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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 287–311.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Camila Pastor de Maria Campos Abstract Analyzing memoirs from the Arab diaspora and Mashriq, colonial archives, interviews, League of Nations reports, and mandate legal literature, this article tracks the circulation and regulation of mobile women engaging in performance and sex work in French...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 346–348.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Amal Eqeiq Native Tongue, Stranger Talk: The Arabic and French Literary Landscapes of Lebanon Hartman Michelle Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press , 2014 . 368 pages. isbn 9780815633563 Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015 In her...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 97–100.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Mayanthi Fernando Breaking the Silence: French Women’s Voices from the Ghetto , Amara Fadela Zappi Sylvia . Translated with an Introduction by Helen Harden Chenut. Berkeley : University of California Press , 2006 . Pp. 179. ISBN 0-520-24621-7 . Copyright © 2009 Association...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 100–102.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Alexandra Jerome Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space , Bowen John R. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2007 . Pp. x, 290 . ISBN 978-0-691-12506-0 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009 100 JOURNAL...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 3–23.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Peter Drucker Abstract The project of the French Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU) in Morocco in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—to win social and political equality for Jews through European enlightenment—was intertwined with the French imperial project. Moroccan Jewish women...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 199–215.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Jakob Krais Abstract Algeria is often seen as a major instance of women’s emancipation in the Middle East of the mid-twentieth century. Whereas the scholarly focus has often been on colonial policies, French views, or the female participation in the war of independence, this article looks...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Nadine Sinno Abstract Directed by Saudi Arabian filmmaker Faiza Ambah, Mariam (2015) portrays the struggles of Mariam, a Muslim French teenager who decides to wear the hijab but must contend with her school’s enforcement of a 2004 French law banning religious symbols from public institutions...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 283–305.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Sarah Ghabrial Abstract Between 1870 and 1930 the French colonial state in Algeria expanded its regulatory prerogatives in the governance of Muslim “personal status law” without abandoning its policy commitments to “respect local custom.” This article examines this fraught historical process...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 185–208.
Published: 01 July 2023
... inspiration from developments across the decolonizing world, nationalists promoted women’s “rights and duties” to build a “new Morocco” beyond the constraints of French colonialism. State formation became dependent on a profound social transformation. Following independence in 1956, however, King Mohammed V...
FIGURES
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 296–300.
Published: 01 July 2016
... intertwines her own stories with those of girls and women living during and after the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62); historical narratives of French soldiers, reporters, and painters during the years of colonization; and fictional anecdotes. She demonstrates that Algerian history is reflected in her...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 80–106.
Published: 01 July 2014
... than soldiers at
war. This essay explores the depictions of Algerian women’s resistance
to French rule and how their depiction plays a central role in analyses
of the aesthetic merits of the film.
Among the myriad journal articles, reviews, scholarly books, and
Internet buzz regarding...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (2): 123–132.
Published: 01 July 2010
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Caitlin Killian, North African Women in France: Gender, Culture, and
Identity (Stanford(Stanford UniversityUniversity Press,Press, 2006).2006). DorisDoris H.H. Gray,Gray, Muslim Wom-
en on the Move: Moroccan Women and French Women of Moroccan Ori-
gin Speak Out (Lexington(Lexington Books,Books, 2008...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 104–108.
Published: 01 March 2018
... . Husain Adnan A. , and Fleming K. E. , eds. 2007 . A Faithful Sea: The Religious Cultures of the Mediterranean, 1200–1700 . Oxford : Oneworld . Lorcin Patricia M. E. , and Shepard Todd . 2016 . Introduction to French Mediterraneans: Transnational and Imperial Histories...
FIGURES
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 473–478.
Published: 01 November 2021
... to be either Italian or French, served as its secretary and jack-of-all-trades for about twenty years. She was instrumental throughout the branch’s opening, decades-long existence, as well as twilight years in the 1930s. According to a pimp in town, she was “a French b . . . who has her nose in everybody’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 223–225.
Published: 01 July 2019
... for the British and French empires, as well as for local actors such as the Egyptians and the Lebanese. Gender was central to these conflicts, with the biopolitics of female and male bodies and their relationship to the institution of prostitution being linked to struggles over the boundaries between...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 120–122.
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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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 37–62.
Published: 01 March 2012
... (Left Coast Press, 2009), and Clifford Geertz in Morocco (Routledge, 2010). She has (co)-translated works by Assia Jebbar, Abdelfettah Kilito, and Leila Sebbar from French and works by Fatna El Bouih, Waleed Khleif, Muhammad Afif Matar, Abderrahman Abnoudy, as well as the Hilali epic, from Arabic...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 438–441.
Published: 01 November 2017
... supported a democratic plurality including the FIS (Cheref 2006 ). In part 1 Mehta misrepresents Bey’s use of the enfumades example. This cruel war tactic of caging hundreds of Algerian civilians in grottos and then lighting the entrance on fire, causing mass suffocation, was practiced by French...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 143–151.
Published: 01 July 2018
... in their writings. 3 Other scholarly queer work in Maghribi studies followed. After the publication of French translations of Gender Trouble (Butler 2005 ) and Epistemology of the Closet (Sedgwick 2008 ), and once French scholars finally began to take notice of US queer theory, such work increasingly...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 291–295.
Published: 01 July 2016
... .” In Tales of Crossed Destinies: The Modern Turkish Novel in a Comparative Context , 46 – 56 . New York : Modern Language Association of America . 5. For instance, she insinuates French officers, such as Captain Pierre François Bosquet, into the narrative (Djebar 1993 , 49). 4. In her...
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