...Emanuela Buscemi Crossing the Gulf: Love and Family in Migrant Lives . Pardis Mahdavi . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2016 . 216 pages. isbn 9780804798839. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Pardis Mahdavi’s Crossing...

...Sabiha Allouche Abstract This article draws on a year of fieldwork conducted in Lebanon to highlight the paradoxical entanglement of power with romantic love in Lebanon, evident in the intricate gendered, aged, classed, and sect-related negotiations that accompany courtship periods. In addition...

..., GET A ROOM!” LOVE, HATE, AND TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS FROM THE “ISRAEL LOVES IRAN” AND “IRAN LOVES ISRAEL” FACEBOOK CAMPAIGNS Adi Kuntsman and Sanaz Raji mn “Get a Fucking Room!” he “Israel Loves Iran...

...Mona L. Russell Love, Theft, and Other Entanglements . A film by Alayan Muayad . Palcine Productions , 2015 . 93 minutes. (Arabic with English subtitles). Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 For most of Muayad Ayalan’s first full-length...

... Bathhouse ), the protagonist Ghawwar is unable to attain financial success and “succumbs to cheating and dishonesty in order to become a ‘real man’ of means able to marry” (78). In this compendium of Syrian television drama from the 1960s to today, Rebecca Joubin examines love and marriage...

...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...

..., and family relationships intersected with other axes of power specific to social safety during the pandemic. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2024 COVID-19 relationships social distancing gender inequality Iran Love on Hold...

...Katelyn Zeser [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2024 THIRD SPACE With Love, from Your Sister Khtek s Hip-Hop Queendom and Women s Revolutionary Music in Morocco and Beyond KATELYN ZESER I n 2019 a friend in Rabat showed me...

... in it; that you made others stand tall when you spoke your truth; that your light is gracious; that you are amazing, brilliant, superb, a winner; that she is proud of you; that she loves you, loves you, loves you. Your heart enlarged and your body felt special and noticed. Rula protected her female brood...

... women of modest means looking for financial support and men seeking legitimate sexual partners. In fact, the survey suggests that women in such unions are less likely to be financially dependent on their partners. Informally married spouses are as likely to say that they love their partners as those who...

... in interwar Baghdad. The Ayyub stories, which render homoerotic masculine sexualities as commonplace and a positive aspect of city spaces, are thus distinguished from most Iraqi writings during this period. The stories stage homoeroticism and love between men as democratic critique and affirmation...

... that simultaneously embraces and disavows its constitutive traditions and attempts to formulate its own episteme. Living in Egypt, a queer diaspora for a Moroccan, Leftah employs queer male sexuality in a Sufialist text that tells the story of Niʿmat, an Egyptian retired army officer who pursues a love affair...

... war are central to their overall reactions to the film. Whether they love or hate the film, it is the critics’ views of the female characters that judge the film as a complete artistic piece. Catherine Sawers is an actor, screenwriter, film scholar, and poet living in Los Angeles, CA. Before...

... (Commentary on the Exposition of the Sayings of Imam Ali). Beirut : Dar al-Bisharah al-Islamiyah . Hejar . 1992 . Chwarinekani Xeyam (Khayyam’s Quatrains). Tehran : Shorsh . Lewis Franklin . 2009 . “ Sexual Occidentation: The Politics of Boy-Love and Christian-Love in Attar .” Journal...

... women is an un nished but not an impossible story; in fact, it is the story that Clarice hopes her twin daughters will be able to embody instead of the happily ever after fantasy of romantic love and marriage. 3 Although love and sexual desire are integral to the limbo in which the protagonist...

...Ellen McLarney On the head is written a fragment of a Rumi poem: “Love is found in every religion, but love itself has no religion.” Is it an image of Rumi in his turban? Or is it a young woman in a headscarf, adorned in color? They are one, perhaps, joined by the poetry etched into the pattern...

... with their wives because of the assumed discrep- ancy between their levels of education and culture. Also, the segregation of the sexes was signaled as another impediment to the possibility of aspiring to a marriage based on love and understanding. Men’s failed quests to fi nd an equal partner in marriage...

... of identity and power are attached to gendered bodies, roles, and sexuality, what does it mean for a relationship to cross those boundaries? If rape is the shattering of these lines, what are the implications of unforced sex, of consensual desire? If a member of one group chooses to express love...

...Mejdulene B. Shomali Each text participates in two kinds of transnational feminist analysis: in Anxiety transnational itself is a subject position; in An Imperialist Love Story the transnational more accurately describes a series of relationships that create particular subjectivities. Both...