..., and the Next Generation Sunny Daly Winner of the Biannual JMEWS Award for Best Graduate Student Paper  ABSTRACT Uncertainties and ambiguities are evident in discourses of contempo...

...Valerie Anishchenkova Abstract The generation of Egyptian writers and other culture makers whose creative work started to come out during the transformative 1990s produced new distinct discourses on identity, including those related to gender. This article closely examines Miral al-Tahawy’s novel...

...Frances S. Hasso References Hasso Frances S. 2001 . “ Feminist Generations? The Long-Term Impact of Social Movement Involvement on Palestinian Women’s Lives .” American Journal of Sociology 107 , no. 3 : 586 – 611 . Mannheim Karl . 1954 . “ The Problem of Generations...

...Elhum Haghighat From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture , Soomekh Saba . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2012 . 224 pages. ISBN 978-1-4384-4383-6 . Copyright © 2014 Association for Middle East Women’s...

...Rachel E. Greenspan Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran . Orkideh Behrouzan . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2016 . 328 pages. isbn 9780804799416 . Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Prozak Diaries...

... and analysis of historical changes in the ways that life is being lived in Beirut and Istanbul. Each work explores a cohort of urban residents that represents a generational shift in the ways in which public selves and political bonds are forged. To varying extents, each undertakes an examination of how...

... before, once states are forced to be responsive to the needs and desires of their whole populations. Emirati Women: Generations of Change Jane Bristol-Rhys. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 145 pages. ISBN 978-0-231-70204-1...

... victims in custody. They accuse targets of “failing to be men” and call them “perverts,” “deviants,” and “motherfuckers.” The officers always attach sex chatting texts and photos as evidence in the police report. Especially after the Egyptian Army restored power to itself in June 2013, the General...

...Gi Yeon Koo Abstract This study explores the Korean Wave and fandom in the Islamic Republic of Iran. It follows Iranian women’s consumption of Korean popular culture in the context of their general pop-culture consumption patterns and how they create a fan culture through social media and pop...

...Sophia Pandya This paper looks at the ways in which older generations of Yemeni women in Sanaa negotiate religious change. Practices that are associated with Sufism and popular folk Islam are prevalent in Yemen, especially among older, illiterate women who have had little to no access to textual...

... on a weekly basis. They also spoke of reluctance to take part in many of their mother’s communal religious practices and events. In this study I analyze the reasons for this generational change, and examine the impact of modernity and new forms of media, such as televangelism, on educated Yemeni women’s...

... are otherwise routinely discriminated against in crucial life domains. More generally, the study illustrates how advanced fertility treatments, in their global spread, serve to entrench ideas of reproductive normalcy, individuality, and citizenship. Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli is a health sociologist...

... on women’s writings revealed intimate aspects of the Ottoman elite’s relationships in general and of Ottoman women in particular, and suggests that their publication in popular magazines played an important role in re-imagining the Turkish woman in the framework of the post-Kemalist nationalist discourse...

... enthusiasts have generally treated it as a universal dance for women. I examine the interplay between these claims through performances in Syrian-Lebanese country clubs, a Brazilian belly dance festival, and the Brazilian Orientalist soap opera, O Clone (The Clone). As contractors, folk dancers, or spectators...

... others in everyday life provides one context in which these figures, and Sufi poetry more generally, may become attractive to contemporary Muslims. Thus his marriage is a kind of gamble against the chance that desire itself might fail them altogether in the face of interventions by others...

...” of the ethnographic agenda. She argued that ethnography, particularly when addressing controversial practices, creates cultural difference rather than the generating solidarity for the struggles of women, such as the Sudanese struggles she studied. Hale recognized that the issue of female circumcision (or female...

... makes her text part of a general critique of the rapid sociocultural transformation of modern urban society, linking it to a presumably biological but essentially social definition of women as mothers. Cyrus Schayegh is an assistant professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the American...

... activities led to a reform of the Moroccan personal status code (the Mudawwana ) in 2003. The discourse of the second generation of Tunisian women, which emerged, unlike that of women in other Arab Muslim countries, in a post-independence context wherein they benefited from an oft-amended PSC that awarded...

... and interdisciplinary thrusts and implications. In both instances they have oriented themselves toward traveling across traditional academic disciplines to create transnational communities and cross-cultural communication. Given these general affinities, this article uses theoretical tools from the field of translation...

... of Khadivi, a second-generation immigrant geographically and generationally distant from her Kurdish roots, contribute to Kurdish literature and literary expressions. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2024 Kurdish identity abjection...