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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 32–57.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Erdağ Göknar This essay compares and contrasts Turkish author Halide Edib’s novel The Shirt of Flame (Duffield & Company, 1921) to the second volume of her memoirs, The Turkish Ordeal (The Century Company, 1928). Both texts have female protagonists and parallel plots and take place during...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 89–112.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Rodney Collins This ethnographic essay reflects research conducted in urban Tunisia among two distinct, yet interrelated, groups of young “men who have sex with men” (MSMs). Theoretically, the essay focuses on the politics of identity categories, how these categories travel, and the intersections...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 197–219.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Shayna Silverstein Abstract This essay analyzes how dance, gender, and state power function together as a significant node of critique in recent cultural production that addresses authoritarianism in Syria. Identifying the symbolic trope of dabke , a popular dance ubiquitous in Syrian life...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 245–263.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Olivia Landry Abstract Hop-Çiki-Yaya Polisiyesi is a Turkish crime novel series by Mehmet Murat Somer that appeared between 2003 and 2004. The series is set in the trans world of Istanbul, and the hero/heroine is a gender-nonbinary sleuth. The present essay explores the paradox at the heart...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 260–284.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Brinda J. Mehta Abstract This essay examines the poetry of the Francophone author Maram al-Masri, a diasporic feminist poet from Syria who has lived in exile in Paris since 1992. Elle va nue la liberté is an indictment of the regime of Bashar al-Assad and an ode to the creative resilience...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 15–40.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Susan Slyomovics This essay traces the intertwined topics of collaboration and multisited ethnography in the writings of anthropologist Sondra Hale on Sudanese artists and art. Hale’s trajectories and movements in and out of Sudan traverse parallel, sometimes overlapping tracks with the artists she...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 4–31.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Christina Civantos The Egyptian feminist and educator Nabawiyya Musa (1886–1951), after publishing her autobiographical essays serially from 1938 to 1942, published them as a book under the title Ta’rikhi bi-qalami (My history, by my pen). This essay analyzes the material role of literacy...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 177–196.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Burcu Dabak Özdemir Abstract This essay analyzes how postfeminism is constructed on a visual level in the Turkish context. It uses theories of postfeminism to discuss new popular romantic comedies of Turkish cinema by comparing the new female protagonists with the women portrayed in Yeşilçam...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 103–116.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Jasmin Darznik This essay explores the legacy of Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad (1935–1967) in the Iranian American diaspora. At once political and poetic, particular and universal, Farrokhzad’s oeuvre has in recent years become a vital coordinate for a number of contemporary Iranian American...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 14–40.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Sima Shakhsari In this essay, I argue that during the post-September 11 th “war on terror,” the Iranian homosexual became transferred from the position of the abject to the representable subject in transnational political realms. This shift involves Iranian opposition groups, transnational media...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 82–104.
Published: 01 March 2014
... government in Sudan in the 1990s to shape society’s notion of the ideal Muslim woman. This essay looks at Hale’s work on women’s citizenship in Sudan to examine the constitution of this notion and how it shapes women’s citizenship in post-Arab Spring Egypt. My aims are to explore the various conflicting...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 53–82.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Orit Bashkin This essay examines representations of Iraqi women in the works of poets, novelists, and public intellectuals during the Hashemite period. Defining the functions of women in modern Muslim societies, Iraqi intellectuals sought inspiration in the writings of Egyptian and Turkish writers...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 83–106.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Charlotte Weber This essay examines the Eastern Women’s Congresses in Damascus (1930) and Tehran (1932) to show how Middle Eastern women attempted to stake their own claim to modernity within the established terms of nationalist and international feminist discourses. I argue that in organizing...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 145–174.
Published: 01 November 2009
... the Lebanese in the face of a “war on terror” discourse that conflated Lebanese Shi‘ite masculinity with Hizballah and terrorism. This essay aims to expand theories on the intersections between gender and nation in light of transnational experiences of war. It also questions the expansiveness...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 149–182.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Marilyn Booth This essay considers the recent production of texts in English that construct and rely on repeated and homogenized images of Muslim women, focusing on a translated text but arguing for its contextualization within the market of popular memoir. Taking the translation of Rajaa Alsanea’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 37–62.
Published: 01 March 2012
... as citizens in order to consider the variety of ongoing and future Moroccan communal reparation projects. By analyzing governmental, quasi-governmental, and international initiatives that enlist architecture, women’s testimonies, museum-making, and monuments, this essay focuses on Morocco’s post-truth...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 114–117.
Published: 01 July 2008
... of autobiography, semi-autobio-
graphical fi ction and meditations on how human behavior is distorted
by war, cunningly woven together by one central story that seems to
come directly from the author’s childhood” (10–11). Leaving Beirut iiss a
collection of essays that Lebanese author, Mai...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 69–71.
Published: 01 March 2020
... is an important resource for scholars and teachers, and the essays are an ideal assignment for both graduate and undergraduate classes. Importantly, the volume provides numerous themes for future research, and will no doubt inspire that research to take place. These absences bring out the larger point about...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 88–90.
Published: 01 July 2009
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Pp. xxi, 406. ISBN 978-08223-3771-1.
Reviewed by Nada Elia, Antioch University Seattle
Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices brings together twelve essays by Ella
Shohat, the trailblazing Israeli-Arab-Jewish scholar of postcolonial,
gender, and cultural studies, whose key...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 111–114.
Published: 01 July 2008
..., only the last essay, by Afsaneh Hojabri, refl ects these
themes, discussing the life histories of ten immigrant women from
Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, and Palestine in Canada in order to illus-
trate important diff erences between them despite their perception...
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