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Beyond Elegy: Classical Arabic Women’s Poetry in Context

Marlé Hammond
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 126.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.9.1.126
Published: 01 March 2013
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How “God Becomes a Lover”: Sufi Poetry and the Finitude of Desire in Kurdistan

J. Andrew Bush
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 68–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3422534
Published: 01 March 2016
...J. Andrew Bush Abstract Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, this article tracks the imbrication of ordinary and mystical desire in the life of a Muslim man who disavows pietistic forms of ethical striving. It examines the way tropes of desire from Sufi poetry affect...
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Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran

Zora Kostadinova
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 107–109.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10256239
Published: 01 March 2023
...Zora Kostadinova [email protected] Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran . Niloofar Haeri . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2020 224 pages. isbn 9781503601772. Copyright © 2023 by the Association for Middle East Women’s...
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The Body in Pain and Pleasure: The Phenomenology of Embodiment in Rosa Jamali’s Poetry

Narges Montakhabi Bakhtvar, Hoda Niknezhad-Ferdos
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 337–356.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10815497
Published: 01 November 2023
... the flattening effects of modernization and female empowerment in the otherwise conservative society of Iran, these poets became staunch defenders of social realism and committed writing in the name of demystifying the hegemonic and defying the utilitarian. Their poetry was supportive of “revolutionary political...
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The Painful Road to Freedom in Maram al-Masri’s Elle Va Nue la Liberté ( Freedom Walks Naked )

Brinda J. Mehta
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 260–284.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-9767884
Published: 01 July 2022
...Brinda J. Mehta Abstract This essay examines the poetry of the Francophone author Maram al-Masri, a diasporic feminist poet from Syria who has lived in exile in Paris since 1992. Elle va nue la liberté is an indictment of the regime of Bashar al-Assad and an ode to the creative resilience...
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Ethnographic and Literary Reflections on Miral Al-Tahawy’s The Tent

Caroline Seymour-Jorn
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 107–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3728679
Published: 01 March 2017
... challenging for the ethnographer to transmit in his or her writing about culture. I argue that we can read The Tent as ethnographically informed primarily because of the complex way in which al-Tahawy incorporates authentic poetry into the text and that this usage allows her to represent poetry...
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The Doubling Self: Contemporary Tunisian Art by Meriem Bouderbala and Najah Zarbout

Anne Marie E. Butler
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 267–290.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10815455
Published: 01 November 2023
... herself, resulting in a self/other dichotomy. Surrealism, while frequently associated with early twentieth-century Europe, is a liberatory approach that stretches across global art, poetry, and literature. One of its primary objectives is to challenge accepted realities. This article argues that artworks...
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Forough Goes West: The Legacy of Forough Farrokhzad in Iranian Diasporic Art and Literature

Jasmin Darznik
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 103–116.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2010.6.1.103
Published: 01 March 2010
... out of Iran, Farrokhzad’s poetry has also found a home in America. Sung variously in opera and alternative rock, drama- tized in two stage adaptations, inscribed on photographs and projected on the video screen, in recent years Farrokhzad’s poetry has been evoked JOURNAL...
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Mihrî Hatun: Performance, Gender Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History

N. İpek Hüner Cora
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 395–397.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7720795
Published: 01 November 2019
... masculinity—so that Mihrî Hatun’s intervention in traditional narratives as a woman poet can be further contextualized. True to her claim, Havlioğlu makes a valuable effort “to historicize women’s writing in Turkish before the nineteenth century” (160). Her close reading of Mihrî Hatun’s poetry opens new...
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What Words Want

Adam Talib
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 128–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3728701
Published: 01 March 2017
... with the modern Arab world and its diasporas. The largest number of papers presented at the conference dealt either with Arabic erotological texts or with explicitly erotic creative works. This cluster included papers on sex manuals, classical Arabic poetry, Egyptian pop music, and love treatises. The papers...
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Barbara Harlow and the Necessity of “Renewed Histories of the Future”: In Memoriam (1948–2017)

Rania Jawad
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 453–457.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-4179100
Published: 01 November 2017
..., novels, short stories, autobiographies, personal letters, poetry, and cinema from Lebanon, South Africa, Northern Ireland, Palestine, Guatemala, El Salvador, Kenya, Cuba, and other countries. She persistently challenged the arrogant certainty of imperial and colonial orderings of the world...
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Cruising Baghdad: Desire between Men in the 1930s Fiction of Dhu al-Nun Ayyub

Pelle Valentin Olsen
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 25–44.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-4296997
Published: 01 March 2018
... . Jacob Wilson Chacko . 2011 . Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Egypt, 1870–1940 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Jayyusi Salma Khadra . 1997 . Trends and Movements in Modern Arabic Poetry . Leiden : Brill . Kadhim Hussein N...
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Writing Disidentification and the Relational Self in Fadwa Tuqan’s Mountainous Journey

Noha F. Abdelmotagally
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 199–215.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-2886541
Published: 01 July 2015
... frequently after being deprived of school (50) and attempted it in response to her father’s insistent demand that she produce nationalist poetry (112). Her brother Ibrahim, himself a poet, playwright, and nationalist radio director, contributed to Tuqan’s informal education. She published individual poems...
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The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual: Devotional Practices of Pakistan and India by Shemeem Burney Abbas

Karen G. Ruffle
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 133–138.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-2005-4012
Published: 01 November 2005
... defi nes her study of the female voice in Sufi musical performance as a “linguistic anthropological study of discourse and poetry used in devotional settings” (xviii). Despite her claim that she does “not try to fi t this book into any theoretical frame,” she does employ two...
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The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco by Susan Slyomovics

Hilary M. Fineman
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 122–125.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2007.3.2.122
Published: 01 July 2007
... is increasingly possible. Th e experiences of the various catego- BOOK REVIEWS  123 ries of prisoners and subjects of torture that have been muted are now being articulated through personal testimony, performance, and poetry. Th rough fi eldwork done over two...
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Representations of Women in the Writings of the Intelligentsia in Hashemite Iraq, 1921–1958

Orit Bashkin
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 53–82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2008.4.1.53
Published: 01 March 2008
... by historians of the Hashemite period, namely, works of prose fi ction and poetry as well as essays by public intellectuals. I therefore study works of canonic poets and novelists that assumed a prominent role in the print market and whose importance was oft en undermined by Ba‘thi historiogra- phy...
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Cover Art Concept

Ellen McLarney
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 116.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7273857
Published: 01 March 2019
... in his turban? Or is it a young woman in a headscarf, adorned in color? They are one, perhaps, joined by the poetry etched into the pattern embroidered on fabric, worn on the head, and held close to the heart. The fragment of the Rumi poem echoes the famous Ibn ʿArabi lines: “I profess the religion...
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Editorial Introduction

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 1.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3422490
Published: 01 March 2016
... with words, illustrated poetry with images, and wrapped all she has done in the cellophane of ideas. Her political commitments, shaped by the persisting tragedy in her beloved Lebanon, inform everything she creates, and our cover is a fine example. In “Exploring Third Space in the Beirut Decentrists’ Texts...
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The Figure of the Prostitute, Tajdid , and Masculinity in Anticolonial Literature of Iraq

Haytham Bahoora
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 42–62.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-2832340
Published: 01 March 2015
... perspectives, as most famously depicted in the poetry of Charles Baudelaire. 2 While portrayals of prostitution in Arabic literature are not unique to this period, the prostitute’s increasingly frequent appearance in modern Iraqi prose and poetry signaled a shift in social consciousness. This shift can...
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Contributors

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 123–124.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.8.2.123
Published: 01 July 2012
... and opinion pieces in Arabic, Hebrew, and English and has published four volumes of Arabic poetry and literature. Since 2006 she has been frequently published in the prestigious literature magazine al-Adab (Beirut). In 2005, she was com- missioned to write original poetry for the Washington, DC...
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