... of these novels coincided with the emergence of an LGBTQ+ politics in Turkey but also with the rise to power of the Islamist Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party). Drawing on crime fiction theories, trans studies, and recent Turkish history, this essay draws out the significance...

... interpretation is subject to cultural and pedagogical diff erences and may present cultural norms rather than Islamic norms. “Fiction” refl ects the fears of American Muslim women in a post- 9/11 environment. Targeted for hate crimes, labeled terrorists, and isolated from the mainstream...

... of Crime, Confl ict and World Order 32:4 (2005); “Imperial Wars or Benevolent Interventions? Refl ections on ‘Global Feminism’ Post September 11th,” Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal 26:2 (Spring/Sum- mer 2002); and Caregivers Break the Silence (2001). Rachel Gorman is a Postdoctoral Fellow...

.... Held in sexual slavery between 2014 and 2015, Farida Khalaf and 2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad published testimonials that detail their experiences. Determined to bring ISIS rapists to justice, they narrate the formerly unspeakable crimes that ISIS militants committed against them...

... in Turkey wanted (114). The book does not discuss feminist perceptions and criticisms of this Western cultural imperative, but it does offer an especially fruitful starting point for such an analysis. The chapter by Tolga Yalur argues that the “dominant fiction” of Turkish Yeşilçam movies during...

... expressions, was entwined with questions of social and political reform as Arab writers sought to promote cultural and social renewal ( tajdid ) in their fictional works. The Palestinian critic and novelist Jabra Ibrahim Jabra ( 1971 , 87) writes that what was termed maʿrakat al-tajdid (the battle...

... are Syrian women writers who left Damascus in the 1960s to settle in Beirut. Ghada Samman (b.1942) is one of the Arab world’s best known fiction writers, and Huda Naamani (b.1930) is a highly admired Sufi poet. I had met them just after graduate school, in the sum- mer of 1980, when I was in Beirut...

...Sanna Dhahir Abstract Saudi fiction written by women reflects the rapid changes witnessed by Saudi Arabia as a result of oil wealth and globalization. Increased education and work opportunities, exposure to the outside world, and a better awareness of the cultural and political dynamics at work...

... that sketches of Gitmo’s facilities could serve a purpose something like the chalk outlines of bodies at a crime scene, delineating space around the lost” (Crabapple 2015 : 3). The idea of “delineating space” around what has been denied representation not only frames Crabapple’s work but points...

... autobiography, which she had often started but had always had to turn into fiction when the story started to hit home. But she was also inspired during a class she attended. Bruce was teaching a class on prophecy and human rights, and at the end of the semester his students staged a puppet show...

....” catherine sawers  mn  85 It was not until June 1999 that the French government officially used the phrase, “the Algerian War.” Until then, they simply called it “the events in Algeria,” (Jones 2009). Désirée Schyns (2009) writes that national attention has come back to crimes committed during...

...: There are four ways to write a woman’s life: the woman herself may tell it, in what she chooses to call an autobiography; she may tell it in what she chooses to call fiction; a biographer, woman or man, may write the woman’s life in what is called a biography; or the woman may write her...

... a strange border zone between normativity and abjection. Telling their stories, in turn, requires an unusual amount of gender work, which has created the genre of sentimental terror narrative. This article compares fictional and journalistic texts that claim, whether explicitly or implicitly...

... women’s fiction appeared in 2011 in the Journal of Arabic Literature . Copyright © 2013 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2013 30  mn  Journal of Middle East women’s studies  9:1 FAMILY SAGAS AND CHECKPOINT DRAMAS TRAGEDY, HUMOR...

... pas az Margash ham Jinayat Mikard (Sayf al-Qalam: The Man Who Committed Crimes Even after His Death) . Tehran : Intisharat-i Kushish . Ferdowsi Ali . 2011 . “ Sang-e Ṣabur .” In Encyclopædia Iranica . https://iranicaonline.org/articles/sang-e-sabur . Fraschery Ch. Sami-Bey [Sami...

... of the homoerotic and heterotopic aspects of Ayyub’s writings, even if they mention his depictions of physical attraction between men. Rather than read these fictional texts as sociological studies of sexual sensibilities, the article assumes that they tapped into and reflected psychological and social dynamics...

..., and conceptually, thematically, and formally significant, if potentially scandalous or transgressive, feature of the modern literary canon” (8). In Suicide and Contemporary Science Fiction , Carlos Gutiérrez-Jones ( 2015 ) argues that the act of suicide involves creative self-destruction and that the change...

... former militiamen employ when subjected to the limelight. Second, Bazzi’s novel is an example of semi-autobiographical accounts that blend fiction with personal memories. Finally, Mroué’s play treats the past with a self-conscious reflexivity that has become a trademark of Lebanon’s...

... for the Rest of This Crime Story (in Persian). Tehran : Giv . Jamali Rosa . 2013 . This Highway Is Blocked (in Persian). Tehran : Boutimar . Karimi-Hakkak Ahmad . 2009 . “ Literature/Persian .” In Britannica Book of the Year 2009 . Chicago : Encyclopaedia Britannica . Leder...

...), and Asrar-i shab ( The Secrets of the Night , 1926) all describe the lives of prostitutes who, like Dumas’s Madame Camelia , suffer from consumption. Rabiʿ Ansari’s Jinayat-i bashar ya adam furushan-i qarn-i bistum ( Crimes of Humanity, or the Human Traffickers of the Twentieth Century , 1929) tells...