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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 14–40.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Sima Shakhsari In this essay, I argue that during the post-September 11 th “war on terror,” the Iranian homosexual became transferred from the position of the abject to the representable subject in transnational political realms. This shift involves Iranian opposition groups, transnational media...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 135–156.
Published: 01 July 2019
... Egyptian texts. It does not insinuate homosexuality as inherent but instead locates possible Arab cultural engagements with women’s queerness that have been overlooked. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Golden Era film queer-of-color critique queer...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 63–88.
Published: 01 November 2012
... the printing press and political reforms during the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish republic silenced sexual discourses, television brought them back as part of the new gender regime and disseminated a gender “deviance” model of homosexuality. Against this background, the rest of the article analyzes...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 113–137.
Published: 01 November 2012
... homosexuality in Beirut, I present how local politics and practices are present within user profiles constructed according to a series of profile categories consisting of character traits, interests, and demographic information. Through their profiles, users engage in embodied practices of masculinity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 3–23.
Published: 01 March 2015
... patterns and family forms, combating prostitution, eliminating women’s traditional head coverings, and reining in what the AIU saw as men’s promiscuity and homosexual tendencies. Ultimately, the AIU helped further estrange Moroccan Jews from Muslims but failed to secure Moroccan Jews’ smooth integration...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 25–44.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of heterogeneity and vitality in a nationalist, militarist, and heteronormalizing setting that increasingly associated homosexuality with moral dissolution and backwardness. References Ahmad ʿAbd al-Ilah . 1966 . Nashʾat al-Qissa al-Qasira fi al-ʿIraq (The Origins of the Short Story in Iraq...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 31–51.
Published: 01 July 2014
... to a medical, legal,
and religious policing of one’s sexuality. The evolution of Khomeini’s
original fatwa is examined through the lens of medical, religious, and
legal developments that have impacted Iran’s homosexual community.4
Ultimately, this paper argues that the Iranian ulama...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 98–112.
Published: 01 November 2011
... 99
MEN WHO DO NOT HAVE SEX WITH WOMEN, AND
WOMEN WHO DO NOT HAVE SEX WITH MEN
The attitude of Lebanese society toward homosexuality is linked with
a social order that forces people into confessional identities based on
classifications imposed by the Ottomans and pressure from...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 288–290.
Published: 01 July 2016
... a “third space” that forms and transforms young men’s alternative sexual subject positions. My conversations with young men revealed that in this third space the male body comes to terms with a new form of masculinity and male sexual pleasure that destabilizes both heteronormativity and homosexuality. I...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 219–222.
Published: 01 July 2019
... to illustrate the pitfalls of “pederastic dependency,” or the attachment generated by age-differentiated homosexuality, an attachment from which Bentaga could not escape (9). Those who lionize Genet as a queer model mismatch their defiance of power with his seeming love of power differentials, as evidenced...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 449–453.
Published: 01 November 2021
... “proximity to whiteness, neoliberal entrepreneurship, embodiment of sanitized homosexuality, and the rejection of Islam” (30). A conspicuous feature of this process, Shakhsari shows through analyzing numerous interactions on Weblogistan and through a case on YouTube, is many users’ policing others’ (mostly...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 433–449.
Published: 01 November 2016
... refers to explicitly addresses homosexual acts. The commonly used term for effeminate men ( mukhanathiyyin ) is a synonym for male homosexuals in Iraq (Luongo 2010 , 105). Although I cannot verify whether the antiregime activities that triggered this conversation included significant numbers of cross...
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Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 89–112.
Published: 01 November 2012
... process that entailed targeting
particular types of men that appeared prone to homosexual practices.15
While effeminacy was the most easily detectable signal, both the catego-
96 mn Journal of Middle East women’s studies 8:3
ries of the MSM and the gigolos were inherently formulated...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 111–114.
Published: 01 July 2011
... Bareed Mista3jil a critical and
timely publication. This collection of forty-one narratives about Leba-
nese lesbian, bisexual, queer, and questioning women and transgender
112 mn JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 7:2
persons is published by Meem, a Lebanese organization for homosexual...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 68–74.
Published: 01 March 2018
...’ contempt for women is linked to their contempt for homosexuality (97). Even when nonnormative Eastern sexuality travels and settles in Europe, it continues to exhibit features of Eastern masculinity. The Turkish patrons of German gay bars, Helfer claims, force themselves on men with the same awkwardness...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 225–245.
Published: 01 July 2016
... is normal. His urination is normal. (my translations here and below) 10 Figure 1. Kutluğ Ataman’s “rotten report” ( çürük raporu ) Figure 1. Kutluğ Ataman’s “rotten report” (çürük raporu) On the second page the diagnosis section states, “Sexual behavior disorder (homosexuality...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 1–13.
Published: 01 November 2012
... geographically, where “true” homosexual identi-
ties existed only in some places, whereas others were characterized as
having same-sex acts or practices but not identities—this was argued in
particular by the scholarship on Middle Eastern sexuality, ingrained in
Orientalist discourse. Joseph A. Massad...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 221–223.
Published: 01 July 2015
... community about transsexuality, the justifications and incorporation of its legalization following Khomeini’s fatwa open the door to another important question, homosexuality in Islam. Since transsexuality, though “unnatural,” has become legal (and thus naturalized in Foucault’s sense) and since...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 41–62.
Published: 01 November 2012
... by European norms, the discourse, too, is
a product of metaphorical colonization. In the blog Queer Jihad, author
Faris Malik makes this connection: “While there has been a prejudice
among Muslims against certain homosexual activities since the earliest
times, homophobia as we know...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 227–229.
Published: 01 July 2018
... of The Homoerotics of Orientalism is to prompt dialogue between European representations of sexuality and representations found in archives in the Middle East. Boone critiques Michel Foucault and Edward Said, the former for his disinterest in the non-European world and the latter for discounting homosexuality...
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