...Miriam Cooke Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 For fifty years the Sufi sculptor, writer, painter, and publisher Simone Fattal has honed her vision of the world and how it might be. Her social, political, and spiritual commitments shone through every...

...Rachel L. Kaplan On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era , Nouraie-Simone Fereshteh , ed. New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York , 2005 . Pp. 282. $18.95 paper. Copyright © 2006 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2006...

.... 288 pages. ISBN 978-0-8130-3354-9. Reviewed by Serdar Kaya, Simon Fraser University Faegheh Shirazi’s book tells the story of Muslim women’s resistance to the gender-discriminatory practices of Islamic fundamentalism. It successfully conveys to the reader many...

...Julia Clancy-Smith “ Gendering the History of Libya: Transnational and Feminist Approaches ”, “ Centre and Periphery: Variation in Gendered Space among Libyan Jews ,” Simon Rachel “ Reimagining Colony and Metropole: Images of Italy and Libya during the Italo...

... University) is a writer and researcher based at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University. She is the author of Liberation from Liberalization: Gender and Globalization in Southeast Asia (2005) and producer of the documentary fi lm Beyond the Burqa (2004). She is currently...

... media, sexuality, and collegiate lesbian and gay activism in Turkey. Adi Kuntsman is Simon Research Fellow in the Department of An- thropology and Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests include queer politics in Israel...

... a sacrificial act by which people born with a vagina become a sexualized body that belongs to another. In other words, this ‘celebration’ is a ritualized sacrificing of virgins” (48). While Glacier uses Michel Foucault’s idea of biopower and Simone de Beauvoir’s work as her main theoretical frame, readers...

... to address some of these issues, a goal she works admirably toward in this creative work. Reference Grotowski Jerzy . 1968 . Towards a Poor Theatre . New York : Simon and Schuster . ...

..., certification, and regulation—and how subjects recast, resist, and undermine these practices. References Browne Simone . 2015 . Dark Matters . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Cresswell Tim . 2006 . On the Move . London : Routledge . Foucault Michel . 1995...

... scholars, all except one based in North America. They intend to engage critically with what they think is a controversial exchange between al-Daif and Helfer. At the forefront of this initiative is Simon Fraser University’s Ken Seigneurie, the de facto publisher, who has dedicated much of his career...

...- tial is exploited fully. Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone’s investigation into the interaction of global communications with Iranian society documents the emergence of an Iranian “blog community known as Weblogestan,” where discussions range from personal dis/likes to gender politics...

..., these activities had to be presented as meet- ings in the service of Islam. As T. Abdou Simone (1994:138) asks, “Who can deny a daughter leaving the house at night . . . [for] a meeting . . . that will re- store Islamic law to the land?” I would add to Simone’s rhetorical question, a daughter...

... and categorize as much productive life as possible. This has been well documented by Simone Browne ( 2015 : 32), who has meticulously traced the developments in surveillance technology through the slave trade and its attachments to intellectual production. Her primary case is Jeremy Bentham’s design...

... and subsequent systems of managing gendered and racialized subjects in the postcolonial present. Th is reso- nance is demonstrated in Silverstein’s chapter as well as in AbdouMaliq Simone’s “Remaking Urban Socialities” on the lingering eff ects of the apartheid system on Johannesburg and contemporary...

.... Reviewed by Serdar Kaya, Simon Fraser University Faegheh Shirazi’s book tells the story of Muslim women’s resistance to the gender-discriminatory practices of Islamic fundamentalism. It successfully conveys to the reader many of the restrictions women face within most Islamic communities...

... Arab sisters and to find out who I was away from the restrictions I had experienced as an adolescent. It was in the United States that I discovered Simone de Beauvoir, who opened my eyes to the plight of women all over the world. She inspired me to commit my research and writing to women’s issues...

... the way at the end of the hallway an office to the left. It is Rula Quawas’s office. There she is on the right, at her desk, her figure surrounded by framed quotes on the wall behind her, all by women she admires, including the usual suspects—Simone de Beauvoir and Virginia Woolf...

... al-Jadid . Simon Reeva . 2004 . Iraq between the Two World Wars: The Militarist Origins of Tyranny . New York : Columbia University Press . Skovgaard-Petersen Jakob . 2005 . “ The Discovery of Adolescence in the Middle East .” In Youth and Youth Culture in the Contemporary...

..., 1932 .” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 4 , no. 1 : 107 – 24 . Eisenberg Jaci . 2013 . “ The Status of Women: A Bridge from the League of Nations to the United Nations .” Journal of International Organizations Studies 4 , no. 2 : 8 – 24 . Jackson Simon...