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...Nada Elia Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S. , Jarmakani Amira . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2008 . Pp. xiii, 236 . ISBN 987-0-230-60472-8 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009...

.... For these reasons, they cannot be confined or contained within certain spaces and times; they need to be accounted for outside Western (his)torical and contemporary accounts. With that being said, we wanted to (re)imagine SWANA futurities 1 by centering peoples’ lived experiences, emotions, relationalities...

...Haytham Bahoora Abstract In the Iraqi literary production of the 1940s and 1950s, the figure of the woman prostitute appeared repeatedly, signaling a crisis in the ways Iraqi men imagined and articulated the contours of women’s liberation. Through an examination of works by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra...

..., the “gay international” (in the words of Joseph A. Massad), and some Iranian diasporic queers who willingly insert themselves into national imaginations of the opposition in diasporic reterritorializations. This hypervisibility is enabled by massive mobilizations of universalized sexual identities...

...Caroline Seymour-Jorn Abstract This article focuses on the Egyptian writer Miral al-Tahawy’s 1996 novel The Tent ( al-Khibāʾ ). This ethnographically informed novel sheds light on liminal, emotional, and imaginative aspects of social and personal life—those aspects that tend to be particularly...

... representations of the New Man have always been a subtext in representations of the New Woman, the manifestations and implications of these constructed imaginings within the Egyptian nationalist narrative have yet to be explored. In this article I consider constructions of the New Man through what men say about...

..., this paper finds that the soldier justified British imperialism in Dhofar through his implicit assumptions of “knowing more” and “knowing better” than the Dhofaris/Arabs, even concerning their own nature, desires, and interests. Using these assumptions, the soldier was able to imagine himself as an “imperial...

... 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...

... women exploring issues of gender, faith, social justice, and human rights across historical and cultural boundaries. I argue that the imaginative recovery of Farrokhzad by Iranian immigrant women writers and artists not only complicates the West’s frequently reductive contemporary representations...

... with single mothers to imagine alternative maternal futures. I argue that by invoking a counternarrative I call “aspirational maternalism,” single-mother advocates disrupt traditional maternalist rhetoric that excludes single women. Aspirational maternalism draws on moral discourses and neoliberal values...

... standards of equal rights feminism, the Women’s Party contributed to an enduring aspect of Iranian culture in which national conversations imagine a global audience. The thesis rests on two elements: 1) the use of recently published Iranian document sets and a previously unused press source to illustrate...

... (symbolized by Zahwa’s underground world), where imagination and code can resist oppression, escape censoring, interrogate the sacred, excavate sources of power, subvert the normative, and evade Western co-optation. Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 Miral al...

... work to create the figure of the “Kurdish woman.” Instead of falling into the trap of Orientalist constructions of womanhood, Kurdish diasporas imagine “Kurdish woman” as a way to challenge nation-state assimilation projects and erasure by practicing identity at the intersections of ethnicity, religion...

... imagination. Moreover, the Indian is temporally out of place and appears as a specter of the premodern Persianate past shared by Iran and India, haunting the modern, nationalist present. After examining racialized depictions of Indians in premodern Persianate texts, the article considers the raced, sexualized...

..., and that is the suggestive power of the imagination (Osman 1993:13). y first encounter with Egyptian writer and critic Etidal Osman1 was Min the spring of 1992.2 We had arranged over the telephone for an in- terview in the offices of the government-run General Book Organization, where she...

... Arab American belonging in the United States. Fadda-Conrey argues that many circuits of return, both real and imagined, enable critical appraisals of the Arab homeland to provoke a defiance of “exclusionary and uniform types of US citizenship” (3). The introduction provides a concise Arab American...

... desired migration to imagine and materialize their futures outside the nation. Shortly aft er my research with these families began in 1994, a number of them started leaving the village for Canada and the U.S. Within a decade, half of the core families with whom I had done most of my interviews...

... in cyberspace do not escape forms of governmentality,” including through “gendered forms of normalizing, disciplining, and censorship,” thus ironically recuperating “nationalist imaginations of exclusive Iranianness” (39, 35, 65). In chapter 1, “Weblogistan and the Iranian Diaspora: Nation and Its Re...

... of desirability in the negotiations of the Middle East. Jared McCormick is a Ph.D. candidate in Social Anthropology at Harvard University. His work focuses on mobility and imagination in the landscape of Beirut and on conceptions of masculinity, subjectivity, and the creation of space. McCormick is also...

... later with the aim of providing themselves a new direction in life. As a practice that cultivates the ability to imagine, dream, and aspire, writing is experienced by Cairene women writers as a deeply pleasurable activity. Although inscribed within larger disciplinary regimes and technologies...