...Moneera al-Ghadeer Disciples of Passion , Barakat Hoda , translated by Booth Marilyn . Syracuse : Syracuse University Press , 2005 . 136 pp. Copyright © 2006 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2006 BOOK REVIEWS  115...

...Jasmin Darznik Passionate Uprisings: Iran’s Sexual Revolution , Mahdavi Pardis . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2009 . 336 pages. ISBN 978-0-8047-5857-4 . Copyright © 2011 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2011 BOOK...

... of his expressions is a claim about the kind of experience from which he understands Mahwy to emerge. Though he had noted that Mahwy’s discussions of passionate love pertain to God, to humans (i.e., to passionate love between human relations), and to society (i.e., to the wider network of relations...

... of Passion Hoda Barakat, translated by Marilyn Booth. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005. 136 pp. Reviewed by Moneera al-Ghadeer, University of Wisconsin, Madison Hoda Barakat delves inside the psyche, describing a realm of memories, obscurity, fragility...

.... Passionate Uprisings: Iran’s Sexual Revolution Pardis Mahdavi. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. 336 pages. ISBN 978-0-8047-5857-4. Reviewed by Jasmin Darznik, Washington and Lee University Pardis Mahdavi’s Passionate Uprisings: Iran’s Sexual Revolution offers...

... was researching connections between the US feminist Margaret Fuller and the Egyptian feminist Huda Shaʿrawi. Despite the temporal and geographic distances that separated them, Fuller and Shaʿrawi shared many values, including a passion for knowledge and a commitment to feminist activism. While I did not know...

... entity that fascinates Fatima is the constellation of Orion, known to the Bedouin as Naʾsh and his seven daughters. Naʾsh seems to serve as a counterpoint to Fatima’s misogynistic family milieu in that, although he had seven daughters, he loved them “with an insane passion” (23). Still other modes...

... considers Istanbulite women’s growing interest in sport ( spor merakı ) to be less about physicality than it is about women’s aspirations, yearnings, and desires. Chapter 2 explores how women’s passion for exercising is part of a “larger project of the self, something that triggers new knowledge of the self...

... for her tenacious ability to weather Egypt’s shifting political and artistic environment through her passionate canvases. Gazbia Sirry is one of Egypt’s most important modern artists. She was born in 1925 in Cairo, where she lived and worked until her death on November 10, 2021. In 1950 she graduated...

... of Passionate Uprisings: Iran’s Sexual Revolution (2008). She has also published in the Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures; Culture, Health and Sexuality; Anthropology News; Iran Today; and ISIM Review. She has received research awards from the American Public Health Association, the Society...

.... In these poems Helmy orchestrates two voices aptly. The rst voice recalls the mother s feminist teachings, her tender presence, the protection she provided, and the strength and con dence she armed her daughter with. The tone in these poems is nostalgic, elegiac, loving, and passionate. Through the tone...

... and pieces from what Nawal wrote to me by hand, or I printed from the email to remember and honor the passionate woman who wanted us all to be better people and to acknowledge the force within us. And she did rage against the dying of the light, did not go gentle into that good night. The last time I...

... to even more passionately continue our efforts toward building a field that will positively transform knowledge and education for the coming generations. The Consortium of Gender and Women’s Studies in the Arab Region held its first planning workshop, “Building Regional Alliances: Institutionalizing...

... more than ever, we are challenged to pursue our teaching with passion and insight not only to educate our students in terms of confronting misconceptions about the Middle East but also to sensitize them to the intersectionalities of power and the importance of informed analytic thinking and questioning...

... activists, intellectuals, and citizens to communicate their aspirations and keep abreast of relevant news. The magazine has nearly a hundred women and twenty men volunteers. We have deadlines for stories on the topic of the day, while the rest of the content is open, hence the freedom and passion...

... the sensitivity, the passion and the heart without which no profession can be great. This course will explore new approaches to the question of medical ethics. So far the approach has been confined to doctor-patient relationships, or to rules and regulations aimed at ensuring greater protection against medical...

... to contemporary social issues in Iran and among the Iranian diaspora. Mahdavi’s books include Gridlock: Labor, Migration and Human Traf- ficking in Dubai (Stanford University Press, 2011) and Passionate Upris- ings: Iran’s Sexual Revolution (Stanford University Press, 2008...

...” [The Sultana]; “Bahr al-ishq wa-l-aqiq” [The Sea of Passion and the Carnelian3 However, par- ticularly interesting for me was Osman’s focus on the role of the imagination in the development of the human consciousness. Osman draws upon a long Islamic philosophical tradition that treats...

... point of anxiety is the purported loss of activist passion among young, middle-class, pro- fessional women. Th is anxiety is complicated by what I will depict as a “leadership industry” that targets Arab youth in particular. Th ese leader...

... effectively uncovers the discursive operation of gender asymmetries as it informs the secular notion of separate spheres: “the public and private, reason and passion, objective and subjective” (68). She addresses the complex assemblages of race, sex, and gender in this process without assuming...