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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 83–106.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Charlotte Weber This essay examines the Eastern Women’s Congresses in Damascus (1930) and Tehran (1932) to show how Middle Eastern women attempted to stake their own claim to modernity within the established terms of nationalist and international feminist discourses. I argue that in organizing...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 31–52.
Published: 01 March 2008
... especially on the Twelfth Congress of the International Alliance of Women (IAW) held in Istanbul in 1935. Despite the renown of the Women’s Union, it was forced to disband shortly after the Istanbul Congress. Drawing upon popular press accounts, official records of the Istanbul Congress, and correspondence...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 6–30.
Published: 01 March 2008
... the party’s innovation in feminist advocacy in the context of Iran’s first women’s suffrage campaign from 1943 to 1946, and in direct comparison with an earlier organization, the Patriotic Women’s League and its hosting of the Second Eastern Women’s Congress in Tehran in 1932, and 2) the development...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 107–124.
Published: 01 March 2008
... before the Tehran
session of the 1932 Second Eastern Women’s Congress, and a year later
she secured a visa to come to the U.S. (USINS 1935b). In addition to the
American contacts of her brother, who had visited the U.S. starting in
1929, she had her own contacts through the women’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 387–407.
Published: 01 November 2022
... suzerainty is characterized as an opportunity for the people’s, the nation’s, and women’s reemergence (“Saʿadat al-nasl al-muqbil” [“The Happiness of the Next Generation”]; “al-Fajr” [“The Dawn”]). In July 1919 the Syrian National Congress convened to consider the future of Greater Syria. 1 With its...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 103–105.
Published: 01 November 2007
..., and Kurdistan. This historic gathering of approximately 450
people was hosted by Dr. Saman Shali, President of the Kurdish National
Congress of America, and chaired by Soraya Fallah, a well respected
Kurdish human rights activist. The conference was sponsored by the
President of the Kurdistan...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 466–472.
Published: 01 November 2021
... .” In Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East , edited by Abu-Lughod Lila , 126 – 70 . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Weber Charlotte . 2008 . “ Between Nationalism and Feminism: The Eastern Women’s Congresses of 1930 and 1932 .” Journal of Middle East Women’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 March 2008
... on
the movement for women’s rights in Iran, Turkey, and Iraq, respectively,
while Charlotte Weber considers the aims of women organizing across
national boundaries in the context of the Eastern Women’s Congresses at
Damascus in 1930 and Tehran in 1932. Ellen Dubois and Haleh Emrani
present a speech...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 July 2010
... faction within the governing General Peo-
ple’s Congress (GPC) in the North. Th is faction was heavily infl uenced
by the Egyptian Muslim Brothers, but upon emerging as an independent
formation in Yemen, these Brothers also brought with them both tribal
and Salafi leaders, loosely united by a logic...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 277–286.
Published: 01 July 2021
... journals for women. They even organized street actions. They networked across the country and with women’s organizations outside Iran. In 1932, at the height of their activism, they organized the Second Eastern Women’s Congress in Tehran, which was attended by representatives from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 154–167.
Published: 01 March 2017
... (US Library of Congress 2013 ). Intervention teams that had been operating in Tahrir Square between 2012 and 2013 ceased their activities because of political conviction in some cases and security concerns in others. In November 2014 the government, led by President el-Sisi, required anti–sexual...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 175–182.
Published: 01 November 2009
... 5:3
period. Founded in 1927, it was spearheaded by Nezihe Muhiddin who
had wanted to form a women’s political party but was denied permission
for that. TKB hosted the Twelft h Congress of the International Associa-
tion of Women (IAW) in Istanbul in April 1935 with the full...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 167–184.
Published: 01 July 2023
..., accumulated knowledge, and skills to contribute to the development of the social, political, and economic order in Turkey as well as contribute to Turkey’s democracy by protecting women’s rights” (Aydın Yılmaz 2013a ). From its beginning KADEM has held an International Gender Justice Congress every year...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 155–157.
Published: 01 November 2012
.... Library of Congress, and on
the Voice of America. He currently is a Strategic Cultural Consultant
with Truth Central, a division of McCann WorldGroup. He has also
consulted with the World Monuments Fund, IREX, and the Iraqi Board
of Heritage & Antiquities.
Mathew Gagné is a Ph.D...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 41–52.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., Long Beach, November 4‑6, 1983.
Women’s Cultural Movement in the United States: The Potential for
Political Mobilization, Eleventh International Congress of Anthropo-
logical and Ethnological Sciences, Canada, August 14‑25, 1983
(Phase I, Quebec).
Women of Old Nubia...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 235–237.
Published: 01 July 2023
... by agricultural taxes and created the dynamics of excessive exploitation of the peasants. Metinsoy demonstrates the general discontent and public voices of the people by addressing the wish lists of local party congresses, petitions, and newspaper reports. The book reveals that genuine and direct opposition...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 105–108.
Published: 01 November 2007
...
The first International Conference on Kurdish Women for Peace and
Equality, hosted by the Kurdish National Congress (KNC) in cooperation
with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), took place on March
8, 2007, International Women’s Day. Because of the heavy security at
the entrance of the hall...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 359–361.
Published: 01 November 2015
... women won 16.5 percent of the positions (thirty-three seats, of which thirty-two were acquired through party lists) in the first elected National Congress in fifty-two years. The LWPP, in partnership with the regional nongovernmental organization Karama, organized in 2013 the Libyan Women’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 109–119.
Published: 01 November 2007
..., it is simply
not the case that there was no mention of the veil at the 1932 Congress
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of Women of the East, as a reading of the proceedings of that congress
would indicate, nor is it the case that Reza Shah had a policy toward un...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 185–208.
Published: 01 July 2023
... University Press . Weber Charlotte . 2008 . “ Between Nationalism and Feminism: The Eastern Women’s Congresses of 1930 and 1932 .” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 4 , no. 1 : 83 – 106 . World Bank . n.d. “ Literacy Rate—Morocco .” https://data.worldbank.org/indicator...
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