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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 60–80.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Sarah A. Kaiksow This paper explores imperial masculinity from the perspective of a British soldier who fought against the Dhofar revolution from 1968 to 1970 while serving in the British-led Army of the Sultan of Oman. Previous writings on masculinity in the context of empire have largely focused...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 103–105.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan , Boddy Janice . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2007 . Pp. xxvii, 402 . ISBN 978-0-691-12305-9 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 453–454.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., the dissertation places British imperial literary culture in the nineteenth century alongside postcolonial writing by women, whether in the Caribbean (Dominica), South Asia (India), or the Middle East and North Africa (Jordan and Egypt). Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1996), Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small...
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Published: 01 November 2018
Figure 4. A Medinese family that spanned Ottoman, British, and US empires: Yusef Basrawi, born and brought up in Ottoman Istanbul, with his Damascene wife, Arabia Kotob (left); their daughter, Bahija (right); and two younger sons, Fahmi (first row left) and Bahjat (first row right), pose
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 12–35.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Hagit Krik Abstract British women have hitherto been almost absent from the history of British colonialism in the Middle East, and particularly in Mandate Palestine (1918–48). By using an individual tale of a British nurse as a vantage point, the article explores the personal and professional...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 366–394.
Published: 01 November 2021
... most impediments toward Egyptian independence; however, British troops remained in the Suez Canal zone. With respect to economic history, multinationals were expanding in Egypt, while an emerging bourgeoisie worked to establish local industries. With World War II came economic crisis: inflation...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 59–80.
Published: 01 March 2022
... on lay practice as a form of medical training. Women’s ascension in the medical profession was further thwarted by colonial accreditation requirements and a series of laws that emerged during the British occupation and the ensuing mandate. Gradually and in limited numbers, some women were afforded...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 41–61.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., and Shoshana Almoslino, as well as Zionist women’s letters, a biographical dictionary of Communist participation, and British Foreign Office documents. Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 Iraqi Jews race whiteness Zionism Communism James Baldwin: A Russian...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 4–31.
Published: 01 July 2013
..., in a context in which only men or European women were considered legitimate writers in a range of genres, creates anxiety and ambivalence. In spite of this anxiety and the limitations imposed on her by Egyptian and British colonial authorities, Musa appropriates the pen—the symbol of male power—to craft her...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 466–472.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Marya Hannun References Ahmed Faiz . 2017 . Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Dogangün Gökten Huriye . 2019 . Gender Politics in Turkey and Russia: From State Feminism...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 March 2022
... as the regulation of prostitution. The hakima s came to serve as trained midwives and doctors and also, from the 1850s, as forensic examiners in newly established police stations. Following the British occupation in 1882, the hakima school was closed and its graduates were demoted to nurses (Abugideiri 2010...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 311–319.
Published: 01 July 2022
.... In this context respect does not have a gendered component in its formulation but it locates these women as morally superior in the British society. My PhD dissertation, “Perspectives of Iranian Men on Sexual Violence in the UK,” explores differences in perceptions of sexual violence among Iranian men...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 398–400.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the 1950s on (146). Brown opens with an analysis of an imperial photograph, dated between the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, in which a Sudanese woman stands in front of her home, returning her confident gaze to the British photographer, her “neighbor” (2). This moment of intimacy between...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 223–225.
Published: 01 July 2019
... for the British and French empires, as well as for local actors such as the Egyptians and the Lebanese. Gender was central to these conflicts, with the biopolitics of female and male bodies and their relationship to the institution of prostitution being linked to struggles over the boundaries between...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 287–311.
Published: 01 July 2017
.... 1 The colonial splintering of Bilad al-Sham into Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine was institutionalized through the British and French Mandates. As new state borders were instituted, the persisting heritage of Ottoman capitulation agreements and transnational formations spanning Arab diasporas...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 March 2009
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Iican and British media demonized the burqa as “Afghanistan’s veil of
terror,” a tool of extremists and the epitome of political and sexual repres-
sion (Shah 2001). But after the Taliban’s fall, when women failed to unveil
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 419–421.
Published: 01 November 2016
... and middle classes. The ʿUrabi Revolt and the British occupation also affected the turn to monogamous marriage and the end of concubinage and polygyny. The occupation resulted in the British taking control of state finances, which in the past had been used to pay for the imperial harems, including those...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 318–320.
Published: 01 July 2017
... detail. Her exploration of travel literature shows how it “contributed to the construction of Egypt as a barbaric nation through the depiction of Muslims as sexually lax and the criticism levelled at Islamic laws concerning marriage, divorce and veiling” (81). Under the British occupation, Gadelrab...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 492–498.
Published: 01 November 2021
... War I, when the British abolished the khedivate and established a direct British protectorate over Egypt. Although the British occupation of 1882 gradually diminished Istanbul’s direct influence, and eventually put an end to its sovereignty as well as to Egypt’s autonomy, the Sublime Porte never...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 19–57.
Published: 01 November 2010
... no need to advertise
since the Egyptian market was secure.
The name Nablus or its descriptor Nabulsi was synonymous with
purity and quality in soap. In an 1840 report, British official John Bow-
ring noted that Nabulsi soap was “highly esteemed,” and even in the
early twentieth century, the first...
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