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... Susan Slyomovics  mn  15 “EVERY SLIGHT MOVEMENT of the people. . . is EVERYTHING” SONDRA HALE AND SUDANESE ART Susan Slyomovics mn Abstract This essay traces the intertwined topics...

...Işıl Karacan No single book can encompass everything. However, The Power of the People adeptly addresses mainstream historiographical questions, including top-down state-building strategies and the so-called societal backwardness of ordinary people, providing a nuanced and insightful analysis...

...Mehrdad Alipour Abstract Muslim jurists have issued several fatwas (Islamic legal opinions) permitting gender-confirming surgery (GCS) for various groups of intersex and/or transgender people. However, these fatwas have been critiqued for conceiving of intersex and transgender individuals...

... feminists would especially benefit from regional transnational links—given the nature of the social, economic, political, and geopolitical challenges that face the women and the people of the region in an age of capitalist globalization and empire—the paper warns that some dominant feminisms in the region...

...Asli Zengin Abstract This article is about how sex, gender, and sexuality are governed in Turkey at the intersection of intimate contact and mandated encounters with medicolegal institutions and the bodies of sex/gender transgressive people. To explore this question, it brings two institutional...

... and the public spheres. In the past two decades, gradual transgressions of urf and sharia have become a sign of modernity and resistance for many women and young people who wish to generate changes in their situation. Since 2001, the trend of willfully neglected veiling (bad-hejabi) in physical space has been...

... of ordinary people during the Syrian revolution (2011). This essay demonstrates how al-Masri’s poetry grafts landscapes of pain and resistance in a poetics of the gut that bears witness to horror, trauma, and resistance. It focuses on the trope of blood writing, documentary poetry or poésie-vérité...

... as imperial agents of health, biomedicine, and hygiene, they had exercised professional, cultural, and racial authority over indigenous people. At the same time, their gender, vocation, and marital status have limited their scope of influence within a male-dominated medical hierarchy, as well as locate them...

... and the Egyptian people. Aimed exclusively at women, such ads stressed values like pleasure, abundance, affordability, and leisure—a vision of society where every housewife could achieve her dreams and every family could have a modern kitchen. These idealized images were not a new feature of household...

...Diane Singerman Uprisings are complex, rare phenomenon, and this article suggests that the shared regional diffusion of protest in the Arab Spring was lubricated by the economic inequalities of neoliberalism. Young people in Egypt and the larger Middle East have been disproportionately...

... conquest narrated in Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s 1542 Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition by giving voice to the slave Mustafa/Estebanico and other subaltern peoples, including female slaves and Native Americans. The protagonist Mustafa asserts his Muslim, Moroccan identity, which has been erased...

... on social-media platforms, among them that culturally important gatherings were sources of a new anxiety. Given that qualitative works engaging the sociocultural aspects of people’s experiences, internal reflections, and the ways they navigate vulnerability are essential to a holistic view of COVID-19’s...

... broadly interpreted by the authorities, the courts, and police to target queer people, even though since 2009 several lower courts (and the high appellate court of Mount Lebanon) have rejected prosecution cases based on this colonial-era law. Nevertheless, the number of arrests under this article...

... to do with the end of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. People often ask me, what were you doing working on transsexuality, how did you shift from those ideas? That was definitely driven by anger. In 2003–4 there was a huge amount of attention to the phenomenon of transsexuality...

... with a population of three million people. I conducted one-on-one interviews in a room at the back of an Antalya bookstore with eleven members (six women, four men, and one self-identified transsexual) between twenty and twenty-seven years old in the summer of 2014, finding participants with the help of LGBT...

...- ham 2000; Hassoun 2005). In the city of Dearborn in Greater Detroit, they make up 39% of the population, or approximately 40,000 people.1 The majority are Lebanese Shi‘ite Muslims from southern Lebanon near the border with Israel.2 In the summer of 2006, during the period...

...Louise Cox [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 I would like to acknowledge the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of this Country on which we gather today, and pay my respects to Elders past, present...

... in Albert Camus s (1942) L Étranger (The Stranger). At the time, the connections between the attitude of the West and the dehumanization of Oriental people seemed nebulous, since our history manuals essentialized the past of kingdoms and caliphates while hushing the geopolitical complexities of the modern...