...Alexander Jabbari Abstract This article attempts to think race, sexuality, and temporality together in modern Iran. By analyzing modern Iranian literature, cinema, and media, it argues that the figure of the Indian evokes difference embodied in physiognomy, language, and sexuality in the Iranian...

..., gender, and race. The category of “woman” becomes an important venue to manage statelessness, create an important archive for Kurds, challenge ongoing colonialism in Kurdistan, and challenge US imperialism. Therefore “Kurdish woman” constitutes an important spatial and historical terrain for Kurdish...

...Amira Jarmakani Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects , Jamal Amaney Naber Nadine , eds. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press , 2008 . Pp. xiii, 378 . ISBN 978-0-8156-3177-4 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle...

...Chloe Safier American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah , Karim Jamillah . New York : New York University Press , 2009 . Pp. xi, 291 . ISBN 978-0-8147-4810-7 . Copyright © 2010 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2010...

..., and Shoshana Almoslino, as well as Zionist women’s letters, a biographical dictionary of Communist participation, and British Foreign Office documents. Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 Iraqi Jews race whiteness Zionism Communism James Baldwin: A Russian...

... nation. This project simultaneously empowers women and enables state violence against Palestinians on Haram ash-Sharif. Scholarship that has examined Israel’s messianic right-wing women’s activism has overlooked their Ashkenazi whiteness and their middle-class privileged status in Israel. The race-class...

.... Notably, the article examines the politics of writing trauma, gender, and race into the text and analyzes the picture of other Iranian women through the mirror of Satrapi’s graphic novel. It argues that in writing Persepolis , Satrapi has made an undeniable contribution to challenging the dominant...

... at the lower strata of British colonial society. Nurses’ tales thus offer a unique perspective for investigating colonial power relations and the intersections of medicine, gender, race, and class. Mandate Palestine British nurses imperial agents empire and gender On July 31, 1926, a scandalous...

... to demonstrate in the Iranian context how modernist constructions of race, gender, and sexuality have been shaped by Islamic fundamentalism as a by-product of “colonial moder- nity” as well as of global patriarchy. Th is is indeed a massive project with ambitions to produce a new theoretical framework...

... or citizenship and grants the state power to strip spouses of temporary status based on perceived national security concerns, effectively depriving Palestinian citizens of their right to have a family in Israel based solely on the race or ethnicity of their spouses (52). Barring Palestinians from a path...

... notes that Foucault remained silent on Kant’s racism, whereby “Kant established a hierarchy among the races with the ‘White race’ predictably at the top, having achieved ‘perfection’ and exhibiting greater ‘talent’ than the other races” (102). The implications of “the amnesic character of Foucault’s...

...).2008). TricaTrica DanielleDanielle Keaton,Keaton, Muslim Girls and the Other France: Race, Identity Politics, and Social Exclusion (Indiana University Press, 2006). Paul A. Silverstein, Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation (Indiana University Press, 2004). Transnationalism...

... important insights into how Iranian migrants in the United Kingdom differently conceptualize these notions at the intersection of class, gender, and race. The first study, by Mastoureh Fathi ( 2017 ), explores the intersectional experiences of Iranian migrant women living in the United Kingdom. The second...

... BOOK REVIEWS  85 literary anthologies “ally themselves with various canons and also how they draw on discourses of racial identity” (173), in “Grandmothers, Grape Leaves, and Kahlil Gibran: Writing Race in Anthologies of Arab American Literature.” Moving toward an analysis of mainstream U.S...

... experiences of sexual violence have been overlooked by different systems of oppression such as race, class, gender, and other intersectional identities, including religion (Guha, Stabile, and Gajjala 2019 ). The debate around the intersection of religion (here Islam), gender, and sexual violence has been...

...-Zionist feminist perspectives. In line with her infidelity to area studies, Shohat makes connections between feminist ideas in the United States and those developed in Israel. Given recent attempts in Middle Eastern studies to address race and ethnicity in the region, Shohat’s scholarship is extremely...

... to the inconsistent treatment of race, the volume is overwhelmingly Levantine: most of the chapters look at Syrian and Lebanese diasporic Arabs, while there are few mentions of Arabs from North African or Gulf countries. Our contemporary lens makes it only more clear how much more work on race among Arab Americans...

... in this special issue is Alexander Jabbari s Race against Time: Racial Temporality and Sexuality in Modern Iran. This piece uses the gure of the Indian in Iranian cultural memory as a lens through which to interrogate the entanglements of race, temporality, and sexuality in Iran. Shedding light...

... push the boundaries of Foucault’s biopolitical formulation. You propose that the “right to maim” challenges the “folds” and “cuts” of current biopolitical theorizations of race. Can you tell us a little more about your expansion of the biopolitical? There is nothing transcendent about the concept...

... publications draw on critical race theory and Black studies, with potentially transformative possibilities for thinking through the gendered and racialized politics of “being Muslim” in the context of Euro-American secular modernity (Gibson and Karim 2014 ; Hammer 2012 ; Muhammad 2020 ; Taylor 2017...