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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 69–88.
Published: 01 March 2024
... mother(land) intertextuality The Age of Orphans Laleh Khadivi is a Kurdish Iranian American novelist and filmmaker. She was born in Isfahan, Iran, to a Kurdish father and a Persian mother in 1977. Following the Iranian Revolution, Khadivi’s family fled Iran, and after three years of living...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 363–381.
Published: 01 November 2016
...’ mothers in Israeli public life changed since the 1982 Lebanon War? At the center of the discussion is David Grossman’s novel To the End of the Land (2008). I argue that the author posits “the flight from bad tidings” as both a maternal strategy and the author’s psychopoetic strategy. This article examines...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 103–123.
Published: 01 July 2020
... 2020 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Iran revolution Persian literature gender An impoverished peasant woman fights to keep a meager plot of land from being taken over by an industrial farming project...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 47–68.
Published: 01 March 2017
...’ every need, including security, the military brigade—a safe haven that protects the soldiers from unfamiliar lands and people—is what mothers usually remember of the “East”: “Patnos is a very uncivilized place, it’s a very underdeveloped town, but the military brigade is very civilized. My son tells me...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 80–97.
Published: 01 March 2015
... tragedy is that my father died in a traffic accident; he was very rich and left real estate and agricultural land in addition to his good-sized business. I lived alone after that, except for my mother … who was still a young woman in the prime of life, and it would have been strange for her to remain...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11412156.
Published: 19 September 2024
... the land border from Egypt into Libya. Sometime later, I ew the crosscountry distance from Benghazi into Tripoli. A few weeks after that, my cousins drove me west through the Ras Jdir border crossing into Tunisia, from Ben Guerdane all the way up into the capital city. These circumstances were...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 120–144.
Published: 01 November 2009
... and extended kin. Th ey all knew one another very
well and had spent a good part of their youth or early adulthood in the
same circles. Th ey are part of an extended familial network.
Marie and Ibrahim (all names are pseudonyms) fi rst landed in
Ottawa, Canada, in March 2004 to investigate...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 395–415.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., Mothers, and Militarism: Antimilitarism and Feminist Theory .” Feminist Studies 11 , no. 3 : 599 – 617 . Ehrlich Yifat . 2016 . “ The Temple Mount in Their Hands ” (in Hebrew). Yediot Ahronot (Latest News), November 6 . El Or Tamar , and Watzman Haim . 2002 . Next...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 110–125.
Published: 01 March 2013
...-cultural factors that prevented the
women from saving money while making it.
Introduction
n 2000 a developmental intervention called the Land and Water Proj-
Iect1 was initiated in central Iran. The project’s facilitators adopted
microfinancing...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 1–26.
Published: 01 July 2011
... constructions of the biographies of the Prophet’s mother, Amena bint Wahb, wife, ‘A’isha bint Abi Bakr, and granddaughter, Zaynab bint ‘Ali. A critical discussion of these works poses interesting questions for the postcolonial Islamic feminist enterprise. Mervat F. Hatem is a Professor in the Department...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 265–286.
Published: 01 July 2017
... frequently represented by her paternal grandmother Hakima, who dresses in men’s robes (al-Tahawy 1999 , 15) and abhors bearing and raising girls, possibly to the point of murdering her female newborns (73). To Hakima, a woman is merely a piece of land or a domesticated animal; if she cannot produce...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 382–410.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Emine Rezzan Karaman Abstract This article analyzes the construction of motherhood as a form of political agency in Turkey with particular references to the Saturday Mothers and the Peace Mothers, respectively, the mothers of the disappeared and the mothers of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 56–85.
Published: 01 July 2007
... texts, he can
regenerate a set of traditional Palestinian values tied to agriculture and
the land, gender roles, and religion.
If Wedding in Galilee were a fi lm celebrating Palestinian resistance
to the Israeli colonizer, Abu ‘Adil’s wedding for his son would undoubt-
edly...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 75–94.
Published: 01 March 2019
... clandestinely to Spain. This reading considers a young college student, Faten, who is affiliated with the Islamist Party. She flees the secret police and heads to Spain. This reading takes into account Halima, the mother of three young children, whose religious convictions crystallize as she is forced...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 329–336.
Published: 01 July 2022
... and taking up more space than they should in the limited communal spaces available to us. The Israeli settler-colonial logic aims to dispossess Palestinians of their land, identity, language, food, heritage, and traditions but also to destabilize internal social relationships through the strife caused...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 203–224.
Published: 01 July 2016
..., at the expense of the surrogates, whose possibilities to enact their ideas about these relationships are limited. The article’s focus on the perspective of gay men rather than of surrogate mothers is a result of the strong bonds I developed with the intended fathers during my two-month research stay. My...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 387–407.
Published: 01 November 2022
... as educated managers of their homes, children, and husbands—to articulate women’s roles in public, national life. Thus the mother-daughter and husband-wife relationships highlighted in the correspondence fashion women as citizens patriotically devoted to and shaped by the nation, partnered with their fellow...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 30–53.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Nadine Adel Sinno Suad Amiry’s Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries (Pantheon Books, 2004) describes the difficult predicament of life under military occupation in Ramallah. Using wit and humor, Amiry recounts her stifling existence during curfews and heavy shelling, her terrifying...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 268–291.
Published: 01 November 2018
... father, a landowner and teacher of the Quran. Yusef’s mother tongue was Ottoman, and he completed his education in Istanbul. When the Ottoman Empire fell after World War I and France and England carved it up between themselves, they also divided vast lands and peoples that had operated as a constellation...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 343–362.
Published: 01 November 2016
... to demarcating ethnic and national boundaries” (Charles and Hintjens 1998 , 1–2). Such symbolism includes women as mothers, female chastity, and the identification of women with national territory. During conflicts, invasions are often described using metaphors of penetration and rape. Such language appears...
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