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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 305–325.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Aitemad Muhanna-Matar Abstract This article analyzes the relationship between men’s physical disability and the trajectories of negotiating masculinities in the context of Syrian refugee displacement in Jordan and Turkey. The article draws its analysis from the personal narratives of five displaced...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 244–246.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Aminath Nisha Zadhy-Çepoğlu The highlight of the book is the persuasive argument that specific masculinities produced prior to a conflict are continued after displacement, reformulated for the new context and producing new understandings for the men in their new conditions of uprootedness...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 409–415.
Published: 01 November 2019
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 100–102.
Published: 01 March 2020
... a powerful introduction to an exhibition dominated by displacement, war, and exile from prehistory until today, from Akkadian, Greek, and Arabian epics to the Lebanese civil war. Fattal took the title for the exhibition from Hesiod’s 700 BCE poem Works and Days , in which Prometheus fashions a man from clay...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 232–234.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Danya Al-Saleh On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings . Ella Shohat . London : Pluto , 2017 . xv + 464 pages. isbn 9780745399508 (cloth), 9780745399492 (paper). Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Ella...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 54–73.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Jihad Makhoul; Mary Ghanem This study explores the experiences and views of women and their families who have been affected by displacement due to the Lebanese civil war. Despite the popular notion that displaced families have returned home, the effects of displacement continue to be felt...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 46–74.
Published: 01 March 2010
... qualities (long and black). Thus, in its reappropriation, the ‘abaya-as-fashion notably disrupts its primary signification without ever fully displacing it, thereby constituting a form of passive resistance. This article interrogates the manner in which the ‘abaya-as-fashion stands in contingent relation...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 30–53.
Published: 01 March 2013
... experiences at airports and Israeli checkpoints, and her challenges to remaining civil—and sane—when dealing with her elderly mother-in-law. Sharon and my Mother-in-Law transcends the private world of its writer to encompass collective stories of pain, displacement, and resilience among fellow Palestinians...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 36–70.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Paul Amar This article examines how everyday theories of masculinity and vernacular discourses of “masculinities in crisis” play crucial roles in misrecognizing, racializing, moralistically-depoliticizing, and class-displacing emergent social forces in the Middle East. Public discourses...
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Published: 01 November 2018
Figure 3. Ghassan Khayyat and his sister Rola Khayyat at the breakfast table in Beirut in 1987. Franken Berry and other US cereals were a wartime staple in our home, displacing local breakfast fare like manaʾeesh , labneh , and foul . Photograph by Fadia Basrawi.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 108–110.
Published: 01 July 2012
... transformed and women confronted family, state, and modes
of capital in increasingly complex ways. The remaining five chapters -il
lustrate the various historical moments in which female Régie employees
resisted attempts by the company and the state to displace, disenfran-
chise, or otherwise...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 1–10.
Published: 01 November 2009
... on war, vio-
lence, migration, and families, and the other on violence, displacement,
migration, and youth.
In the fi rst thematic, projects represented here focused on the
politics of marriage under conditions of war and violence in Palestine;
postwar, urban, poor, displaced Lebanese...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 197–219.
Published: 01 July 2021
... . Shooting a Revolution: Visual Media and Warfare in Syria . London : Pluto . Elkamel Sara . 2017 . “ Mithkal Alzghair: Dancing Displacement .” Guernica Magazine , July 25 . www.guernicamag.com/mithkal-alzghair-dancing-displacement . Ghannam Farha . 2013 . Live and Die like a Man...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 4–5.
Published: 01 March 2007
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and the deployment of conceptual vocabularies of subject, nation,
transnational, and diasporic within conditions of permanent displace-
ment, frame the next two essays. Based on their work among Kurdish
communities in northern Iraq and Sweden, Shahrzad Mojab and Ra-
chel Gorman address the locus...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 124–125.
Published: 01 March 2015
... affected by armed conflict and its consequences. The deterioration of the security situation has increased the number of internally displaced and refugee women, widows, and women without a breadwinner. A new phenomenon has emerged in which women are abducted by armed groups, taken to hidden locations...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 419–422.
Published: 01 November 2022
... in their historical depth: wars, displacement, the clear signs of climate breakdown we are experiencing globally, and of course the pandemic. It is in these days of isolation, war, displacement, and grief that we are inheriting the curatorship of “Third Space,” the section of JMEWS launched in 2015 by miriam...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 125–128.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., as part of the cumulative effects of war and displacement. It serves as the potent testimony that unites Inhorn’s policy critique and the concrete policy recommendations she offers by way of conclusion. There is, however, a noticeable absence of the experience of motherhood in these war stories...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (1): 120–123.
Published: 01 March 2011
... projects with the Jerusalem Center for Women, providing therapy
for mothers of martyrs and female relatives of political prisoners as well
as addressing the effects of house demolitions and displacement; research
conducted through the Women’s Studies Center on the traumas of politi-
cal violence...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 390–393.
Published: 01 November 2018
... health as they interfere with services and make people more vulnerable to disease, hunger, displacement, poverty, and violence. In Lebanon the latest high influx of displaced people from Syria has put the health care system under huge pressure (Blanchet, Fouad, and Pherali 2016). The majority...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 198–202.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Migration-Displacement
Nexus, ed. Khalid Koser and Susan Martin (forthcoming, Berghahn
Books); “Sexuality and the Servant: An Exploration of Arab Images of
the Sexuality of Domestic Maids in the Household,” in Sexuality in the
Arab World, ed. Samir Khalaf and John Gagnon (2006); and “Th...
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