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...Roberta Micallef Rethinking Islam and Liberal Democracy: Islamist Women in Turkish Politics , Arat Yeşim . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2005 . Pp. x, 150 . ISBN 9780791464663 . Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008...

... and the elimination of political inequalities and authoritarianism? To answer these questions, I will outline some of this movement’s symbolic and historical dimensions and evaluate the possibilities for creating what I call a jiyanist democracy. Woman, Life, Freedom possesses a powerful symbolic...

...Feyza Akinerdem Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 While I am writing this essay on August 8, 2016, hundreds of thousands of people are in the streets and squares mainly in Istanbul and Ankara for democracy vigils, initiated and named by president...

... 2021 An original contribution to the cultural anthropology of the Iranian cyberspace, Sima Shakhsari’s book is a chilling scholarly account of the dark sides of the major Iranian blogosphere, the Weblogistan, often celebrated as a conduit of liberal democracy, as observed during the first decades...

.... The mobilization of women against the coup attempt is the moment of opportunity for a unity other than the one that the state imposes on us. Otherwise, we are left with an affect of rupture that pervades our bodies in the aftermath of July 15. The rupture is for those who are against “democracy” by coercion...

... in their local contexts. The movement against violence against women in South America does not for the most part base their human rights claims on dominant North American paradigms. For populations that had to throw off dictators and reclaim democracy, sometimes human rights discourse was necessary. So human...

... forward among all the parties to the alliance. Michaelle Browers is an assistant professor of political science at Wake Forest University. Her first book, Democracy and Civil Society in Arab Political Thought: Cross-cultural Possibilities , will be published by Syracuse University Press in 2006...

... in previous years (e.g., in 1991 the three Islamist parties in Algeria won over 50 percent of the votes cast, but following restrictions placed on their ability to compete, they never experienced similar success again). Given the troubled nature of electoral democracy in these countries, simply counting...

... presented were coming from the perspective of what Ellen Meiskins-Wood calls “Democracy as Ideology of Empire.” This approach allows for war and imperialism to be justified by the prin- ciples of freedom, equality, and universal human dignity. Here, “democ- racy” is synonymous with “free market...

..., intelligence, and police locations and media outlets. The leaders of the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP) immediately named those behind the coup, Fethullah Gülen and his followers, and called on ordinary people to come out in defense of democracy. In response, thousands ignored the curfew declared by the coup...

.... Rethinking Islam and Liberal Democracy: Islamist Women in Turkish Politics Yeşim Arat. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. Pp. x, 150. ISBN 9780791464663. Reviewed by Roberta Micallef, Boston University Yeşim Arat’s work, Rethinking Islam...

... mainly as a “danger” contributing to the spread of communism in the Middle East and a “threat” to Western democracy as potential allies of the Soviet Union (692–94). In the post–Cold War era, a compartmentalized US approach toward the Kurds emerged. While the United States supported the Kurds in Iraq...

... in the Kurdish region. Now, soldiers were being killed live on TV by civilians who were hailed as heroes of democracy. The rift within the hegemonic relationship between masculinity, the military, the state, and the nation was deepening. A defamed soldier, who called on his wife and children to drop his family...

... of criticism of the government, its policies since independence, and the lack of democracy have favored violence rather than dialogue and negotiation to reach consensus and decision-taking.5 This is why, in the early 1980s, Moslem fundamentalists seemed to be the only ones to channel...

..., and social justice are steps in defense of democracy. And democracy needs defenders at this dizzying moment of rule by chaos. As Jon Finer and Robert Malley ( 2017 ) observe, however, since 9/11 fewer than nine Americans per year have been victims of terror attacks in the United States, as compared...

... of civil society organizations, their lack of internal democracy, links to foreign funding, and nonrepresentative nature impede their growth and render them ineffectual (see Langohr 2005). In order to understand the changing modalities of power in Egypt and throughout the Middle East, we must...

... of women’s bodies. We are guided by the motto “the path to democracy is through gender equality.” More generally, we find that despite legislation, circulars to combat violence against women, and signed international conventions, the main challenge in recent years is a political discourse that highlights...

... of an increasingly authoritarian state, Turam argues, there is a sea change in contemporary Turkish politics as residents of Istanbul are now forging alliances across ideological differences to demand a “deeper democracy that accommodates the rights of all” (3). Drawing on fieldwork in three sites—Teşvikiye...