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Narrative Strategies of Self-Definition and Voice in Leila Abouzeid’s Return to Childhood
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Ariel M. Sheetrit Abstract This article presents an analysis of the Moroccan writer Leila Abouzeid’s Rujuʿ ila al-tufula ( 1993 ; Return to Childhood: The Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman , 1998) through the prism of relational theories of autobiography. It exposes narrative strategies of voice...
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Pieces of Us: The Intimate as Imperial Archive
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 268–291.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of American Arabia and Wartime Beirut (2009). It considers the geopolitics of oil and the worlds it produced in the intimate relations and domestic quarters of the Aramco oil camp in the 1950s and 1960s, in the authors’ childhoods in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war, which also involved US imperialism...
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Violence Against Women in Qatari Society
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 80–93.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., or husbands. It also shows that some women were subjected to violence during childhood and adolescence. The study points to the lack of legislation and official organizations to protect women from violence and suggests ways and means of dealing with the problem in Qatari society. Dr. Kaltham al-Ghanim...
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Lacanian Selfhood, Parental Figures, and Trauma in Zainab Salbi’s Between Two Worlds
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 161–178.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Wisam Khalid Abdul-Jabbar Abstract This article explores Zainab Salbi’s autobiography, Between Two Worlds ( 2005 ), using a Lacanian analysis. The Lacanian reading of the early Mirror Stage of ego formation can be extended to better understand Salbi’s narration of her childhood and how this world...
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“In My Eyes He Was a Man”: Poor and Working-Class Boy Soldiers in the Iran-Iraq War
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 174–192.
Published: 01 July 2018
... accounts, and original oral history interviews. Editor’s Note: This article won the 2018 Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies Graduate Student Paper Prize. Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 Iran-Iraq War childhood boy soldiers Pahlavi Iran...
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The Middle East: A Cultural Psychology
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 123–126.
Published: 01 November 2007
... in the region.
Gregg writes in an accessible and engaging style and skillfully combines
anecdotes with theory to provide useful insight into how the progression
from childhood to adulthood unfolds. However, in the process, he relies
on some generalizations and problematic assumptions...
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Balconies: A Mediterranean Memoir by Mishka Mojabber Mourani
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (1): 126–128.
Published: 01 March 2011
..., multinational Le-
vantine phenomenon—that paradoxically represent the only stability and
the focal point of her childhood: the tapestry of her composite identity.
From the balcony facing out, Mourani mostly tells with a mixture
of anger and nostalgia the stories of the many wars she has witnessed...
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Saving Egypt’s Village Girls: Humanity, Rights, and Gendered Vulnerability in a Global Youth Initiative
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 26–50.
Published: 01 July 2012
... Fellowship at Georgetown University. She is a medical anthropologist who specializes in gender and transnational processes. Broadly, Sweis’s research lies at the intersection of the politics of humanitarianism and the social production of childhood and youth in contemporary Egypt. Her doctoral dissertation...
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An Inner Voice Liberated: Feminist Reading of Lilian Weisberger’s Artwork
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 22–42.
Published: 01 March 2021
.... The renowned Israeli children’s author Ayin Hillel (pen name Hillel Omer) reflects on adults who write children’s literature: “It feels as if adults are sneaking into their childhood. Not only is childhood a part of our lives that we don’t close the door on and walk away from, but in fact, these are rooms...
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Transgressing Boundaries despite the Barriers: Arab Women in Four Recent Films
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 104–107.
Published: 01 March 2015
... childhood into young adulthood. This elegant eight-minute film emerged from a workshop for young Iraqi filmmakers (sponsored by Human Film) as one of a series collectively known as the Iraqi 35 mm Workshop Short Films. All of them feature themes of childhood and star Baghdadi children, some of whom live...
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Collective Performance: Gendering Memories of Iraq
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 117–123.
Published: 01 March 2015
... a connection with it. The works in Let the Guest Be the Master are generated from a feeling of losing my childhood and the selling of my home in Baghdad. 1 This was difficult for me, because I attributed that home to a tangible space, a space that encapsulated memories I did not want to lose. My...
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Identity, Displacement, and Coming of Age with Banat Collective
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 409–415.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., lived in Qatar. Fatema Nooh, Banat’s graphic designer, lived in Berlin, where the time difference was not as great as that between the United Kingdom and the Gulf. In December 2017 Fatema and I met in Brighton. Over burgers and chips we spoke about our childhoods, parents, and the countries we had...
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The Saadawian Androgyny
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 71–86.
Published: 01 March 2017
... their own mother frequently could not distinguish them from each other despite their sexual difference: “Children’s faces,” explained El Saadawi, “like that of old people, are sexless. Between childhood and old age there’s a period during which one should clearly announce one’s sex” (11). Hamida’s...
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Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Volume 3: Family, Body, Sexuality, and Health ed by Suad Joseph
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 108–111.
Published: 01 July 2008
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ideals and provisions associated with sexual and family matters. It does
so through both its choice of topics and its inclination to consider diverse
geographies and contexts.
Th e topics vary from the familiar (marriage, childhood, population
and fertility control, reproduction...
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Muslim Diaspora: Gender, Culture and Identity ed by Haideh Moghissi
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 111–114.
Published: 01 July 2008
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women they interviewed are craft ing feminist identities that build on the
idea of the umma, with faith superseding nationalism, race, and ethnicity.
Sandwiched between Farahani’s discussion of Swedish Iranian women’s
childhood memories about the importance of virginity and related bodily...
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Seeds of Corruption by Sabri Mousa, Children of the Waters by Ibtihal Salem, Dunyazad by May Telmissany
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 119–122.
Published: 01 November 2006
... in “Making Bets,” which explores gender and economic inequalities,
when two childhood friends meet as adults. He is driving a Mercedes,
and she is waiting for the bus in the cold and without a coat. When she
challenges him to experience the cold and hunger, he rejects doing so, as
it reminds him...
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Queer Visual Excavations: Akram Zaatari, Hashem El Madani, and the Reframing of History in Lebanon
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 326–336.
Published: 01 July 2017
... of queer desire and relationality: Zaatari’s childhood romance with the Palestinian fedaʾiyyin can be considered the basis of his own idiosyncratic queer formation, which is inextricable from the history of war and resistance, militarization and occupation, that indelibly marks the spaces of south...
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Daughters of the Right Path: Family Law, Homosocial Publics, and the Ethics of Intimacy in the Works of Shi‘i Revivalist Bint Al-Huda
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 51–77.
Published: 01 July 2012
... conceptions of ethical develop-
ment and self-formation. In these texts, consistent with the Islamic
tradition, moral subjects are formed not passively and decisively, as
an effect of early childhood influence, but actively and continuously,
through the repetition of disciplinary practices that work...
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Languaging Space in Assia Djebar’s L’amour, La Fantasia
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 296–300.
Published: 01 July 2016
... is walking in Paris with her brother when he calls her hannouni , meaning “my dear” or “my love.” Thrown back to her childhood, she muses: “My brother . . . reminds me . . . of the local spoken dialect of the mountains where we spent our childhood. I felt a somewhat bitter-sweet embarrassment. I turned away...
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In Memoriam: Fatima Mernissi, 1940–2015
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 455–459.
Published: 01 November 2016
...? This is Mernissi’s essential paradox, at the heart of her writing: a woman empowered to make her way in a man’s world because she was nurtured in a gender-segregated society of strong women who encouraged her to leave it (and them) behind. The affirmation of self that Mernissi took from her childhood experiences...
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