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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 395–397.
Published: 01 November 2019
...N. İpek Hüner Cora Mihrî Hatun: Performance, Gender Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History . Didem Havlioğlu . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press , 2017 . xxv + 220 pages. isbn 9780815635499 . Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 277–286.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Nazli Akhtari Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2021 In July 2020 the transdisciplinary artist, curator, and writer Gita Hashemi presented Zan-i keh Mikhaham ( The Woman I Want ), an online performance that offered a reading of the early radical feminist...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 86–88.
Published: 01 March 2018
... practice in the Southern Mediterranean. The book recognizes this artistic movement in this region, thereby addressing a long-standing gap in dance studies and performance studies, whose focus is frequently state folk-dance ensembles or the solo performance genre of raks sharqi (“oriental dance,” also...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 117–123.
Published: 01 March 2015
... by affirming her agency and breaking the mastering gaze. Body Screen is an installation work constructed of shapes taken from a three-dimensional scan of my body. This was done by a somewhat performative act in which a laser scanner rotated along the perimeters of my nude body, producing more than eighty...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 122–125.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Hilary M. Fineman The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco , Slyomovics Susan . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2005 . Pp. 271. ISBN 0812238583 . Copyright © 2007 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2007 122 JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 251–257.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Afiya S. Zia; Shahrzad Mojab Performing Piety: Singers and Actors in Egypt’s Islamic Revival . Van Nieuwkerk Karin . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2013 . 320 pages. isbn 9781477302255 paper. The Veil in Kuwait: Gender, Fashion, Identity . Botz-Bornstein...
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in Tarkib’s Contemporary Arts Festival in Baghdad: Women Artists Play and Perform Memories and New (Hi)stories of Iraq
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Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 1. Roze Muhammed (right) during her performance, with a participant of the festival. © Alessio Mamo.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 287–311.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Camila Pastor de Maria Campos Abstract Analyzing memoirs from the Arab diaspora and Mashriq, colonial archives, interviews, League of Nations reports, and mandate legal literature, this article tracks the circulation and regulation of mobile women engaging in performance and sex work in French...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 416–437.
Published: 01 November 2017
... performed before a panel of judges and a television audience and were promoted or eliminated by popular vote. As the darling of Pahlavi-era popular culture who was silent for two decades following the revolution before making an explosive comeback in 2000, Googoosh was herself a contentious enough figure...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 268–274.
Published: 01 July 2016
..., and performative embodied and creative practices as sites for the intervention, reinterpretation, and transformation of the dystopian reality in Iraq. My encounters during ʿAshura with the women in my family and community in Baghdad and Karbala brought me closer to an embodied practice for coping with the violence...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 275–283.
Published: 01 July 2016
... is mandated), others, like Fulla and Jamila, are portrayed as fourteen to sixteen years old. For the latter, the veil becomes a live issue. The dolls perform Arab Islamic identity in other ways. For example, the songs in Fulla’s marketing campaign stress her cultural background. “Al Salat” (“The Prayer...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 121–128.
Published: 01 November 2008
... : Princeton University Press , 2006 . Pp. ix, 263 . ISBN 9780691124216 Performing Islam: Gender and Ritual in Iran , Torab Azam . Boston : Brill Academic Publishers , 2006 . Pp. xvii, 300 . ISBN 9789004152953 . Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 424–432.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Figure 1. Roze Muhammed (right) during her performance, with a participant of the festival. © Alessio Mamo. ...
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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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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 96–116.
Published: 01 March 2021
... offshoot Instagram page, this article examines digital repertoires of Muslim women’s self-styling as both pious and liberal. While the women-only Facebook group reproduced existing religious norms in contemporary language, the Instagram platform generated self-modulated performances of fashion and fitness...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 197–219.
Published: 01 July 2021
.... Through the rendering of embodied acts of dabke performance, hegemonic and resilient modes of masculinity are equated with spectacles of violence attached to the state, repressive tactics by the police state, and performative complicity with the regime. This essay argues that sovereign and autocratic...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 244–264.
Published: 01 July 2017
... and traditional middle class often conform to hegemonic masculinity through their “family guy” performances and limit their sexual desires, professional middle-class gay men mobilize their social, economic, and cultural capital to carve out a gay life where they can perform a “sophisticated” gay identity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 395–422.
Published: 01 November 2021
... but also became lifestyle gurus, projecting images of the successful entrepreneur, the ideal mother, the benevolent philanthropist, and the leisure enthusiast. This combination of roles resonates with the notion of the “ideal Muslim woman” promoted by the government. But its performance entails moments...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 19–40.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., and two, the steady decay of infrastructure and social services and how it renders middle-class life an impossibility. The article argues that by focusing on the intimate, Ibrahim’s novel and the TV adaptation both reveal the various forms of work women perform and make use of women’s work to critique...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 283–306.
Published: 01 November 2020
... L. Austin’s theory of performative speech acts, the article develops a theory of the speaking state to explain the effects of political speech. Ultimately it argues that the politics of “woman making” is central to “the politics of woman killing.” References Abu-Lughod Lila . 1998...
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