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...—especially of women giants. I hold close this soundless memory from the summer of 1993, like a soft-glowing crystal ball surrounded by delicate cotton-fog— walking up the steps of the humanities building at the University of Jordan to get to the English Department making a left and all...

... Faedah M. Totah  mn  1 THE MEMORY KEEPER GENDER, NATION, AND REMEMBERING IN SYRIA Faedah M. Totah mn Abstract The public visibility and political activity of women remain conten...

...Arbella Bet-Shlimon The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village , Slyomovics Susan . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1998 . xxv + 294 pp. including appendices, notes, bibliography and index. $19.95 paperback. Copyright © 2005 Association...

... invasion and occupation of Iraq, and it was the first time ʿAshura was publicly celebrated because it had been banned during Saddam Hussein’s regime for over thirty years. In the face of random violence and repression, I became preoccupied with the concept of trauma and bereavement, memory and witnessing...

...Diane James Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009 DIANE JAMES ./ 175 BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS ./ Women’s Memory Symposium Women’s Library and Information...

...Rana Sharif Women, Water and Memory: Recasting Lives in Palestine , Naguib Nefissa . Leiden : Brill , 2009 . Pp. xii, 173 . ISBN 978-90-04-16778-0 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009 190 ./ JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 5:3...

..., maker of museum-based memorials at Derb Moulay Cherif, once Casablanca’s torture center during the country’s colonial and post-independence era regimes. The museum project also focuses on Morocco’s largest urban agglomeration, Casablanca, and targets a sector of the city and its inhabitants’ rights...

... with former militiamen from the Lebanese press, an autobiographical novel, and a play about the war, this paper examines the link between debates about memory and responsibility on one hand, and contentions over norms of masculine behavior on the other. The texts suggest that some Lebanese artists privilege...

...Rachel E. Greenspan Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran . Orkideh Behrouzan . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2016 . 328 pages. isbn 9780804799416 . Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Prozak Diaries...

...Amy Kallander Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory, and Gender in Algeria, 1854–2012 . Natalya Vince . Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2015 . xxi + 274 pages. isbn 9781526106575 . Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Natalya...

... suggests that in some sense this situation was an unusual occasion for her; it was written during her exile from Egypt in the 1990s. She concludes her essay with a recollection from her childhood, a particularly evocative one now because the memory morphs into her own wish for how she would like...

... of the Middle East 10 , no. 2 : 16 – 45 . Malek Amy . 2019 . “ Subjunctive Nostalgia of Postmemorial Art: Remediated Family Archives in the Iranian Diaspora .” Memory Studies 14 , no. 2 : 140 – 58 . Montazer-al-Qaem Asqar , and Keshavarz Zahra Sadaat . 2017 . “ Barresi...

... August 21, 2014 www.wmf.org.eg Women and Memory Forum Which knowledge? Peoples in the Arab region at the beginning of the twentieth century were battling colonialism and struggling for national liberation and modernization. We face somewhat different challenges at the beginning...

... commander published in Kurdistan with the biographical interview of a lower-ranking peshmerga conducted by myself for “Western” academic purpose. In so doing, the article highlights differences in dealing with the experience of defeat and harmed masculinity, which result from the situatedness of memory...

... history: “an alternative historiography situated at the intersections of memory, trauma, and resistance” (273). Through engagement with the audience, Roze uses her artwork to investigate both the individual creative agency to act in writing history and how it can be transformed into collective agency...

... it and to what purpose. Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran Shahla Talebi. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2011. 254 pages. ISBN 978-0-8047-7201-3. Reviewed by Naghmeh Sohrabi, Brandeis University One...

... buying my groceries at Target. Let me share with you my memories. • • • The figure in Migrant 3 is actively cutting her tongue (see the cover of this issue). She represents the critical loss of language and communication in the host culture as many struggle to learn and reconfigure...

...Nada Elia Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices , Shohat Ella . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2006 . Pp. xxi, 406 . ISBN 978-08223-3771-1 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009 88 ./ JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 5:2...