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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 250–251.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of a thematic focus for this section of the journal. The effects of economic sanctions in the countries of the SWANA region (Southwest Asia and North Africa) came to mind as a theme that could allow for a broad interdisciplinary discussion and a necessary one. While scholarship on this issue emerged in the late...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 101–104.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Nicola Pratt Women in Iraq: The Gender Impact of International Sanctions , Al-Jawaheri Yasmin Husein . London : I. B. Tauris , 2008 . Pp. xiv, 228 . ISBN: 978-1-84511-648-4 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 252–260.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of the poor. Since the 1980s imperialist countries (the United States and Europe) have shifted from military intervention to relying on economic sanctions, thus enforcing financial penalties on many countries of the global South under the pretext that they have violated human rights and/or international...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 March 2013
... hampers their efficacy as political agents. In this article I explore political commemoration in Syria as a socially sanctioned venue for apolitical political activity that allows women nonthreatening public visibility. I focus on the work of Dr. Nadia Khost in commemorative practices in Damascus...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 31–51.
Published: 01 July 2014
...-sanctioned medico-legal procedures regarding transsexuality as it has shifted from a method of reconciling one’s gender dysphoria to a medical, legal, and religious policing of sexuality. This paper examines the evolution of Khomeini’s original fatwa to argue that the Iranian ulama are manipulating...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 240–255.
Published: 01 July 2021
... and poisoning of private and public spaces in Baghdad. Transformations brought about by shelling and sanctions are at the heart of the nature of war as that which renders bodies isolated, static, and toxic. Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2021 Iraq disability...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and more than five years of chemical warfare against Iranians and Iraqi Kurds. Since 1979 Iran has been under some form of Western economic sanctions, including, during the Trump and Biden administrations, the most stringent sanctions in US history. 1 More than four decades of revolutions, wars...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 458–468.
Published: 01 November 2023
... sanctions and pursuit of various militarization strategies. Third, this translation is an effort on my part as a translator to invite readers to conceive of a feminine politics beyond the man/woman binary and even beyond feminism, that is, to search for a feminine imaginary in the political that pertains...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 221–223.
Published: 01 July 2015
... and the traditional, or the view that somehow state-sanctioned sex reassignment surgery is merely an attempt to eliminate and purify society from deviance and homosexuality. What appears as a top-down ruling by Iran’s supreme leader was in fact the outcome of a network of forces with a long and intricate history...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 128–130.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., and perceptive,
but she has clearly done her homework. The book is full of information
that provides the reader with a historical context and insight into the
human cost of sanctions and war. Yet it is not just a book about misery.
Dancing in the No-Fly Zone is about people pursuing art...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 96–101.
Published: 01 July 2009
...: Th e Gender Impact
of International Sanctions
Yasmin Husein Al-Jawaheri. London: I. B. Tauris, 2008.
Pp. xiv, 228. ISBN: 978-1-84511-648-4.
Reviewed by Nicola Pratt, University of East Anglia, UK
Based on original ethnographic research...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 449–453.
Published: 01 November 2021
... deems both biopolitics and necropolitics insufficient, as they fail to “explain the work of death in relation to populations that are not stripped of rights in the state of exception but whose deaths are sanctioned, rather, in the name of rights and in the state of normalcy” (21). The alternative...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 331–336.
Published: 01 November 2015
... Gay Women, and Sarah Schulman of the City University of New York, College of Staten Island, discussed the importance of academic participation in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Shafie argued that the BDS campaign integrates the demands of Palestinians in the occupied...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 401–422.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and death. Thus I use forces of death instead of necropolitics to emphasize the structural, infrastructural, and political dimensions of power and violence and of what sustains life and death in the world today. The 1991 US-led bombings of Iraq and the imposition of the sanctions that constituted...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 108–135.
Published: 01 November 2013
... of the boundaries that delimit the non-sanctioned practices,
but also test and contribute to the progressive shifting of these limits.
The practices described on the campus are rarely punished by
monitors who watch over students at the campus gates or inside it: In
general...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 173–174.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and culture. Equally important, it was countered by a force that bolstered and sanctioned aggressive, violent masculinities of the police and civilian men. The military, the police, and male civilians all performed masculine bravado though there were clear winners and losers. Gender, especially masculinity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 41–62.
Published: 01 November 2012
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Driving Questions and Methodologies
ueer individuals in Egypt experience a combination of silencing
Qand suffocating factors: censorship, heteronormative discourse,
religious and state-sanctioned law...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 433–449.
Published: 01 November 2016
... Faith Campaign (Bengio 1998 , 176–91; Rohde 2013 , 714–17). These efforts were widely understood as symbolic gestures aimed at appeasing religious forces and suppressing conspicuous consumption, given the severe UN sanctions; at the time most Iraqis could hardly afford to buy food. As a result...
FIGURES
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 63–91.
Published: 01 March 2012
...; women’s range of move-
ment is limited by the concept of honor and shame and a net of social
control and sanctions. There is no accepted life concept for a woman
without a male breadwinner and protector.
Anfal destroyed the social and economic texture of Germyan. The
majority of the population...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 98–100.
Published: 01 March 2019
... whispers, ‘Always.’ There’s a collective gasp from the room” (5). Instead of providing the rote state-sanctioned answer, Leili surprises herself as well as her classmates with her bold transgression, thus setting the stage for transgressions to follow. The story begins with an incident that effectively...
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