...Kimberly Canuette Grimaldi Abstract Betool Khedairi’s novel Ghāyib ( Absent ) centers on a young woman living and working in Baghdad during the 1990s and her interactions with the inhabitants of her apartment building. The novel depicts the transformations of bodies that occur in the war zone...

...–117; Wadowiec 2013 ). This article focuses less on colonial policies and French feminist activities than on the debate about the role of women in Algerian Muslim society and new female practices related to the body. 3 I look specifically at the Muslim Algerian Girl Guide movement and female...

...Yasmine Nachabe Taan Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan . Marie Grace Brown . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2017 . 240 pp. isbn 9781503602649 . Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019...

... arrive at. For me, writing this collection of stories became a method of interpreting and critiquing the myth of ideal bodies and authentic selves. The lack of closure, the lack of ending, upset many of my readers. There is a seeming betrayal of Arabic and narrative linearity, and of what it means...

...Leila Zonouzi Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Film and Literature . Claudia Yaghoobi . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . 298 pages. isbn 9781108848473 . Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies...

... signals the need for further research in the book’s closing line: “What will be the fate of the female suffering body after the ‘Arab Spring’?” (134). Similarly, the geographic scope of the book makes one wonder how students of disability studies, modern literature, narratology, and gender studies...

...Banu Gökarıksel Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 References Gökarıksel Banu , and Smith Sara . 2016 . “ ‘Making American Great Again?’: The Fascist Body Politics of Donald Trump .” Political Geography 54 : 79 – 81...

... that it was informed by racial, sexual, and gendered anxieties. The special role once held by qabla s in these and other suits involving physical inspection of girls’ and women’s bodies was relentlessly attacked and undermined by French doctors and forensic experts who hoped to supplant women healers in courtrooms...

...Hania Sholkamy Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Volume 3: Family, Body, Sexuality, and Health , Joseph Suad , ed. Boston : Brill , 2006 . Pp. xix, 564 . ISBN 9789004128194 . Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008 108  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE...

...Sevil Çakir Kilinçoğlu [email protected] The Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement: Gender, Body Politics, and Militant Femininities . Isabel Käser . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . 288 pages. isbn 9781316519745. Copyright © 2023 by the Association...

... with a phenomenological perception of pain and pleasure in the female body as a means of self-expression. For her, the female body can be portrayed via indirection and insinuation through which bodily dys-appearance (pain) and eu-appearance (pleasure) are invoked. Resonating with Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology...

... against sexual and ethnoracial violence from the 1980s to the first decade of the 2000s. It then focuses on the slogan of the 2012 abortion rights mobilizations, “My body, my decision!,” which relies on bodily autonomy as the central trope of claim making. The article argues that the slogan is limited...

... Press . In the final analysis, however, Scheiwiller’s theoretical and critical intervention into the burgeoning study of Qajar photography and visual culture is a tremendous achievement and provides a necessary addition to the growing body of scholarship on gender and sexuality in Iran...

...Rania Jaber Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 In March 2018 the School of Architecture and Design at the Lebanese American University (LAU) hosted a one - day conference in Beirut titled “Modern Bodies: Dress, Nation, Empire, Sexuality, and Gender...

..., despite his African American ethnicity. On March 9, 2017, he was prevented yet again from boarding a flight, this time in Washington, DC, because of his name. At the heart of what later came be known as the “Muslim ban” is an attempt to vilify Muslim bodies, ban their mobility, and invade...

... , 61 – 80 . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press . Gökarıksel Banu . 2009 . “ Beyond the Officially Sacred: Religion, Secularism, and the Body in the Production of Subjectivity .” Social and Cultural Geography 10 , no. 6 : 657 – 74 . Gökarıksel Banu . 2012...

... Elizabeth M. 2010 . “ Bodies at the Margins: The Case of Transsexuality in Catholic and Shia Ethics .” Journal of Religious Ethics 38 , no. 4 : 601 – 15 . Butler Judith . 1993 . Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex.” London : Routledge . Dallal Ahmad . 2006...

... BODIES AND THE SECULAR STATE: THE MERVE KAVAKÇI AFFAIR Kim Shively  n May 1999 a “scandal” erupted in Turkey involving an elected representa- Itive from Istanbul, a veiled woman named Merve Kavak This woman entered...

...Hagar Salamon; Esther Juhasz In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Tunisian Jewish female body was subjected to a dramatic fattening process in preparation for marriage. Immediately following the girl’s engagement, her body became the focus of an intense transformative regimen aimed...

...Liina Mustonen Abstract This article looks at how specific gendered practices and ideas about female bodies were instrumentalized in the struggle for political authority during Egypt’s transitional period between 2011 and 2013. It argues that in the aftermath of the uprising, when Islamists won...