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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 93–95.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Leila Ben-Nasr Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging Fadda-Conrey Carol New York : New York University Press , 2014 . 243 pages. isbn 9781479804313 Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 82–104.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Sherine Hafez Sondra Hale’s deep and long-term relationship with Sudan has produced a substantial body of scholarship that has transformed the anthropology of gender in the Middle East. She argues in her work that a version of Islamic citizenship was articulated by Hassan al-Turabi’s Islamist...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 254–255.
Published: 01 July 2015
... of secularism and religion, and interdisciplinary studies of the state and sexual/gendered citizenship. I focus on two phenomena. One is the Lebanese state’s regulation of religious conversion, a practice the state and its courts consider proof of their secularity. The state actively protects the rights...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 20–45.
Published: 01 November 2005
...Mervat F. Hatem 20 JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES
IN THE SHADOW OF THE STATE:
Changing Defi nitions of Arab Women’s
“Developmental” Citizenship Rights
Mervat F. Hatem
he...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 66–68.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Sara Salem Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 Economic Citizenship: Neoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment focuses on a particular arena of neoliberal cultural production: the social economy. The social economy can be understood as a wide range...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 23–52.
Published: 01 July 2009
... cost of treatment places it beyond the reach of many Palestinians, thus epitomizing their civil marginality and poverty. In Israel, where fertility treatment is state-funded, eligibility on the grounds of one’s Israeli citizenship comprises a relatively positive experience for Palestinian men, who...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 35–59.
Published: 01 July 2006
... are not taking place in the absence of women’s contribution and participation. Drawing on examples from different countries, I demonstrate how women are shaping, impacting, and redefining the public sphere by producing alternative discourses and images about womanhood, citizenship, and political participation...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 107–134.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., or change the rules in sexual and family life in order to address a range of problems and challenges, including lack of economic and other resources, political and citizenship exclusions, or intimate violence. What are the implications of relying on states as the main arbiters of rights and protections...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 July 2019
... the debate on civil marriage reform and the implications for women’s rights in Lebanon. For advocates, the recognition of civil marriage legalizes interreligious marriages, strengthens secular citizenship, shifts the jurisdiction of marriage from religious to civil law, and ensures women’s rights. Opponents...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
... advertisements. However, the language of pleasure, beauty, and happiness used to advertise household goods prior to the revolution became embedded in new gendered definitions of citizenship after it. Advertisements also depicted women as primary beneficiaries of Egyptian state socialism and, in doing so, papered...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 238–259.
Published: 01 July 2022
... narratives of nationhood and female citizenship by documenting the trauma of the Iranian Left in the history of the nation. However, because of her specific color-blind politics of race and antireligious politics of gender, her work overlooks some groups of Iranian women’s existence and experiences. Thus...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 48–74.
Published: 01 March 2019
... formation of the Syrian state (Nationality Act and Penal Code). Under this provision, the law is responsible for regulating citizenship; this regulation acts against Syrian women. The Syrian Nationality Act entered into force in November 1969, just after the Baʾath regime took power, demonstrates how...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2017
... outline two instances of Muslim marriages and discuss how they both index and instantiate the interplay between transnational Muslim strivings and ethnonational forms and citizenship regimes that both shape and constrain Muslim marriages. I conclude by addressing the types of ethical deliberations...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 125–131.
Published: 01 March 2008
... to be construed as full citizens with automatic citizenship
rights. In the logic of the master narrative, it follows that men should
determine the direction of society and the state in the postconfl ict cli-
mate. In contrast, women’s non-participation in the physical defense
of the state means that they do...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 1–7.
Published: 01 July 2006
..., Chatfield, and Pagnucco
1997), “transnational advocacy networks” (Keck and Sikkink 1998), and
“transnational feminist networks” (Moghadam 2005).
A burgeoning literature on civil society, citizenship, and democra-
tization has emerged in the context of Middle East Studies, in tandem...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 290–292.
Published: 01 July 2022
... they are highly educated in aggregate? Why can Lebanese women not pass Lebanese citizenship on to their children? In facing these questions, Hyndman-Rizk asks whether introducing a secular nationality and civic marriage law would solve the many legal, political, social, and economic contradictions that women face...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 123–124.
Published: 01 July 2012
... Stud-
ies. Joseph’s research focuses on her native Lebanon and examines the
politicization of religion; women in local communities; women, family
and state; and questions of self, citizenship, and rights. She is founder
and facilitator of the Arab Families Working Group, founder...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 46–72.
Published: 01 November 2005
... of
her citizenship. Indeed, the reaction to Kavaks parliamentary debut was re-
markably dramatic and consuming in terms of national discursive focus and
energy and in terms of media time.
To give some context to the Kavakçı aff air, it is important to under-
stand that a central...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 449–453.
Published: 01 November 2021
... in an already-existing transnational Iranian civil society,” including “women’s existing practices of citizenship in postrevolutionary Iran, long before the emergence of Weblogistan” (79). They successfully question the assumption that Iranian women’s activism is “always already secular and NGO-based” (90–91...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 387–407.
Published: 01 November 2022
... citizenship As the victors of World War I sat down at the Paris Peace Conference to determine the terms of defeat, and representatives of the former Ottoman provinces began traveling to Paris to make their case for national self-determination in January 1919, Najla Abillama published the first issue...
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