...Maryam Zehtabi Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War . Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press , 2021 457 pages. isbn 9780815637103. Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2021 Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh’s book...

...Marta Agosti [email protected] Women and Gender in Iraq: Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation . Zahra Ali . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . xviii + 322 pages. isbn 9781107191099. Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s...

...Mary Elaine Hegland [email protected] Women in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations: An Anthology of Cases from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Other Countries . S. Behnaz Hosseini , ed. Zurich : Lit , 2020 . 180 pages. isbn 9783643961204 . Copyright © 2022 by the Association...

.... Researchers have assumed that religious zealotry was the primary inspiration for boys to enlist in the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, ignoring the ways in which class inflected boyhood. While religious fervor may have been a motivation for some of the poor and working-class Iranian...

... and my father, and I had to restore and protect that honor. More than twelve thousand women were killed in the name of honor in northern Iraq from 1991 to 2007. I was set to move again but this time farther away, to a country that is at war with my own. To a country that I never thought I’d set...

...Nicola Pratt Women in Iraq: The Gender Impact of International Sanctions , Al-Jawaheri Yasmin Husein . London : I. B. Tauris , 2008 . Pp. xiv, 228 . ISBN: 978-1-84511-648-4 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009...

... in Iraqi literary production revealed the limits of representation of the masculine imagination. Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015 prostitution literature gender Like the modernist tradition in Europe, literary innovation in Iraq and the Arab world...

...Nadje Al-Ali Dancing in the No-Fly Zone: A Woman’s Journey through Iraq , Ditmars Hadani . Northhampton, MA : Olive Branch Press , 2005 . 256 pages. ISBN 1-56656-634-7 . Copyright © 2007 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2007 128  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S...

... national subjects, with equal rights. The discourse also had global aspects, as Iraqi intellectuals appropriated and hybridized colonial perceptions of Muslim women. Orit Bashkin received her Ph.D. at Princeton University in 2004. Her dissertation, “Intellectuals in Monarchic Iraq, 1921–1941,” looks...

... that there is no need to remember defeat and harmed masculinity. Andrea Fischer-Tahir studied Arabic Studies, Social Anthropology and the History of Religions at the University of Leipzig. Her research focuses on Iraqi Kurdistan and the Iraq, and her research interests include issues of identity, memory, gender...

...Karin Mlodoch This article focuses on Kurdish women in Iraq who survived the Iraqi army’s Anfal operations against the Kurdish areas in 1988. It investigates Iraqi Kurdish women’s psychosocial situation and strategies for coping with violence and loss in the aftermath of the Anfal operations...

... after 2003. This essay explores ruptures and continuities in organized violence against sex or gender nonconformity in recent Iraqi history. For the late Baʿthist period in Iraq, I analyze scholarly and journalistic sources, including items published in Iraqi newspapers and transcripts...

... women access to its educational faculties. As a result, Iraq’s female medical labor consisted of lay practitioners who lacked institutional accreditation. With the British occupation of Iraq, female lay practitioners were sidelined from the medical profession. A series of medical practice laws...

... itself. From time to time the artist’s eyes encounter the participants, engaging in a dialogue without words, the needle talking for them. Roze is an Iraqi Kurdish artist. Like many of the younger generation of Kurds who grew up after 2003 in the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq, she doesn’t...

...Zahra Ali Abstract This article explores the meaning and significance of the political in the October 2019 uprising in Iraq, commonly called Thawra Teshreen, through the lens of gender, space, and emancipation. It looks at the spatiality of the protests, considering both discursive and material...

.... Restricting itself to politics given this standpoint, a study of Jewish women’s participation in the illegal Zionist and Communist movements of Iraq reveals that racializations, rather than a single racialization, occurred—a racial reality no other scholarship provides for Iraq’s Jewish community. Because...

... histories of female medical practitioners by looking at case studies spanning the twentieth century from Algeria, Palestine, Israel, Iran, and Iraq. The introduction to this issue offers an overview of existing scholarship and charts sources and directions for future research and historical actors yet...

...J. Andrew Bush Abstract Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, this article tracks the imbrication of ordinary and mystical desire in the life of a Muslim man who disavows pietistic forms of ethical striving. It examines the way tropes of desire from Sufi poetry affect...

... to employ it for secular education of all kinds—legal, social, health—and even for political purposes. I focus on the ways in which education, and the Shi‘I Islamic resurgences that took place in Iran and Iraq, influenced Bahraini Shi‘i women in their interpretation of religion and their uses of religious...

...Shahla Talebi This paper journeys along the theoretical and historical trajectories of the early stage of post-revolutionary Iran, marked by an external war with Iraq and internal political suppression. Specifically, it grapples with the intricacies of loss, mourning, and survival in the meanders...