...Maisa Taha Arab Women in Arab News: Old Stereotypes and New Media , Al-Malki Amal Kaufer David Ishizaki Suguru Dreher Kira . Doha : Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing , 2012 . 466 pages. ISBN 978-9-9921-7911-6 . Copyright © 2013 Association for Middle East Women’s...

... in their societies. Crusading female journalists, feminist film producers/directors, publishers, and feminist cyber “bloggers” are strategically using old and new media to participate in the production and dissemination of alternative knowledge and the creation of transgressive spaces. Loubna H. Skalli...

... with Spanish nationalist dignity rather than with Moroccan independence. Instead of concluding that Spain’s colonization of Morocco is not good, Bertrana concludes that it is not good enough . Her writing perpetuates centuries-old Spanish Orientalist stereotypes, thus complicating the glorified history...

..., but payment “in kind” would be made by meeting all their expenses as if they were literally a member of the family. Rima, for example, the wife of the paternal cousin of Nadia, an 83-year-old Druze, lived and worked in Nadia’s household aft er her hus- 78 ./ JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 5:3...

... came and changed the old Bedouin life. What is striking is the way in which the author juxtaposes the old with the new, a manner that does not manifest itself in a violent rejection of either world but instead stages a conscientious dialectic, opening this encounter for further...

... below and the outcomes that resulted from them (3). Therefore the opponents of the revolution from above, below, and within pursued the eradication of the revolution and created counterrevolutionary forces. Counterrevolution typically has ties to old regimes. We call this Thermidor, which became...

... and the recruitment officer would forge the documents right there to send him to the front. They weren’t so picky then. They would write fifteen when the boy was clearly around twelve.” 30 This echoes Said’s father, who told his twelve-year-old son, “My dear son, war is no joke. You are very young right now...

... the established order on their own terms. I also examine the ways women contribute to nation-building processes beyond the public/private and modernity/tradition dichotomies and gender divides. One such venue emerged from my research in the early 2000s on the historic preservation of the Old...

... if you like them, and what sort of differences you see between them. Nuray: This is what everyone calls “modern” these days. And then there’s the old style, what our grandmothers [wear]. Ayşe: This is a much more colorful and joyful outfit. It has the flair of the new...

... to her execution. In the second segment, Sahar, who comes from a working-class background and tries to help her family by working very hard, is raped by Zivar the drug smuggler. Later, she commits suicide. In the third segment, Sepideh (known as Essy Gold Finger), a seventeen-year-old streetwise...

... and redefinition (Kabeer 2005:14). Also, early marriage in many parts of the world has adopted a modern face while retaining its conservative structure, and the new face can be misleading with apparent empowerment. Finally, the in- evitable clash resulting from the encounter between the new form and old...

... around the house and garden, smelling the roses and arranging elaborate picnics. She loved to entertain, and when I was there she invited a group of women from the old bourgeoisie. Over tea and fruit they talked about the good old days, their Turkish grandparents, and the lost world...

... be helpful to consider interviews I carried out with three genera- tions of one extended family: Umm Samira, a grandmother at least fifty- five years old (in 2009 when I met her), her thirty-five-year-old daughter Umm Walid, and Umm Walid’s daughter, Ahlam, in her early twenties.21...

... in the Old City of Damascus” (City & Society, 2009). She is currently completing a manuscript on the historic preservation of the Old City of Damascus. Copyright © 2013 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2013 ...

... and collaborative work. I analyzed the findings of each site separately and then, at the end, compared my findings from rural areas with my findings for cities. In Sakineh-abaad my field guide, Masoumeh, was a sixty-seven-year-old woman. 2 She accommodated me in her home during my fieldwork in the village...

... that are often associated with a heterosexual man. Performing family guy masculinity accrues practical benefits to gay men and ensures their economic, social, and emotional well-being. Sancar, who is forty-two years old and self-employed, explains the role he plays in his family business and the benefits he...

... saw her was October 2019. She was struggling against a body that was giving out. The end looked close, but she lived on for seventeen months. Her will to live reminded me of Dylan Thomas’s poem: Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against...

... snatched two large bundles (thirty-eight and thirty-two meters) of poplin fabric, three meters of a cheaper lightweight batiste fabric, and a half meter of poplin. 1 The band consisted of Siddiqa Musa ʿEid, a fifty-five-year-old laundry woman from Zaqaziq with nine recorded theft crimes; Naffusa Hassan...

... with members of the youth branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, who distribute food to the less fortunate and are highly critical of the organization’s old guard. “Islamic activism,” according to Naguib’s interlocutor Sherif Hassan, a member of the brotherhood who studied economics at the American University...

... man could want.” But, he remarked, “In time their traditions would doubtless be eroded by contact with an outside world in which both society and individual standards had degenerated” (196–7). While the Western desire to romanticize the Old World aft er World War I (WWI) was rooted...