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Narrative Strategies of Self-Definition and Voice in Leila Abouzeid’s Return to Childhood
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Ariel M. Sheetrit Abstract This article presents an analysis of the Moroccan writer Leila Abouzeid’s Rujuʿ ila al-tufula ( 1993 ; Return to Childhood: The Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman , 1998) through the prism of relational theories of autobiography. It exposes narrative strategies of voice...
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Serpouhi Dussap’s Mayda ; or, The Birth of Armenian Women’s Literature through the Palimpsestic Narrative of Feminism
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 157–176.
Published: 01 July 2021
... (if not in her room yet, as Virginia Woolf underlined) about the idea and the reality of woman, and therefore redefines the fate of the female gender in the most meticulous manner. Despite the rich source of folk tales, myths, and traditional oral narratives put under close scrutiny in the book, the mythic tale...
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Trauma and Maturation in Women’s War Narratives: The Eye of the Mirror and Cracking India
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 22–47.
Published: 01 November 2006
... to the inherent violence that accompanies the new social role she is being thrust into as a woman—this is achieved through the presentation of the narrative from the character’s “naïve perspective.” These and the other literary strategies in the texts destabilize what is anticipated in the predominant war...
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Imaging the “New Man”: Gender and Nation in Arab Literary Narratives in the Early Twentieth Century
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 31–55.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Hoda Elsadda The emergence of the New Woman in Egypt as a central trope in the nationalist narrative of nation-building and modernity has been the subject of scholarly interest for more than a decade, yet there has been little research on her logical counterpart: the New Man. Although...
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Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 348–350.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Rijuta Mehta Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East . Anthony Downey , ed. London : Taurus , 2015 . 469 pages. isbn 9781784534110. Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 “We...
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Gendering Landscapes of War Through the Narratives of Soldiers’ Mothers: Military Service and the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 47–68.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., especially for non-Muslim and non-Turkish citizens of the country (Bali 2011 ; Sürmenyan 2015 ), the Turkish national narrative portrays the service as a source of joy—a rite of passage for an able-bodied child that should be celebrated with other people. For those who have participated in this narrative...
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Sentimental Terror Narratives: Gendering Violence, Dividing Sympathy
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 80–107.
Published: 01 July 2013
... as on novelistic and journalistic accounts of Palestinian female suicide bombers from the United States and Algeria/France: Barbara Victor’s Army of Roses: Inside the World of Palestinian Suicide Bombers (Rodale, 2003) and Yasmina Khadra’s The Attack (Doubleday, 2005). It argues that sentimental terror narratives...
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Over Forty Years of Resisting Compulsory Veiling: Relating Literary Narratives to Text-Based Protests and Cyberactivism
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 220–239.
Published: 01 July 2021
... that diasporic literary narratives have functioned as part of what has led to today’s online platforms and cyberactivism. The article approaches these literary narratives as forms of counterdiscourse, rearticulating alternative narratives about women’s movements against compulsory veiling. Produced in diaspora...
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Turkish-Islamic Feminism Confronts National Patriarchy: Halide Edib’s Divided Self
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 32–57.
Published: 01 July 2013
... the Allied occupation of Istanbul (1918–23). Both texts are manifestations of an emerging Turkish national master narrative. By highlighting the tensions between the first-person narratives of the novel, the memoir, and the emplottment of the national master narrative, this essay offers an analysis...
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The (Little) Militia Man: Memory and Militarized Masculinity in Lebanon
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 115–139.
Published: 01 March 2012
... a redemptive narrative, where former fighters are shown as regretful, even feminized, “little men” on par with other human victims of a senseless war. This narrative is meant to counter the widely held notion in Lebanon that militiamen bear a large part of the responsibility for the war. At the same time...
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Refashioning the Debate on Abortion in Postrevolutionary Iranian Cinema
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2025) 21 (1): 68–88.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Magdalena Rodziewicz Abstract The study is dedicated to the representation of unwanted pregnancy and abortion in Iranian cinema. The article’s principal objective is to discuss a certain narrative shift in the discourse surrounding this issue that has been observed in recent years. By analyzing...
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Product and Producer of Palestinian History: Stereotypes of “Self” in Camp Women’s Life Stories
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 86–105.
Published: 01 March 2007
... levels of violence against camp Palestinians in particular. Analysis of the “self” stereotypes (and of their absence) points to a “collectivization” of personal narratives, as well as factors such as social status, age, educational level and degree of patriotism that differentiate the speakers in terms...
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“We Want to be Remembered as Strong Women, Not as Shepherds”: Women Anfal Survivors in Kurdistan-Iraq Struggling for Agency and Acknowledgment
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 63–91.
Published: 01 March 2012
.... These strategies are largely shaped by social and economic factors and gender relations and in the traditional patriarchal context of rural Kurdish society. The article further explores the transformation of the women’s situation and narratives through the recent political changes in Iraq and shows the conflict...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 103–123.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Alborz Ghandehari Abstract This article argues that Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s Missing Soluch and Parinoush Saniee’s My Share are landmark works of feminist historical writing in Iran that disrupt official narratives in the country regarding the revolutionary project. Despite the different positions...
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Fahmi Basrawi often turned the lens of his Rolleicord camera on himself and...
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Figure 8. Fahmi Basrawi often turned the lens of his Rolleicord camera on himself and his intimates, using the camera to document his narrative and compile an archive as both an Aramco employee and a family man. In this picture he poses for his own camera at his desk in the Jabal School
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Subjectivity and Imperial Masculinity: A British Soldier in Dhofar (1968–1970)
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 60–80.
Published: 01 July 2008
... on cultural narratives, representational ideals, and intellectual debates. This paper shift s the emphasis to the subjectivity of imperial masculinity in order to identify how a notion of “superior” manhood is sustained and negotiated amidst the demands of everyday life. Interrogating a military memoir...
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Lingering in Girlhood: Dancing with Patriarchy in Jordan
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 63–79.
Published: 01 March 2015
... with the narratives and corporeal practices of the women dancers in daily life. I argue that the women rationalize their professional dancing and protect their reputations in a patriarchal context through self-disciplining practices and by disavowing their sexuality during what they understand as a temporary period...
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“Let’s Take a Leap”: Decolonizing Modernity, Double Critique, and Sexuality in Mohamed Leftah’s Le Dernier Combat du Captain Niʿmat
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 193–212.
Published: 01 July 2018
... with his young Nubian servant, Islam. Transgressive sexuality, anachronistic gender typology, narrative modes, and historicizing onomastics decenter the metropole of France and articulate a decolonized modernity. Even as it centers male sexual unruliness and invites a queer reading, the text stabilizes...
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Himmelstochter : A Muslima in German Public Spheres
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 27–55.
Published: 01 July 2011
... in the contexts of a growing Muslim German public sphere, Muslim German cultural production, and the public sphere at large. Kandemir’s transformation unfolds in Germany in the middle of an often young and visible larger movement of Muslim piety. Her narrative and experience transcend her individual life...
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The Egyptian Blogosphere: Policing Gender and Sexuality and the Consequences for Queer Emancipation
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 41–62.
Published: 01 November 2012
... narrative are all aspects of Egyptian political culture, but are rarely, if ever, discussed comprehensively. I hope to demystify the underground politico-cultural currents that exist in the queer Egyptian blogosphere. Through the process of reconciling political discourse with modern technology...
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