...Tara Marie Dankel Copyright © 2006 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2006 Resistance, Repression and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan , Hasso Frances . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press , 2005 . xxxii+216 pp, including works cited and index...

... at the Ministry of Health. Participants explained that by law gynecologists may not conduct an abortion in Occupied Palestine unless a recognized Muslim physician declares with reasonable certainty in a detailed medical report that continuation of the married woman’s pregnancy will endanger her life...

... Dowlatabadi and Saniee occupy in the Persian literary field, both Missing Soluch and My Share reflect the ethos of the 1979 Revolution in some way, one its euphoric beginning and the other its complicated aftermath. The article argues that both novelists pursue an innovative genre of historical writing...

... on Twitter, in which he reported on daily realities on the ground in an ISIS-occupied part of Syria. The collaboration between Hisham and Crabapple combines Hisham’s analytic biographical lens with Crabapple’s subjective realist illustrations to present personalized perspectives that give a sense...

... Israel waged a fifty-day military assault on Gaza that claimed the lives of 2,205 Palestinians, leaving in its wake a scale of destruction and displacement human rights groups deemed unprecedented since the beginning of Israel’s 1967 occupation. Israel rationalized its assault on the occupied territory...

... of the last decade or so, e.g., in the Zapatista movement in Mexico; in the anti-capitalist, anarcho-oriented revolt against the World Trade Organization summit meeting in Seattle, Washington, in 1999; in various environmental movements; in the Occupy movements; in Sudan with the Girifna (We Are Fed...

... of the occupier as mediator and conveyor of knowledge and the occupied as always being mired in dispute. Th ese strategies promote a certain “learn- ing by dispossession,” which is a learning process entrenched in capi- talism; it may produce new skills and knowledges but it also produces...

...; the Occupy movements; Sudan’s Girifna (“We Are Fed Up”) movement; Egypt’s Kefaya (“Enough”) movement; Spain’s Indignados/as (“Indignant Ones”) movement; Iceland’s “Kitchenware Revolution”; the “Arab Spring” insurrections in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya; and the actions emanating from Taksim Square/Gezi...

... there, they need to occupy more suitable and more visibly central spaces. The members of the campaign do not only speak against masculine domination of religious spaces, as embodied in the imam and the members of the congregation at the Fatih Mosque who get the final say on mosque politics; they also challenge...

... years, signaling an absence of the Palestinian emancipatory project. Rita Giacaman is Professor of Public Health at the Institute of Community and Public Health at Birzeit University in the West Bank, occupied Palestinian territory. During the 1980s, she participated as a researcher...

... of girlhood and womanhood and occupying the margins of both. In the series, the photographs portray the very different worlds girls construct for themselves—the similarities are powerful in the girls’ poses, facial expressions, and postures. But the differences among them are also captivating...

...Berit Mortensen Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 I am a Norwegian midwife who has been a solidarity activist in Palestine and with Palestinians since 1987. I lived and worked in the Occupied West Bank as a nurse for one year during the first intifada...

... comprises two main vocabularies: the national narrative of sumūd (endurance) and the language of trauma, promoted by the international humanitarian interventions that thrive throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territories. In both these vocabularies, detainees’ wives are neither survivors of violence nor...

... that living under occupation impacts everyday life for Palestinians in general and women in particular. All three are in Arabic, with English subtitles, and take place in post-1967 occupied Palestine, portraying people struggling under a cruel military occupation well into its fourth decade despite...

... they claim as their own, exploring how they occupy and constitute the borders between their most intimate spaces and the worlds around them, and raising questions about the margins between girlhood and womanhood. Through these practices of occupying and creating space, girls form their own subjectivities...

... replies nonchalantly, “Fine… but I need to inform poor Ibrahim, who has been waiting outside the airport for hours to pick me up” (9 – 10). In a sociological study that focuses on Nazi-occupied Czechoslova- kia, Antonin Obrdlik (1942, 709) describes “gallows humor” as humor...

...-Jadidah—as existing simultaneously and interacting in often jarring ways. Memory becomes a more complex matter than a reader may first believe, as it is not only a part of the mind but visible as a layer beneath the present. Throughout the book, Slyomovics is occupied...

... preserve such immediacy despite the datedness of the revolutionary struggle. Th e theme is relevant partly because the struggles of occupied people nowadays—whether in Palestine, Lebanon, or Iraq—raise the same issues and tensions, and partly because—inde- pendent of the strife...

... she herself struggles for seven years merely to obtain a legal ID card; her 91-year-old mother-in-law insists on packing her dresses before fl eeing the occupying forces; she stares down a young Israeli soldier, defying her husband’s pleas to stop—they also illustrate some of the crucial...

... beneath the present. Throughout the book, Slyomovics is occupied with the simultaneous existences of different times in current spaces. The most vivid examples of living memory in space are the houses of the Israeli artists in Ein Hod, which were formerly the family homes...