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... 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...

...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...

...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...

...Birgitte Stampe Holst [email protected] Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time, and Subjectivity Charlotte Al-Khalili UCL Press , 2023 213 pages. isbn 9781800085053 Copyright © 2025 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2025...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

.... Already, this resolution expressed concern that “civilians, particularly women and children, account for the vast majority of those adversely affected by armed conflict.” In 2022 only, there were 89.3 million forcibly displaced people in the world, among whom 69 percent were women and children (Statista...

... when the state was integrating, in uneven and complex ways, disparate linguistic, ethnic, and religious populations. Because dabke was newly entrusted with a sense of national virtue that displaced moral stigmas on female sexuality and modesty, a process that Partha Chatterjee ( 1993 ) calls...

... 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...

... 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...

... that radical feminism that upholds the need for trust, care, and hope is what is necessary to spread the seeds of a new humanism. 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 cooke...

... fragmented land using sectarian, political, and religious tools to divide people, destroy the cultural and historical heritage, and disperse and shatter populations, resulting in internal displacement and cross-border migration (see Al-Ali 2005 ). This all aims to ensure control through fear, destruction...

... who’ve been displaced. There is, however, a noticeable absence of the experience of motherhood in these war stories of fertility. This is to be expected, perhaps, from a study so attuned to male infertility, which, as the author reveals, makes up the majority of cases of infertility in clinics...