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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 424–432.
Published: 01 November 2022
.... A member of the audience takes the needle and pulls it through to the other side of the cloth, while Roze plays lightheartedly with the thread and speaks. “History cannot be written from one side, so the needle passes from one side to another, and only with the presence of another person can I sew...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 89–102.
Published: 01 July 2011
... of ideas and concepts, creative problem solving, and application. The researcher introduced role-playing to encourage more active learning among the students and to assess gender differences in their reactions to a method that requires a great deal of open-mindedness and risk-taking. Results indicated...
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in Reversing the Domestic Gaze: Chaza Charafeddine’s Maidames Exhibition in Beirut
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 March 2020
Figure 3. Ruby playing the Oud , 50 × 80 cm photograph printed with archival ink on fine art paper/dibond, edition 5.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Yağmur Nuhrat Abstract This article focuses on swearing in football chants in Turkey to demonstrate that fans construct a specifically masculine notion of fairness that diverges from the universalizing ideal of fair play. I argue that the Turkish Football Federation’s (TFF) clubs’ and mainstream...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 71–101.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Yossi Yonah; Ishak Saporta This research study is a development of our previous study about the pre-vocational training program introduced to the Israeli education system in the 1950s. However, while in the previous study we examined the role this program played in making Israel’s ethnoworking...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 53–82.
Published: 01 July 2009
... on women’s writings revealed intimate aspects of the Ottoman elite’s relationships in general and of Ottoman women in particular, and suggests that their publication in popular magazines played an important role in re-imagining the Turkish woman in the framework of the post-Kemalist nationalist discourse...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 423–448.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Amaney Jamal; Irfan Nooruddin Abstract Historically Arab regimes have played critical roles in securing women’s rights in their societies. Yet regimes remain concerned about domestic, especially Islamist and traditionalist, reactions to women’s rights. When regimes feel they can overcome...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 82–104.
Published: 01 March 2014
... powers through which ideals of women’s citizenship in Egypt after the revolution are produced and to problematize Hale’s notion of citizenship to better understand the role that Islamism plays in shaping these gendered political subjectivities. 82 mn Journal of Middle East women’s studies 10:1...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 225–245.
Published: 01 July 2016
... regulate sex/gender transgression. I argue that this institutional fixation develops specific proximities and forms of touch by the state on (and in) the bodies of trans women and gay men, which in turn plays a pivotal role in the institutional production of sexual difference and normative regulation...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 36–70.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Paul Amar This article examines how everyday theories of masculinity and vernacular discourses of “masculinities in crisis” play crucial roles in misrecognizing, racializing, moralistically-depoliticizing, and class-displacing emergent social forces in the Middle East. Public discourses...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 115–139.
Published: 01 March 2012
... with former militiamen from the Lebanese press, an autobiographical novel, and a play about the war, this paper examines the link between debates about memory and responsibility on one hand, and contentions over norms of masculine behavior on the other. The texts suggest that some Lebanese artists privilege...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 416–437.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... I argue that GMA became a space for publicly playing with cultural norms, political participation, and the politics of piety at some distance from the pressures that make publicly living difference so challenging. At issue is the official perception and discourse of a media and popular culture...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 80–106.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Catherine Sawers This article explores the gendered subtext of film criticism that both praises and vilifies Gillo Pontecorvo’s Bataille d’Alger . The female characters play a prominent role in the film’s action, and, in particular, the women’s roles underscore the film’s ideological emphasis...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 86–109.
Published: 01 July 2007
... provide an example of women resisting, negotiating, and pressing for their rights, transforming their position while their employment increased. However, the forces of globalization and the impact of the national and international political economy played an important role in the defeat of the reform...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 1–45.
Published: 01 March 2010
... examine just a few of the many sites where “Muslim women’s rights” are differentially in play: in Egyptian and Palestinian women’s NGOs as well as in rural villages where ordinary women and girls live their lives at the intersection of national media and local institutions. Lila Abu-Lughod is Joseph...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 103–116.
Published: 01 March 2010
... of Middle Eastern women, but marks a bold and evolving interface between modernist Iranian literature and contemporary Iranian immigrant literature. Works discussed in depth include the photographs and films of Shirin Neshat and Maryam Habibian’s play Forugh’s Reflecting Pool. Jasmin Darznik...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 63–79.
Published: 01 March 2015
... in Jordan. The hoshiyya 5 is a Bedouin courtship dance involving a “serious play” (Rosa 2012 , 144) demonstrated through a playful fight between a man and the female soloist, who protects herself from her attacker with a sword. It is part of a larger dance called samer that involves two parts...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 395–415.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Rachel Z. Feldman Abstract The movement to rebuild the Third Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount/Haram ash-Sharif in Jerusalem has grown significantly since 2000. The Orthodox Jewish “Women for the Temple” group has come to play a central role in this activism. Women for the Temple activists perform...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 479–482.
Published: 01 November 2017
... formidable City Theater, is Manus , a play about refugees awaiting processing to Australia. Manus is the eponymous name for the island province in Papua New Guinea where the Australian government leased land in 2001 to build a detention center, as part of its “Pacific Solution,” to contain asylum seekers...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 209–212.
Published: 01 July 2020
.... On these occasions, female artists not only danced and played musical instruments but also performed theatrical vignettes mostly aimed at criticizing male power and the Iranian patriarchal social and political systems. Female performers played male roles in these vignettes, dressing up with mustaches, beards...
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