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Tracing Our Research Trajectories: The Study of Gender in Muslim Societies

Azza Basarudin
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 81–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2008.4.2.81
Published: 01 July 2008
...Azza Basarudin Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008 AZZA BASARUDIN  81 BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS  Tracing Our Research Trajectories: Th e Study...
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“An Article That I Am Not in the Mood to Write Anymore”: Motivations to Research about Popular Feminism

Demet Gülçiçek
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 261–265.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-11176482
Published: 01 July 2024
...!) but rather to discuss how our relations with the world around us are linked to our readiness to build research in a specific way. I suggest that sometimes a researcher’s reluctance can produce new ways to ask questions. I am inspired by feminist work encouraging us to unpack how we produce knowledge (Davis...
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Productive Disengagement: Ethical Reflections on the Representations of LGBTQ Iranian Lives

GG Fard
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 72–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10256169
Published: 01 March 2023
... on Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans. Such measures are then used to survey scholarship produced about LGBTQ Iranians. Results show that scholarly interest in “LGBTQ Iran” has increased from 2001 on. The article demonstrates the complexity of balancing ethical measures in research and argues...
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Women Weavers and Their Agency: Reconsidering Rug Weaving in Contemporary Iran

Golnesa Rezanezhad Pishkhani
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 153–172.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-11176365
Published: 01 July 2024
...Golnesa Rezanezhad Pishkhani Abstract This article explores women’s agency in the production of handwoven rugs in both rural and urban areas of contemporary northern Iran. It examines research data through an intersectional lens to understand how various factors render subjects able or unable...
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Toward a Feminist Analysis of “Impact”: Sondra Hale’s Scholarship and Activism in and beyond the University

Anita Fábos, Emily Haddad
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 53–81.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.10.1.53
Published: 01 March 2014
...Anita Fábos; Emily Haddad Feminist activist and scholar Sondra Hale has made significant contributions to Sudan studies and politics through her research and her participation in Sudanese women’s rights advocacy and other progressive political movements. An analysis of Hale’s professional record...
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From Islamists to Religious Patriots: Intersectional Identities of Religious Kurdish Women

Nadje Al-Ali, Mashuq Kurt
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 357–378.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10815511
Published: 01 November 2023
... activists and Kurdish activists in Turkey and the wider region have been subject to in-depth research over the past decade, Kurdish Islamist women have largely been overlooked in the literature. The article focuses on the complex relationship between ethnicity and religion in understanding Kurdish Islamist...
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“War Is like a Blanket”: Feminist Convergences in Kurdish and Turkish Women’s Rights Activism for Peace

Nadje Al-Ali, Latif Tas
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 354–375.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-4179001
Published: 01 November 2017
...Nadje Al-Ali; Latif Tas Abstract Despite the recent outbreak of violence and conflict, peace continues to be high on the agenda of the Kurdish political movement and many progressive Turkish intellectuals and activists. Based on qualitative research we conducted in Diyarbakır, Istanbul, London...
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“In My Eyes He Was a Man”: Poor and Working-Class Boy Soldiers in the Iran-Iraq War

Shaherzad R. Ahmadi
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 174–192.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-6680218
Published: 01 July 2018
.... Researchers have assumed that religious zealotry was the primary inspiration for boys to enlist in the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, ignoring the ways in which class inflected boyhood. While religious fervor may have been a motivation for some of the poor and working-class Iranian...
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Solely Carers and Nurturers?: Challenging Dominant Discourses of Mothering in the Midst of Violent Conflict and Exile

Roxane Caron, Marie Fally, Marie-Jeanne Blain
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11575431.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-11575431
Published: 10 January 2025
..., 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...
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Transsexuality under Surveillance in Iran: Clerical Control of Khomeini’s Fatwas

Farrah Jafari
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 31–51.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.10.2.31
Published: 01 July 2014
...Farrah Jafari Recent scholarly research on the Iranian transsexual raises significant issues about the position of Islam toward members of the transsexual community and about the challenges facing sexual lifestyles that are aberrant to heteronormative behavior in Iran. In 1967, the exiled Ayatollah...
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Bargaining with the Devil: States and Intimate Life

Frances S. Hasso
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 107–134.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.10.2.107
Published: 01 July 2014
... to important restrictions and foreclosures. The article conceptually and theoretically expands on my research on family law projects in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates in Consuming Desires: Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2011). Its title is inspired by Deniz...
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Religious Authority, Gendered Recognition, and Instrumentalization of Nusrat Amin in Life and After Death

Maryam Rutner
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 24–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-2832331
Published: 01 March 2015
... opportunities for women. Primary sources include major Persian-language biographies that have appeared in Iran over the last thirty years and research from two fieldwork trips. Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015 female religious authority mujtahida Islam...
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The Wavering Luck of Girls: Gender and Pre-Vocational Education in Israel

Yossi Yonah, Ishak Saporta
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 71–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2006.2.3.71
Published: 01 November 2006
...Yossi Yonah; Ishak Saporta This research study is a development of our previous study about the pre-vocational training program introduced to the Israeli education system in the 1950s. However, while in the previous study we examined the role this program played in making Israel’s ethnoworking...
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Imaging the “New Man”: Gender and Nation in Arab Literary Narratives in the Early Twentieth Century

Hoda Elsadda
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 31–55.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2007.3.2.31
Published: 01 July 2007
...Hoda Elsadda The emergence of the New Woman in Egypt as a central trope in the nationalist narrative of nation-building and modernity has been the subject of scholarly interest for more than a decade, yet there has been little research on her logical counterpart: the New Man. Although...
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Violence Against Women in Qatari Society

Kaltham Ali Al-Ghanim
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 80–93.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2009.5.1.80
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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But What If Someone Sees Me?: Women, Risk, and the Aftershocks of Iran’s Sexual Revolution

Pardis Mahdavi
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 1–22.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2009.5.2.1
Published: 01 July 2009
... are married or engaged. Qualitative research conducted from 2000 to 2007 reveals that while increasing numbers of young Iranian women engage in unprotected premarital sex, most have little information or concern about contracting HIV/STIs. Rather, many women are more afraid of the social risks of sexual...
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A Modern Master of Islamic Calligraphy and Her Peers

David Simonowitz
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 75–102.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2010.6.1.75
Published: 01 March 2010
... that there is room for women to advance in this traditional Islamic discipline and that further research is merited. David Simonowitz is Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. He has taught Arabic language, “Islam in America,” “Art of Empires...
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Role-Playing in the Classroom: Gender Differences in Reactions of Bahraini Students

Nina Abdul Razzak
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 89–102.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.7.2.89
Published: 01 July 2011
... of ideas and concepts, creative problem solving, and application. The researcher introduced role-playing to encourage more active learning among the students and to assess gender differences in their reactions to a method that requires a great deal of open-mindedness and risk-taking. Results indicated...
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The Egyptian Blogosphere: Policing Gender and Sexuality and the Consequences for Queer Emancipation

Grant Walsh-Haines
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 41–62.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.8.3.41
Published: 01 November 2012
...Grant Walsh-Haines This work attempts to answer the following question: What do Egyptian blogs tell us about how queer liberation can be achieved in Egypt? Through qualitative research and content and discourse analysis, I explore queer blogs and attempt to untangle their meaning. I begin...
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“Coming Out of the internet”: Lesbian and Gay Activism and the Internet as a “Digital Closet” in Turkey

Serkan Gorkemli
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 63–88.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.8.3.63
Published: 01 November 2012
... of research regarding sexuality and the Arab Spring in the Middle East. Serkan Gorkemli is an assistant professor of English at the University of Connecticut. Before joining UConn, he taught at Purdue University, where he received a Ph.D. in English, and at Stanford University’s Program in Writing...
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