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Gender and Nation Building in Qatar: Qatari Women Negotiate Modernity
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 344–366.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Alainna Liloia Abstract This article explores the relationship between gender and modern nation building in Qatar, with attention to how Qatari women negotiate the challenges of modern development and social change. The article analyzes Qatar’s strategic use of gendered nation-building initiatives...
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Violence Against Women in Qatari Society
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 80–93.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Kaltham Ali Al-Ghanim This study is the first of its kind using field and documentary research sources. While official sources on the subject have proven the limitations of such data, the study uses a field survey of a sample of 2,787 women students at Qatar University representing 4.4% of Qatari...
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Gulf Women ed. by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 158–161.
Published: 01 July 2014
... Qatar’s social
readiness for and acceptance of women’s role in the public sphere. Fatma
al-Sayegh’s chapter examines how cultivating relationships with women
was an important gateway for Christian evangelization of the Gulf.
Though these chapters expand understandings of women’s participation...
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Contributors
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 120–121.
Published: 01 March 2009
... participation, population and social policy, and
social problems including domestic violence, gender, and youth identity.
She is the author of three specialized academic texts. She took part in
preparing documents and publicity for city council elections in Qatar
in 1998–99...
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Arab Women in Arab News: Old Stereotypes and New Media by Amal Al-Malki, David Kaufer, Suguru Ishizaki, and Kira Dreher
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 145–148.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Maisa Taha Arab Women in Arab News: Old Stereotypes and New Media , Al-Malki Amal Kaufer David Ishizaki Suguru Dreher Kira . Doha : Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing , 2012 . 466 pages. ISBN 978-9-9921-7911-6 . Copyright © 2013 Association for Middle East Women’s...
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Regarding the Images of Others
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 216–220.
Published: 01 July 2015
... as the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Kuwait. The simulated environment also suggests the combination of exorbitant displays of wealth and political influence that has shaped the Gulf during its rapid modernization over the last four decades. During the summer of 2014 a section of the New Museum’s ground...
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Cover Art Concept
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 235–236.
Published: 01 July 2019
... be more essential to the human, or perhaps even to being a woman, than the heart? Al Khalifa is the culture and arts director of the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities and formerly served as the head of education at Qatar’s Museum of Islamic Art. She exhibited the She Wore Her Scars like...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 123–124.
Published: 01 July 2012
....”
Sara is also the managing editor of the International Journal of Middle
East Studies.
Rania Kassab Sweis holds the Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship at
Georgetown University. She is a medical anthropologist who specializes
in gender and transnational processes. Broadly, Sweis’s...
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Sunday Women Group
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 242–243.
Published: 01 July 2015
... December 14, 2014 [email protected] King Saud University, Riyadh, and Qatar University Associate Professor of Women’s History Hatoon Ajwad Al Fassi We no longer need to find ways and spaces to meet. Today we have nonstop opportunities on social media, including smart phone...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 155–157.
Published: 01 November 2012
... 8:3
vited speaker at Qatar University, the U.S. Library of Congress, and on
the Voice of America. He currently is a Strategic Cultural Consultant
with Truth Central, a division of McCann WorldGroup. He has also
consulted with the World Monuments Fund, IREX, and the Iraqi Board...
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Remembering Salma
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 149–151.
Published: 01 March 2024
... think I have met with her at a dozen symposia in Paris, Cairo, Amman, and, in recent years, in the different countries of the Arab Gulf, the Gotha of today’s Arab culture, which are increasingly frequented by Arabists and by many Arab writers. I last saw Salma in Qatar in 2017. We were both committee...
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Arab Family Studies: Critical Reviews
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 69–71.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., Sudan, Tunisia), the eastern Arab states (Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria), and the Arab Gulf (Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Oman, Qatar and Bahrain, Yemen). The thematic chapters focus on feminism, migration, law, education, fertility, war, and media. Many scholars take...
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Immodest Modesty: Accommodating Dissent and the ‘Abaya-as-Fashion in the Arab Gulf States
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 46–74.
Published: 01 March 2010
... as a potential client but also as
someone interested in promoting their product.
Qatar-based Al-Motahajiba fi rst opened as a small retail shop in 1984 and
currently has 35 shops across the Arab world, including Egypt and Morocco. Al-
Motahajiba has eleven shops in the UAE alone...
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Laughing Matters: Defamation and the Secular Subject in the Global European Union
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 117–128.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson warned that “a
boycott of Danish goods is by defi nition a boycott of European goods,”7
while other EU member states scrambled to underline that none of their
products had been manufactured in Denmark. Iran joined the boycott
on February 6. Qatar, Bahrain...
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Islam and Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Sunni and Shia Perspectives ed. by Marcia C. Inhorn and Soraya Tremayne
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 142–145.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., Suguru Ishizaki, and Kira Dreher.
Doha: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, 2012.
466 pages. ISBN 978-9-9921-7911-6.
Reviewed by Maisa Taha, University of Arizona
Since Edward Said’s Orientalism (Vintage Books, 1978), critiques of
Western...
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Are They Married?: Muslim Marriages and the Interrelationship between Transnationalism and Ethnonationalism in the Gulf
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates and 66 percent in Kuwait. Where they are not majorities (e.g., in Oman and Saudi Arabia), they comprise significant proportions of the total population. The difference between foreign residents and migrants is not necessarily based on the length of their residence...
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Wonder Woman : Goddess of Fictional and Actual Wars
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 246–251.
Published: 01 July 2018
... argued. Indeed, the film was banned by Lebanon (Holpuch 2017 ) and Tunisia for violating laws that prohibit dealing with Israel or Israeli individuals, and by Qatar for featuring an Israeli soldier (Williams 2017 ). A petition to boycott the film in Algeria got it pulled from a local festival (Keslassy...
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Identity, Displacement, and Coming of Age with Banat Collective
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 409–415.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., lived in Qatar. Fatema Nooh, Banat’s graphic designer, lived in Berlin, where the time difference was not as great as that between the United Kingdom and the Gulf. In December 2017 Fatema and I met in Brighton. Over burgers and chips we spoke about our childhoods, parents, and the countries we had...
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Toward New Feminist Aesthetics: Notes about the Photography of Sarah Bahbah and Tamara Abdul Hadi
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 131–139.
Published: 01 March 2023
... . “ This Exhibit of Female Middle Eastern Artists’ Work Aims to Challenge Stereotypes .” Washington Post , September 28 . https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2017/09/28/this-exhibit-of-female-middle-eastern-artists-work-aims-to-challenge-stereotypes/ . Noor Nausheen . 2021 . “ Qatar’s Sheikha...
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Roads Less Traveled in Middle East Anthropology—And New Paths in Gender Ethnography
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 62–86.
Published: 01 November 2014
...,
which will have the capacity for 160 million travelers each year and
will be surrounded by its own residential community. Qatar intends to
host the World Cup in 2022. Dubai has finished a luxurious new metro.
These are interesting economic developments, which Middle East an-
thropologists should...
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