... identifications and in producing young urban Saudi women as a group. In the first section, I argue that transgressions have a public aspect that makes them transformative, as they are tacitly coordinated, reproduced among young women, and repeated every day. The second section states that the transgressions...

...Jared McCormick This inquiry explores questions of movement and tourism in relation to sexuality within the context of Lebanon’s nascent gay travel industry. The first section examines how imagery of Arab men is mediatized and circulated, with (un)intended effects. Many of the images take form...

...Marcia C. Inhorn Marcia C. Inhorn is the recipient of the 2013 Middle East Distinguished Scholar Award, given by the Middle East Section (MES) of the American Anthropological Association. This biennial award was established in 2006 to recognize the efforts of “a senior scholar in Middle Eastern...

... dominance. It unfolds the dynamics of “giving voice” to Abouzeid’s illiterate mother and grandmother while challenging the content and principles underlying their utterances. These dynamics are further complicated by her father’s formative yet problematic political stances. The final section discusses...

... cross-sectional anatomical dissection. The visual inspiration was taken from Wilhelm Braune, who performed horizontal dissections on frozen cadavers and in 1877 published The Atlas of Topographical Anatomy . I found the cross sections in this book intriguing, as they created an uncommon perspective...

... arbitrary (the last two sections especially seem to stretch their self-proclaimed pa- rameters), the collection, as a whole, is successful in bringing disparate diasporic voices together into polyphonic concert. These two collections represent an important contribution to the relatively spare...

... Kahraman has graciously provided work from her vast oeuvre, which has been exhibited around the world. In addition to the Book Reviews section, we added a Review Essays section for short pieces that examine film festivals, scholarly panels, workshops, and conferences related to the aims and scope...

... pussycat. You can pet me if you like. The violent and nonchalant aspect of plane sectioning a body speaks to a similar detachment and separation that occurs in diasporic peoples. But it was also something I needed to do as a woman. The depiction of these cross sections eliminated the “social...

..., is the editor and a contributor. With Penny Johnson, she co-edited the piece on Palestine and wrote a chapter of this section. Two of the other three pieces also have a country-specifi c location: one, by Essam Fawzy, focuses on Egypt and the other, co-authored by Asifa Quraishi...

... and freedom, as her narrator finally musters up the courage to step across the threshold from total cultural and linguistic iso- lation to assertive engagement and confrontation with the outside world. The past in Taraghi’s narrative, as in other stories in this section, is no longer fetishized through...

... “barbarian” Muslims through the war on terror and the emancipation of Muslim women from their Islamic bondage. Th e second section, “Poetry,” includes poems refl ecting the pain, anguish, and fears about war, social injustice, and terrorism within the context of Zionism, imperialism...

.... The last section consists of qualitative interviews Schmidinger conducted during several field trips mainly between 2014 and 2019 (there is also an interview from 2010). The interviews were undertaken partly in Arabic but also in English, German, and Kurdish. The interviewees from different social levels...

... of the Kurdish freedom movement, presented in the section titled “History,” contextualizes the recent revolutionary thought and practices developed by the women’s movement. The history of the broader movement, from its formation in Bakur in the 1970s and its anticolonial critique of the Turkish Left, as well...

...Sertaç Sehlikoglu [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2023 It gives me great pleasure to join JMEWS , the journal of gender in the Middle East, as the editor of the reviews section. I am especially thankful to the editorial...

... seventh-century chronicles to the twentieth-century theatre, Baum is thorough in covering his sources. Th e slender book is divided into four sections titled “Persia in Late Antiquity,” “Chosroes II (590-628) and Shirin: Th e Persian Royal Couple,” “Th e Shirin Myth in Literature and Art...

... an anthropological and a historical scope. In the fi rst section of his book, Bowen introduces the reader to the concept of laïcité, the lynchpin of the debate on secularism and religion in the public sphere in France. Th is peculiarity of the French Republic, which emphasizes one’s...

... universalized feminism and localized versions and translations of the demand for gender equality and women’s rights. The anthology is arranged according to political, personal, and aesthetic themes. The first section, “Agency and Resistance to National and Global Discourses,” considers the relationship...

... Caesarean Section Prices 2011”). January 28 . www.haber365.com/Haber/2011_Sezaryen_Dogum_Fiyatlari (accessed December 3, 2014 ). Habertürk . 2012 . “ Pelin Çift’le Haber Hattı ” (“News Line with Pelin Çift”). September 11 . www.haberturk.com/video/haberturk/izle/guneydoguda-ensest-yaygin...

... section introduced in 2015 has opened a forum for timely initiatives focused on the contemporary challenges faced by autonomous feminist formations in the region (March, July, and November 2015), the implications of the Turkish military coup attempt (March 2017), and feminist reactions to the Trump...