...Vivian Solana This book is a great resource for graduate and undergraduate courses on refugees, gender, migration, and transnationalism, with valuable insights for scholars investigating contemporary modes of international intervention and gendered imperialist practices in the Middle East more...

...Gabrielle Printz America’s Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins . Marcia C. Inhorn Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2018 . 256 pages. isbn 9780804786393 . Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2021 Inside...

.... Theoretically informing her “urban ethnography by appointment” is Farha Ghannam’s concept of “masculine trajectories” (cited on 15), which allows Suerbaum to explore how Syrian refugee men creatively respond to the challenges to their notion of masculinity as they move from one state of oppression to another...

...Aitemad Muhanna-Matar Abstract This article analyzes the relationship between men’s physical disability and the trajectories of negotiating masculinities in the context of Syrian refugee displacement in Jordan and Turkey. The article draws its analysis from the personal narratives of five displaced...

...Rosemary Sayigh This paper examines representations of “self” embodied in the life histories of women members of a Palestinian refugee camp community in Lebanon. Stereotypes of “self” are inherently ambivalent (Guttman 1988) as sites of both subjection and resistance. This ambivalence is strongly...

... February 28, 2017 ). UN Refugee Agency . n.d. “ Figures at a Glance .” www.unhcr.org/en-us/figures-at-a-glance.html (accessed February 28, 2017 ). 3. Federal courts blocked the January EO, and the president issued a revised version on March 6, 2017. The later EO, which was supposed to go...

... not include an author name. With the exception of an account by a woman targeting a male audience, the remainder presumed a female reader. Articles that discussed refugees focused primarily on controlling fertility rates and maternal birth complications. None of the accounts discussed unwanted pregnancies...

... and outreach among refugees and other forced migrants in urban settings in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. As the Director of the Forced Migration and Refugee Stud- ies program at the American University in Cairo, and later Programme Coordinator for the graduate program...

...Ayşe Toprak Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 I believe in the power of documentaries to engage hearts and minds beyond the screen and to challenge public attitudes. When the war in Syria started in 2011, I kept seeing Syrian refugees sleeping...

... to speculate on what can arise from such moments, she engages in political intervention. In just the past four years, for example, I have had the opportunity to contribute to events she has organized on the work of Assia Djebar and on the latest refugee crisis. She has been instrumental in gathering people...

... in Tunisia, where women’s rights and the relation between state, religion, and the judiciary were core political issues. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh’s Ideal Refugees explores a different type of female political agency. The prominence of women as “ideal refugees” in the Polisario camps has been crucial...

.... Introduction n a small chilly room in a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern IWest Bank in late January 2011, fifteen wives and mothers of Palestin- ian political prisoners gather to tell us and each other about their experi- ences and problems. Amid tales of family survival...

... is to challenge stereo- types and homogenized representations of war victims, refugees, and, in the case of Tahija, Muslims as seen by host populations such as in the US. The spoken testimonies of the two women are accompanied by archival footage, maps and background information, shots...

... and refugee youth. Mary Ghanem received the degree of Master in Public Health from the American University of Beirut in 2002. She has worked for several years as a Research Assistant and Health Behavior and Education Consultant at AUB on several health-related projects, most of which involved the use...

...), and “Tales of Strength and Danger: Sahar and the Tactics of Everyday Life in Amari Refugee Camp, Palestine” ( Signs , Spring 2007). She also contributed a chapter to Living Palestine , ed. Lisa Taraki (2006), a collaborative research initiative of the Institute of Women’s Studies. Lamis Abu Nahleh...

... recent publications include “Violence All Around Us: Dilemmas of Global and Local Agendas Addressing Violence Against Palestinian Women: An Initial Intervention” ( Cultural Dynamics , July 2008), and “Tales of Strength and Danger: Sahar and the Tactics of Everyday Life in Amari Refugee Camp, Palestine...

... and refugee women to express themselves through creative writing in Arabic, their mother language. We helped them narrate the stories of their lives, including the difficulties, contradictions, and challenges they faced in the United States. Later came the idea of publishing these stories, which necessitated...

... rights but would also support the perception of intersectionality for all migrant and refugee women and children communities in Western societies. From this perspective, this book would be beneficial to all political and social actors who are active in official and civic domains at the intersection...

... the representation of the traumatic and still largely unresolved histories they discuss. Th e Eye of the Mirror recounts the long siege of a Palestinian refugee camp during the early years of the Lebanese Civil War, through the eyes of a refugee girl, and Cracking India follows the experiences of a middle...