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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 150–153.
Published: 01 July 2005
...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...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 89–118.
Published: 01 November 2008
... accompanied by the virtual unveiling of women bloggers in cyberspace. Through their personal narration, women bloggers transgress several sociocultural boundaries. The strategy of women in both spaces is the same: to become more visible, to speak out, and to create a new identity closer to their “inner self...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 265–286.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Diya Abdo Abstract Readings of the Egyptian writer Miral al-Tahawy’s first novel, al-Khibaʾ (1996), typically view it as autobiographical, casting its first-person narrator Fatima as the author’s oppressed double. Equally dismissive, nonautobiographical readings cast her as passive “madwoman...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 161–178.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Wisam Khalid Abdul-Jabbar Abstract This article explores Zainab Salbi’s autobiography, Between Two Worlds ( 2005 ), using a Lacanian analysis. The Lacanian reading of the early Mirror Stage of ego formation can be extended to better understand Salbi’s narration of her childhood and how this world...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 92–114.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Andrea Fischer-Tahir In 1988 the Iraqi regime launched the Anfal campaigns against the Kurdish peshmerga and their civil supporters in the rural areas. This article investigates narrations about Anfal constructed by peshmerga ten years after the events. It compares the memoirs of a leading...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 261–285.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... Held in sexual slavery between 2014 and 2015, Farida Khalaf and 2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad published testimonials that detail their experiences. Determined to bring ISIS rapists to justice, they narrate the formerly unspeakable crimes that ISIS militants committed against them...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 43–68.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Stanley Thangaraj Abstract There is a growing literature on gender and feminist theory in the Middle East now. However, there has been little work on Kurdish diasporas and gender in the United States. This article examines how US diasporic Kurdish performances of gender and narrations of gender...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 173–198.
Published: 01 July 2024
... women use various forms of art to make sense of these obstacles and navigate the struggles of daily life. By narrating the story of one Palestinian woman and her relationship with writing, this article explores Palestine women’s attempts to redefine public space and discourse while reflecting on broader...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 25–44.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., such as Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri, Maʿruf al-Rusafi, and Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi, at some point all served in official and semiofficial posts in their capacity as poets (DeYoung 2010 , 274–83; Jayyusi 1997 , 181–82; Kadhim 2004 , 85–130; al-Musawi 2010 , 166–74). The narrator and Fuʾad in “How I Found a Guy...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 138–141.
Published: 01 March 2008
... as a journalist, decides to return to his native village because city life has become too expensive and fraught with racial tension. Signs like “Arabs out = Peace + Security” have proliferated over the landscape. Moreover, the narrator’s position at a Jewish newspa- per has changed. His reports from...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 115–118.
Published: 01 November 2006
... to seek shelter from the blast and shelling. Barakat’s war is a diff erent one. No scenes of wreckage, no waste or ruins, as in most novels about war. She is not interested in portraying the external scenes of destruction; she goes inside the narrator’s psyche during its most fragile...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 July 2015
... Western education for girls as well as boys while exploiting a modern personal status law unfavorable to women by abandoning Leila’s mother to be with a Westernized Moroccan woman. Leila asks how he can fight for something for the whole country but not apply it to himself (154). For the narrator...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 80–107.
Published: 01 July 2013
... and Khadra struggle to build and delineate bonds of sympathy across the borders of nationally imagined communities. These texts are juxtaposed with a seemingly incongruous novel—Madih al-Karahiya, an Arabic text narrated by a woman in the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood—that subverts gender...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 343–362.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of the Arab-Jewish romance and their longing for a culturally rich past. Mahmoud Saeed’s ( 2011 ) The World through the Eyes of Angels recounts tales from the youth of an unnamed narrator, growing up in Mosul in the 1940s. He attends school, works as an errand boy in the market, and gets up to boyish...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 111–114.
Published: 01 July 2011
... knowing the word itself, the narrator suggests that at the age of six she knew she was gay. At fourteen, she read a bible passage that led her to believe that homosexuality was a sin, which terrified her. But her panic did not last long; a few weeks later she heard a preacher...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 260–284.
Published: 01 July 2022
... conflicting emotions of sadness and hope as she goes back and forth between her conscious and unconscious states of being. The poet-narrator compares exile to a state of ghosting; 5 she is reduced to a phantom-like presence in France as an exiled outsider. Roaming through Paris in a dreamlike trance, she...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 95–121.
Published: 01 March 2006
... can learn from exploring the strategies women writers use to achieve these two goals. BECOMING A WRITER IN CAIRO As she narrated the story of her early life, Osman revealed a keen awareness both of the difficulties faced by women of her mother’s gen- eration...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 199–215.
Published: 01 July 2015
... and is characterized variously through the family, in opposition to it, by emerging from it, and by engulfing it within its selfhood.” “Relationality” in an autobiographical act “invites us to think about the different kinds of textual others through which an ‘I’ narrates the formation or modification of self...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 129–133.
Published: 01 March 2006
... of the unknown; it is where a job, money, and a big villa surrounded with trees can be had. Toward the end of the story, we are BOOK REVIEWS  131 surprised to learn that the narrator is a doctoral student in Scotland recalling his first departure from his...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 114–115.
Published: 01 November 2006
... the blast and shelling. Barakat’s war is a diff erent one. No scenes of wreckage, no waste or ruins, as in most novels about war. She is not interested in portraying the external scenes of destruction; she goes inside the narrator’s psyche during its most fragile and traumatized state while trembling...