.... Tavakoli Targhi, Mohamad 2001 Refashioning Iran: Orientalism, Occidentalism and Historiography. New York: Palgrave. Another Sea, Another Shore: Persian Stories of Migration Shouleh Vatanabadi and Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami, eds. and trans...

...Roberta Micallef We Have No Microbes Here: Healing Practices in a Turkish Black Sea Village , Önder Sylvia Wing . Durham, NC : Carolina Academic Press , 2007 . Pp. xxv, 304 . ISBN 978-0-89089-573-3 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009 108...

... . Husain Adnan A. , and Fleming K. E. , eds. 2007 . A Faithful Sea: The Religious Cultures of the Mediterranean, 1200–1700 . Oxford : Oneworld . Lorcin Patricia M. E. , and Shepard Todd . 2016 . Introduction to French Mediterraneans: Transnational and Imperial Histories...

...” [The Sultana]; “Bahr al-ishq wa-l-aqiq” [The Sea of Passion and the Carnelian3 However, par- ticularly interesting for me was Osman’s focus on the role of the imagination in the development of the human consciousness. Osman draws upon a long Islamic philosophical tradition that treats...

...Figure 2. La mer rouge ( The Red Sea , 2020). Acrylic on canvas, 115 × 140 cm. Photo: Hope Mokded. ...

... of the Kaptan Paşa Sea Bus, is a large-scale model of the heart’s circulatory system through which saltwater flows, propelling the vessel. Matching in size the biggest living creature in the world, the blue whale, the boat becomes a whole new organism that runs on saltwater: seawater is pumped into the heart’s...

... opinions. I was not afraid of being killed by them but what terrified me most was being ravished by them. I would rather perish than fall into their hands. (Maria ter Meetelen, 1748)1 he seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Mediterranean Sea was a Tplace...

... on the training and employment of women health workers (murshidat) byby a Dutch-YemeniDutch-Yemeni developmentdevelopment projectproject inin Yemen’s Red Sea port city, Hodeida. By focusing not on the institutions or intended “benefi ciaries” of development, but rather on the heteroge- neous actors involved...

.... Nicola keeps drawing maps and digs deep tun- nels to extract talc to export to Cairo. Nicola even develops the port of Ra’s Banas, on the Red Sea, to more eff ectively transport the riches of the Darhib. However, with the growing reputation of Nicola’s mine among Cairo’s aristocracy...

... migration? The Chilean poet Raul Zurita produced a beautiful installation in response to the Aylan Kurdi image in December 2016 at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kerala, India ( www.kochimuzirisbiennale.org ; see Ragesh 2017 ). The installation, The Sea of Pain , invites visitors to walk through...

..., the dissertation places British imperial literary culture in the nineteenth century alongside postcolonial writing by women, whether in the Caribbean (Dominica), South Asia (India), or the Middle East and North Africa (Jordan and Egypt). Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1996), Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small...

... of electricity, we worked with processes and materials that required the least amount of electricity to make and exhibit the work. For example, we used hazelnut sticks as structural and symbolic elements, since they are abundantly available in the Black Sea region: people trim hazelnut plants after every harvest...

...—artists, writers, actors, photographers—to undertake the making of Sudan’s first art/feature film on location on the partially deserted sea port of Suakin on Sudan’s east coast. It is a film about colonialism and death by suicide (as one and the same). One could have predicted...

.... Reviewed by Rebecca Gould, Yale-NUS College The field of Iranian gender studies has witnessed a sea change in the past decade. In the wake of the scholarship of Afsaneh Najmabadi, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, and Arzoo Osanloo, it is impossible to read Iranian civil and religious codes pertaining to marriage...

... vulnerable and the least politicized through the scarcity and inflation of basic items such as food, water, medical care, and fuel. Young people who have tried to migrate have often drowned in the sea or faced humiliation, ill-treatment, and rejection by host countries. It will be important to investigate...

... their kohl eyes, hair like poetry in rising motion like flame. They’re like “Her Story Is” on the Arabian Sea at twilight in December, without seat belts at full speed to the souk —yes, like that twilit photo in Thaira’s palette, my lips like brick, and we’re grinning on a rickety wooden adventure...

... always agree with her about everything? Of course not. In fact, one doesn’t typically agree or disagree with forces of nature—the wind, the sea, or people of the extraordinary vision, creativity, and imagination of Nawal El Saadawi. Nawal was a force of nature, a global figure and global thinker. Her...

..., June 2021. 28. Interview with Bothaina Hamdan, June 2021. 27. Israeli law does not allow Palestinians to go to the sea or to visit their villages in historical Palestine. 26. Interview with Hamdan, April 2021. 25. Interview with Hamdan, April 2021. 24. Due...

... Rashid . 2011 . Tablit al-bahr (Paving the Sea). Beirut : Dar Riyad al-Rayyis . al-Daif Rashid . 2014 . Hirrat sikirida (Sikirida’s Cat). Beirut : Dar Riyad al-Rayyis . al-Daif Rashid . 2017 . “ What Makes a Man? Sexuality and Representation in Europe–Middle East Encounters...