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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 261–265.
Published: 01 July 2024
... and Evans 2011 ), and I turn to mood as a tool for it. In my earlier work I analyzed political commitments as an affective lens that sticks, proposing the concept of “mood of commitment” (Gülçiçek 2022 ). I now want to reflect on a mood change from the uprising excitement to reluctance toward my...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 41–52.
Published: 01 March 2014
... the kind of film that Hussein would cre-
ate. For him, color is everything: subject, theme, technique, and mood.
The Dislocation of Amber, shown at a number of international film fes-
tivals, can only be described as an “art film”; it is highly abstract and
painterly, with no dialogue...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 331–340.
Published: 01 November 2020
... know how to live with seven, I know how to live alone, but I don’t know how to live as two.” The conversations with Nanou focus on the ephemerality of feeling and the various reasons why her recent relationship has ended. In one scene she ponders the inexplicable nature of her depressive mood while...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 293–295.
Published: 01 July 2022
... and patriarchal mentalities. Sarah Hudson turns to Palestinian cinema, which, in a different mood of postcolonialism, operates in an atmosphere of human rights abuses and nationalistic endeavors. Three more chapters revolve around literary texts before the focus of the collection shifts to cinema. Nicole...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 107–109.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., and on the other, the tone, desire, and mood enunciated via words, revealing the deeper state, or the hal , of the believer. What gives words meaning, Haeri points out, is the state of one’s heart and intentionality, which calls into question the formality of religious utterances and repetitions. The whole...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 111–113.
Published: 01 July 2013
..., and selfhood of al-Hilal’s members. Faulting other studies, Mah-
mood’s among them, for analyzing the devotions of Islamic women as a
manifestation of an ultimately reified notion of “non-liberal” subjectivity,
Hafez takes the position that the piety and selfhood of female Islamic
activists...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 140–143.
Published: 01 March 2006
... should be pitted against
each other as incompatibly different and instead stress the many things
these people have in common. Grainy, romantic images of the women in
reflective or happy moods create a dissonance with the war stories they
tell, further upsetting standard images...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 115–118.
Published: 01 November 2006
..., as like as it is to the crop of a bird, tossing moods and oscillating
images? How do you know what goes through her head when she is alone,
and where can you fi nd the certainty of it? (61)
As the narrator is preoccupied with wanting to understand what
goes on inside a woman’s mind...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 377–382.
Published: 01 November 2019
... by Daniele. Understandable as it may be, this ready endorsement of the latest (pessimistic) political mood somewhat limits Daniele’s capacity to answer the bigger questions regarding women’s progressive political agency in the midst of intransigent nationalisms. Does acknowledgment of the deep power...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 15–40.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., makes no attempt at realism nor the presentation of ethnographic
“fact,” as we know it (although there are ethnographic elements in it). It
is very slow moving, with the camera languishing over the ruins. Hus-
sein attempts mood invention through the slow pace and the slow...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 March 2009
... collections, as “refl ecting the mood of the culture, which is
sort of dark we are at war, some people see it as an expression of that.”
In her “letter from the editor,” Anna Wintour picks up the motif that
burqa chic dramatizes fashion’s darker mood, an aesthetic she believes
“can only be a result...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 216–237.
Published: 01 July 2022
... this month’s gathering has coincided with the birth of Hazrat-i Zeynab, the occasion calls for singing some praises in her honor.” This verbal key radically reconstitutes the devotional frame; the mood goes from somber to festive in less than two minutes. As the cantor begins singing, it is not hard to tell...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 56–85.
Published: 01 July 2007
... encounters a house demolition, she struggles physically
and at length, pushing her own body against the barrier and wrestling
with soldiers to enter the space where the house is being blown up.
Rana is also emotionally messy and visible. Her mood swings are
wide and unpredictable. She...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 25–54.
Published: 01 July 2005
...), which was set in 1960s Beirut,
the capital of Arab dissidence at the time. It reflects the mood of crisis that
prevailed throughout the Arab world. She told me she preferred this novel to
her more famous first work, and she especially liked her “bourgeois” (a word
she kept using) protagonist...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 56–88.
Published: 01 July 2011
... an English-to-Hebrew translation from the Reuters
wire, generated 250 talkbacks. While talkbacks might not be viewed as indicators
of public mood in the United States, in Israel, they are of utmost importance to
predict public mood and are often referred to or quoted by the printed, high...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 54–73.
Published: 01 November 2009
...: “Some days I feel pressured and other days,
for example, if I cooked the day before, you feel less pressured the fol-
lowing day. And sometimes you are not in the mood” (a 30-year-old
woman in Naba’a).
Strangers, Not Neighbors: Mistrust of the Surroundings
Th e women obviously lack...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 86–105.
Published: 01 March 2007
... and poverty for
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, a result of the decline in PLO employ-
ment, services, and aid, and of the reimposition of Lebanese labor laws
which foreclosed most skilled and salaried employment to the refugees.
Such conditions created an ambiguous mood: nationalism...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 30–53.
Published: 01 March 2013
... Authority through Nadine Adel Sinno
Sarcasm and Wit
In the first chapter, “I was Not in the Mood,” set in Summer 1995 in Is-
rael’s Ben Gurion Airport’s passport control area, Amiry recounts a hu-
morous incident about a very serious matter: border...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 68–87.
Published: 01 March 2016
...; Efrati 2005 , 581–92; 2012, 60–65, 116). As Sara Pursley ( 2012 , 67–73) shows, even those who critiqued those reforms frequently affirmed the romance of companionate marriage. Early in 2008 Newzad and I met near the main bazaar. My mood that day betrayed my sorrows. When I implied that my sorrows...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 363–381.
Published: 01 November 2016
... Grinberg ( 2007 , 10) comments that the agreement’s open-ended character was meant to forge a mood that would then allow the imagination of different possibilities: “Leaving [certain] questions open made it possible for each to imagine peace as he liked. That was the great strength of Oslo, but also its...
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