.... A Port Said–based society called the Ligue Internationale pour la Répression de la Traite des Blanches et la Protection des Jeunes Filles et Femmes (International League for the Repression of the Traffic of White Women and the Protection of Young Girls and Women) decided—in concert with consular...

... attending to work,” said another. “One of the offices lost my documents, thereby causing a delay in the startup,” claimed another. A vision toward personal and professional development, a desire to balance work and life, a search for stability, prior professional expe- rience...

... chosen to focus on what Edward Said called the Question of Palestine—a well funded agenda that enables them to avoid addressing the community-based concerns of the disenfranchised Mizrahim. Mizrahi communities, however, silence their own feminists as these activists attempt to challenge the regime...

... percent of subjects were between 20 and 30 years old. Forty-fi ve percent of responders said they lived with their parents, 21% lived with their husband’s parents, and 34% lived in their own house or apartment. Fift y-fi ve percent attended university, 31% stayed at home, and 14% worked...

... Forms of Violence Th e 596 students who said they were subjected to violence were asked to indicate the forms of violence they had experienced by choosing items from a list. Beating was the most widespread form of violence, with 381 students having been beaten (64% of those...

..., the earliest dating from 1985 (“Th e Cinema aft er Babel while the most recent, “Th e ‘Postcolonial’ in Translation: Reading Ed- ward Said between English and Hebrew,” was published in 2004. Only one of the essays is new, “Post-Fanon and the Colonial: A Situational Diagnosis.” Yet...

...Rasmieyh R. Abdelnabi I told him I could not because it was affecting my mental health, since I was home all the time. He disregarded what I said, yelled at me, and hung up. My uncle later told me that he knows these boys and men are disruptive and should be contained, but he also is embarrassed...

... and Yeziji Nejd . Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics 10 : 137 – 57 . Said Edward . 2003 . “ Dignity, Solidarity, and the Penal Colony .” Counterpunch , September 25 . www.counterpunch.org/2003/09/25/dignity-solidarity-and-the-penal-colony . Selim Samah . 2011 . “ Toward...

... similar experiences of purging and forced conversions. Th e concluding essay, “Th e ‘Postcolonial’ in Translation: Reading Edward Said between English and Hebrew,” written in honor of the late Said and fi rst published in 2004, analyzes key moments in the transla- tion, reception...

... by İKD veterans, which in turn was recorded for a documentary fi lm on Turkish women’s activism, past and present. In the end, said Talu, “the eff orts of those women to preserve their documents and respect their own his- tory provoked the creation of new sources and enriched the archives...

...] was getting serious. When Abdullah saw him he said, ‘Are you going to allow this, you the Mullah? Are you going to let a Jew do this to my son?’” (Saeed 2011 , 101). The narrator, however, reveals that the fight was instigated by the injured boy, whose embarrassed father immediately backs down. Although...

...?” I said, “Please describe yourself to me first.” “I am a Christian feminist.” “Do you believe in the Bible?” “I have a different interpretation of the Bible,” she said. “Eve was not a sinner and Christ was a black lesbian woman.” “So why do you call yourself Christian?” “It’s...

... is not only that one has not or cannot achieve infinite love. It is also that one does not always want that love. In this condition Mahwy’s poetry is not compensation but a teacher and a companion for living in a world— this world, Newzad said—where desire is finite. Newzad articulated the sense...

..., and yet there was a threatening life or death situation. We argued about the possibility of cancer. We fought about quality of life versus quantity of years. “I don’t really care,” I said bluntly. “So you’re suicidal now? You want to just . . . die?” References Ahmed Sara . 2017...

... husband came home and told me, “I will give you everything you wish.” I said, “Why?” He said, “As of today you must only wear a head-cover.” I cannot say that it was an easy step. It wasn’t at all easy. [Adopting] the head- cover wasn’t easy because everyone knew me...

... of the focus groups reported in detail about being pursued while driving for an hour and fifteen minutes by a white woman in sunglasses talking on her phone. The pursuer followed her every lane change and off and on every highway exit. She said, “I finally escaped. I was so scared I panicked. I thought she...

... Studies 2019 This book is an ethnographic study of the economic activities of women workers at an export-oriented garment manufacturing firm located within Port Said’s Export Processing Zone. With its workforce of about 450 employees, almost half of them female, this firm is a good case to discuss...

... for an abusive boss. Ten-year-old Ebrahim narrated his story: “Until five years ago, I lived with my mother, father, younger brother and sister in the village of Gasht. Abbas-Ali, whose blind brother Rajab-Ali worked in my village, came to my father and said, ‘Send Ebrahim to Tehran with me, he can work and help...

...- ers’ generations in terms of the relationship between parents and children, Um Mazen, a WAH activist, said, “I think that at that time parents only cared for the children’s bodies, like making sure they were fed, clothed, ZEINA ZAATARI  41...

... to wake the world with a blue light in her eyes—temples sweaty, hair tangled, hands almost too large and webbed and undefined, unable to open or grasp at a full life. “She struggles,” said Mariam about the girl in the painting. Maybe this is how a woman is born? Not from the half shell of myth...