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... organizations. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2025 LGBTI+ network analysis identity collective action social movement organizations In Turkey, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and intersexual (LGBTI+) individuals are exposed...

.... The field of bibliometrics, also known as citation analysis, is used to measure the relative impact of an individual scholar based upon a quantitative network analysis of the relative popularity of her scholarly output for other scholars; it is meant to produce a map of significant ideas...

.... This analysis is derived from two bodies of research: several years of ethnographic field materials collected between 2003-2010 in Tunisia and a series of com- ments drawn from social networking sites like www.Gaydar.com, www. Manjam.com, and www.Facebook.com.2 I argue that the quality...

... on their extended kin to help publicize their feelings, negotiate contested areas, and solidify their communities’ preexisting sociopolitical connective patterns. Such analysis dismantles monolithic perceptions of Middle Eastern kin networks, in addition to embracing the multiple subjectivity of my interlocutors...

... about including the family and informal networks in civil society and in the analysis of politics in Egypt? Simply, it is because ethnographic fieldwork reveals the importance of the family and networks in Cairo as they organize and distribute scarce resources, facilitate coordinated actions...

... of Young People in the   Middle East. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution Press. Diani, Mario 1995 Green Networks: A Structural Analysis of the Italian Environmental   Movement. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. El Shakry, Omnia 2006  Cairo as Capital of Socialist...

...Shahrzad Mojab; Rachel Gorman In this paper we provide an analysis of Kurdish women’s organizing in the diaspora, highlighting the tension between “homeland” and “host-land” nationalisms, patriarchy, and feminism. This is the first feminist-transnational study of the experience of Kurdish women...

... (now X), Facebook, and YouTube. According to Al-Rawi, Arab women activists use social media to express their opinions and establish wider networks, influencing cultural change. Each chapter is framed by a particular form of gender politics—religious, political, social, or cultural activism—and for each...

...Haktan Ural; Fatma Umut Beşpınar Abstract This article examines how gay men engage with masculine respectability in urban Turkey. Our analysis of twenty-four in-depth interviews in Ankara shows that gay men’s self-presentation generally conforms to the expectations of masculine appearance...

... in the Kurdish patriarchy; this analysis is theoretically grounded on Deniz Kandiyoti’s concept of “patriarchal bargains.” The book provides intriguing examples of how Kurdish women validate themselves and their new roles in the city by adhering to ideals such as domesticity, modesty, and seclusion...

... to situate the experiences of the war years as continuities, not ruptures, and to go beyond violent conflict in the narration of postcolonial Algeria. Toward these ends Vince offers an analysis of “vernacular memory” to explicate the terrain between individual and collective memory (9). Vince juxtaposes...

... rights in the Arab world. Using an online survey and analysis of printed and electronic documents, this case study investigates Arab women’s cyberfeminism. It explores how activists utilized AWSA United to foster collective identity, strengthen solidarity, and enrich activism. Rita Stephan...

..., cultural, and political networks. Collective experiences with war from a distance brought people together in a communal state of emergency in which two questions took center stage: Has our village been attacked? Are our loved ones alive or dead? Julie Peteet (1997) writes...

.... Nahid Toubia, whose Research, Action and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women (RAINBO) organization in London is raising funds and organizing associations and institutions that are effectively building a broad feminist movement in Afri- can and Middle Eastern countries. I...

... in earnest from 2005 to 2009, with notable examples including networks of women’s campaigns such as One Million Signatures, Meydaan Zanan, the Feminist School, and Focus on Iranian Women (Abbasgholizadeh 2014 ). A recent example that clearly shows the relationship between the resistance of Iranian women...

... argue that “Muslim marriages” constitute transnational forms that are not simply marked by the extension or diffusion of kinship networks, ethnonational forms, and religious piety movements across borders. They reveal how transnationalism constitutes a dynamic field in which kinship, ethnonationalism...

..., they support survivors of violence and contribute to a strong women’s movement. These NGOs organize seminars and workshops about associational work, and they lobby, network, and demand social change. They may partner with specific ministries to implement educational projects. They present plays...

....” Locating his analysis in the historical context of post-Civil War Lebanon and today’s Beirut in particular, Gagné demonstrates complex and shifting relations between queerness, masculinity, urbanity, ethnic- ity, and nationhood, as they emerge on the gay dating social network. Unlike Collins...

... Affairs at American University. She has published Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo (Princeton University Press, 1995) and ed- ited Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East with Paul...

... opinions and experiences within these groups—as forms of both empow- erment and the reproduction of dominant discourses about gender. She also shows how these forms of organizing have many overlaps—informal networks oft en produce associations; Islamic groups have ties to the state even...