... include regulations, medical advice literature, and encounters between syphilitic men and medical authorities captured in archival sources. Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 syphilis self-care soldiers migrant laborers public health Upon graduating...

... in France that impact Muslim women, i.e., the Personal Status Code (moudawana) reform in Morocco, the ban on wearing “overt” religious insignia in public schools in France, and personal and professional goals and challenges. The data analysis shows that the greatest similarities occur among samples...

...Alexandra Jerome Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space , Bowen John R. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2007 . Pp. x, 290 . ISBN 978-0-691-12506-0 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009 100  JOURNAL...

...Naazneen Diwan Copyright © 2010 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2010 NAAZNEEN DIWAN  115 BRIEF COMMUNICATION  Carving Out a Public Space for Multiple Interpretations...

... contexts of a growing Muslim German public sphere, Muslim German cultural production, and the public sphere at large. Kandemir’s transformation unfolds in Germany in the middle of an often young and visible larger movement of Muslim piety. Her narrative and experience transcend her individual life and...

.... VALENTINE M. MOGHADAM & FATIMA SADIQI  1 WOMEN’S ACTIVISM AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE: An Introduction and Overview Valentine M. Moghadam and Fatima Sadiqi  he articles in this special issue were among those presented at...

...Loubna H. Skalli This paper discusses the public sphere in the Middle East and North Africa from the perspective of women’s uses of information and communication technologies. I argue that the sociopolitical transformations unfolding in many countries in the Middle East and North Africa are not...

...Fatima Sadiqi; Moha Ennaji The Moroccan feminist movement has greatly feminized and democratized the public sphere in this country. An example of such a feminization is the recent 2004 Family Law reforms, which constitute the culmination of a long trajectory during which decisionmakers, political...

... University, Fullerton. She specializes in the modern Middle East. Her publications include journal articles and chapters in edited collections. She is currently working on a book-length manuscript on education and gender in modern Iran. Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008...

...Amina Jamal Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject , Mahmood Saba . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2004 . Pp. xvi, 233 . ISBN 9780691086958 . An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi‘i Lebanon , Deeb Lara . Princeton...

...Frances S. Hasso Khul‘ Divorce in Egypt: Public Debates, Judicial Practices, and Everyday Life , Sonneveld Nadia . Cairo; New York : The American University in Cairo Press , 2012 . 229 pages. ISBN: 978-977-416-484-12 . Copyright © 2013 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies...

...Carol Malt As more women enter the museum profession in the MENA countries, they are using their influence as instruments of change to put forward issues of women’s equality in museum programs, displays, and publications and thus ultimately help shape the future image and status of women...

... and men who have sex with men, especially if they are penetrated, or those who express feminine embodiments, do not have such privileges. Instead, the society debases, criminalizes, and punishes them in contemporary Egypt. The police in the General Directorate for Protecting Public Morality...

...Stacey Philbrick Yadav The gradual but marked Islamization of the public in Yemen since unification in 1990 is often treated as a dynamic that marginalizes women and limits their opportunities for political activism. By retheorizing the spatial features of public activism, however, this article...

... this ambivalence in relation to the texts’ interpellation of a homosocial public of female Muslim readers in order to raise questions about certain theoretical conceptions of the modern “public” and “private” spheres. Sara Pursley is a doctoral student in Middle East history at the Graduate...

... Copyright © 2014 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2014 mn  41 ARTS PUBLICATIONS AND CULTURAL PROJECTS BY SONDRA HALE mn ondra Hale studied Aesthetic Anthropology (mainly...

... Science and School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. In parts of the Islamic world, fundamental in discussions of women’s rights are personal status codes or family law (concerning marital duties and re- sponsibilities, divorce and repudiation...

...Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli Though greatly routinized over the past two decades, assisted reproductive technologies still invoke an occasional public debate around a dilemma that is constituted as unprecedented. This paper examines one such case that took place in Israel—that of a legal dispute...

...Faedah M. Totah The public visibility and political activity of women remain contentious social issues in the Middle East. Where women are encouraged by the state to be politically active, their ensuing visibility is perceived as threatening to the local male-dominated social order, which in turn...