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Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey

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Meltem Şafak
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 386–388.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7720753
Published: 01 November 2019
...Meltem Şafak Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey . Lerna Ekmekçioğlu . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2016 . 222 pages. isbn 9780804796101 . Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 The Armenian...
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Murad vs. ISIS: Rape as a Weapon of Genocide

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miriam cooke
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 261–285.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7720627
Published: 01 November 2019
.... Adjudicated as a crime against humanity at the end of the twentieth century, rape as a weapon of war, and especially genocide, no longer slips under the radar of international attention. This study argues that the Yazidi women’s brave decision to speak out may help break the millennial silence of rape...
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The World Has Forgotten Us: Sinjar and the Islamic State’s Genocide of the Yezidis

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Elif Çiğdem Artan
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 238–240.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10462397
Published: 01 July 2023
..., and the perception of genocide in Êzidi history. This chapter also clearly illustrates the Islamist jihadis’ attacks in the summer of 2014 with a chronological reading of the skirmish, from the early days of military conflicts in the region of Sinjar to the political debates in 2021, by exposing the war crimes...
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Gendered Memories and Masculinities: Kurdish Peshmerga on the Anfal Campaign in Iraq

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Andrea Fischer-Tahir
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 92–114.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.8.1.92
Published: 01 March 2012
... production. Left a vague topic in the 1990s, Anfal has become broadly discussed since the destruction of the former regime in 2003. By means of scientific concepts, academics and non-academics, among them former peshmerga, explain Anfal as an inescapable genocide that aimed to destroy the Kurds, suggesting...
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Facing the Past: Aesthetic Possibility and the Image of “Super-Survivor”

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Nora Tataryan Aslan
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 348–365.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-9306832
Published: 01 November 2021
..., contrary to their best intentions, resonate with the logic of genocide. By discussing specific woman figures in the three works, published at three times in the postgenocidal era—one just after the events, the other two recently—this article aims not only to mark the evolution of the representational...
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Arab Images: Musings on Disjointed Grief for Palestine

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Myriam Lamrani
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2025) 21 (1): 122–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-11575548
Published: 01 March 2025
... colonial and imperialistic ventures in the Middle East and North Africa. Now, more than a year into the Palestinian genocide, the dream has, once again, turned into a nightmare.1 (har m / har¯ m) harem / haram: __ A space of interdiction and longing for Arabness As a not fully whatever that means...
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The Gender and Sexuality of Armenia: A Debut Conference

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Tamar Shirinian
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 217–220.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-6680257
Published: 01 July 2018
... that places Armenian studies in direct conversation with gender and sexuality studies, bridging what many of us in the field understand as a major gap. Armenian studies in the West has for a long time focused on the interrelated matters of genocide and diaspora. The systemic violence against Christian...
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Cover Art Concept

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Zehra Doğan
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 423.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10022202
Published: 01 November 2022
... another: the Syriac genocide in 1914–20, the Armenian genocide that began in 1915, then the policies of genocide and assimilation targeting the Kurdish people. . . . By itself, Mardin is like a prototype of Kurdistan: centuries-old peoples, each with their own painful history, holding on to a profound...
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Women in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations: An Anthology of Cases from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Other Countries

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Mary Elaine Hegland
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 408–413.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10022160
Published: 01 November 2022
.... They have developed a “regulation booklet” (10) on dealing with captivity and prisoners and textually justifying their sexual violence in their perpetration of genocide. ISIS, Hosseini comments, can be classed as a much more extreme example of “religious violence” (11) than other Muslim fundamentalist...
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Jineology: The Kurdish Women’s Movement

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Meral Düzgün
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 284–287.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3507749
Published: 01 July 2016
... there has been a threat of genocide against our people, Kurdish women have resorted to such actions. However, [the suicide attack] is not a tactic of our fight. It is not even approved of by our organisation. This kind of action is completely decided by the person carrying it out. It is not even a type...
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“We Want to be Remembered as Strong Women, Not as Shepherds”: Women Anfal Survivors in Kurdistan-Iraq Struggling for Agency and Acknowledgment

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Karin Mlodoch
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 63–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.8.1.63
Published: 01 March 2012
... identity. The hegemonic discourse describes the whole Kurdish nation as a victim of Arab domi- nation, innocently struck by the genocidal policy of the Ba‘th regime.16 In this discourse, Anfal women are largely represented as weak and helpless victims and symbols of the suffering...
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Armenian Women, Legal Bargaining, and Gendered Politics of Conversion in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Aleppo

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Elyse Semerdjian
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 2–30.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3422501
Published: 01 March 2016
... to gloss the period in overarching national(ist) histories as a means to explain the catastrophic events of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. For example, one of the few English-language texts that discuss early modern Armenian history opens, “Although untold suffering would befall the Armenians in the name...
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Published and Miscellaneous Works by Sondra Hale

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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 133–148.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.10.1.133
Published: 01 March 2014
... Women’s Movements. In Press Edited with Laura Beny, Sudan’s Killing Fields: Political Violence and  Fragmentation. Red Sea Press. By Any Other Name: Gender and Genocide—Women of Darfur and the   Nuba Mountains. In Sudan’s Killing Fields: Political Violence and  Fragmentation, ed...
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Contributors

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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 140–142.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.10.3.140
Published: 01 November 2014
... in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism, and the State (1996, translated into Arabic in 2011) and many articles and book chapters on the topics of gendered war, conflict, and genocide; social movements; international gender studies; gender and citizenship; diaspora stud- ies; cultural studies; and boycotts...
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She Who Tells a Story

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Asma Naeem
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 445–447.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-4179067
Published: 01 November 2017
...) the natural and constructed terrain of the Middle East. With no human in site, Al-Ani asks whether geopolitical conquest, with its attendant costs of genocide and human rights violations, is worth pursuing. As these observations suggest, the show offered some of the best art emerging from Iran...
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“Contrary to the Order of Nature”: Complicities in Algorithmic Surveillance between SWANA and the Global North

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David Semaan
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 122–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10961847
Published: 01 March 2024
... “barbarians” of Arab countries (Government of Canada 2015 ). This practice of pinkwashing, as scholars have dubbed it, is a method of justifying the ongoing genocide of Palestinians by the Zionist state by claiming that Israel is a safe state for queer people (Jackman and Upadhyay 2014 ). Western imperial...
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Tracing Our Research Trajectories: The Study of Gender in Muslim Societies

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Azza Basarudin
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 81–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2008.4.2.81
Published: 01 July 2008
... in social movements to war, militarization, occupation, and genocide and the impact of such violence on women. Houri Berberian (CSU Long Beach) described her current research on the roles of Armenian women 84  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 4:2 in Safavid New Julfa, given the frequent...
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Violence That Bleeds Borders: Transnational Engagement in the Women in Conflict Zones Symposium

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Naazneen Diwan
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 183–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2009.5.3.183
Published: 01 November 2009
... is concept of biopolitics was extended in Rana Sharif’s talk, “Time and Space in Confl ict: Palestinian Women and Zones of Social Abandonment.” For Palestinians, according to Sharif’s analysis, occu- pation is not merely a destructive genocidal force but a force of terror and inconsistency...
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Tarkib’s Contemporary Arts Festival in Baghdad: Women Artists Play and Perform Memories and New (Hi)stories of Iraq

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Marta Bellingreri
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 424–432.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10022216
Published: 01 November 2022
... into ethnic enclaves, this has been disrupted, and now a new generation of non-Arabic-speaking Kurds is moving or visiting Baghdad, creating a different dynamic. Roze’s intention of challenging the history written from one side leads us to think about the genocide of the Kurds perpetrated by Saddam Hussein...
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Introduction

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Sonja Hegasy, Bettina Dennerlein
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 1–9.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.8.1.1
Published: 01 March 2012
... gender stereotypes and gender inequality. The na- tionalist discourse also led to the marginalization of male experiences of suppression, humiliation, and harassment that question the model of hegemonic masculinity. It was only with the introduction of the term “genocide” in scientific analyses...
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