.... LILA ABU-LUGHOD  1 THE ACTIVE SOCIAL LIFE OF “MUSLIM WOMEN’S RIGHTS”: A Plea for Ethnography, not Polemic, with cases from egypt and palestine Lila Abu-Lughod  ABSTRACT...

...Lori A. Allen Living Palestine: Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility under Occupation , Taraki Lisa , ed. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press , 2006 . Pp. xxx, 296 . ISBN 0-8156-3134-0 . Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008 132  JOURNAL...

...Sabra J. Webber Spirits of Palestine: Gender, Society, and Stories of the Jinn , Rothenberg Celia E. . Lanham, MD : Lexington Books , 2004 . Pp. xii, 148 . ISBN 0-7391-0643-0 . Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008...

... roles at their expense. 36 ./ JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 5:3 THE POLITICS OF GROUP WEDDINGS IN PALESTINE: Political and Gender Tensions Islah Jad...

...Rana Sharif Women, Water and Memory: Recasting Lives in Palestine , Naguib Nefissa . Leiden : Brill , 2009 . Pp. xii, 173 . ISBN 978-90-04-16778-0 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009 190 ./ JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 5:3...

...Hagit Krik Abstract British women have hitherto been almost absent from the history of British colonialism in the Middle East, and particularly in Mandate Palestine (1918–48). By using an individual tale of a British nurse as a vantage point, the article explores the personal and professional...

... and started to peel an orange. Wael then said he had to leave. He came back later and told her that the orange had an Israeli Jaffa label. In the 1950s and 1960s, Jaffa oranges became emblems of the Israeli state. So began Janet’s understanding of Palestine. Sorting through all Janet’s papers...

... and accessible; her powerful account of passing through the Qalandia checkpoint is a highlight (94). In a compelling narrative Schulman provides an alternative script of exile and home and suggests complex, less dichotomous ways of imagining oneself as a queer, a Jew, and an activist for Palestine. Moreover...

... Buthina Canaan Khoury. Women Make Movies, 2004. 56 minutes. Soraida, A Woman of Palestine Tahani Rached. Women Make Movies, 2004. 52 minutes. Reviewed by Nada Elia, Antioch University Seattle “Th e Israeli occupation invades your most private spaces, the space...

... conducive to both gender empowerment and conflict resolution. 30  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 4:2 FIRST PRIZE Gender, Culture, and Confl ict Resolution in Palestine Sophie Richter-Devroe...

... chosen to focus on what Edward Said called the Question of Palestine—a well funded agenda that enables them to avoid addressing the community-based concerns of the disenfranchised Mizrahim. Mizrahi communities, however, silence their own feminists as these activists attempt to challenge the regime...

...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...

..., Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Chow Rey . 2002 . The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Davis Angela . 2016 . Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations...

..., and regulations do not mention abortion, which I confirmed with the director of women’s health 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...

...Danya Al-Saleh On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings . Ella Shohat . London : Pluto , 2017 . xv + 464 pages. isbn 9780745399508 (cloth), 9780745399492 (paper). Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Ella...

...Lihi Ben Shitrit Reference Ben Shitrit Lihi . 2019 . “ Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival .” Journal of Women, Politics and Policy 40 , no. 3 : 439 – 41 . Finally, in view of Jad’s epilogue regarding the post-2007 landscape, one...

...Evren Savcı These are not easy dynamics to disentangle, nor are they easy questions to answer. Atshan’s incisive study is an important intervention and a valuable opening of a debate on the role that the “empire of critique” continues to play in social justice organizing. Queer Palestine...

... . 2006 . “ Palestinian NGOs since Oslo: From NGO Politics to Social Movements? ” In The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993–2005 , edited by Beinin Joel and Stein Rebecca L. , 84 – 000 . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Hasso Frances . 2005...