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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 256–259.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Hana Al-Khamri Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Sunday, June 24, 2018, was a historic moment in Saudi Arabia, as women drove their cars for the first time following the end of the driving ban. However, for some of them, the decision to lift the ban...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 251–255.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Amélie Le Renard Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 This short article is partly based on Amélie Le Renard, “‘Women’s Rights Washing’: On the Selective Circulation of the Rights and Demands of ‘Saudi Women,’” in The Globalization of Gender...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 247–250.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Madawi Al-Rasheed Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 I learned to drive in Lebanon when I was seventeen years old. My father left Saudi Arabia for political reasons in 1975. I was exhilarated to drive myself to the American University of Beirut, in what...
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From Café Culture to Tweets: The Development of Saudi Arabia’s Public Sphere and Women’s Empowerment
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 320–328.
Published: 01 July 2022
.../view/3108 . Al-Ahram . 2010 . “ Fishawi and Naguib Mahfouz: Only Memories Left Them .” December 13 . http://gate.ahram.org.eg/News/22037.aspx . AllahMorad Sidiqa , and Zreik Sahel . 2020 . “ Education in Saudi Arabia .” World Education News and Reviews , April 9 . https...
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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 (2016) 12 (1): 31–49.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Sanna Dhahir Abstract Saudi fiction written by women reflects the rapid changes witnessed by Saudi Arabia as a result of oil wealth and globalization. Increased education and work opportunities, exposure to the outside world, and a better awareness of the cultural and political dynamics at work...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 351–353.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Madawi Al-Rasheed Modern Woman in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Rights, Challenges, and Achievements . Hend T. Al-Sudairy . Cambridge : Cambridge Scholars , 2017 147 pages. isbn 1443872814. Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 Academic...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 235–237.
Published: 01 July 2015
... petitions to the king asking for a continuation of the ban on women driving. They advocate an “exceptionalist” ( al-khususiyya ) position on women’s issues in Saudi Arabia. The term feminist ( nasawiyya ) is not widely used, nor is it agreed on by women working on women’s issues. Other descriptions like...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 340–342.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Neha Vora A Society of Young Women: Opportunities of Place, Power, and Reform in Saudi Arabia Le Renard Amélie Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2014 . 224 pages. isbn 9780804785440 Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 134–137.
Published: 01 March 2010
... of work
on civil society and women in the Middle East.
Polygamy and Law in Contemporary Saudi Arabia
Maha A. Z. Yamani. Reading: Ithaca Press, 2008. Pp. xii, 275.
ISBN 978-0-86372-326-1.
Reviewed by Zahia Smail Salhi, University of Leeds...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 131–133.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Annemarie van Geel A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics, and Religion in Saudi Arabia , Al-Rasheed Madawi . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . 333 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-12252-8 . Copyright © 2014 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2014...
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Published: 01 November 2018
Figure 10. Fadia Basrawi symbolically bridges divides as a Saudi Arabian Girl Scout. This photograph of young Fadia reading the Scout’s Pledge appeared in a story in the April 1961 issue of Aramco World . Photograph by Fahmi Basrawi.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 268–291.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Figure 10. Fadia Basrawi symbolically bridges divides as a Saudi Arabian Girl Scout. This photograph of young Fadia reading the Scout’s Pledge appeared in a story in the April 1961 issue of Aramco World . Photograph by Fahmi Basrawi. ...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Nadine Sinno Abstract Directed by Saudi Arabian filmmaker Faiza Ambah, Mariam (2015) portrays the struggles of Mariam, a Muslim French teenager who decides to wear the hijab but must contend with her school’s enforcement of a 2004 French law banning religious symbols from public institutions...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 149–182.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., as a critique of the Saudi system. Paratextual framing of the marketed book and translational choices emphasized the fiction as a writing of “experience,” bringing it closer to the memoir genre and linking it to a tradition of what I call Orientalist ethnographicism. These effects produce a work and author...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 236–241.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Saffaa Hassanein References Ahmed . 2009 . “ How to Wear a Ghotra .” Saudi Jeans, September 7 . saudijeans.org/2009/09/07/how-to-wear-a-ghotra . Allenby Jeni . 2002 . “ Re-inventing Cultural Heritage: Palestinian Traditional Costume and Embroidery since 1948 .” In Silk Roads...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 450–452.
Published: 01 November 2016
.... If we agree that the authenticity and reach of neologisms depends on their grounding in Arab sociocultural life, then the potential for marjala is vast. The word is commonly used in daily language and Arabic cultural productions from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq. A quick...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 128–131.
Published: 01 November 2014
...; but it will also be accessible for
a broader public interested in gender, empowerment, development, and
education in the Middle East, thanks to the richness and well-grounded
analysis of its ethnographic material.
A Most Masculine State:
Gender, Politics, and Religion in Saudi...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 275–283.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Rima Dunn; Adam George Dunn Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 Some Islamic countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Iran, prohibit sales of the Barbie doll, because she promotes “degenerate values,” leaving them to the black market. The Saudi religious...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 367–372.
Published: 01 November 2019
... intends to disrupt private/public binaries as well as the duality of material and virtual spaces. In this collection, too, the criminalization and exclusion of women are evident, as is their resistance. Susana Galan reveals how the Women2Drive campaign in Saudi Arabia creates an interstice between...
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