...Ghiwa Sayegh; Yasmin Shafei American University of Beirut . January 19–20 , 2018 Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 The “Feminism in Crisis? Gender and the Arab Public Sphere” conference, coconvened by Carmen Geha, Sara Mourad, and Rim Saab...

...Sharon Linzey Copyright © 2007 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2007 BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS  103 International Conference on Kurdish Women for Peace and Equality, March 8, 2007, Erbil, Southern Kurdistan Sharon...

... for sale. The gathering concluded with a wonderful party at the Khancad Hotel with lots of food, dancing, and socializing with everyone con- nected to the conference. International Conference on Kurdish Women for Peace and Equality, March 8, 2007, Erbil, Southern Kurdistan...

...Naazneen Diwan NAAZNEEN DIWAN  115 BRIEF COMMUNICATION  Carving Out a Public Space for Multiple Interpretations of Islamic Law: A Look at the Conference...

...Sondra Hale Copyright © 2007 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2007 BOOK REVIEW  131 BRIEF COMMENTARY  JMEWS Conference at UCLA Sondra Hale...

...Rebecca Barlow Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008 REBECCA BARLOW  125 BRIEF COMMUNICATION  THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE NOBEL...

...Rana Sharif Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008 RANA SHARIF  119 BRIEF COMMUNICATION  Duke–UNC–JMEWS Conference: Marketing Muslim Women...

.... Concurrently, young women’s Islamically inspired volunteerism presents an alternative notion of activism that turns away from liberal prescriptions. Drawing on key scholarship as well as my own experiences with prominent women’s NGOs and the 2008 Women as Global Leaders Conference, I seek to show how...

... the issue of women unavoidable. In the context of a cross-ideological oppositional alliance in Yemen that has been largely fostered by the conferences, this enduring tension over women seems to have created just enough space to push the issue of women’s right to representation as political candidates...

... to create a decolonial feminist space within studies particular to the SWANA region to reflect on alternative forms of knowledge production and (his)stories and to envision other futures for our scholarship. We, as the organizers of the conference, along with those who understood our vision and participated...

... leader of several women’s organizations, they attracted delegates from mostly Arab or Muslim countries. Although the overall impact of the conferences was limited—they did not generate a perma- nent regional women’s movement nor did they induce local governments to implement desired...

... ar-Rawḍ al-ʿāṭir fī nuzhat al-khāṭir ( The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight , 1999). Slobodan Ilic informed the conference that he plans to publish a Turkish translation of a previously unknown erotic manual from the Oriental Institute of Sarajevo manuscript library that was miscataloged as al...

...), the Copenhagen Conference for Women (1980), and the Nairobi Conference for Women (1985), many women began calling for a widening of human rights to include rights women claim because they are women. Th ey argued that these rights included freedom from domestic violence, female genital mutilation...

.... Electronic   Book httpwww.fromsitetovision.org mn  47 Papers and Lectures Delivered at Professional Meetings and Conferences Running Out of Poems? An Auto-Ethnography of Sudan, Part I.   Keynote upon receiving an award...

...Rania Jaber Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 In March 2018 the School of Architecture and Design at the Lebanese American University (LAU) hosted a one - day conference in Beirut titled “Modern Bodies: Dress, Nation, Empire, Sexuality, and Gender...

...Sinan Goknur Sexualities and Queer Imaginaries in the Middle East/North Africa Conference April 10–11 , 2015 Brown University Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015 In April 2015 I participated in a two-day conference, “Sexualities and Queer...

... to register her feminist organization. In 1985 she finally succeeded, and the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association (AWSA) was officially born in time to make a big splash at the end of the UN Decade of Women Conference in Nairobi. AWSA became the epicenter of second-wave feminist organizing at a time when...

..., to a safe work environment, and to a nationality. Throughout the 1920s the League’s leaders resisted calls from international women’s organizations to internationalize women’s rights, stating that women’s issues were national concerns rather than international ones. After the Hague Conference...

... by the primary organizer of these two conferences, avail- able in English translation for the first time. Th e term “woman question” compresses into two words a complex social, cultural, and political phenomenon that had at its center the issue of women’s place in society. Th e woman question...