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...Leila Tayeb [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2024 In 2011 I traveled by bus from Cairo northward to the Mediterranean coast and across the land border from Egypt into Libya. Sometime later, I flew the cross-country...

...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...

... the official language of the country). This emphasis on Amazigh language and culture differentiates Morocco from other countries of the Maghreb (Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Mauritania). “Amazighization” of public space led to the feminization of Amazigh activism. As larger Amazigh associations converted...

... 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...

..., 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 focused on depicting their societies and cultures with effervescence from...

... 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...

... mobile-phone photographs of every bomb dropped on Misrata during Libya’s civil war by Adelita Husni-Bey (291). The anthology began its life online in 2014 with essays, art, and interviews uploaded to Ibraaz, a thriving digital archive for researchers of the Middle East. As a whole, the collection...

... contributed, sometimes significantly—in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, and Iran. In either case, the Western gaze reflects a privileged standpoint from which some lives could be brought into the scope of activism and support, and made to matter—to donors, funders, relief workers, scholars...

... 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...

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... 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...