...Renée Michelle Ragin Feminism and Avant-Garde Aesthetics in the Levantine Novel . Kifah Hanna . New York : Palgrave MacMillan , 2016 . 198 pages. isbn 9781137548702. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Kifah Hanna’s Feminism...

... fall under the American categorization of “non-Hispanic ethnicities,” and her interlocutors “possess different sociopolitical characteristics” (414–15). Joseph’s initial description of the legal basis of considering Levantine Arabs white in the United States, which appears in the first chapter...

... a comparative literary analysis of Karam’s mahjar fiction (as opposed to her journalistic writing, for example), this study offers a new perspective that provides a counternarrative to the traditionally male-dominated and Egypto-Levantine orientation of historiographical and literary works on nahda literary...

... members were fascinated with all things ifranji , or foreign (45). In the conclusion Abou-Hodeib discusses how negotiating the slippage between ifranji and authentic “Oriental” culture in Levantine cities in the late Ottoman era caused the middle-class home to become a central “site...

..., part photo album, and part varied collage of poetry, report- age, and correspondence, Mishka Mojabber Mourani’s autobiographical work Balconies: A Mediterranean Memoir cannot be confined to a spe- cific genre. This is appropriate, as the multilingual Levantine persona that emerges...

..., and correspondence, Mishka Mojabber Mourani’s autobiographical work Balconies: A Mediterranean Memoir cannot be confined to a spe- cific genre. This is appropriate, as the multilingual Levantine persona that emerges from this short but multifaceted work moves, shifts, and changes within...

... of Levantines’ hygienic practices to his own spiritual experience of resting under an age-old cedar tree. Helfer’s ethnographic narrative outlines the character traits of Easterners, particularly Arab men he observed in Beirut. He notes the troubling comportment of Lebanese men, who, he notes, are not inclined...

... and Society in the Near East: Examples From the Levantine   Arabs and the Black Sea Turks (1). International Journal of Middle East   Studies 7(2): 243 – 70. 1976b  Meaning and Society in the Near East: Examples From the Black Sea   Turks and the Levantine Arabs (2...

... Sultan’s Court: European Fantasies of the East. London: Verso. Hatem, Mervat 1992 Th rough Each Other’s Eyes: Th e Impact on the Colonial Encounter of the Images of Egyptian, Levantine-Egyptian and European Women, 1862-1920. In Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity...

... ( 2004 : 87) contends, they may be related to European Roma: “There are a large number of clans in the Middle East and Asia who in some ways resemble the Romanies of Europe, who may or may not have come from India.” While there are some studies on the Dom in other Levantine countries (Herin 2012 ; Meyer...

... Eastern womanhood. THE EASTERN WOMEN’S CONGRESSES OF 1930 AND 1932 Elizabeth Th ompson (2000, 117–26) has described the period between 1928 and 1936 as one of retrenchment for the Levantine women’s move- ment, during which feminist leaders adopted a more cautious agenda aft er...

... Other’s Eyes: Egyptian, Levantine-Egyptian, and European Women’s Images of Themselves and of Each Other (1862–1920) .” Women’s Studies International Forum 12 , no. 2 : 183 – 98 . hooks bell . 2000 . Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center . London : Pluto . Hussain Naseem...

...- tural elites have always weighed “quality” versus quantity. Envisioning Israel as a secular and Europeanesque state, they were deeply worried that an unrestricted admission of Mizrahi might transform Israel into a “backward Levantine society.” Th us, whenever Israel had to choose between...

...., pornography). He and other Lebanese and Syrian men, I suspect, would identify and engage with the more authentic and mor- ally safe dabke. Indeed, anthropologist Paulo Pinto (2009) found such a stance among Levantine Arabs in Foz do Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo who valorize the dabke while...