...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...

... and passionate, and cultivates an air of hope and optimism. To fight ostracism by public institutions and to attain their academic rights, the respondents use their empowering feelings, hope, and commitment against patriarchal and homophobic state forces. [email protected] ilkancan.ipekci...

.... . . . You get mixed up.” Newzad articulated the sense in which the passionate love poetry of Mahwy belongs to a kind of moral striving: just “two words” from Mahwy allow you to “go into the depth of things.” When he sighs after reading a line and says, “Would that I had been better, or else that I had...

... 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...

... (1986: 40) notes that love in Persian romance is predominantly constrained by a platonic turn that does not glorify passionate love and sensuality. The lovers in Shahriar Mandanipour s (2009: 65) Censoring an Iranian Love Story talk about chaste and saintly love, a love untainted by earthly lusts...

.... 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...

... family milieu in that, although he had seven daughters, he loved them “with an insane passion” (23). Still other modes of escape are Fatima’s own stories, which detail the human and spirit activities of her compound and the goals and disappointments of real and imagined entities. Her stories about...

... Wissa Wassef and his wife, Sophie, in Giza in 1954. With technical guidance from Fayek Nicolas, one of the first-generation weavers at the Wissa Wassef art center, and a tiny wooden vertical loom, Ali was introduced to Ramses’ ideas of tapestry weaving. Ali had a passion for folkloric ballads, some...

... 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...

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

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... people in Egypt today. First, one key 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...

...” [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...