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...Heather Rastovac-Akbarzadeh Gender and Dance in Modern Iran: Biopolitics on Stage . Meftahi Ida . London : Routledge , 2016 . 185 pages. ISBN 9781138804043. Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 Ida Meftahi’s Gender and Dance in Modern...

...Paromita Kar Women, Dance, and Revolution: Performance and Protest in the Southern Mediterranean . Martin Rose . London : Tauris , 2016 . 180 pages. ISBN 9781784532482. Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 Set against rich descriptions...

...Shayna Silverstein Abstract This essay analyzes how dance, gender, and state power function together as a significant node of critique in recent cultural production that addresses authoritarianism in Syria. Identifying the symbolic trope of dabke , a popular dance ubiquitous in Syrian life...

...John Tofik Karam This article asks how Syrian-Lebanese men and non-Middle Eastern Brazilian women have enacted their relationship to belly dancingin São Paulo. While men and women of Arab origins have usually framed the dance as an essential link to their ethnic heritage, non-Arab female...

...Maral Tatios Yessayan Abstract This article investigates issues of modesty, sexuality, and womanhood in a community of young Jordanian women working in folkloric dance companies in twenty-first-century Amman. Using feminist performance ethnography, it contrasts the gendered codes in play...

...Nadje Al-Ali Dancing in the No-Fly Zone: A Woman’s Journey through Iraq , Ditmars Hadani . Northhampton, MA : Olive Branch Press , 2005 . 256 pages. ISBN 1-56656-634-7 . Copyright © 2007 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2007 128  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S...

...Mejdulene B. Shomali Abstract This article analyzes two popular Golden Era belly-dance films, Sigara wa Kass ( A Cigarette and a Glass , 1955) and Habibi al Asmar ( My Dark Darling , 1958), through concepts of queer spectatorship, queer time and space, homoerotic triangulation, and queer...

..., and this association contributed to the stigmatization of the character and to the profession of dancing itself. To frame this argument, I discuss in the two first sections of this article the representation of the dancer as a bint al balad in preindependence Egypt and the Nasserist policies that reconfigured...

.... Men sit apart from women (usually the women stay inside and the men outside). Th e khitba is basically an event for women, where they can sing and dance collectively. Th e groom enters briefl y to adorn the bride with the wedding gold (talbissa) and dance with her for a short while...

... personnel (Pastor de Maria Campos 2015 ). Lengthy administrative codes sorted performers into locals versus foreigners. All performers defined as local—whether they danced on the streets or in weddings and popular religious festivals—were constituted as prostitutes. Foreigners and some Arab women...

... by his female relatives (wives, sisters, mothers) for special occasions organized by women and for women-only gatherings. On these occasions, female artists not only danced and played musical instruments but also performed theatrical vignettes mostly aimed at criticizing male power and the Iranian...

... ( My Dark Love ). In the first scene, a daydream sequence, Samra (Samia), clad in a folk scarf and simple clothing, watches a fully costumed Zakiya (Tahia) dance inside an old gramophone and imagines herself similarly dressed, mimicking her movements. In real life, although Samia had danced before...

... of complicated machinations to save a woman from a loveless marriage, the film’s hero pretends to be a wealthy Indian, speaking Persian with an affected Indian accent similarly punctuated by kartā hai and the occasional acchā (good, okay). The film also features an Indian-inspired dance number...

... dreams . . . the muezzin is dancing, on the radiator grille The sherif don’t like it, rock the casbah, rock the casbah . . . No, no, you are wrong, I try and tell them, but they of the long lashes and sweet faces have transformed into a menacing gang. I know I have to run, to escape...

... on one foot! 6 Now, dance like Samia Gamal! 7 Take your trousers off and bend over! 8 Now, cough! Now, lift one leg and spin on the other as you’re bent over with your mouth open! 9 Lie on your back and lift and open your legs! Still think you’re a man? Divorce your wife! Squat...

... female stars who acted, danced, and sang. No one better encapsulates the mainstreaming of female singers in Pahlavi Iran than Googoosh. While many other contemporary female performers of the period battled public perception of their profession as one step away from prostitution (Meftahi 2016...

...- BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS  105 dom, traditional Kurdish dance, and the great desire for a home state. Numerous Kurdish handicrafts were also on display and available for sale. The gathering concluded with a wonderful party at the Khancad Hotel with lots of food, dancing, and socializing...

... a harsher punishment than her male counterpart. Furthermore, in July 2018 an eighteen-year-old girl, Maedeh Hojabri, was arrested by the Iranian government for uploading a video to Instagram of herself dancing. As a mark of solidarity and resistance to her arrest, many people also uploaded videos...

...Nadeen El-Kassem Copyright © 2007 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2007 BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS  105 dom, traditional Kurdish dance, and the great desire for a home state. Numerous Kurdish handicrafts were also on display and available...

... were elected to a majority of the Doctoral Students’ Council of the Graduate School and University Center, where I was attending graduate school. As I moved into the leadership of this group, one of our less activist tasks was organizing monthly socials with snacks and dancing. Anyone in attendance...