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Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 107–109.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Zora Kostadinova [email protected] Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran . Niloofar Haeri . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2020 224 pages. isbn 9781503601772. Copyright © 2023 by the Association for Middle East Women’s...
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The Women of Bataille D’Alger : Hearts and Minds and Bombs
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 80–106.
Published: 01 July 2014
... receiving her Master’s degree in Film Studies from the University of Edinburgh, she studied Economics at Duke University, specializing in research in geopolitical history. “The Women of Bataille d’Alger : Hearts and Minds and Bombs” was inspired by her Master’s thesis. “The Partisan” is her original...
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The Politics of the Qabaday (Tough Man) and the Changing Father Figure in Syrian Television Drama
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 50–67.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Rebecca Joubin Abstract Syrian miniseries engage in multifaceted discourses of fatherhood inherently linked with the rise and fall of the qabaday (tough man). Before the uprising, while the avowed focus was on gender constructions, in truth, politics lay at the heart of the messages...
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Interrogating the Constructions of Masculinist Protection and Militarism in the Syrian Constitution of 1973
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 48–74.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Rahaf Aldoughli Abstract This is a revisionist study of Syrian Baʾathism. At its heart is an examination of ingrained masculinist bias. This article argues that there is a reciprocal relationship between militarism and masculinity, achieved through gratifying protection for both the nation...
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Turkish Delights with an Aftertaste: Eroticism and Necropolitics in Turkish Trans Crime Fiction
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 245–263.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Olivia Landry Abstract Hop-Çiki-Yaya Polisiyesi is a Turkish crime novel series by Mehmet Murat Somer that appeared between 2003 and 2004. The series is set in the trans world of Istanbul, and the hero/heroine is a gender-nonbinary sleuth. The present essay explores the paradox at the heart...
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The Body under Siege: Corruption and the Female Body in Betool Khedairi’s Ghāyib
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 240–255.
Published: 01 July 2021
... and poisoning of private and public spaces in Baghdad. Transformations brought about by shelling and sanctions are at the heart of the nature of war as that which renders bodies isolated, static, and toxic. Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2021 Iraq disability...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 324–325.
Published: 01 July 2017
... This approach is vividly manifest in form and content in the installation featured on the cover of this issue. For Saltwater Heart , Yoldaş constructed the architecture of a heart’s circulatory system on an Istanbul sea bus the size of a whale. Through this installation the sea bus becomes...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 235–236.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Ellen McLarney Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Hala Al Khalifa’s She Wore Her Scars like Wings, 13 shows us the joint of a wing with feathers falling to the side, almost like rain, putting out a fire shown raging inside. The image is also a heart...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 116.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., languages, and images. Her art includes books that are paintings and paintings that read like books. The painting featured on the cover of this issue has writing on the face, mind, body, and garments, with the woman (or man?) holding the Arabic letter ḥaʾ close to her (his?) heart. The painting reminds us...
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Exploring Third Space in the Beirut Decentrists’ Texts
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 102–106.
Published: 01 March 2016
... . In In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country Adnan ( 2005 ) collects vignettes written over thirty years. A variety of literary devices but one constant: writing the body as experiment with genre. Beyond simple representations or fictionalization of the body, these writers reflect on their own experiences...
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In Loving Memory: Reflections on Rula Quawas
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 259–263.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Diya Abdo; Nadia Yaqub Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 Understand this. We never believed that a giant’s heart could be punctured by fumbling, undeserving fingers. I will not say that the how does not matter now. The hows of death matter...
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Finding a Common Language: Iraqi and US Women Seek Reconciliation in Dubai
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 423–429.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Nadia Abdulridha Sakran AlEsi References Adnan Etel . 2005 . In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country . San Francisco : City Lights . Gilmore Leigh . 2001 . The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Haddad...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 235.
Published: 01 July 2018
... found that the determination to live (love, really) is mirrored in nature. The rose, for example, lives despite the crushing boots of time and war. So do women, despite having their hearts trampled on, wits driven into walls of insanity, and wisdom thrown asunder as female folly. Women constantly thread...
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Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging by Carol Fadda-Conrey
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 93–95.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of identity that enacts a “transnational vision” where simultaneous belonging is at the heart of “transnational reconfigurations of citizenship” (29). She advances a theory of “transnational consciousness” that foregrounds prevailing concepts of translocality and rearrival while capturing how Arab American...
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Arab Images: Musings on Disjointed Grief for Palestine
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2025) 21 (1): 122–131.
Published: 01 March 2025
... girl assumed fatally injured during an airstrike who ultimately survived, Gaza. Screenshot of a photograph posted on February 14, 2024, on the Instagram account @motaz_azaiza. acquaintances. Over and over I m put in the position of the unreasonable nonwhite woman. And yes, my heart breaks as I watch...
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Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory, and Gender in Algeria, 1854–2012
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 383–385.
Published: 01 November 2019
... precipitously downhill since 1962 (3). At the heart of Vince’s study are interviews with twenty-seven women active during the War of Independence. These are supplemented by National Liberation Front (FLN) documents, memoirs, newspaper accounts, and occasional references to cinema and fiction in a careful...
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The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual: Devotional Practices of Pakistan and India by Shemeem Burney Abbas
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 133–138.
Published: 01 November 2005
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Chapters three and four comprise the heart of Abbas’ study, ana-
lyzing “Female Myths in Sufi sm” and “Th e Female Voice in Sufi Ritual”
respectively. In these chapters, Abbas highlights the important role fe-
male heroines have played in such ostensibly Islamic or Sufi romances as
Layla...
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Aaru : A Journey to the Underworld of the Subconscious
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 433–441.
Published: 01 November 2022
...; a purging of memories that can no longer be endured.” In ancient Egyptian cosmology, the heart of the deceased was weighed against an ostrich feather; souls whose hearts tipped the cosmic scales were devoured by a mythical monster; souls whose hearts maintained the balance of the scales were permitted...
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Making Mr. Gay Syria in Istanbul
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 242–245.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Ayşe Toprak Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 I believe in the power of documentaries to engage hearts and minds beyond the screen and to challenge public attitudes. When the war in Syria started in 2011, I kept seeing Syrian refugees sleeping...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 423.
Published: 01 November 2022
... dignity without ever giving it up. In this town, at every turn, you come across women with black, deep-set eyes that say everything. Women who go on living without forgetting their bitter history, who move on, not with sickly hatred in their hearts but with the determination to surmount everything...
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