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Ethnographic and Literary Reflections on Miral Al-Tahawy’s The Tent
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 107–123.
Published: 01 March 2017
... 1981 ; Seymour-Jorn 2011 ). Specifically, my analysis of the novel focuses on how poetic prose and the poetry embedded in the text becomes a potent medium for conveying “emotional facts and symbolic truths” (Narayan 1999 , 142) in the literary treatment of a member of Egyptian society who...
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Gender, Genre, and Literary Firsts: The Case of Zhor Wanisi and Ahlam Mosteghanemi
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 286–306.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., despite representing an important contribution to Algerian literature and women’s life writing. Rather than accepting the “first” novel as an objective category, this article shows how the accolade has obscured works like Wanisi’s from Algerian literary history, reinforced gender and genre binaries...
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Over Forty Years of Resisting Compulsory Veiling: Relating Literary Narratives to Text-Based Protests and Cyberactivism
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 220–239.
Published: 01 July 2021
... that diasporic literary narratives have functioned as part of what has led to today’s online platforms and cyberactivism. The article approaches these literary narratives as forms of counterdiscourse, rearticulating alternative narratives about women’s movements against compulsory veiling. Produced in diaspora...
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Politics of Location in Persepolis : The Social and Literary Construction of the Place, Space, and Belonging for Iranian Women in Persepolis versus Iran
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 238–259.
Published: 01 July 2022
... a social and historical construct but also a literary space that incorporates Satrapi’s politics of space. It is in relying on belonging to Persepolis that Satrapi remembers the history of trauma as it happened to Iranians before and after the revolution. Here Persepolis is imagined as a safe space from...
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Shirin: Christian-Queen-Myth of Love: A Woman of Late Antiquity—Historical Reality and Literary Effect by Wilhelm Baum
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 125–127.
Published: 01 November 2005
...Christopher Livanos Shirin: Christian-Queen-Myth of Love: A Woman of Late Antiquity—Historical Reality and Literary Effect , Baum Wilhelm . Piscataway : Gorgias Press , 2004 . 114 pp. $38.00 paper. Copyright © 2005 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2005...
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Imaging the “New Man”: Gender and Nation in Arab Literary Narratives in the Early Twentieth Century
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 31–55.
Published: 01 July 2007
... politics. I focus particularly on literary narratives published in the first four decades of the twentieth century. Hoda Elsadda holds the Chair in the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at Manchester University. She was a co-founder and co-editor of Hagar , an interdisciplinary journal of women’s...
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Native Tongue, Stranger Talk: The Arabic and French Literary Landscapes of Lebanon by Michelle Hartman
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 346–348.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Amal Eqeiq Native Tongue, Stranger Talk: The Arabic and French Literary Landscapes of Lebanon Hartman Michelle Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press , 2014 . 368 pages. isbn 9780815633563 Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015 In her...
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Serpouhi Dussap’s Mayda ; or, The Birth of Armenian Women’s Literature through the Palimpsestic Narrative of Feminism
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 157–176.
Published: 01 July 2021
... welcome and appreciated yet not with much gratifying analysis of the literary and intellectual ventures invested in this first-time production. This article seeks to place this literary event among the feminist literature scholarship of the nineteenth century. For this initial venture to bring recognition...
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The Figure of the Prostitute, Tajdid , and Masculinity in Anticolonial Literature of Iraq
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 42–62.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Haytham Bahoora Abstract In the Iraqi literary production of the 1940s and 1950s, the figure of the woman prostitute appeared repeatedly, signaling a crisis in the ways Iraqi men imagined and articulated the contours of women’s liberation. Through an examination of works by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra...
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Simin Daneshvar and Shahrnush Parsipur in Translation: The Risk of Erasure of Domestic Violence in Iranian Women’s Fiction
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 124–143.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Leila Sadegh Beigi Abstract Contemporary Iranian women writers contribute to the Iranian literary tradition by writing about women’s roles during the political upheavals leading up to and after the 1979 Revolution. In Simin Daneshvar’s Savushun and Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women without Men...
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Women Writing in Cairo: Midlife, Self-Care, and the Informal World of Literature
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 317–336.
Published: 01 November 2023
... in Cairo, this article explores fiction writing as a powerful means of midlife self-reinvention among Cairene women. It considers their pursuit of literary careers in light of the recent opening of Egyptian literary markets to new writing publics and as part of women’s midlife transition, defined...
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Arwa Salih’s Gendered Critique: Affect, Marxism, and Kitsch
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 23–42.
Published: 01 March 2024
... the literary history of iltizam . The article contends that Salih’s critical method and search for ethical knowledge frame iltizam as a form of militant kitsch that prized dogma and readymade answers over ethical and political curiosity. By reading Salih’s historical-political critique in terms of gendered...
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Trauma and Maturation in Women’s War Narratives: The Eye of the Mirror and Cracking India
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 22–47.
Published: 01 November 2006
... between literary work and critical social history, producing what we may term counterhistories of the Lebanese Civil War and the Partition of India. In both of these novels, a girl upon the verge of sexual maturation sees the eruption of violence in the society around her to be fundamentally analogous...
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De-imperializing Gender: Religious Revivals, Shifting Beliefs, and the Unexpected Trajectory of Laila Lalami’s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 75–94.
Published: 01 March 2019
... notes how she tends to an analysis of the agency of these immigrants, there is little reference by Lalami to their religious identifiers. This is not an omission but a literary strategy suggesting that religious liaisons form venues of challenge and agency in Islamist revivals. Since faith practices...
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Subversive Sisterhood: Gender, Hybridity, and Transnationalism in ʿAfifa Karam’s Fatima al-Badawiyya ( Fatima the Bedouin , 1909)
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 3–23.
Published: 01 March 2019
... character of nahda literary culture, as readers and writers scattered across four continents interacted in the textual “spaces” of the rapidly expanding print culture in the Arabic-speaking world. As a single player within an international network of Syro-Lebanese women writers, Karam’s foundational...
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From Flat to Round Men: Male Characters in Saudi Women’s Fiction
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 31–49.
Published: 01 March 2016
... in society have enriched Saudi women’s literary expression and perception of character. In portraying male characters, women have increasingly steered away from flat, stereotyped, and preconceived notions of men to more balanced and informed representations of men’s behaviors and positions in society. Saudi...
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Sentimental Terror Narratives: Gendering Violence, Dividing Sympathy
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 80–107.
Published: 01 July 2013
...) as an alternative literary depiction of gender and violence, aimed at a Syrian audience, that produces non-normative forms of sympathy to foster national reconciliation after civil conflict. Anne-Marie McManus is completing her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Yale University before joining the faculty...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 103–123.
Published: 01 July 2020
... Dowlatabadi and Saniee occupy in the Persian literary field, both Missing Soluch and My Share reflect the ethos of the 1979 Revolution in some way, one its euphoric beginning and the other its complicated aftermath. The article argues that both novelists pursue an innovative genre of historical writing...
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Fashioning Women Citizens in al-Fajr : Reading the Domestic as National in a Conversation between a Mother and a Daughter, 1919–1920
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 387–407.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Johanna L Peterson Abstract When Najla Abillama published the first issue of al-Fajr ( The Dawn ) in Beirut in January 1919, hope infused articles that looked forward to the future of the homeland and its daughters. Key to that future was the home. Using postcolonial literary theory, Stephen...
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Abjection of Mother(land): A Psychoanalytic Reading of Laleh Khadivi’s The Age of Orphans
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 69–88.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of Khadivi, a second-generation immigrant geographically and generationally distant from her Kurdish roots, contribute to Kurdish literature and literary expressions. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2024 Kurdish identity abjection...
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