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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 326–347.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Stacy D. Fahrenthold Abstract In the Arabic-speaking mahjar (diaspora), the plight of the working poor was the focus of women’s philanthropy. Scholarship on welfare relief in the interwar Syrian, Lebanese, and Palestinian diaspora currently situates it within a gendered politics of benevolence...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 3–23.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., and translator in the North American mahjar (Arab diaspora). A discussion of Karam’s novel, Fatima al-Badawiyya ( Fatima the Bedouin ), published in New York City in 1909, explores the author’s engagement with gender politics within a hybridized cultural space. Such attention also reveals the transnational...
View articletitled, 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 (2022) 18 (3): 387–407.
Published: 01 November 2022
... participation in these debates was not limited to Beirut, as seen both in the above information about subscription contacts and in articles from Khalil Gibran and ʿAfifa Karam, two notable mahjar writers, and from Mayy Ziyadeh, a Lebanese émigré living and writing in Egypt. 7 To aid in the magazine’s...
View articletitled, 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 (2015) 11 (2): 199–215.
Published: 01 July 2015
... for composing poetry, to which she was introduced by her brother Ibrahim. She found the poetry of the al-Mahjar and Apollo schools more appealing. The author writes of a desire to “write poetry deriving its beauty from simplicity, flexibility, truthfulness, and poetical expression free of affectation” ( MJ , 74...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 173–198.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Rosemary . 2013 . “ On the Exclusion of the Palestinian Nakba from the ‘Trauma Genre.’ ” Journal of Palestine Studies 43 , no. 1 : 51 – 60 . Schiocchet Leonardo . 2014 . “ Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon: Is the Camp a Space of Exception? ” Mashriq and Mahjar: Journal of Middle East...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11575431.
Published: 10 January 2025
.... Demeter. Taha, Dina M. 2020. Like a Tree Without Leaves : Syrian Refugee Women and the Shifting Meaning of Marriage. Mashriq and Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies 7, no. 1. httpsdoi.org/10.24847/77i2020.245. Tak eva, Tatjana. 2017. Mother Love, Maternal Ambivalence...
