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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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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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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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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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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 (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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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 324–325.
Published: 01 July 2017
... Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 I am a cross-disciplinary artist and a researcher, and my work explores the collaborative potential between art and the biological sciences. My conceptual work Saltwater Heart (2015), installed on the deck...
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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
... embroidered on fabric, worn on the head, and held close to the heart. The fragment of the Rumi poem echoes the famous Ibn ʿArabi lines: “I profess the religion of love. . . . That is the belief, the faith I keep.” These words are so germane for our time, an era permeated by fear and hate kept alive...
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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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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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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 423–429.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and to create distinct texts that differently, yet intentionally, configure the autobiographical “I” as the self. I pointed out that although nonfictional life-narrative voices can comprise the “real” or historical “I,” they can also deconstruct or fake it. For instance, Adnan’s In the Heart of the Heart...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 93–95.
Published: 01 March 2016
... entanglements “straddle and connect” memories of the Lebanese civil war or the Palestinian Nakba to US locales, “collapsing rigid spatial boundaries” that exhaust the permeable nature of time, space, and histories (106, 123). Etel Adnan’s In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country (2005), symptomatic...
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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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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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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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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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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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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 143–151.
Published: 01 July 2018
... Is in the Heart.” This song was popular as I began to work on my dissertation (Hayes 1996 ), which would become my first book-length intervention in queer Maghribi studies (Hayes 2000 ). After the 1991 strikes on a number of campuses of the City University of New York, members of the original strike committee...
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