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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 85–88.
Published: 01 July 2009
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Th e Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems,
and Belly Dancers in the U.S.
Amira Jarmakani. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Pp. xiii, 236.
ISBN 987-0-230-60472-8.
Reviewed by Nada Elia, Antioch University Seattle
Th ose of us who grew...
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figures 6–7. Niʾimat and her mother before and after Niʾimat became a dancer. Movie stills.
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figures 6–7. Niʾimat and her mother before and after Niʾimat became a dancer. Movie stills.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 63–79.
Published: 01 March 2015
... in the hoshiyya —a Bedouin courtship dance—with how women dancers enact and revise such codes in everyday life. The article explores choreographies of gender through a careful reading of tensions between the moving bodies of men and the embodied practices of the woman soloist onstage. It also compares this model...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 307–329.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Figures 6–7. Niʾimat and her mother before and after Niʾimat became a dancer. Movie stills. ...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (2): 86–114.
Published: 01 July 2010
... enthusiasts have generally treated it as a universal dance for women. I examine the interplay between these claims through performances in Syrian-Lebanese country clubs, a Brazilian belly dance festival, and the Brazilian Orientalist soap opera, O Clone (The Clone). As contractors, folk dancers, or spectators...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 83–85.
Published: 01 March 2018
... the 1920s and the 1940s and ending with state-promoted theatrical dances between the 1940s and the 1970s, chapter 2 analyzes how the state sought to “advance and educate the nation” through the female national dancer (9). Specifically, the intelligentsia and the Pahlavi monarchy aimed to cultivate...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 86–88.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Paromita Kar Women, Dance, and Revolution is essentially a study of individual experiences in terms of subject and approach. Martin structures each chapter around the primary account of the experiences of a dancer combined with her observations. While connective threads emerge through...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 135–156.
Published: 01 July 2019
... and Homosexuality in Egyptian Cinema .” Film International 8 , no. 1 : 18 – 24 . Jarmakani Amira . 2008 . Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S. New York : Palgrave Macmillan . Kiernan Maureen . 1995 . “ Cultural Hegemony...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 287–311.
Published: 01 July 2017
... diasporique ou transnationalisme en mobilité? Circulations au féminin—les danseuses de cabaret entre les pays de l’Est et la Suisse ” (“Diasporic Transnationalism or Transnationalism in Movement? Feminine Circulations: Cabaret Dancers between Eastern Countries and Switzerland”). In Des femmes sur les routes...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 197–219.
Published: 01 July 2021
... focuses on the individual male struggle with autocracy, the Trio act presents collective bodywork that constructs masculinity as relational . Three dancers, all male, imitate a shakl daʿira at the start of the second act by placing their hands on one another’s shoulders, each executing brief solos...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 251–257.
Published: 01 July 2016
.... However, the post-Islamist wave carried on the back of pietist and/or Islamist women offered in these texts is not entirely convincing. Performing Piety documents the lives of several famous Egyptian female singers, dancers, and actresses who left the entertainment business in the wake...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 366–394.
Published: 01 November 2021
... singer), and, after becoming the face of Ward al-Nil soap (clothed), she landed her first and only named part in 1952. In her only other role in 1960 she was a dancer. Likewise, Zomorda made her first film appearance in 1950 as Esmerald, a role that she would reprise three times after her 1951 tub...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 31–55.
Published: 01 July 2007
... to contradict some of his views
regarding women and their expected roles. In his short story, “In the
Flames and She Does Not Burn” (1934b), he tells the tale of a dancer
who, aft er fi nishing her performance at a nightclub, goes home and
prays. He begins the story with a question...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 83–85.
Published: 01 July 2009
...:
Th e Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems,
and Belly Dancers in the U.S.
Amira Jarmakani. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Pp. xiii, 236.
ISBN 987-0-230-60472-8.
Reviewed by Nada Elia, Antioch University Seattle
Th ose of us who grew...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 209–212.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., and thick eyebrows. With the rise of a pro-Western modern state under Reza Shah Pahlavi, the 1930s and 1940s sparked women’s public emergence in music and performing arts in Iran. Many female musicians, singers, and dancers gained fame and popularity through public performances in famous theater halls...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 135–138.
Published: 01 March 2008
... practices. It would also be interesting to
juxtapose this study with studies of situations where artists, musicians
for example, or dancers, actually summon jinn as opposed to trying to
cast them out.
Let It Be Morning
Sayed Kashua. Trans. Miriam Shlesinger...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 264–282.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of Upper Egypt. Rural Ghagar were relatively well-known figures to villagers, providing entertainment for weddings, engagements, circumcisions, and so on. Generally, their traditional occupational titles, such as blacksmith, tinker, wool trader, shearer, saddler, musician, and dancer, were similar to those...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 138–141.
Published: 01 March 2008
... to
juxtapose this study with studies of situations where artists, musicians
for example, or dancers, actually summon jinn as opposed to trying to
cast them out.
Let It Be Morning
Sayed Kashua. Trans. Miriam Shlesinger. New York: Grove /Atlantic, 2006...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 128–131.
Published: 01 March 2017
... million times on YouTube and also led to the arrest in 2015 of the male singer, female singer-dancer, and cameraman. Returning to the analyses of nonexplicit works, I would like to mention briefly the presentations by Marlé Hammond and Rima Sleiman. Hammond presented a compelling semiotic analysis...
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