...Alexandra Jerome Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space , Bowen John R. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2007 . Pp. x, 290 . ISBN 978-0-691-12506-0 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009 100  JOURNAL...

...  1 SEGMENTED PUBLICS AND ISLAMIST WOMEN IN YEMEN: Rethinking Space and Activism Stacey Philbrick Yadav  ABSTRACT Th e gradual but marked Islamization of the public in Yemen...

...Naazneen Diwan Copyright © 2010 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2010 NAAZNEEN DIWAN  115 BRIEF COMMUNICATION  Carving Out a Public Space for Multiple Interpretations...

...Nahrain Al-Mousawi Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa , Rieker Martina Ali Kamran Asdar , eds. New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2008 . Pp. vi, 239 . ISBN 978-1-4039-7523-2 . Copyright © 2010 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2010 140...

.... But in their focus on time they have overlooked the crucial role of space. According to Robert T. Tally Jr. ( 2011 , 8), “The ways in which we are situated in space determine the nature and quality of our existence in the world.” The French professor Bertrand Westphal ( 2011 , ix), the father of geocriticism...

... (2004, editor). Copyright © 2006 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2006 86  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES THE FEMINIZATION OF PUBLIC SPACE: WOMEN’S ACTIVISM, THE FAMILY LAW, AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN MOROCCO Fatima Sadiqi and Moha...

...Iklim Goksel Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 Grounded in everyday life, the practice of male same-sex relations is neither uncommon nor a dominant trend but rather a renegotiated space for many young men in Turkey today. This unnamed practice creates...

...Rachel Rothendler Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 This essay examines Assia Djebar’s approach to language as a temporal, physical, and imagined space. In L’amour, la fantasia ( 1995 ), the first volume of her “autobiographical quartet,” Djebar...

...Kristin V. Monroe Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shiʿite South Beirut . Deeb Lara and Harb Mona . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2013 . 304 pages. isbn 9780691153667. Gaining Freedoms: Claiming Space in Istanbul and Berlin...

... of this article of clothing in many government and public spaces. In other spaces, secularists maligned and marginalized women who wore it. From 1996 to 2013 I heard many accounts of how women’s practice of wearing the headscarf had initiated encounters and experiences that made them aware of the dominance...

...Susana Galán; Angie Abdelmonem In “When Women Demand Prayer Space: Women in Mosques Campaign in Turkey,” Oguz Alyanak illuminates the spatial politics of mosques in Turkey through the Women in Mosques campaign, an initiative geared toward reclaiming equality in religious spaces at a time when...

... . Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Mazumdar Shampa , and Mazumdar Sanjoy . 2002 . “ In Mosques and Shrines: Women’s Agency in Public Sacred Space .” Journal of Ritual Studies 16 , no. 2 : 165 – 79...

...Layle Omeran; Kayan Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 Zaʾfaraan Collective was founded in 2016 by two queer migrants from Yemen and Iran. The collective, a community- and space-building initiative, works to define a queer/trans MENA/SWANA (Middle East...

... spaces, one of the most valuable aspects of Satrapi’s narrative remains her reflections on the culture of resistance. Particularly when Satrapi goes back to Iran in 1984, she dives into exploring the resistance to the government’s gender and sexual politics through living and visiting the other side...

... by Nermine Hammam, who explores grief and trauma by revisiting ancient tropes in Egyptian art. The contemplation of the visual representations of memory and the ideas that these representations transmit across generations continues throughout the three pieces presented in this issue of “Third Space...

...Zahra Ali Abstract This article explores the meaning and significance of the political in the October 2019 uprising in Iraq, commonly called Thawra Teshreen, through the lens of gender, space, and emancipation. It looks at the spatiality of the protests, considering both discursive and material...

...Sertaç Sehlikoglu Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces , Booth Marilyn , ed. Durham; London : Duke University Press , 2010 . 416 pages. ISBN 978-0-8223-4869-6 . Copyright © 2013 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2013 148  mn  Journal of Middle East...

..., and nongovernmental organizations, and they “refuse any funds” from the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees: “We raise money, ask for donations in kind of space and food, and do not pay most speakers. We do all the work.” When they sponsor “a tour, trip, journey, or other activity,” they make it free...

... of understanding and consensus. In making possible the visions of this conference and our subsequent events, including a four-day SWANA methodologies workshop with scholars from and in the region, and in making space for our collective voices, we began to feel optimistic about the potential of SWANA feminist...