... 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...

...Eleanor Gao Being Modern in Iran , Adelkhah Fariba . New York : Columbia University Press , 1998 . 190 pgs. $19.50 . Copyright © 2006 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2006 152  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES and reshaped new definitions of womanhood...

...Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi This article sketches a history of Iran’s early girls’ school movement and examines its origins, goals, curricular content, and relationship to the state. It revises the tendency in the existing scholarship on modern education and reform to credit the Pahlavi state...

...Amina Jamal Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject , Mahmood Saba . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2004 . Pp. xvi, 233 . ISBN 9780691086958 . An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi‘i Lebanon , Deeb Lara . Princeton...

...Ghenwa Hayek Writing Beirut: Mappings of the City in the Modern Arabic Novel . Aghacy Samira . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2015 . 206 pages. isbn 9780748696246 Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 Samira Aghacy’s Writing...

... Modern Egyptian Girl was no different from her sisters worldwide. She appeared in the postwar period and was associated with a variety of commodities. Depicted as white and Europeanized, her Egyptian incarnation coincided with the emergence of similar political iconography. The male elite desired...

... and sectarian conflict in Lebanon, and the alliance between comprador capitalism and the police state in Egypt. I argue that the emergence of gender as an active crucible of crisis—as opposed to a mere allegory of crisis—in Arabic literature is specific to the late modern period during which the selected texts...

...Farha Ghannam The New Mamluks: Egyptian Society and Modern Feudalism , ( Middle East Studies beyond Dominant Paradigms ), Sonbol Amira El-Azhary . Syracuse : Syracuse University Press , 2000 . 292 pages. $ 49.95 /cloth $19.95 paper. Copyright © 2005 Association for Middle East...

...Ann Evans Larimore Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey , Ashman Anastasia M. Gökmen Jennifer Eaton , eds. Emeryville, CA : Seal Press , 2006 . Pp. 293. ISBN 1580051553 . Copyright © 2007 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2007...

...,” “Visual Culture of the Modern Middle East,” “Religion, Rhetoric, and Representation,” “Women in Modern Islamic Art,” “History of the Middle East,” and various courses on the history of art in the premodern and modern periods at Otis College, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University...

...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...

...- searchers and others interested in legal, popular culture, and quotidian dynamics in the realms of marriage and divorce in contemporary Egypt. Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran Amy Motlagh. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011...

... modernity” (172). Middle-class Beirutis worked to mark difference that reinforced or created a sense of cultural authenticity and identity. The introductory chapter, “Beirut, City of the Levant,” begins with three vignettes that foreground Abou-Hodeib’s thesis that the “home”—public speakers often...

...Catherine Sameh Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran is an ambitious book. Mining a rich archive of architectural plans, leftist pamphlets, US Department of Education photos and documents, visual art, artists’ catalogs, and much more, Karimi constructs a history of modern Iran from below...

...Mehammed Amadeus Mack Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History . Kadji Amin . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 . 272 pages. isbn 9780822368892. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 The story of Jean...

...Rania Jaber Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 In March 2018 the School of Architecture and Design at the Lebanese American University (LAU) hosted a one - day conference in Beirut titled “Modern Bodies: Dress, Nation, Empire, Sexuality, and Gender...

...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...

...Heather Rastovac-Akbarzadeh Gender and Dance in Modern Iran: Biopolitics on Stage . Meftahi Ida . London : Routledge , 2016 . 185 pages. ISBN 9781138804043. Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 Starting with nationalist plays between...

... an authoritative voice simply because she is an insider woman. Modern Woman in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia does not rely on a specific methodology, nor does it clarify its theoretical contributions to gender studies. For instance, the modern in the title is not explained. Indeed, Al-Sudairy considers...

...Mona L. Russell Composing Egypt: Reading, Writing, and the Emergence of a Modern Nation, 1870–1930 . Hoda Yousef . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2016 . 264 pages. isbn 9780804797115. Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018...