquired higher education during the twentieth century, more envisioned medicine or nursing as a career (e.g...

... since the initial publication of Ruth Roded’s Women in Islamic Biographical Collections: From Ibn Saʿd to Who’s Who (1994), here republished largely unchanged. Following close on the heels of Nikki Keddie and Beth Baron’s ( 1991 ) anthology Women in Middle Eastern History and Leila Ahmed’s ( 1992...

... at the American University of Beirut, took place on January 19–20, 2018. 1 It included keynote addresses by Nadje Al-Ali (University of London), Hoda Elsadda (Cairo University), Frances S. Hasso (Duke University), Beth Baron (City University of New York), and Islah Jad (Birzeit University). It also included...

.... In particular, this article builds on the indispensable scholarship of Barbara Badawi ( 2001 ), Beth Baron ( 1994 , 2005 ), Marilyn Booth ( 2001 ), Sarah Gualtieri ( 2004 , 2009 ), Nicoletta Karam ( 2005 ), Akram Fouad Khater ( 2001 ), Evelyn Shakir ( 1997 ), and Joseph Zeidan ( 1995 ). By undertaking...

... practices: the education of women as not only readers but thinkers. The knowledge produced by critical literacy is precisely the kind that colonial and patriarchal authorities wished to control. Beth Baron (1994, 39) notes that when printed materials replaced manuscripts...

... a migrant worker named Coussouma in an attempt to offer a humorous critique of Lebanese society. 2. For more on this event, see Baron 2005 . 3. Photography can be considered indexical insofar as it produces a visual likeness that possesses a degree of accuracy and “truthfulness” unattainable...

... and in relation to diverse audiences. For a brief history of Arab women’s usage of Eastern to describe their identities, see Baron 1997 : 105–9. 4. There is a small but growing literature on women’s activism at the League, most of it focused on the activism of women from Europe or the United States...

... and in advertising intersected with popular and consumer culture at a moment when women’s roles in the public sphere were changing. Urban women of the middle and upper classes had increased access to education, journalism, social affairs, feminist activism, and consumer/recreational space (Badran 1995 ; Baron 2005...

... turned to sex work at the time. The relocation of the greatest concentration of British forces in the interwar period provided lucrative prospects to the foreign female brothel keepers who settled there (Baron 2005 : 52; Biancani 2018 : 124; Carminati 2021 ). 2 Afifa’s migration to Egypt, her...

... not have Turkish-language training would benefit if it were available in translation. 6. See, e.g., Badran 2009 , Baron 2005 , Booth 2015 , and McLarney 2015 . In recent years, some of the books published by these prominent scholars have been translated into Arabic and thus have become available...

... of the coup yet, but it looks like the Gülenists who infiltrated the military planned and attempted to execute it. Gülen was a preacher in Turkey who cultivated a huge following that developed into a transnational religious and social movement. He had his media barons and businessmen and instructed his...

...Atlas Torbati References Aitchison Cara , Hopkins Peter E. , and Kwan Mei-po , eds. 2007 . Geographies of Muslim Identities: Diaspora, Gender, and Belonging . Burlington, VT : Ashgate . Barone Carlo . 2006 . “ Cultural Capital, Ambition, and the Explanation...

... and the mainstreaming of anti-Muslim sentiment have profound ethical and political implications for those of us who work on or with Muslims and Muslim-majority societies. For this reason the Middle East Studies Association joined a lawsuit against the EO. As Beth Baron, president of the association, put it: The Middle...

..., nor does it add much to the work by scholars such as Margot Badran and Beth Baron, whose pioneering monographs set the standard for Egyptian women’s history in the early 1990s. Still, there are things to recommend this thoughtful compilation of photographs. Editors Hind...