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The Age of the Efendiyya: Passages to Modernity in National-Colonial Egypt

Sara Pursley
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 356–358.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7025511
Published: 01 November 2018
...Sara Pursley The Age of the Efendiyya: Passages to Modernity in National-Colonial Egypt . Lucie Ryzova . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 . 304 pages. isbn 9780199681778. Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 A welcome...
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Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870–1940 by Wilson Chacko Jacob

Nadia Guessous
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 119–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.8.2.119
Published: 01 July 2012
...Nadia Guessous Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870–1940 , Jacob Wilson Chacko . Durham; London : Duke University Press , 2011 . 440 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4674-6 . Copyright © 2012 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies...
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‘A’isha Abdel Rahman: An Unlikely Heroine A Post-Colonial Reading of Her Life and Some of Her Biographies of Women in the Prophetic Household

Mervat F. Hatem
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 1–26.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.7.2.1
Published: 01 July 2011
... histories of the biographer that have not received their due attention. It argues that Abdel Rahman’s independent views regarding the role of religion and modernity in colonial and postcolonial societies made her the unlikely heroine of the post-1952 republican regime. These views also shaped her...
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Global Women, Colonial Ports: Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East

Jonathan Wyrtzen
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 223–225.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7491023
Published: 01 July 2019
...Jonathan Wyrtzen Global Women, Colonial Ports: Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East . Liat Kozma . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2017 . 250 pages. isbn 139781438462615. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Liat...
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Girl Guides, Athletes, and Educators: Women and the National Body in Late Colonial Algeria

Jakob Krais
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 199–215.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7490981
Published: 01 July 2019
... . A Dying Colonialism , translated by Chevalier Haakon . New York : Grove . Fatès Youssef . 2003 . “ Le club sportif, structure d’encadrement et de formation nationaliste de la jeunesse musulmane pendant la période coloniale .” In De l’Indochine à l’Algérie: La jeunesse en mouvements...
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The Traumas and Truths of the Body: Medical Evidence and Divorce in Colonial Algerian Courts, 1870–1930

Sarah Ghabrial
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 283–305.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3142438
Published: 01 November 2015
...Sarah Ghabrial Abstract Between 1870 and 1930 the French colonial state in Algeria expanded its regulatory prerogatives in the governance of Muslim “personal status law” without abandoning its policy commitments to “respect local custom.” This article examines this fraught historical process...
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Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan by Janice Boddy

Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 103–105.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2009.5.1.103
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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The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt by Omnia El Shakry

Kavita Philip
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 96–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2009.5.2.96
Published: 01 July 2009
...Kavita Philip The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt , Shakry Omnia El . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2007 . Pp. xii, 328 . ISBN 978-0-8047-5567-2 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009...
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Malak Hifni Nasif: Negotiations of a Feminist Agenda between the European and the Colonial

Hoda Yousef
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (1): 70–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.2011.7.1.70
Published: 01 March 2011
... through which to examine the relationship between feminism and colonial enterprise in the tumultuous milieu of the early twentieth century. This paper contends that, in order to understand Nasif’s construction of her own feminist agenda, one must first examine the pervasive presence of the “colonial...
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Anticolonial Colonialism: Aurora Bertrana’s El Marroc Sensual i Fanàtic and the Shortcomings of “Anticolonial” Spanish Republican Feminism in the 1930s

Monica Lindsay-Perez
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 330–343.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7720669
Published: 01 November 2019
... of Spanish Republican anticolonialism and feminism in the 1930s. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Spain Morocco colonialism feminism You cannot close your eyes to or ignore our incapacity for racial colonization,” says the Catalan writer Aurora Bertrana...
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Savory Colonialism: Land, Memory, and the Eco-occupation of Palestine

Lila Sharif
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 256–257.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-2886703
Published: 01 July 2015
.... A feminized commodity from the “land of milk and honey,” olive oil has emerged as a signifier of Palestinian femininity and indigeneity pitched to the conscientious palate. I use the Palestinian olive as an optic to explore the convergence of settler colonialism, environmental destruction, neoliberal...
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The Female Imperial Agent and the Intricacies of Power: British Nurses in Mandate Palestine

Hagit Krik
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 12–35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-9494122
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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Performers or Prostitutes?: Artistes during the French Mandate over Syria and Lebanon, 1921–1946

Camila Pastor de Maria Campos
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 287–311.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3861312
Published: 01 July 2017
... coloniale: Algérie, Tunisie, Maroc, 1830–1962 (Colonial Prostitution: Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, 1830–1962). Paris : Payot . Trabulsi Fawwaz N. 1996 . “ Un amour de soi ” (“A Love of Self/Silk”). L’Orient Express , May 6 . Walkowitz Judith . 1980 . Prostitution and Victorian...
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Locating Subaltern Resistance and Resilience in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account

Wael J. Salam
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11575483.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-11575483
Published: 10 January 2025
...Wael J. Salam Abstract This article explores the thematic and aesthetic depictions of the colonized in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account (2014) by extending the postcolonial theory of the subaltern. This Moroccan American novel reconstructs the colonial history of the sixteenth-century Spanish...
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Narrative Strategies of Self-Definition and Voice in Leila Abouzeid’s Return to Childhood

Ariel M. Sheetrit
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 179–198.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-2886532
Published: 01 July 2015
... Abouzeid’s engagement with tensions triggered by colonial encounters and postcolonial nation building. Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015 postcolonial female agency Leila Abouzeid Arabic autobiography Moroccan autobiography Arab women’s writing...
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Representations of Women in the Writings of the Intelligentsia in Hashemite Iraq, 1921–1958

Orit Bashkin
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 53–82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2008.4.1.53
Published: 01 March 2008
... national subjects, with equal rights. The discourse also had global aspects, as Iraqi intellectuals appropriated and hybridized colonial perceptions of Muslim women. Orit Bashkin received her Ph.D. at Princeton University in 2004. Her dissertation, “Intellectuals in Monarchic Iraq, 1921–1941,” looks...
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Middle East Masculinity Studies: Discourses of “Men in Crisis,” Industries of Gender in Revolution

Paul Amar
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 36–70.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.7.3.36
Published: 01 November 2011
... masculinities, this article creates a larger map of discourses and methods, drawing upon studies of coloniality and gender in and from the global South. This mapping puts masculinity studies into dialogue with critiques of liberalism and security governance and with work in postcolonial queer theory, public...
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Fatna El Bouih and the Work of Memory, Gender, and Reparation in Morocco

Susan Slyomovics
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 37–62.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.8.1.37
Published: 01 March 2012
..., maker of museum-based memorials at Derb Moulay Cherif, once Casablanca’s torture center during the country’s colonial and post-independence era regimes. The museum project also focuses on Morocco’s largest urban agglomeration, Casablanca, and targets a sector of the city and its inhabitants’ rights...
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Reading and Writing the Turn-of-the-Century Egyptian Woman Intellectual: Nabawiyya Musa’s Ta’rikhi Bi-Qalami

Christina Civantos
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 4–31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.9.2.4
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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(Un)Holy Alliances: Marriage, Faith, and Politics in Leila Aboulela’s The Translator

Shirin Edwin
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 58–79.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.9.2.58
Published: 01 July 2013
...Shirin Edwin This article examines the tenor of Islamic spirituality in Leila Aboulela’s The Translator (1999). By contrasting my analysis with those studies that lay excessive emphasis on the novel as symbolic of an East versus West theory, as well as a conflict between colonial and postcolonial...
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