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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 108–111.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Roberta Micallef We Have No Microbes Here: Healing Practices in a Turkish Black Sea Village , Önder Sylvia Wing . Durham, NC : Carolina Academic Press , 2007 . Pp. xxv, 304 . ISBN 978-0-89089-573-3 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009 108...
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Figure 7. Fahmi Basrawi, in formal Arab dress wearing a black robe, interpreting the explanations of a US Aramco official to Crown Prince Saud during his tour of Aramco’s industrial training department and refinery in 1948. In front of the frame are unnamed laborers drawn from the surrounding
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in Trauma, Collective Memory, Creative and Performative Embodied Practices as Sites of Resistance
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Published: 01 July 2016
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 46–74.
Published: 01 March 2010
... qualities (long and black). Thus, in its reappropriation, the ‘abaya-as-fashion notably disrupts its primary signification without ever fully displacing it, thereby constituting a form of passive resistance. This article interrogates the manner in which the ‘abaya-as-fashion stands in contingent relation...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 366–394.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., profiteering, black markets, rising inequality, and the return of British troops to strategic locations around the country. This article argues that the hybrid beauty represents the push and pull between women’s emerging roles in public spaces and traditional values, imperialism versus authenticity, local...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 256–264.
Published: 01 July 2021
... publications draw on critical race theory and Black studies, with potentially transformative possibilities for thinking through the gendered and racialized politics of “being Muslim” in the context of Euro-American secular modernity (Gibson and Karim 2014 ; Hammer 2012 ; Muhammad 2020 ; Taylor 2017...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 268–274.
Published: 01 July 2016
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 125–128.
Published: 01 March 2021
... commitment to feminist scholarship and in the inspiration she takes from the Black Lives Matter movement. The text is pitched with emotion, directing the reader to empathize with refugee suffering in a political era marked by Trumpian xenophobia (released in 2018, the book’s coda rests on the inauguration...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 219–222.
Published: 01 July 2019
... of eroticized solidarities with the Black Panthers and Palestinians: phases that are not so much opposed as they are linked, in Amin’s argument. It is very tempting to idealize Genet as a sexual and political outlaw above conventional morality. Amin, however, recommends a practice of deidealization...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 236–241.
Published: 01 July 2018
... 2012 ). This series consists of four images, each of a single, larger-than-life woman’s head wearing a headdress typically donned by Saudi men. The figure in each print uses rich black ink that strongly contrasts against vividly white paper. Two of the portrait visages look at the viewer (in black...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 62–65.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and marginalized groups, such as prostitutes ( rusbis ), musicians ( motrebis ), and black female slaves/servants. Although Scheiwiller provides some valuable readings, she misreads the hand fan in two images of seated women as a sewing implement, and thereby her conclusion that this is “an almost universal symbol...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 275–283.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Rima Dunn; Adam George Dunn Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 Some Islamic countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Iran, prohibit sales of the Barbie doll, because she promotes “degenerate values,” leaving them to the black market. The Saudi religious...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 105–108.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., and ethnicity/race
in Yemen. De Regt’s work will appeal to scholars of gender, labor, mi-
gration, development, medicine, and race in the Arab and Islamic world
and beyond.
We Have No Microbes Here:
Healing Practices in a Turkish Black Sea Village
Sylvia Wing...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11412039.
Published: 19 September 2024
... conceived of Indians and Africans alike as black. In the absence of a clearly de ned category of race, what we nd instead is a discourse that connects language to physiognomy. This discourse also racially linked South Asians and Africans together through the curse of Ham, which originated in the Hebrew...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 80–107.
Published: 01 July 2013
... with femininity and domesticity, and its stock
characters are compassionate mothers and virtuous maids with tragic
lives (Black 2009). These suffering characters act out “sympathetic and
virtuous [emotions]” and tug at the reader’s heartstrings, giving him
or her the chance to produce those same noble...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 94–103.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of a Movement . New York : Haymarket . Keeling Kara . 2012 . The Witches Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Nash Jennifer C. 2014 . “ Institutionalizing the Margins .” Social Text , no. 118 : 45 – 65...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 181–184.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... Fanon ( 2011 : 251) ends Black Skin, White Masks with a prayer: “O my body: make me always a man who questions.” That self is always in question, because the body of the black man, the body of the brown woman, evacuates each from ontology and being: “She swallowed bitter saliva and moved her dry...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 157–162.
Published: 01 July 2005
... gender issues in Iran and underscores her
resentment to wearing the all-enveloping black veil, the chador. In a short visit
to her parents, however, Sadegh-Vaziri follows Maryam to her home town and
observes her donning the long black veil while strolling in the bazaar with
her tightly veiled...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 267–290.
Published: 01 November 2023
... a Black identity within matrices of white supremacy, as in W. E. B. Du Bois’s ( 1973 ) double consciousness , gendered self-watching manifests as a self composed of an embodied self and a disembodied self. Under such constraints, the sense of being an embodied self while also watching that self, thus...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 368–373.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and elements in these valleys. In the Black Sea region, mountains stand parallel and proximate to the coast, while rivers rift through them, rushing strong and loud. Many told us that Black Sea folk speak loudly because of the noise of the river flow. In another valley, we learned of a trial involving...
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