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Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War by Assia Djebar

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Ferial J. Ghazoul
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 120–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2007.3.2.120
Published: 01 July 2007
...Ferial J. Ghazoul 120  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War Assia Djebar. Translated from the French by Marjolijn de Jager. Aft erword by Cla- risse Zimra. New York: Th e Feminist Press...
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The Writing Subjects: Halide Edip and Assia Djebar

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Didem Havlioğlu
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 291–295.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3507771
Published: 01 July 2016
...Didem Havlioğlu Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 We pay tribute to the Algerian historian, filmmaker, and novelist Assia Djebar (née Fatima-Zohra Imalayen), who died on February 6, 2015. She was seventy-nine years old. Author of seventeen novels...
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Languaging Space in Assia Djebar’s L’amour, La Fantasia

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Rachel Rothendler
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 296–300.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3507782
Published: 01 July 2016
...Rachel Rothendler Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 This essay examines Assia Djebar’s approach to language as a temporal, physical, and imagined space. In L’amour, la fantasia ( 1995 ), the first volume of her “autobiographical quartet,” Djebar...
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Cover Art Concept

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Ellen McLarney
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 329–330.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8637452
Published: 01 November 2020
... cover portrays four women—an arrangement that El Sadda says she never tires of reproducing, which evokes an Egyptian reconfiguration of Eugène Delacroix’s (four) Women of Algiers in Their Apartment in ways suggested by Assia Djebar. Djebar critiqued Delacroix’s objectification of Algerian women shown...
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Girl Guides, Athletes, and Educators: Women and the National Body in Late Colonial Algeria

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Jakob Krais
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 199–215.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7490981
Published: 01 July 2019
... of age in the early 1950s, the writer Assia Djebar ( 2010 : 203), found this freedom on the basketball court of her school: “The stadium, above all. There, me alone. Alone in the sun, wearing shorts or, sometimes, a skirt, I jump, I bounce. In this stadium, my freedom is flowing through me, body and soul...
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In Memoriam: Fatima Mernissi, 1940–2015

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Norma Claire Moruzzi
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 455–459.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3637675
Published: 01 November 2016
... interventions, whether Assia Djebar’s Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade (French 1985; English 1993 ) or Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage: From Cairo to America—A Woman’s Journey ( 1999 ). Djebar’s novel is earlier, more experimental, fragmented, and sustained by the dualities of (post)colonial contradiction...
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Dissident Writings of Arab Women: Voices against Violence

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Abdelkader Cheref
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 438–441.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-4179045
Published: 01 November 2017
... book claims that it “analyzes the links between creative dissidence and inscriptions of violence in the writings of a selected group of postcolonial Arab women,” including Assia Djebar, Leïla Sebbar, and Maïssa Bey (Algeria and France); Aïcha Ech-Chenna and Laila Lalami (Morocco and the United States...
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Soundscapes of the Iranian Revolution: Interview with Negar Mottahedeh

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Ellen McLarney
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 227–234.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8238258
Published: 01 July 2020
... Be Feminists? (2018), for transcribing this interview. References Djebar Assia . 1980 . Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement . Paris : Des femmes . Djebar Assia . 1985 . L’amour, la fantasia . Paris : Lattès . Millett Kate . 1981 . Going to Iran . New York : Coward...
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A Feminist Ethos of Point Zero

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Ranjana Khanna
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 190–193.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-9494430
Published: 01 March 2022
... (in the case of Scheherazade, that was her sister, Dinarzade). Think of Leïla Sebbar’s ( 1982 ) Shérazade , Assia Djebar’s ( 1987 ) Ombre sultane , Mariama Bâ’s ( 1987 ) Une si longue lettre , and Nawal El Saadawi’s ( 1983 ) Woman at Point Zero . All include the invitation from one woman to another...
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Dissident Writings of Arab Women: Voices against Violence

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Brinda Mehta
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 233–234.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-6680322
Published: 01 July 2018
... El Amrani, and Assia Djebar, among others, have claimed their inbetweenness as transnational “Arab Mezzaterrans” (Soueif 2004 , 7) in their language, creative expression, geography, social location, religion, and political activism. Cheref cites a 1970s study when he accuses me of being “unaware...
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Crowds and Politics in North Africa: Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya by Andrea Khalil

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Valentine M. Moghadam
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 227–229.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-2886577
Published: 01 July 2015
... Djebar on the Algeria war of liberation. The Libya chapter shows sympathy for the “revolutionaries,” although she cites survey data on the subsequent entrenchment of sex segregation and the exceedingly conservative nature of Libyan society on such issues as the hijab and the role of the state...
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Daughters of the Nile: Photographs of Egyptian Women’s Movements, 1900–1960 ed by Hind and Nadia Wassef

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Laura Bier
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 109–111.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2006.2.3.109
Published: 01 November 2006
...Laura Bier BOOK REVIEWS  109 constructs. Zahia Smail Salhi explores stereotypic depictions of Maghrebi women in colonial imagery and the ripostes to them by fi lmmakers like Assia Djebar and Moufi da Tlatli, who give voice to women’s struggles...
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Women and the Media in the Middle East: Power through Self-Expression ed by Naomi Sakr

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Christa Salamandra
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 107–109.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2006.2.3.107
Published: 01 November 2006
...  109 constructs. Zahia Smail Salhi explores stereotypic depictions of Maghrebi women in colonial imagery and the ripostes to them by fi lmmakers like Assia Djebar and Moufi da Tlatli, who give voice to women’s struggles and aspirations through the paradoxical use of silence as a motif. Lina...
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The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco by Susan Slyomovics

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Hilary M. Fineman
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 122–125.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2007.3.2.122
Published: 01 July 2007
... in the nine chapters of the book, creat- ing an almost musical composition in the recurrence of motifs and coun- terpoints. Th e reader is as startled by the death of Saidi as by the death of Touma, although there were indications that such fatalities would occur. Djebar weaves the diff...
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De Groove Is in de Move: De colonizing Sex and Sexuality in Middle East and North African Studies

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Jarrod Hayes
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 143–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-6680192
Published: 01 July 2018
... , translated by Kraus Cynthia . Paris : Découverte . Canadé Sautman Francesca . 1994 . “ Gynosociabilité et la femme-homme: Politique d’un espace érotique féminin dans cinq œuvres de Ben Jelloun, Djebar et Emna Bel Haj Yahia .” Congrès Mondial du Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones...
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Gender and Identity in North Africa: Postcolonialism and Feminism in Maghrebi Women’s Literature by Abdelkader Cheref

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Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 113–116.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.8.2.113
Published: 01 July 2012
..., the book offers a reading of three major novels from the postcolonial Maghrib with no restriction of geographic origin or lan- guage: ‘Am al-Fayl (Year of the Elephant) by Moroccan Leila Abouzeid, Ombre Sultane (A Sister to Scheherazade) by Algerian Assia Djebar, and La Vie Simple...
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Lalla Essaydi’s Bullets and Bullets Revisited : Aesthetic and Epistemic Violence in a Globalized Art World

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Naïma Hachad
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 1–21.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8790196
Published: 01 March 2021
... . Djebar Assia . 1980 . “ Regard interdit, son coupé .” In Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement , 167 – 92 . Paris : Des Femmes . El Guabli Brahim , and Jarvis Jill , eds. 2017 . “ Violence and the Politics of Aesthetics: A Postcolonial Maghreb without Borders .” Special issue...
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Speculation; or, Living in the Face of the Intolerable

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Ranjana Khanna
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 109–115.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-4297159
Published: 01 March 2018
... engages in political intervention. In just the past four years, for example, I have had the opportunity to contribute to events she has organized on the work of Assia Djebar and on the latest refugee crisis. She has been instrumental in gathering people from diverse backgrounds in the arts and humanities...
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Thinking Intentionality: Arab Women’s Subjectivity and its Discontents

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Suad Joseph
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 1–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.8.2.1
Published: 01 July 2012
... Egyptian, Palestinian, Syrian, and Emirati women scholars think and write more fluently in English than in Arabic—that is a legacy of colonial subject-making (Adnan 1990, Djebar 1993). Arab women were constructed as Arab women subjects in rela...
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Communicating Gender in the Public Sphere: Women and Information Technologies in the MENA

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Loubna H. Skalli
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 35–59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2006.2.2.35
Published: 01 July 2006
... by the work of Algerian Assia Djebar and Horria Saihi despite multiple death threats on their lives. Novelist and essayist Djebar turned to filmmaking with La Nouba des Femmes du Mont Chenoua to docu- ment women’s cultural histories and roles in Algerian society (Ellerson nd; Salhi 2004). Her work...
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