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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 258–265.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Maria Frederika Malmström The epigraph explains how the call to prayer functions as a sonic reminder of a sacral community. In this article I explore how sound is also connected to activists’ masculinities and space where the soundscape of the adhan in Cairo transforms from desired sacral...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 102–119.
Published: 01 November 2009
... if sound correlations, conclusions, and recommendations are to be formulated. Mona Chemali Khalaf is Assistant Professor of Economics and former Director of the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World at the Lebanese American University. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Gender...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 268–291.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and recognizes that mixing and migrations, forced or desired, shape and define all families. It explores the look, feel, and sounds of lifeworlds in the US imperial outpost of Aramco using an immense archive of family photographs and Fadia Basrawi’s memoir, Brownies and Kalashnikovs: A Saudi Woman’s Memoir...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 105–107.
Published: 01 July 2012
... are embedded in pious practices and by engaging with the
complexities of cultural relations between the Middle East and Indonesia.
Rasmussen focuses on aurality in order to show how individuals and in-
stitutions have shaped the religious production of sound and soundscapes
in Indonesia as dynamic...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 78–82.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Sound and Fury focuses on the other woman in an adulterous marriage. Like Lantouri , Sound and Fury is based on a real story. It recalls the controversial case of Shahla Jahed, the mistress of a famous football player who was hanged for killing his wife in 2002. In flashbacks of the same scenes told...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 331–340.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of the female body. Her exploration of identity and female desire is interwoven with sights, sounds, and evocations of Lebanon’s present and past. Our exchange, which took place in the spring of 2019, focused primarily on Shawi’s documentary e muet (2013). Prior to e muet Shawi had made the long documentary...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 227–234.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., to the archival material and extract from them what has been overlooked. What I found, basically, was fossilized sound. This extracted sound is valuable in that it clarifies a very contentious period in history and does so indexically—the sound I worked with is the trace of that historical moment. EM: You...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 374–378.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and sound recordings about being a mother, a woman, and an artist and is about the strategies and tactics developed to survive as mothers and artists. Words and phrases from the ANA recordings were on the walls of Ark Kültür during the exhibition. Nurcan Gündoğan’s video installation Cut (2017...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... their potencies. Voice, I therefore suggest, needs to be recognized as a crucial site of governance not only in its communicative speech capacity but also as an affectively potent sound object. The women dengbêj s understood the public sphere fundamentally differently from how it was understood...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 235–243.
Published: 01 July 2020
... with real cinema equipment that had been used by the New Wave movement, meaning a 16mm Beaulieu color camera and a Nagra sound recorder. So, that’s how it happened. The first move was to just be there, out of solidarity. And then we decided that things mattered so much that we wanted to record...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 41–52.
Published: 01 March 2014
... (although it has sound: music, wind, water,
birds, chants, the creaking of wood, etc The title refers to the violent
extraction of amber from the earth. What Shariffe created sometimes
looks like a still-life painting, with only the camera moving. He seemed
to have little regard...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 216–237.
Published: 01 July 2022
... (Noyes 2003 ). In Mrs. H’s home, the materiality of the practice and the copresence of bodies and items, sounds and smells, create an affectively powerful realm that triggers individuals’ sensory memories, connecting them to a familiar realm of experience. While individuals define their own...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 337–356.
Published: 01 November 2023
... each other. Here language is not a means of complaint, as Scarry reiterates; language fails to express pain as pain remains in the zone of the ineluctable and the unspeakable. That is why, when it comes to pain, Jamali displays a blend of words and sounds, not yielding to a vivid picture or idea. She...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 80–106.
Published: 01 July 2014
... more, where
are the films that promote a French view of the Algerian War? The
public is only being shown the fellagha’s [bandit’s] version.
Welcoming the film’s release in the United Kingdom in 1971, David
Wilson (1971) wrote in Sight and Sound that Bataille d’Alger had...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 292–313.
Published: 01 November 2018
... for granted. Fadel describes the position of the 2004 Mudawwana toward children born to unmarried mothers as imprecise and, to a certain extent, contradictory. Article 160 appears to open the door to recognition by the father without further evidence as long as he is mentally sound, the reclaimed child...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 447–448.
Published: 01 November 2023
... feminist teachings, her tender presence, the protection she provided, and the strength and confidence she armed her daughter with. The tone in these poems is nostalgic, elegiac, loving, and passionate. Through the tone and the hissing sound of the consonant s in El Saadawi, Helmy clearly declares her...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 22–42.
Published: 01 March 2021
... to visually, materially, and conceptually re-create the close and intimate space through which she releases her emotions in a healing and connective process. Weisberger seeks to sound her voice through her visual art, through her writing and political activism in the Women Wage Peace movement, and through her...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 173–174.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Banu Gökarıksel Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 On July 15, 2016, an otherwise ordinary Friday night for citizens of Turkey was disrupted by images, sounds, and situations that have, unfortunately, become less extraordinary in recent decades: a coup...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 197–219.
Published: 01 July 2021
... Syrian Popular Dance .” In Islam and Popular Culture , edited by van Nieuwkerk Karin , Stokes Martin , and Levine Mark , 278 – 96 . Austin : University of Texas Press . Silverstein Shayna . 2019 . “ Disorienting Sounds: A Sensory Ethnography of Syrian Dance Music...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 265–286.
Published: 01 July 2017
... her. While the gates stand open, she chooses not to leave. While she now claims to be a deaf-mute, she hears more resoundingly than ever the sounds of the night creatures and narrates more than ever mythological stories, all signifying the deeply violent oppression of women, even by the gentle...
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