... enterprises. 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 broadly...

...Aminath Nisha Zadhy-Çepoğlu [email protected] Masculinities and Displacement in the Middle East: Syrian Refugees in Egypt . Magdalena Suerbaum . London : Tauris , 2020 224 pages. isbn 978183860404. Copyright © 2023 by the Association for Middle East Women’s...

...Gabrielle Printz The mechanisms of resettlement are illuminated in the second chapter, which gives a fuller picture of institutional aid to refugees through the US Refugee Resettlement Aid Program (USRAP) as well as the depths of poverty in which Arab refugees have found themselves amid...

...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...

..., mothering becomes yet more laden with expectations as mothers are faced with critical situations. The article draws on research from an intersectional perspective that is aimed at a better understanding of the trajectories of refugees from Syria who have settled in Canada and Lebanon and for whom motherhood...

... formidable City Theater, is Manus , a play about refugees awaiting processing to Australia. Manus is the eponymous name for the island province in Papua New Guinea where the Australian government leased land in 2001 to build a detention center, as part of its “Pacific Solution,” to contain asylum seekers...

... 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...

... a Ph.D. in anthropology from Boston University and has conducted research 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...

...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...

... Press , 2014 . 300 pages. isbn 9780815633501 Gender and Divorce Law in North Africa: Sharia, Custom, and the Personal Status Code in Tunisia . Voorhoeve Maaike . London : Tauris , 2014 . 338 pages. isbn 9781780765297 The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi...

.... 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...

... Americans were, and continue to be, the area’s largest communities of color. To meet the needs of this community and newer communities of Yemenis, Iraqis, and Syrians, most of whom are low income and include many refugees, the AAAN has more recently expanded its work to a suburban satellite office...

... 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...