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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 117–124.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Rasmea Odeh Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Before my deportation from the United States in 2017, I spent the best years of my life working with the Arab Women’s Committee (AWC), a grassroots formation that focuses its activities on Arab American...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 126–127.
Published: 01 March 2015
... September 1, 2014 General Director, Women’s Affairs Technical Committee Soraida A. Hussein Our challenges are many. We remain under Israeli occupation and subject to military attack despite having gained UN observer-state status. This occupation limits the horizons of Palestinian...
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in From Guerrilla Girls to Zainabs: Reassessing the Figure of the “Militant Woman” in the Iranian Revolution
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 2. Committee for Peace in Algeria, “Against O.A.S. Fascism,” 1961.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 62–86.
Published: 01 November 2014
... anthropology who is an outstanding academic in terms of scholarly publications and service to Middle Eastern anthropology.” The MES Award Committee wrote to Inhorn: “Our committee greatly values your efforts as a scholar, a mentor, and a leader who has been deeply invested in the anthropology of the Middle...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 337–345.
Published: 01 July 2017
... myself in a way that he won’t control me in anything.” The activists reinforced their prioritization of girls and women: We are the Young Women’s Committee, and we are more interested in young women and recognize that in socialization, males have more privileges than females, always! So our duty...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 479–484.
Published: 01 November 2021
... equitable representation on its Committee of Experts on the Legal Status of Women. The Committee of Experts was created in 1937, when the League was hemorrhaging members as war in Europe loomed on the horizon. Tasked with conducting a global survey of the status of women, the committee was the result...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 31–57.
Published: 01 November 2008
...; 2005b). Th e mother of two physi-
cians, Labiba may have organized a clinic as well; one was later listed
under the auspices of the Renaissance of Women (an alternative transla-
tion) as affi liated with the Joint Committee for Family Planning.10
In the mid-1940s, private clinics...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 363–367.
Published: 01 November 2018
... it in theory, in the spaces we are creating. Different collectives who were part of the planning committee helped contribute to the fund-raising efforts before the march. After an identity and a slogan for the march were established, it was easy for groups to publicize the campaign from their own...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 359–361.
Published: 01 November 2015
... to protest the election law. We also identified legal experts sensitive to gender matters and asked them to form an independent committee that would produce a more inclusive electoral law. To guarantee equal representation of women and men, the committee proposed an electoral law based on “zipper lists...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 326–347.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of silk thread and raw cloth. Shakir’s ledger was filled almost entirely with Syrian women workers; her largest single client was “W.R.,” the women’s work relief committee of the Syrian Ladies Aid Society (SLAS) of Boston. 2 Founded in 1917, the SLAS was a mutual aid society devoted to meeting...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 113–115.
Published: 01 March 2019
.... In “Empowering Arab Immigrant Women in Chicago: The Arab Women’s Committee,” Rasmea Odeh, associate director of the Arab American Action Network and cofounder of its Arab Women’s Committee (AWC), discusses the committee’s work in confronting the various forms of discrimination, based on gender, race, ethnicity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 71–101.
Published: 01 November 2006
... implications of the pre-vocational
training program with respect to three diff erent aspects. First, we pres-
ent and discuss the minutes of meetings held by various committees of
the Ministry of Education, parliament committees, and various reports
prepared with relation to the program. Th is allows us...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 March 2005
... and currently
celebrating its twentieth anniversary year.1 We are honored and delighted to
have been chosen as JMEWS co-editors by the AMEWS Board of Directors,
and we are grateful to the AMEWS Publication Committee and a number of
other significant individuals for helping to bring JMEWS to fruition.2 In ad...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 6–30.
Published: 01 March 2008
..., the Women’s Party joined the Women’s
Committee of the communist Tudeh Party in a joint statement calling
for women’s suff rage, which they addressed to the Prime Minister’s
offi ce and “newspapers of the capital.”
In 1944, a Tudeh Party delegate proposed women’s suff rage in Par-
liament...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 99–102.
Published: 01 November 2007
... participation of women in all spheres of
national life.” Against the backdrop of these constitutional guarantees
and other significant commitments, various initiatives have been taken
to promote gender equality and to enable women to duly take part in
national development. Numerous committees...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 104–106.
Published: 01 March 2023
... activities of its inhabitants, and the counterrevolutionary practices of the police, keeps the gendered dimension of politics and the police in constant critical sight. In chapter 1, for instance, drawing on the Arendtian and Rancierian frame of politics, Yonucu shows how the people’s committees organized...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 108–135.
Published: 01 November 2013
... by the indifference many of
them displayed toward the rules that are supposed to govern their self-
presentations in public spaces. Most of these rules correspond to the
maximalist interpretation of Islamic precepts promoted by several state
institutions, such as the Saudi Committee of Higher Ulema, created...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 146–149.
Published: 01 July 2006
... organization, the Palestinian Federation of
Women’s Action Committees (PFWAC). Due to her personal experience
with the PFWAC during and after the first Palestinian Intifada, through
interviews with current and former partisans, and through examination
of policy papers and other documents...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11575535.
Published: 10 January 2025
... and a founding member of the nationalist political party Wafd s Women s Central Committee (WWCC). Despite the years I had passed reading about this revolution, I wasn t aware of her role until I came across her name in an article, published in the weekly al-Mussawwar on October 14, 1927, about the commemoration...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 124–125.
Published: 01 March 2015
... a critical period marked by the escalation of armed conflict by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, which has negatively impacted women’s lives. There are no women on the peace and national reconciliation negotiation committees. The presence of women would promote national peace, since women are the most...
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