...Farshid Kazemi Liminalities of Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Iranian Photography: Desirous Bodies . Staci Gem Scheiwiller . London : Routledge , 2017 . 240 pages. isbn 9781138201293 . Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020...

...Serpil Atamaz [email protected] Making the Modern Turkish Citizen: Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era . Özge Baykan Calafato . London : Tauris , 2022 . xii + 241 pages. isbn 9780755643271 . Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s...

...Rend Beiruti [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2023 Sarah Bahbah (b. 1991) is a Los Angeles–based Palestinian/Jordanian Australian artist known for her provocative photography, which deals with themes of female sexuality...

... by “selfies,” perhaps the most prevalent popular genre in portraiture today. Just as the invention of photography in 1834 did, selfies have significantly altered the way we make and perceive portraits. In this case, although Charafeddine took the photos, it is the migrant workers who made the sartorial...

... of sartorial subjects using various methodological approaches, such as social, cultural, and economic histories, along with the history of fine art, photography, archives, and visual culture. The guiding term modern bodies served as the primary conceptual theme through which to evaluate changing gender...

... to the present, the exhibition had originated in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, where it was curated by Kristen Gresh. According to Gresh’s ( 2013 , 35) essay in the accompanying catalog, the show “is an invitation to discover new photography, to shift our perspective, and to open a cultural dialogue...

... included twenty-two women artists and used a feminist perspective that encouraged artists’ solidarity. 2 Our goal was to make visible the works of female artists usually ignored by the male-dominated art world. The exhibition included painting, drawing, video, photography, sculpture, installation...

...). Matar received several grants and awards including a 2017 Mellon residency at the Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, a 2011 Legacy Award at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Massachusetts Cultural Council artist fellowships in 2007 and 2011, and first-place prizes at the New England Photographers Biennial...

... BOOK REVIEWS  111 the focus from how photography portrayed women to how women ap- propriated photographic technology to serve their own ends. Th e photos, particularly those that appeared in the women’s and popular press, speak to the ways in which politically active Egyptian women began...

... Research Centre . Behdad Ali . 2001 . “ The Powerful Art of Qajar Photography: Orientalism and (Self) Orientalizing in Nineteenth-Century Iran .” Journal of Iranian Studies 34 , nos. 1–4 : 141 – 52 . Booth Marilyn , ed. 2010 . Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces...

... of techniques in surrealist photography, Rosalind Krauss ( 1981 : 25) indicates that doubling is the process that disrupts the reality of the photograph, that is, the moment that in analog photography is burned onto film through exposure and is thereby “in direct contact with reality.” Krauss refers here...

...Rola Khayyat; Munira Khayyat; Yasmine Khayyat Reference Sontag Susan . 2001 . On Photography . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux . The cover photograph of two generations is part of Fahmi Basrawi’s extensive personal archive. This classic sepia-toned family portrait...

... the demands of attract- ing advertising revenue and increasing readership. As a result, NooR traffics in images. Essentially, that is what fashion magazines do: from commissioning photography, to selling imagery to aspirational readers, to soliciting image-based advertising pages, imagery is central...

...). • • • Some months ago, during a conference miriam organized on the refugee crisis, she posed a question concerning how we understand a sequence of events as a crisis, when inaction has the possible consequence of our witnessing death on a large scale. I wrote on the photography of refugees and art that has...

... moved on to reconstruction. Seventy artists and volunteers from different Syrian cities participated in the first stage of the Peace Wall in Al-Nabek. (3) The forum sponsored several art exhibits in 2014. The most important was You , a photography exhibition that focused on how artists represent Syrian...

... pieces that are stylistically and methodologically diverse, including photography, artwork, poetry and prose, and interviews, among others. Our first call for papers, which will be published in a forthcoming themed JMEWS issue, seeks to examine and shed light on the latest developments in popular...

... reality to which Iraqi women have been subjected. Since nothing has so far changed in the Middle East, this series will sadly continue to be relevant until the last chapter of this horrific period has ended. The technique used in the series is a hybrid of photography and painting. I start...

... by European modernists, twentieth-century homoerotic photography, and twenty-first-century portraits of Taliban fighters. In the last two chapters, he examines the largely overlooked homoeroticism of numerous Middle Eastern miniaturist paintings from the sixteenth century on, as well as nineteenth-century...

..., modeled opportunities and changes brought about by imperialism from codes of hygiene, biomedicine, and reproductive health. In so doing, she makes an important contribution to the history of postcolonial Middle East and North Africa, gender studies, fashion, photography, and visual culture. ...

... and the visual documentation of women in political culture (such as in funeral processions or “Ladies’ Demonstrations thus contributing to the na- scent literature on the history of photography in the fi eld of Middle East studies. Part 2 relies on the same broad base of visual and textual evidence...