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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 122–125.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., 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...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 58–85.
Published: 01 March 2007
... of this paper are twofold: One, we argue that diaspora should be understood as a historical rather than only a cultural phenomenon. Second, diaspora and transnationalism are both historical and political categories of social organization which involve a complex of national, international, and transnational...
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in “It Used to Be Forbidden”: Kurdish Women and the Limits of Gaining Voice
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 March 2018
Figure 1. Women dengbêj s performing at DÖKH-organized women’s rights rally on November 25, 2012, in Van
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in Al-ʿUcha : A Women Farmworkers’ Strategy for Gendering Workers’ Rights in Southern Morocco
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 March 2023
Figure 2. A glimpse of the interior of al-ʿUcha that farmworkers set up during the occupations. The workers spend months there eating, sleeping, and organizing their actions.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 6–30.
Published: 01 March 2008
... the party’s innovation in feminist advocacy in the context of Iran’s first women’s suffrage campaign from 1943 to 1946, and in direct comparison with an earlier organization, the Patriotic Women’s League and its hosting of the Second Eastern Women’s Congress in Tehran in 1932, and 2) the development...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 31–52.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Kathryn Libal This article examines debates over Turkish women’s emancipation and women’s independent organizing in Turkey during the 1930s. It traces the troubled history of Turkey’s most prominent independent women’s organization, the Turkish Women’s Union (Türk Kadın Birliği), focusing...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 135–151.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Shweta Belwal; Rakesh Belwal; Fatema Al Saidi To organize and manage an enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk, women entrepreneurs need to undertake various challenges. This paper identifies and discusses the characteristics, motivations, and obstacles...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 26–50.
Published: 01 July 2012
... and France with non-governmental organization workers and village girls, it demonstrates how humanitarian work is rendered meaningful by specific actors, its effects coexisting alongside, rather than supplanting, other forms of sociality. In tracing the ways in which a youth habitus based on rights is “made...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 58–88.
Published: 01 November 2008
..., content, and organization of these schools. The study is based primarily on the memoirs of Iranian educators, the writings of foreign observers in Iran active in Iranian education circles, and Persian-language press sources. Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi is Assistant Professor of History at California State...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 58–79.
Published: 01 July 2013
... as a spiritual yet usable presence in the organization of quotidian issues, as seen in Aboulela’s novel. Shirin Edwin is Associate Professor of French at Sam Houston State University. Her research interests include African Francophone literatures and African Islam and Islamic feminism. She has published...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 382–410.
Published: 01 November 2016
... Figure 5. An Argentinian Mother in the Saturday Mothers demonstration. Photo by Ersoy Tan Figure 5. An Argentinian Mother in the Saturday Mothers demonstration. Photo by Ersoy Tan One organization that followed their model was the Peace Mothers (formed in 1999), whose beloved ones are PKK...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 326–347.
Published: 01 November 2021
... to Syrian workers. SLAS volunteers understood their efforts as mitigating the precarities imposed on Syrian workers by the global capitalist labor system. Theirs was both a women’s organization and a proletarian movement led by Syrian women. Drawing from SLAS records and the Syrian American press...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (3): 350–372.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Claudia Yaghoobi Abstract Two months after the initial announcement of COVID-19, the World Health Organization referred to the pathogen as a pandemic, and by March 2020 large gatherings were canceled as new “social distancing” measures were issued. Statements about the pandemic proliferated...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 80–93.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., or husbands. It also shows that some women were subjected to violence during childhood and adolescence. The study points to the lack of legislation and official organizations to protect women from violence and suggests ways and means of dealing with the problem in Qatari society. Dr. Kaltham al-Ghanim...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 1–45.
Published: 01 March 2010
... institutions.
uslim women’s rights”—something to fi ght for, debate, con-
“Msider historically, see cross-culturally, make happen, organize
around, fund, and examine in action (as expressed or as violated)—have
an extraordinarily active social life in our contemporary world. Th ere is
no one...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 40–61.
Published: 01 November 2014
... in the vanguard,
are “doing” a whole new politics that does not mimic the characteristics
of modernity (Hale 2013a). They are anti-statism, anti-authority, and
opposed to hierarchal organization. They are all searching for new and
freer forms of association that have already had, and will continue...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 62–86.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., MESA President Suad Joseph and I organized a mini-
conference entitled “Anthropology of the Middle East: A New Millen-
nium.” We invited approximately forty Middle East anthropologists to
organize panels on some of the lesser studied topics, and ultimately,
sixteen anthropological...
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Engendering or Endangering Politics in Algeria? Salima Ghezali, Louisa Hanoune and Khalida Messaoudi
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 60–85.
Published: 01 July 2006
....” The principal unions and
associations had been subordinated by the hegemonic FLN and instru-
mental in mass manipulation were the Workers’ Union (UGTA), the
Student Union (UNEA), and the non-representative state-ruled women’s
organization (UNFA).
The National Union of Algerian Women (UNFA) played...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 35–57.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Sedef Arat-Koç This paper proposes that regional feminisms would be productive in avoiding some of the problems of “global feminism” or the co-opted shapes feminist transnationalism might take when it serves the priorities of international organizations or imperial powers. While Middle Eastern...
View articletitled, (Some) Turkish Transnationalism(s) in an Age of Capitalist Globalization and Empire: “White Turk” Discourse, the New Geopolitics, and Implications for Feminist Transnationalism
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 83–106.
Published: 01 March 2008
... and Cultural
Assembly, a cross-sectarian organization whose membership was limited
to women who had at least a secondary education,9 apparently affi liated
with the IAW in 1929 (Rupp 1997, 18).
Early in 1930, Hamada sent invitations to feminist leaders in Af-
ghanistan, Australia, China, Egypt...
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