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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 141–148.
Published: 01 March 2024
... radical potential after 1960. As well as being an exploration of the relationships between language, subjectivity, and art, the leporello is a figuration that opens such a methodological window. Formally, the folds of the book activate the relational and perspectival play of text and image...
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Published: 01 July 2023
Figure 2. Hshouma book cover, 2019. Image courtesy of Zainab Fasiki. More
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 112–115.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Mügé Galin 112  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES BOOK REVIEWS  Th e Book and the Roses: Sufi Women, Visibility, and Zikir in Contemporary Istanbul Catharina Raudvere...
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Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 5. A young girl holds a “white book” pamphlet of the writings of Che Guevara in one hand and a carnation in the other. Published in Tehran Mosavvar , January 19, 1979 [29 Dey 1357]. Siagzar Berelian Collection, Box 12, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. More
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 27–55.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Petra Kuppinger Hülya Kandemir’s book, Himmelstochter (Daughter of heaven), chronicles her transformation from a well-known regional pop singer to a pious Muslima in Germany. Kandemir describes her turn to Islam and the ensuing fine-tuned construction of a modern pious Muslim subjectivity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 30–53.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Nadine Adel Sinno Suad Amiry’s Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries (Pantheon Books, 2004) describes the difficult predicament of life under military occupation in Ramallah. Using wit and humor, Amiry recounts her stifling existence during curfews and heavy shelling, her terrifying...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 54–80.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Hina Azam The American Muslim landscape is suffused with mosque bookstores, independent book distributors, online retailers, and convention stalls offering English-speaking Muslims Islamic advice texts on a wide array of topics. Common among these popularly oriented writings are titles pertaining...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 1–21.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Cyrus Schayegh This article analyzes one of the first book-length Iranian treatises on female criminality, Qadisih Hijāzi’s Barrisi-yi jarā’im-i zan dar Irān (1962), to show how in the eyes of contemporary Iranian cultural critics and social scientists, female criminality was prefigured by gender...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 286–306.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., and subjected both authors to biased evaluation. The article draws on a corpus of book reviews, scholarly articles, and monographs to describe how Wanisi’s work was discounted as not a “true” novel, and the related process that brought Mosteghanemi to world fame. The trajectories of Wanisi and Mosteghanemi...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 149–182.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., as a critique of the Saudi system. Paratextual framing of the marketed book and translational choices emphasized the fiction as a writing of “experience,” bringing it closer to the memoir genre and linking it to a tradition of what I call Orientalist ethnographicism. These effects produce a work and author...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 4–31.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Christina Civantos The Egyptian feminist and educator Nabawiyya Musa (1886–1951), after publishing her autobiographical essays serially from 1938 to 1942, published them as a book under the title Ta’rikhi bi-qalami (My history, by my pen). This essay analyzes the material role of literacy...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 142–145.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Jocelyn DeJong Islam and Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Sunni and Shia Perspectives , Inhorn Marcia C. Soraya Tremayne , eds. New York : Berghahn Books , 2012 . 338 pages. ISBN 978-0-85745-490-4 . Copyright © 2013 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2013 142...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 430–432.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Heval Yaren şimşek Although Kurdish Women’s Stories might be considered a nonacademic book, I would approach this caveat with a grain of salt. The very genre of academic writing is currently questioned by scholars of gender and decolonial critique. The book will be of great interest...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 433–435.
Published: 01 November 2023
... for Middle East Women’s Studies 2023 Fortuitous oversights often lead to wonderful experiences. When in contact with the book review editor of JMEWS regarding an unrelated matter, I was asked to review this book. As I was familiar with some of Schäfers’s work, after a quick glance at the title I...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 131–133.
Published: 01 November 2014
... book reviews  mn  131 region, by trying to look at the intersections between class, religion, ethnicity, kin relationships, family background, and location in relation to diverse women’s experiences within Jordanian culture and society. In light of these concerns, the questions, aspirations...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 120–122.
Published: 01 July 2011
...) on page 98. Although Aghacy’s text could have benefited from a more compre- hensive vision and stronger structure, as well as more rigorous editing, it is informative and readable. This book is an important addition to gender and masculinity studies as well as to Arabic literary...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 123–126.
Published: 01 November 2007
...Mandy Terc Gregg Gary S. . New York : Oxford University Press , 2005 . Pp. x , 458. ISBN 0195171993 . Copyright © 2007 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2007 BOOK REVIEWS  123 tive memories and their transmission...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 129–131.
Published: 01 March 2010
... BOOK REVIEWS  129 Book Reviews  Becoming Visible in Iran: Women in Contemporary Iranian Society Mehri Honarbin-Holliday. London: Tauris Academic Studies. Pp. xii, 205. ISBN 978-1-84511-878-5...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 141–144.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Michelle Hartman Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries , Amiry Suad . New York : Pantheon Books , 2005 . Pp. 224. ISBN 0-375-42379-6 . Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008 BOOK REVIEWS  141...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 116–122.
Published: 01 November 2005
... STUDIES BOOK REVIEWS  Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem Reina Lewis. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004, 297 pp. $29.95 paper...