...Sarah Irving Agency and Gender in Gaza: Masculinity, Femininity, and Family during the Second Intifada . Muhanna Aitemad . Farnham : Ashgate , 2013 . 222 pages. isbn 9781409454533 Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 As Nicola Pratt...

... with military aggression. Countries like Palestine (particularly Gaza), Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, and Yemen have been subjected to military as well as economic violence by the United States and Europe. Military aggression not only robbed local communities of their resources, including fuel, but also...

...Nahda Shehada Based on 14 months of fieldwork, this paper examines the influence of social norms, individual agency, and historical contingency on the practice of House of Obedience ( bayt al-ta‘a ) in the shari‘a courts of the Gaza Strip. It argues that the text of Islamic family law is only one...

...Islah Jad Group Islamic weddings in the West Bank and Gaza began in the mid-1990s. They developed as a successful way to counter Israel’s policy of siege and impoverishment of Palestinian society through the economic benefits they offer and by introducing a spirit of collective joy. Yet they have...

... altogether. They objected to the fact that such events included Jewish feminists, mainly Ashkenazi, from settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, and Orthodox Jewish feminists, mainly Ashkenazi as well, who believe in the idea of a Greater Eretz Yisrael but lived within its pre-1967 borders...

... conclusion: “Outside is no better than inside.” How can we understand these two statements? Throughout the last dangerous decade in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, descriptions of life as prison and Palestinian space as a “big prison” (most commonly used for the Gaza Strip, but also...

... .” Telegraph , May 30 . www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/wonder-woman-review-thrillingly-staged-knockout-blow-feminism . Dabashi Hamid . 2017 . “ Watching Wonder Woman in Gaza .” Aljazeera , June 10 . www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2017/06/watching-woman-gaza-170610082618366.html...

...” Gaza through a sustained, programmatic infrastructural war, through “hi-tech enclosure” (Helga Tawil-Souri, quoted on 135), through a designed policy of “collateral damage” (142), and through a systematic regulation of calories entering Gaza (140), allowing only “a bare minimum requisite for life” (135...

... witnessed economic crisis, a sharp rise in male unemployment, and family poverty. In the fi rst intifada, Israel’s long de-development of the West Bank and Gaza since 1967 aff ected almost everyone negatively and contributed to cross-class alliances and solidarities, while in the second...

... 1990s and early 2000s, there has been less attention to the theme in recent years. We believe that if a lot has been said, a lot remains to be explored, and the unfolding tragedy in Gaza, lamentably, proves it. In November 2023, as we were putting the final touches on the piece that opens this dossier...

... to and then following the current Fatah-Hamas split between the West Bank and Gaza. In each of these periods, recurring tensions between the discourses and commitments of nationalism and gender or women’s activism, between the priorities of urban elites and rural and then refugee masses, between secular and religious...

... threat. As one Iranian wrote on the Iran Loves Israel campaign, “Remember that two years ago people shouted in the streets of Tehran and other cities: ‘Neither Gaza, nor Lebanon! I give my life for Iran.’ Even from a political viewpoint, we have no reasons to hate Israeli people. In fact we have...

...- lies, particularly aft er 1948, is striking. However, even if we restrict ourselves here to literature on the West Bank and Gaza that links Palestinian families and war and confl ict, there are at least three important exceptions that off er insights into Palestinian families...

... developed an even greater appreciation for the phrase “Existence is resistance” after my 2016 trip to Palestine. This is the absolute reality for Palestinians. Everyday life in Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza is saturated with endless acts of resistance, including refuting, navigating, and contesting...

..., who represents the realities of the Israeli occupation of Palestine in his comics journalism Palestine (1996) and Footnotes in Gaza (2009), and Don Brown, who depicts the Syrian refugee experience in The Unwanted ( 2018 ). In addition to her illustrative-comics journalism on Guántanamo...

... with the aim of achieving social justice in accordance with the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, the Palestinian Women’s Rights Bill, and international rights conventions. The WATC has twenty-three full-time and four part-time staff as well as volunteers. We work in Jerusalem, Gaza (where...

... Press . Feldman Ilana . 2007 . “ Difficult Distinctions: Refugee Law, Humanitarian Practice, and Political Identification in Gaza .” Cultural Anthropology 22 , no. 1 : 129 – 69 . Foucault Michel . 1995 . Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison . Translated...

... and Iraq, but in Palestine, as in the Israeli attack on Gaza that was launched in December 2008. In 23 days, over 1300 Palestinians were killed, bur- ied alive in houses bombed by F-16s, shot at close range in their beds, machine-gunned from the sea, shelled by tanks using fl echettes, and burned...

..., of the deepest connections between Ashkenazi internal colonization, racialized social deprivation, and the murderous war machine of the Israeli military rule in the West Bank and Gaza. Beyond that, Wrapped is key reading for all of us doing feminist, decolonial, antiracist, and intersectional work, especially...

... and War (2008), draws on the artist’s recollections of growing up near the Iran-Iraq border while the two countries were at war. In her Women of Gaza (2009) series, Tanja Habjouqa (b. Jordan) uses a similar aesthetic as Dashti’s, though her works have less a sense of irony and bittersweetness and more...