...Miriam Cooke Intelligent Souls? Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature . Samara Anne Cahill . Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press , 2019 . 232 pages. isbn 9781684480975. Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2021...

...Mejdulene B. Shomali Al-Samman’s Anxiety of Erasure traces two common references in Arab women’s diasporic literature: Shahrazad, the storyteller of The Thousand and One Nights and the mawʾudah, the buried female infant. Through an exploration of six authors (Ghada Samman, Hanan al-Shaykh...

... welcome and appreciated yet not with much gratifying analysis of the literary and intellectual ventures invested in this first-time production. This article seeks to place this literary event among the feminist literature scholarship of the nineteenth century. For this initial venture to bring recognition...

...Amalia Sa‘ar This paper takes issue with a certain inconsistency in the collective portrait of Palestinian women citizens of Israel, as it is depicted in the feminist literature which emphasizes, simultaneously, multiple forms of oppression and impressive resisting capacities, but does not give...

...Roksana Bahramitash This paper reviews the experience of Iranian women during the reform era (1997–2004) from a postcolonial feminist theoretical perspective, and challenges the mainstream literature on women in the Muslim world in its tendency to portray them as passive victims. Iranian women...

... extensive reference to the rich feminist literature on Israel and Palestine. Together, they give a comprehensive mapping of Palestinian and Israeli women’s peace and antioccupation activism. Reading them raises some piercing questions: Can feminists from the two sides collaborate, considering the drastic...

...-based and a structural approach. Th ese two basic categories can be found in both feminist literature, discussing women’s strategies for gender development and positive social gender change (see Abdo 1999), and CR literature, discussing strategies for peace development and positive...

... an investigation of the feminist literature that sheds light on the trajectory of colonialism and formations of empire informing the production of different meanings and discourses associated with gender and Islam in the Middle East. The article then focuses on the implications of this literature for recent...

... participation was mainly cultural (Semyonov, Levin-Epstein, and Brahm 1999, 118). Jennifer Olmsted (2009) posits that the reality is more 88  mn  Journal of Middle East women’s studies  8:2 complicated and that there is a tension in feminist literature about this argument. References to culture...

... BOOK REVIEWS mn  109 of literature on gender and sexuality in the Middle East. One suspects that Kholoussy has held back some of the rich cases from the Islamic court records and can hope to see them only utilized in the near future as she develops what at times appears an all too subtle...

.... Antony’s College and I had just finished mine. miriam took her degree in Arabic literature, and I did mine in Middle East history. As emerging feminist scholars in the 1980s when second-wave feminist movements were spreading around the world, we were determined to carry forward researching Arab women’s...

..., Egyptian feminism inspires a rich representational discourse on female identity, channeled through creative arts and literature. Due to various political, socioeconomic, and cultural factors, the 1990s became a decade of intensive identity seeking focused especially on feminist issues: A variety...

... a PhD and become a professor in the Depart- ment of Arabic Literature at Ibrahim Pasha University (later called fiAin Shams University). While a student, she contributed articles to the Egyptian Feminist Union’s journal, al-Misriyya. In Egypt following the 1952 revolution, when...

... women’s awareness, positioning, and activism. The work draws attention to the ways in which women who may not necessarily identify as feminist are indeed feminists—and may be uniquely positioned to expose and subvert masculinist narratives and ideologies. They do so even, or perhaps especially...

... of Iran. The use of gender-marked linguistic expressions in Savushun is central to Daneshvar’s contribution to feminist concerns in literature. She shows how sexist linguistic expressions attribute weakness and inferiority to women while reinforcing men’s strength and superiority. Accordingly...

... and Islam as inherently antagonistic doctrines, Salime focuses on the liminal spaces between feminist and Islamist activism, drawing on sociological, feminist, and social movement literatures and methodologies to highlight the overlap- ping and interconnected nature of these movements...

... Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective . New York : Routledge . Bayat Asef . 1997 . Street Politics: Poor People’s Movements in Iran . New York : Columbia University Press . BBC . 2019 . “ Iran Petrol Price Hike: Protesters Warned That Security Forces May Intervene...

..., Chatfield, and Pagnucco 1997), “transnational advocacy networks” (Keck and Sikkink 1998), and “transnational feminist networks” (Moghadam 2005). A burgeoning literature on civil society, citizenship, and democra- tization has emerged in the context of Middle East Studies, in tandem...

...Shahrzad Mojab; Rachel Gorman In this paper we provide an analysis of Kurdish women’s organizing in the diaspora, highlighting the tension between “homeland” and “host-land” nationalisms, patriarchy, and feminism. This is the first feminist-transnational study of the experience of Kurdish women...

...Amal Eqeiq Finally, for students and scholars of Francophone Lebanese literature, the primary strength of this book lies in the excellent footnotes and comprehensive bibliography that include sources in Arabic, French, and English. However, those interested in the Arabic literary canon...