...Hamideh Dorzadeh [email protected] Iranian Romance in the Digital Age: From Arranged Marriage to White Marriage Janet Afary and Jesilyn Faust , eds. London : Tauris , 2021 249 pages. isbn 9780755639571 . Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle...

...Wilson Chacko Jacob For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis that Made Modern Egypt , Kholoussy Hanan . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2010 . 188 pages. ISBN 978-0-8047-6960-0 . Copyright © 2011 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2011 106  mn  JOURNAL...

...Nadia Maria El Cheikh 102  mn  Journal of Middle East women’s studies  8:2 Book Reviews mn Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam Kecia Ali. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010. 262 pages...

... to veiling, gender relations, marriage, and sexuality. This paper examines this particular segment of titles in order to determine how they present a set of behaviors, thoughts, and feelings that we would recognize as erotic in nature—that is, pertaining to sexual desire and its expression, romantic...

... of Western aid, government, and gender rights organizations in family law projects in Egypt. Despite its shortcomings, Khul‘ Divorce in Egypt: Public Debates, Judicial Practices, and Everyday Life is a valuable contribution to the literature on family and marriage and an important resource for re...

...Nelia Hyndman-Rizk Abstract Amid an enduring political deadlock in Parliament, the first civil marriage contracted in Lebanon in 2013 received significant media coverage in a country where the personal status law of eighteen recognized religious sects governs marriage. This case study examines...

...Penny Johnson; Lamis Abu Nahleh; Annelies Moors In our comparison of marriage arrangements and wedding celebrations during the first and the second intifada in Palestine, we focus on “political marriages” wherein the political activism and affiliation of the marital partners are of considerable...

... as a spiritual yet usable presence in the organization of quotidian issues, as seen in Aboulela’s novel. 58  mn  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES  9:2 (UN)HOLY ALLIANCES MARRIAGE, FAITH, AND POLITICS IN LEILA ABOULELA’S THE TRANSLATOR...

...Mary Ann Fay Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Egypt . Cuno Kenneth M. . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press , 2015 . 305 pages. isbn 978081563392 Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016...

...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...

...Shayna M. Silverstein This study presents Syrian television drama as a multifaceted genre through which writers challenge state rhetoric by critiquing and subverting the gendered relations between Syrian state and society. Drawing on allegories of marriage and sexuality, television writers posit...

... SORAYA TREMAYNE  65 MODERNITY AND EARLY MARRIAGE IN IRAN: A VIEW FROM WITHIN Soraya Tremayne  he past few decades have witnessed important changes in the patterns of Tmarriage in the Middle East and North Africa...

...Maryam Zehtabi Abstract Child marriage, the union between a child below the age of consent and a spouse who is the same age or older, remains a prevalent practice in Iran. Often these marriages involve young girls betrothed to much older men as a result of economic arrangements between the girl’s...

...Attiya Ahmad Abstract In recent years marriages among Muslims of different ethnonational backgrounds have developed in the Gulf region. While proponents of these “Muslim marriages” depict them as transnational alternatives to ethnonational forms of affinity and belonging, as I discuss...

... within the community, the article shows that nationalist and religious discourses produced by the historical contexts respectively stimulated (semi)arranged in-group marriages in the 1990s and self-initiated exogamous marriages as of the early 2000s. Among the group, Islam has become the primary form...

...Roger Friedland; Janet Afary Abstract This article examines the nature of informal marriages using data from a 2018 survey of over ten thousand Facebook users in seven Muslim-majority countries: Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Palestine, Tunisia, and Turkey. The article explores current attitudes...

... of marriage. In divorces based on forced or premature consummation, colonial medical and legal discourses that infantilized Muslim women and criminalized Muslim men created new pathways for women to escape abusive marriages. Conversely, women’s divorce suits based on nonconsummation were weakened by French...

... adolescence as marriage and entry into adulthood was delayed, in part due to the high cost of marriage. Yet, at the same time, these commonly shared grievances facilitated weak ties linking diverse constituencies together, as creative leaders built a “movement of movements.” The April 6 movement, and Kefaya...

...Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi; Marcia C. Inhorn; Hajiieh Bibi Razeghi-Nasrabad; Ghasem Toloo Infertility is a social onus for women in Iran, who are expected to produce children early within marriage. With its estimated 1.5 million infertile couples, Iran is the only Muslim country in which...

...Hagar Salamon; Esther Juhasz In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Tunisian Jewish female body was subjected to a dramatic fattening process in preparation for marriage. Immediately following the girl’s engagement, her body became the focus of an intense transformative regimen aimed...