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Challenging Reified Masculinities: Men as Survivors of Politically Motivated Sexual Assault in Egypt
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 323–342.
Published: 01 November 2016
... to gender-based violence that contribute to the omission of men’s experiences of sexual assault in protest spaces. An analysis of such reifications, their dynamics, and implications is critically important for two subfields: the study of masculinities in the Middle East and the study of men and gender-based...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 154–167.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., Ismailia, Gharbia, Dakahleya, Assiut, and Qena, had been sexually harassed (El-Deeb 2013 , 6). Additionally, a 2014 study by HarassMap reported that 95 percent of three hundred women surveyed in Greater Cairo experienced sexual harassment (Fahmy et al. 2014 , 6). Collective sexual assault and rape...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 219–238.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Women’s Studies 2024 #MosqueMeToo movement sexual assault Muslim women #MeToo movement social media Sexual violence cuts across class, age, and religious and ethnic groups and revolves around domination across these categories (Armstrong, Gleckman-Krut, and Johnson 2018 ). Despite sexual...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 137–146.
Published: 01 March 2021
... harassment and assault emerged as a crucial issue facing women in the post-2011 period and was addressed in many graffiti images. It is significant that women were not represented as passive victims in relation to sexual violence. For example, in the graffiti “No to Sexual Harassment,” by Mira Shihadeh...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 301–310.
Published: 01 July 2022
...: Sexual Violence and Class Immunity .” Daraj , September 22 . https://daraj.com/en/55598 . El-Mahdawy Hadeer . 2020a . “ How Was the Accused of Sexual Assault Ahmed Bassam Zaki Taken to Court? ” MadaMasr , October 19 . https://www.madamasr.com/ar/2020/10/19/feature/%d9%85%d8%ac%d8%aa...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 245–247.
Published: 01 July 2024
...). Chapter 5 deals with Ottoman Muslim families in the provincial areas in the context of the Ottoman state’s efforts to become more involved in the realm of the family in the morality discourses. Oğuz examines various cases of sexual assault, rape, and adultery in which, specifically, soldiers’ families...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 423–429.
Published: 01 November 2019
... who were kidnapped and sexually assaulted by ISIS militants when they invaded their villages in the north of Iraq in 2014. She interviewed Yazidi women while assisting them in camps for displaced families and women survivors of the ISIS invasion of Mosul. Herself a war survivor and now a women’s civil...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 343–347.
Published: 01 November 2018
... introduced to treat survivors of sexual assault in the mid-1960s in the Netherlands (3, 5). Women also learned to cut up packets of oral contraceptive pills for a do-it-yourself form of postcoital contraceptive (3, 5). Between 1995 and 2005 EC was incorporated into international norms and medical tool kits...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 374–375.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., and on Twitter (#EgyGirlsRev). We are mainly concerned with defending women’s rights and discussing gender-related issues online. We have published the stories of more than eleven thousand women. The stories focus on sexual violence (harassment, female genital mutilation, rape, and sexual assault...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 80–93.
Published: 01 March 2009
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committed against Qatari women, and the majority were classifi ed as as-
saults, although the type of assault was not specifi ed. Next in frequency
were sexual crimes (such as rape) and premeditated murder, which seem
to be reported more frequently among non-Qatari women. Over half...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 113–115.
Published: 01 November 2011
... between
nationalism, militarization and gender as “[a]renas of [v]iolent [c]onflict,”
while Chapter 9, by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, discusses the difficulties
that victims of sexual assault face in Palestinian culture, where chastity
and honor are highly prized and irreplaceable. The collection...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 181–185.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., and (sexual) violence look like? What challenges does this moment pose for feminist politics? Feminists have called on their sisters among the protestors to display solidarity against men’s assaults on unveiled women whom they attacked as “secular pro-coup” along with their usual penetration-based insults...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 186–188.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of the detainees, who were held in stress positions; denied food, water, and medical treatment; and verbally abused and subjected to beatings and torture, including strip search, sexual assault, and rape with a truncheon or finger by police officers (Amnesty International 2016 ). Such uses of torture are well...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 122–131.
Published: 01 March 2024
... many stories shared by queer people of police using access to monitor queer people online for their own predatory ends, where many users become victims of sexual assault under the threat of blackmail. Police use features of apps such as Grindr to track and arrest users. Police in Egypt, for example...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (1): 129–131.
Published: 01 March 2011
... in New York City and as
a sexual assault crisis counsellor in Philadelphia. She also worked as a
law clerk for the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
in Washington, D.C. Bordat was a Fulbright Scholar at the Université
Mohammed V in Rabat, where she studied Islamic family law...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 261–285.
Published: 01 November 2019
... sexual assault has been treated separately as a crime of war” (Simons 1996 ). Key in this announcement, as also in the outcome of the ICTR trials, was delinking rape from other war crimes and demanding its specific prosecution at the highest levels. Two years later, in 1998, the Rome Statute...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 249–257.
Published: 01 July 2023
..., psychological violence is the most common type of violence at 49.1 percent, followed by economic violence at 16.7 percent, physical violence at 15.9 percent, and sexual assault at 14.3 percent (see Monqid 2012 ; Royaume du Maroc 2017 ). 7. The Imazighen—plural of Amazigh, also known as Berbers...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 268–274.
Published: 01 July 2016
... that . . . there were numerous instances of “sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses” at Abu Ghraib. As a response to such stories and other incidents of sexual assault on women by both American soldiers and Iraqi men, many women were forced to become marginal spectators and invisible phantoms, relegated...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 125–130.
Published: 01 November 2006
... and adopted a child aft er her marriage.
But prison also gave these women insight into the dynamics of
abuse and victimization. During her interrogation, Rasmiyeh was
repeatedly stripped naked and sexually assaulted in front of rows of
male prisoners. Th e most diffi cult moment, however...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 73–95.
Published: 01 November 2005
... the category
“severe ill-treatment” (TRC vol. 4:286), defi ned as sexual assault, abuse,
or harassment; rape; mutilation; incommunicado detention; detention
without charges; withholding food, water, or medicine during deten-
tion, etc. (TRC vol. 1:81-2 and vol. 5:256). To counteract what...
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