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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 121–124.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Leila Zonouzi Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Film and Literature . Claudia Yaghoobi . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . 298 pages. isbn 9781108848473 . Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 293–295.
Published: 01 July 2022
... and North Africa: Literature, Film, and National Discourse . Mohja Kaf and Nadine Sinno , eds. Cairo : American University in Cairo Press , 2021 . xv + 338 pages. isbn 9789774169755 . [email protected] ...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 78–82.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Kaveh Bassiri Overall, these festival films convey how Iranian daughters, wives, and lovers are contentious sites for the society’s discourse on modernity. Only by accepting the newly empowered woman can Iran embrace twenty-first-century configurations of family and society. The film noir...
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 8. Poster for the film You Are My Love (Fathy 2009 : 52).
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 9. Poster for the film My Dark Darling (Fathy 2009 : 63).
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in Translating across Genres: A Conversation with Sherine Hamdy and Tarek Moustafa Abdel-Salam
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 6. Selim, the production assistant of Lissa the audio film, while in the voice-recording studio.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 104–107.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Nancy L. Stockdale Films screened at Arab Film Festival Texas ,, Wadjda . Al Mansour Haifaa , director (Saudi Arabia/Germany, 2012) Nesma’s Birds . Ali Najwan and Ali Medoo , directors (Iraq/United Kingdom/Netherlands, 2013) Om Amira . Ismail Naji...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 80–106.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Catherine Sawers This article explores the gendered subtext of film criticism that both praises and vilifies Gillo Pontecorvo’s Bataille d’Alger . The female characters play a prominent role in the film’s action, and, in particular, the women’s roles underscore the film’s ideological emphasis...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 135–156.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Mejdulene B. Shomali Abstract This article analyzes two popular Golden Era belly-dance films, Sigara wa Kass ( A Cigarette and a Glass , 1955) and Habibi al Asmar ( My Dark Darling , 1958), through concepts of queer spectatorship, queer time and space, homoerotic triangulation, and queer...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 177–196.
Published: 01 July 2021
... melodramas. Three films— Kocan Kadar Konuş (dir. Kıvanç Baruönü, 2014), Hadi İnşallah (dir. Ali Taner Baltacı, 2014), and Aşk Nerede? (dir. Semra Dündar, 2015)—are analyzed from a postfeminist perspective, opening up a new scholarly discussion about the place of postfeminism in the Turkish cinema...
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in Translating across Genres: A Conversation with Sherine Hamdy and Tarek Moustafa Abdel-Salam
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 7. Bodoor, a young Egyptian feminist writer, while doing the voice-over for Lissa the audio film.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 103–116.
Published: 01 March 2010
... of Middle Eastern women, but marks a bold and evolving interface between modernist Iranian literature and contemporary Iranian immigrant literature. Works discussed in depth include the photographs and films of Shirin Neshat and Maryam Habibian’s play Forugh’s Reflecting Pool...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 35–59.
Published: 01 July 2006
... in their societies. Crusading female journalists, feminist film producers/directors, publishers, and feminist cyber “bloggers” are strategically using old and new media to participate in the production and dissemination of alternative knowledge and the creation of transgressive spaces. Loubna H. Skalli...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 348–365.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Nora Tataryan Aslan Abstract Through a consideration of three film works— Ravished Armenia/Auction of Souls (1919), Testimony (2007), and Remembering (2019), which all represent the testimonies of Armenian women to form truths of the catastrophe—this article problematizes how such portrayals might...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 307–329.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Figure 8. Poster for the film You Are My Love (Fathy 2009 : 52). ...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 197–219.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., selected films, literature, and choreography, this essay argues that the discussed works dislodge dabke from its feminized association with authenticity, folk culture, and nationhood to instead represent dabke as a form of hegemonic masculinity that perpetuates sovereignty, patriarchy, and autocracy...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 331–340.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Albertine Fox Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 Formally intricate and politically subversive, the films of the Lebanese director Corine Shawi are composed of elliptically edited sequences, impassioned musical interludes, and sensual depictions...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 246–251.
Published: 01 July 2018
...-woman-you-call-this-feminism-beale/index.html . Cain Rob . 2017 . “ Wonder Woman Is One of the Worst-Performing Superhero Films in Overseas Markets in a Decade .” Forbes , September 21 . www.forbes.com/sites/robcain/2017/09/21/wonder-woman-is-the-worst-performing-superhero-film...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 242–245.
Published: 01 July 2018
... on the streets of Istanbul and watched with sorrow their hungry faces too proud to beg for money. I decided to film the human faces of this tragedy. The first documentary I directed on the Syrian crisis was about the schooling problems of refugee kids at the Turkish-Syrian border right after the war began...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 268–270.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., the discourse around Kurdi followed a long tradition within humanitarianism of framing the child as the ultimate innocent. But Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts’s 2019 documentary, For Sama , refuses to force the child at the center of its narrative into this trope. Instead, the film reinvests children as part...
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