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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11412039.
Published: 19 September 2024
..., heterotemporal figure of the Indian in popular novels like Dear Uncle Napoleon (1973), Savushun (1969), and The Patient Stone (1966); films like Qarun’s Treasure (1965); and various musical performances from the 1970s to the 2010s. The article contends that for Iranians, the Indian’s uncanny combination...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 416–437.
Published: 01 November 2017
... transnational media popular music Iran veiling and piety political participation In 2011 Iranian pop icon Googoosh began a new venture through the London-based Manoto 1 satellite television station Googoosh Music Academy (GMA), a pop music talent competition in which nonprofessional contestants...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 122–125.
Published: 01 November 2005
... that has been a basic reason for the division of society into kh∂ssa and ῾∂mma” (214). A process of “cultural revivalism” (179) emerged, which has been manifested in the increasing importance of Islamic discourses, the spread of colloquialism, and the integration of the ῾∂mma forms in popular music...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 197–219.
Published: 01 July 2021
... Syrian Popular Dance .” In Islam and Popular Culture , edited by van Nieuwkerk Karin , Stokes Martin , and Levine Mark , 278 – 96 . Austin : University of Texas Press . Silverstein Shayna . 2019 . “ Disorienting Sounds: A Sensory Ethnography of Syrian Dance Music...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 27–55.
Published: 01 July 2011
... aspects of her life.24 Kandemir never intended to leave the larger stage of her previous life (that is, the public sphere at large); rather she set out to play a different role and follow a different script. In the process she moved from the sphere of popular music to the Muslim public...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 173–198.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Jawhariyyeh, Popular Music, and Early Modernity in Jerusalem .” In Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture , edited by Stein Rebecca L. and Swedenburg Ted , 27 – 50 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Taraki Liza , ed. 2006 . Living Palestine: Family Survival...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 144–164.
Published: 01 July 2020
... to strict censorship, it is hard to see such forms of Iranian diaspora popular culture and popular culture of the Pahlavi period on official channels. What is particularly noteworthy here is the formation of two separate layers in Iranian popular culture. On the one hand, popular culture—namely, music...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 137–146.
Published: 01 March 2021
... for understanding the construction and reproduction of dominant gender norms, as well as their contestation and subversion. This was especially apparent in the wake of the Arab uprisings, when different forms of creative expression—such as graffiti and independent music—flourished, and popular media openly...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 133–138.
Published: 01 November 2005
... in the book’s introduction. In chapter one, “History and Economy of Women in Sufi Ritual,” BOOK REVIEWS  135 the gendered nature of the genres of Sufi musical performance is high- lighted. Abbas observes that qawwali, popularized on the world music...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 209–212.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., and thick eyebrows. With the rise of a pro-Western modern state under Reza Shah Pahlavi, the 1930s and 1940s sparked women’s public emergence in music and performing arts in Iran. Many female musicians, singers, and dancers gained fame and popularity through public performances in famous theater halls...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 139–142.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., and its market in the Arab world, with its growing popularity of music videos. The transmission of music videos on satellite music channels at the beginning of the century, primarily, as well as the Internet, more recently, with sites such as YouTube and its circulation of music videos...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (2): 86–114.
Published: 01 July 2010
... dance music CDs in Brazil. In a large photograph accompanying the news article, Mouzayek was shown standing in a tunic with his arms crossed over his chest, fl anked on either side by two sexy light-skinned belly dancers. As belly dancing became popularized through a prime-time telenovela...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 36–70.
Published: 01 November 2011
... Political Economy: Integrating   Reproductive, Productive and Virtual Economies. London: Routledge. Pinho, Osmundo 2011  “Tradition as Adventure”: Black Music, New Afro-Descendent Subjects   and Pluralization of Modernity in Salvador da Bahia. In Brazilian PopularMusic...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 62–86.
Published: 01 November 2014
... 2011 New Organs Within Us: Transplants and the Moral Economy. Durham:   Duke University Press. Schade-Poulsen, Marc 1999 Men and Popular Music in Algeria: The Social Significance of Rai. Austin:   University of Texas Press. Scheele, Judith 2012 Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 110–112.
Published: 01 July 2012
... sources are similarly crucial: labor union and politi- cal party records, in addition to French and Lebanese archival documents, memoirs and personal letters, the press, oral histories, and aspects of popular culture. However, Abisaab could have discussed more explicitly the shifting...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11412182.
Published: 19 September 2024
...Katelyn Zeser [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2024 THIRD SPACE With Love, from Your Sister Khtek s Hip-Hop Queendom and Women s Revolutionary Music in Morocco and Beyond KATELYN ZESER I n 2019 a friend in Rabat showed me...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 181–202.
Published: 01 July 2016
... depilation,” and “Japanese manicure.” A white ornamental folding screen separates the front of the room, reserved for makeup and hairstyling, from the back, where manicures and pedicures are provided in a special chair. The TV above the entrance is usually set to the popular music channel KralPop and plays...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 128–131.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of the Egyptian recording industry to the present day. Lagrange argued that the figure of the seductress in Egyptian pop music—previously associated with ʿawālim singers in the early twentieth century—reappeared on the scene in the 1990s, thanks in part to satellite technology, and has only grown in popularity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 135–156.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Mejdulene B. Shomali Abstract This article analyzes two popular Golden Era belly-dance films, Sigara wa Kass ( A Cigarette and a Glass , 1955) and Habibi al Asmar ( My Dark Darling , 1958), through concepts of queer spectatorship, queer time and space, homoerotic triangulation, and queer...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 36–53.
Published: 01 November 2009
... provided drinks, photography, live music, and rented chairs. Some 2,500 guests, including both men and women (seated separately), attended the wedding meal, which cost approximately USD 10,000 (for food including some 700 kilos of meat, and cooks and clean-up). Th e collective proces- sion (zaff...