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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 367–372.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Salime , eds. Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2016 . 304 pages. isbn 9780822362210 . Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Two books have come out in the last three years that explore revolutions and resistance from gendered perspectives in North...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 162–165.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Evelyne Accad Resist, resist, resist For all of us resist For the rest of the world, resist Kawmi, Nawal Kawmi [Arabic] Likuluna kawmi Lil alam kuluhu, kawmi Diren [Turkish] Lawan [Malaysian, Indonesian] Makibaka [Filipino] Jaago [Urdu] Mobarese [Iranian] Résiste, résiste, résiste...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 296–298.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Sophia Goodfriend sophia.goodfriend@duke.edu Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival . Sophie Richter-Devroe . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2018 . xvi + 201 pages. isbn 9780252041860 . Copyright © 2022 by the Association...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 235–237.
Published: 01 July 2023
... groups as homogeneous in terms of political and social fragmentation; therefore it is hard to find a peculiar dimension in Kurdistan. The political and geographic framework of the Turkish nation-state was built with the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, and numerous Kurdish resistances...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 163–166.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Hina Azam Sexuality in Muslim Contexts: Restrictions and Resistance , Hélie Anissa Hoodfar Homa , eds. London and New York : Zed Books , 2012 . 346 pages. ISBN 978-1-78032-285-8 . Copyright © 2014 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2014...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 146–149.
Published: 01 July 2006
...Tara Marie Dankel Resistance, Repression and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan , Hasso Frances . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press , 2005 . xxxii+216 pp, including works cited and index. $24.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8156-3087-5 . Copyright © 2006 Association...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 268–274.
Published: 01 July 2016
..., a methodology to survive a chaotic present, and the means to create a resistance movement. Two years later I constructed a four-room art installation, Sacred Spaces , in the Falaki Gallery at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, that experimentally decoded ʿAshura commemorations and the journeys...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 132–135.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Lori A. Allen Living Palestine: Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility under Occupation , Taraki Lisa , ed. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press , 2006 . Pp. xxx, 296 . ISBN 0-8156-3134-0 . Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008 132 JOURNAL...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 120–122.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Serdar Kaya Velvet Jihad: Muslim Women’s Quiet Resistance to Islamic Fundamentalism , Shirazi Faegheh . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2009 . 288 pages. ISBN 978-0-8130-3354-9 . Copyright © 2011 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2011 120 mn JOURNAL...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 236–241.
Published: 01 July 2018
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 368–373.
Published: 01 November 2018
... in the stories we heard. In this text the chorus of goats provides contextual narrative information, the trees ally with the local population to resist colonizers, and pipes speak on behalf of state and company interests. Human figures express stereotypes of different positions within the struggle based...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 220–239.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Claudia Yaghoobi Abstract While text-based and cyberspace campaigns against compulsory veiling in Iran have received much attention, Iranian diasporic creative writers have also engaged in this resistance through their writings, but they have remained almost unacknowledged. This article argues...
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in Queer Visual Excavations: Akram Zaatari, Hashem El Madani, and the Reframing of History in Lebanon
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Published: 01 July 2017
Figure 2. “Palestinian resistant.” Studio Shehrazade, 1968–72
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 86–105.
Published: 01 March 2007
...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...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 26–49.
Published: 01 March 2023
... on the recent proliferation and concentration of the divergences and fault lines in the Muslim women’s movement. Drawing on the Foucauldian approach to the power-discourse-resistance nexus, it investigates different forms of gendered subjectivity in the reformist segments of the Muslim women’s movement...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 260–284.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of ordinary people during the Syrian revolution (2011). This essay demonstrates how al-Masri’s poetry grafts landscapes of pain and resistance in a poetics of the gut that bears witness to horror, trauma, and resistance. It focuses on the trope of blood writing, documentary poetry or poésie-vérité...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 108–135.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Amélie Le Renard This article deals with young urban Saudi women’s transgressions of rules regulating dress and public conduct in Riyadh. Many researchers on Middle Eastern societies interpret as resistance the silent practices adopted by subalterns such as women or youth. The existence...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 46–74.
Published: 01 March 2010
... contemporary manifestations that have emerged in the context of fashion over the past ten years. It is proposed that, although the ‘abaya-as-fashion presents a case of resistance and deviation from its original form, consent by the hegemonic order lies within the ultimate preservation of the ‘abaya’s essential...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 36–53.
Published: 01 November 2009
... in creating more space for themselves by resisting certain Islamist initiatives, polygyny in particular. Even as they demonstrate resistance and agency, however, the political context in which Islamist and nationalist group weddings occur is unfavorable to women, as both forms lead to more segregated gender...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 423–448.
Published: 01 November 2021
... this resistance they honor commitments to women’s rights. When they fear more domestic opposition they renege. This article argues that Arab regimes are less likely to resist domestic opposition to women’s rights when US military presence increases in the region. The authors test the argument using cross-national...
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