...Valentine M. Moghadam My critique notwithstanding, scholars and students alike will learn a great deal about the politics of crowds in Algeria in 1988–89 and in Tunisia and Libya in 2011. In addition, they will generate discussions among themselves about the political and gender dynamics of mass...

...Julia Clancy-Smith “ Gendering the History of Libya: Transnational and Feminist Approaches ”, “ Centre and Periphery: Variation in Gendered Space among Libyan Jews ,” Simon Rachel “ Reimagining Colony and Metropole: Images of Italy and Libya during the Italo...

...Farrah Fray Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Somehow summer is the least peaceful time of year. The summer of 2018 was no exception. I had just finished writing my dissertation two weeks before boarding a flight to Libya to visit family. Leading up...

... to our attention, and assisted with translation.—The Editors More than thirty-five women from various cities and backgrounds launched the Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace (LWPP; lwpp.org ) in October 2011 to ensure that women remain a vital part of post-Gaddafi Libya. We emphasize inclusive...

... revolutionary movements? What type of counterrevolution characterized the Arab Spring? How did counterrevolutions succeed? The Age of Counter-revolution answers these questions in eight chapters and 367 pages. Allinson argues that there were revolutions in Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia, and Bahrain...

... country in the Arab League. The result is an immense collection of seventeen country-specific chapters (with two chapters covering more than one country) and seven that concentrate on thematic issues. The country chapters are broken into the regions of North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Somalia...

..., considered the founding mother and symbol of autonomy and identity in Tuareg collective memory. She figures in the tales of central Saharan nomadic peoples. The name suggests that in the future Moroccan Amazigh feminist activism will help synergize similar activism in Algeria, Libya, Mali, Burkina Faso...

... of political uprising that swept the region earlier in the decade. Civil, proxy, and imperialist wars in Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen; the reconsolidation of authoritarianism in Egypt; and the reversal of long-established democratic gains in Turkey—these are all developing realities that have affected gender...

... uprisings, the comics renaissance prevailed, and artists from Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, and elsewhere were galvanized by the events rocking their countries, while they faced severe censorship and often risked their lives. Jacob Høigilt ( 2019 : 14) explains that a new generation of Arab artists...

... countries—Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen—from entering the United States. In addition, the EO suspended the already anemic refugee program for ninety days and banned Syrian refugees indefinitely. Chaos ensued as two hundred inbound travelers with valid visas, green card holders...

... to blend national history with family archives in work by Hela Ammar (163); entombing wooden boxes containing artwork to recall archival withdrawal and salvage (via disappearance) in times of siege by Akram Zaatari (29); and curating mobile-phone photographs of every bomb dropped on Misrata during Libya’s...

..., whether ideological or military. Now, however, we look askance at the Muslim ban for its cruel disregard for the plight of both women and men fleeing tragic circumstances to which the United States has contributed, sometimes significantly—in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, and Iran. In either...

... of these developments, Badran is unsurpassed in her attention to historical detail and factual evidence. Though the majority of her evidence draws from Egypt, she extends her command of history to include Turkey, Morocco, Yemen, Tunisia, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Sudan, and Syria. Her work thus makes...

... of these developments, Badran is unsurpassed in her attention to historical detail and factual evidence. Though the majority of her evidence draws from Egypt, she extends her command of history to include Turkey, Morocco, Yemen, Tunisia, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Sudan, and Syria. Her work thus makes...

... is. (Annie Rebehak Gardner, “The Role of Masculinity in the Egyptian Uprising,” Canonball blog, February 10, 2011)4 any observers initially responded to the emergence of popular up- Mrisings that spread from Tunisia to Egypt to Libya and beyond in 2011 with shocked incomprehension...

... singers forced into exile in Sudan or lawyers in Libya who speak out about sexual violence suffered at the hands of the Qaddafi regime. One distinguishing aspect of the book is the multiple styles of writing it holds, ranging from analytic essays to personal testimonies and creative pieces. Many chapters...

... Libya Libya Kuwait Kuwait Lebanon Iraq Iraq Bahrain Egypt...

... to the streets and squares in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, questioning the rights and obligations once promised to them. Yet, the winds of change that blew across these countries brought more hardship than resolution. Popula- tions find themselves today at the brink of political upheaval and eco...

... and Facebook revolutions. The dis- mantling of authoritarian rule by popular resistance and protest in countries dubbed to be undergoing what has become known in the media as the “Arab Spring,” namely in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Syria, has been coupled with an over-celebratory read- ing of cyber...

... Council adopted Resolution 827 establishing the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) after finding “evidence that rape has been used by the Serbs as a weapon of ethnic cleansing” (Lewis 1993 ). There followed news of other rape camps in Libya, South Sudan, Nigeria, Kosovo...