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Abortion as a Contested Right in Occupied Palestine

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Ayesha AlRifai
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 384–389.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7025609
Published: 01 November 2018
..., Palestinians should oppose abortion as part of steadfast support for the national cause. Criminalization of abortion in Palestine and other violations of women’s health rights are forms of gender-based violence legitimized by society and the Palestinian Authority and reinforced by Israeli colonial aggression...
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Daughters of the Right Path: Family Law, Homosocial Publics, and the Ethics of Intimacy in the Works of Shi‘i Revivalist Bint Al-Huda

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Sara Pursley
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 51–77.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.8.2.51
Published: 01 July 2012
...Sara Pursley This article discusses the writings of Amina bint Haydar al-Sadr, a prolific Shi‘i intellectual and novelist in Najaf during the 1960s and 1970s more commonly known by her pen name Bint al-Huda (“Daughter of the Right Path”). It examines the author’s ambivalence about marriage...
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Righteous Transgressions: Women’s Activism on the Israeli and Palestinian Religious Right

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Stephanie Chaban
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 138–140.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3728734
Published: 01 March 2017
...Stephanie Chaban Righteous Transgressions: Women’s Activism on the Israeli and Palestinian Religious Right . Ben Shitrit Lihi . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2015 . 304 pages. isbn 9780691164571. Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s...
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The “Right” to Drive for Women in Saudi Villages

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Hana Al-Khamri
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 256–259.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7491213
Published: 01 July 2019
... to as the “religious police”). Women’s-rights activists used Article (32) of the Traffic Law, which stipulates that “no person shall be permitted to drive any vehicle before obtaining the necessary driving license,” to defend their right to sit behind the wheel and to prove that they are not lawbreakers but law...
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The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability

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Stephen Sheehi
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 72–76.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8016547
Published: 01 March 2020
...Stephen Sheehi The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability . Jasbir K. Puar Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 . 267 pages. isbn 978082269189 . Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 Jasbir K. Puar’s acclaimed book The Right...
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Figure 10. “Najm [left] and Asmar [right].” Studio Shehrazade, 1950s

“Najm [left] and Asmar [right].” Studio Shehrazade, 1950s

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in Queer Visual Excavations: Akram Zaatari, Hashem El Madani, and the Reframing of History in Lebanon > Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 July 2017
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Figures 10–11. Samra (right) and Zakiyya (left). Movie stills.

Samra ( right ) and Zakiyya ( left ). Movie stills.

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in The Creation of the Femme Fatale in Egyptian Cinema > Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 November 2019
Figures 10–11. Samra ( right ) and Zakiyya ( left ). Movie stills. More
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Figures 10–11. Samra (right) and Zakiyya (left). Movie stills.

Samra ( right ) and Zakiyya ( left ). Movie stills.

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in The Creation of the Femme Fatale in Egyptian Cinema > Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 November 2019
Figures 10–11. Samra ( right ) and Zakiyya ( left ). Movie stills. More
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Figure 12. Malijak (center), Amin Aqdas (to his right), and his servants. Courtesy of Gulistan Palace Visual Document Center, Tehran, ID 210-29.

Malijak (center), Amin Aqdas (to his right), and his servants. Courtesy of ...

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in Reimagining Royal Domesticity: Intimacy, Power, and Familial Relations in the Late Qajar Harem > Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 July 2020
Figure 12. Malijak (center), Amin Aqdas (to his right), and his servants. Courtesy of Gulistan Palace Visual Document Center, Tehran, ID 210-29. More
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Figure 6. Lilian Weisberger. Right: Untitled, 2012. Colored pens, panda, acrylic, and glitter glue on paper, 120 × 85 × 1 cm. Left: Untitled, 2011. Acrylic and panda on plywood, 140 × 100 × 1 cm.

Lilian Weisberger. Right: Untitled, 2012. Colored pens, panda, acrylic, and...

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in An Inner Voice Liberated: Feminist Reading of Lilian Weisberger’s Artwork > Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 6. Lilian Weisberger. Right: Untitled, 2012. Colored pens, panda, acrylic, and glitter glue on paper, 120 × 85 × 1 cm. Left: Untitled, 2011. Acrylic and panda on plywood, 140 × 100 × 1 cm. More
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Figure 7. Lilian Weisberger. Right: Girl Giving the Finger, 2015. Oil pastels, acrylic, and three-dimensional paint on medium-density fiberboard, 80 × 40 × 2 cm. Left, top: Super-Girl, 2015. Plywood, acrylic, oil pastels, three-dimensional paint, paper, glue, and rubber gloves, 98 × 98 × 1 cm. Left, bottom: What a Wonderful World, 2015. Cardboard, oil pastels, panda crayons, acrylic, and three-dimensional paint, 135 × 77 × 1 cm.

Lilian Weisberger. Right: Girl Giving the Finger , 2015. Oil pastels, acry...

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in An Inner Voice Liberated: Feminist Reading of Lilian Weisberger’s Artwork > Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 7. Lilian Weisberger. Right: Girl Giving the Finger , 2015. Oil pastels, acrylic, and three-dimensional paint on medium-density fiberboard, 80 × 40 × 2 cm. Left, top: Super-Girl , 2015. Plywood, acrylic, oil pastels, three-dimensional paint, paper, glue, and rubber gloves, 98 × 98 × 1 More
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Figure 8. Lilian Weisberger. Diptych—Right: Trapped inside a Mirror, 2015. Acrylic, sponge, oil pastels, and broken mirrors, 70 × 173 × 1 cm. Left: Super-Girl, 2015. Wooden door, glass, pencil, acrylic, paint, 60 × 206 × 3 cm.

Lilian Weisberger. Diptych—Right: Trapped inside a Mirror , 2015. Acrylic,...

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in An Inner Voice Liberated: Feminist Reading of Lilian Weisberger’s Artwork > Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 8. Lilian Weisberger. Diptych—Right: Trapped inside a Mirror , 2015. Acrylic, sponge, oil pastels, and broken mirrors, 70 × 173 × 1 cm. Left: Super-Girl , 2015. Wooden door, glass, pencil, acrylic, paint, 60 × 206 × 3 cm. More
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Figure 1. Roze Muhammed (right) during her performance, with a participant of the festival. © Alessio Mamo.

Roze Muhammed (right) during her performance, with a participant of the fes...

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in Tarkib’s Contemporary Arts Festival in Baghdad: Women Artists Play and Perform Memories and New (Hi)stories of Iraq > Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 1. Roze Muhammed (right) during her performance, with a participant of the festival. © Alessio Mamo. More
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Figure 2. One of Tarkib’s artists, Hussain Muttar (right), during his storytelling at the festival. © Alessio Mamo.

One of Tarkib’s artists, Hussain Muttar (right), during his storytelling at...

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in Tarkib’s Contemporary Arts Festival in Baghdad: Women Artists Play and Perform Memories and New (Hi)stories of Iraq > Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 2. One of Tarkib’s artists, Hussain Muttar (right), during his storytelling at the festival. © Alessio Mamo. More
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Morocco and Its Women’s Rights Struggle: A Failure to Live up to Its Progressive Image

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Katja Žvan Elliott
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 1–30.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.10.2.1
Published: 01 July 2014
...Katja Žvan Elliott This article examines the rarely talked about subtleties of Moroccan reform in the realm of women’s rights and its inadequate fulfillment of obligations to international human rights standards. The Preamble to Morocco’s post-Arab Spring 2011 constitution follows the example...
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In the Shadow of the State: Changing Definitions of Arab Women’s “Developmental” Citizenship Rights

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Mervat F. Hatem
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 20–45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-2005-4002
Published: 01 November 2005
...Mervat F. Hatem 20  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES IN THE SHADOW OF THE STATE: Changing Defi nitions of Arab Women’s “Developmental” Citizenship Rights Mervat F. Hatem  he...
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Amnesty International and the Idea of Muslim Women’s Human Rights

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Nancy Gallagher
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 96–107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-2005-4005
Published: 01 November 2005
... is currently working on a history of women’s human rights movements in Muslim societies. Copyright © 2005 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2005 96  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS...
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Women’s Rights and Islamic Family Law: Perspectives on Reform ed by Lynn Welchman

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Louise Halper
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 102–104.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2006.2.3.102
Published: 01 November 2006
...Louise Halper Women’s Rights and Islamic Family Law: Perspectives on Reform , Welchman Lynn , ed. London &amp; New York : Zed Books Ltd , 2004 . 300 pp. $26.95 Copyright © 2006 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2006 102  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES...
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The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco by Susan Slyomovics

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Hilary M. Fineman
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 122–125.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2007.3.2.122
Published: 01 July 2007
... in literature, political science, anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, and gender studies. Th e Performance of Human Rights in Morocco Susan Slyomovics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Pp. 271. ISBN 0812238583...
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Her Day in Court: Women’s Property Rights in Fifteenth-Century Granada by Maya Shatzmiller

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Núria Silleras-Fernández
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 116–119.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2009.5.1.116
Published: 01 March 2009
...Núria Silleras-Fernández Her Day in Court: Women’s Property Rights in Fifteenth-Century Granada , Shatzmiller Maya . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2007 . Pp. viii, 277 . ISBN 978-0-674-02501-1 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009 116...
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