...Giedrė Šabasevičiūtė Abstract While literature produced by Arab women has received sustained academic attention, little commentary exists on the way fiction writing is interspersed with their ordinary lives defined by domesticity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2017 and 2020...

... of Middle Eastern women, but marks a bold and evolving interface between modernist Iranian literature and contemporary Iranian immigrant literature. Works discussed in depth include the photographs and films of Shirin Neshat and Maryam Habibian’s play Forugh’s Reflecting Pool. Jasmin Darznik...

... in a manner that is overwhelmingly negative. This overarching negativity is dissonant with the erotic conjugality that is frequently forwarded in this same literature as a pious ideal. This dissonance suggests a theoretical gap between more traditional notions of sexuality, marriage, and gender relations...

... and auto/biography in the Middle East, music and politics, and Egyptian and Arab culture following the 1967 War. Gender and Identity in North Africa: Postcolonialism and Feminism in Maghrebi Women’s Literature Abdelkader Cheref. London; New York: Tauris...

... (1997); and Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism through Literature (2001). She has coedited several volumes, including Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing , Gendering War Talk, Blood into Ink: South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write War, and Muslim Networks: From Hajj...

...Leila Ben-Nasr Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging Fadda-Conrey Carol New York : New York University Press , 2014 . 243 pages. isbn 9781479804313 Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies...

... signals the need for further research in the book’s closing line: “What will be the fate of the female suffering body after the ‘Arab Spring’?” (134). Similarly, the geographic scope of the book makes one wonder how students of disability studies, modern literature, narratology, and gender studies...

... in Iraqi literary production revealed the limits of representation of the masculine imagination. Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015 prostitution literature gender Like the modernist tradition in Europe, literary innovation in Iraq and the Arab world...

...Dana Olmert Abstract This article addresses the national-political functions of mainstream Hebrew literature, focusing on three questions: What are soldiers’ mothers in the canonical literature “allowed” to think, feel, and do, and what is considered transgressive? How has the presence of soldiers...

...Khalid Hadeed Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015 This dissertation explores the relations between gender and crisis in Arabic literature from the late 1960s to the present. Working in a regional Arab context, I define crisis as an endemic situation...

...Ferial J. Ghazoul Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Life and Works of ‘A’isha Taymur , Hatem Mervat F. . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2011 . 234 pages. ISBN 978-0-230-11350-3 . Copyright © 2013 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies...

...Leila Zonouzi Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Film and Literature . Claudia Yaghoobi . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . 298 pages. isbn 9781108848473 . Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies...

...Miriam Cooke Intelligent Souls? Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature . Samara Anne Cahill . Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press , 2019 . 232 pages. isbn 9781684480975. Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 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...

...Çimen Günay-Erkol [email protected] Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa: Literature, Film, and National Discourse . Mohja Kaf and Nadine Sinno , eds. Cairo : American University in Cairo Press , 2021 . xv + 338 pages. isbn 9789774169755...

... of erasure,” then surely these metaphors must be clearly articulated and analyzed in each instance (14). Rather, the text’s focus is on recovery and exultation, and the tropes sometimes function as loose gathering tools for the literatures discussed. Jarmakani’s second chapter focuses on the heroine...

... paper. Christopher Livanos, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Wis- consin, Madison Baum introduces the life and literary aft erlife of Shirin, wife of Chosroes II and inspiration for one of the greatest traditions in Middle Eastern literature. From...

...Maryam Zehtabi Sabeti Moqaddam Abstract In Iran—as never before in the history of the country—prostitutes gained notorious visibility in twentieth-century Persian literature. Fixation on the image of the prostitute created a wealth of literature beginning in 1924 with the first Persian urban social...

... literary symbolism and aesthetics, the article attempts to make clear the resonance of her analytic method in the field of modern Arabic literature—especially Egyptian literature—and to point out how literature and critique are implicated in the social and political changes that forged and solidified...

... Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism through Literature . New York : Routledge . Elsadda Hoda . 2008 . “ Egypt .” In Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873–1999 , edited by Ashur Radwa , Ghazoul Ferial , and Reda-Mekdashi Hasna , 98 – 161 . Cairo...