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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 255–258.
Published: 01 July 2018
... with a population of three million people. I conducted one-on-one interviews in a room at the back of an Antalya bookstore with eleven members (six women, four men, and one self-identified transsexual) between twenty and twenty-seven years old in the summer of 2014, finding participants with the help of LGBT...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 63–88.
Published: 01 November 2012
... and Rhetoric. His research interests include rhetoric and composition, LGBT/queer studies, and media studies. His writing has been published in Enculturation , Reflections , International Journal of Middle East Studies , Praxis , Computers and Composition Online , and The Writing Lab Newsletter...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 111–113.
Published: 01 March 2015
...) Jew, the Israeli, and the Palestinian, to name just a few. Yet Schulman’s articulation of reciprocity through a rhetoric of recognition—a public “coming out”—is problematic. Such an approach both values and imposes a Western language of gay liberation that identifies LGBT struggle with particular...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 98–112.
Published: 01 November 2011
... INTRODUCTION his article is an account of the formation of the lesbian, gay, bisex- Tual, and transgender (LGBT) group, Himaya Lubnaniya lil Mith- liyeen wal Mithliyat (HELEM). In Arabic, the name means “Lebanese protection for gays and lesbians,” and its acronym means “dream.” HE...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 457–461.
Published: 01 November 2021
... in Turkey, as they seem to be the key actors in his strategy. Savcı’s Queer in Translation engages with religion by grounding (Sunni) Islam in its political-economic context under Turkey’s AKP government. In chapter 1 she turns her attention to a moment in 2008 when LGBT politics intersected...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 368–370.
Published: 01 November 2015
... Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015 HELEM means “dream” in Arabic and is the acronym for Lebanese Protection for Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgenders (LGBTs), which includes protection for persons with nonnormative sexualities and gender identity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 390–393.
Published: 01 November 2018
... University of Beirut, which tracks Lebanese newspaper articles on health topics on a daily basis. We searched for the following key terms: breastfeeding, sex work, international women’s day, LGBT, midwife, preterm deliveries, refugees, reproductive health, sexual health, abortion, and Syrian refugees...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 1–13.
Published: 01 November 2012
... MacMaster’s revelation and apology were many, ranging from debates on the history of cyberhoaxes (and on-line masquerade, more broadly) to questions of ethics and responsibility for the damage caused to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) online organizing in the Middle East. Why has...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 331–336.
Published: 01 November 2015
... state political claims are advanced through the idiom of sexuality. Among the examples Yildiz provided is the Hevi Istanbul initiative, a recently founded lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) group that integrates sexuality politics, class politics, and the Kurdish political struggle against...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 433–449.
Published: 01 November 2016
... to be the rising crime rate attributed to deserters from the Iraqi army. Homosexuals and male-to-female transgender persons were visible and widely known to be part of Baghdad society at the time. Ali al-Hilli, an activist in the organization Iraqi LGBT, who left Iraq in 2000, remembers that the regime...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 72–95.
Published: 01 March 2023
... , no. 1 : 225 – 27 . Corrigan Stephanie . 2016 . “ Why LGBT Representation Is Important in Media .” Odyssey , May 17 . https://www.theodysseyonline.com/why-lgbt-representation-is-important-in-media . David Emmanuel . 2017 . “ Capital T: Trans Visibility, Corporate Capitalism...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 71–97.
Published: 01 November 2011
... commercializing spaces in Bei- rut? How do such changes dovetail with changing aesthetics of the male body? How has the fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Lebanon become aggravated and aided by such mobili- ties: first, by the perceived duel between Beirut and Tel...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 89–110.
Published: 01 March 2024
... that the marginal Islamist circles and sects demanded the state pull out of the convention because they claimed and seemingly were successful in persuading the president that the convention harmed the cohesion of the Turkish family and legitimized the public presence of LGBT groups: I cannot believe the point...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 167–169.
Published: 01 July 2014
... Vol. 10, No. 1 (Spring 2014) © 2014 167 168  mn  Journal of Middle East women’s studies  10:1 LGBT Refugees and the Public-Private Divide in Iran and Turkey. This is her first publication. Sophia Pandya is Associate Professor at California State...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 472–475.
Published: 01 November 2017
... . www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-president-supporters-attack-muslims-hijab-hispanics-lgbt-hate-crime-wave-us-election-a7410166.html . Rieger Sarah . 2017 . “ Protesters Crowd U.S. Airports to Greet Travellers, Refugees .” Huffington Post , January 29...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 155–157.
Published: 01 November 2012
... research interests include rhetoric and composition, LGBT/queer studies, and media studies. His writing has been published in Enculturation, Reflections, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Praxis, Computers and Composition Online, and The Writing Lab Newsletter. Currently, he...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 113–115.
Published: 01 November 2011
... to place, and may well differ from Western lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) identities and cultures. (1) The edited collection bravely confronts the dilemma of how to re-invigorate a human rights discourse within the Muslim world when the Western NGOs approach...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 113–137.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., and transgender (LGBT) people in various countries. The PlanetRomeo Foundation provides free paid memberships to individuals in countries where homosexuality is illegal, and also provides grants to support organizations addressing LGBT rights, including projects in In- dia, Turkey, Albania, Romania, Uganda...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 373–376.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and international politics play out in coded discourses and power relations regarding “LGBT” rights and activism, “visibility,” “community,” and “gey” identities. She importantly incorporates an analysis of how class, and its racialization and regionalism in Turkey, figures in discourses about and treatment...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 363–367.
Published: 01 November 2018
... our activities on the streets. There are numerous changes that many fail to recognize. For example, media terminology used to describe LGBT people (often negative and demonizing) and discourse on queer rights have improved. The 2015 protests and the campaigns and groups that blossomed from it produced...