... available to Saudi women under Muhammad ben Salman. The pervasive arrest of women activists in the summer of 2018 attests to a sinister policy of silencing all dissenting voices. However, women in the driver’s seat are better equipped to continue the struggle for equal citizenship, as I learned at age...

.... katja Žvan elliott  mn  1 MOROCCO AND ITS WOMEN’S RIGHTS STRUGGLE A FAILURE TO LIVE UP TO ITS PROGRESSIVE IMAGE Katja Žvan Elliott mn Abstract This article examines the rarely talked...

...Nada Elia FILM REVIEWS  125 FILM REVIEWS  Th is Is Not Living Alia Arasoughly. Women Make Movies, 2001. 42 minutes. Women in Struggle...

... in national or colonial public health systems, their unionization, and their intellectual production. University-trained medical professionals in the Middle East claimed authority over medical knowledge and struggled for professional mobility within colonial hierarchies and power relations (ʿAbabnah 2010...

... BIRENBAUM-CARMELI & MARCIA C. IHORN  23 MASCULINITY AND MARGINALITY: Palestinian Men’s Struggles with Infertility in Israel and Lebanon Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Marcia C. Inhorn  ABSTRACT Male...

... IN KURDISTAN-IRAQ STRUGGLING FOR AGENCY AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Karin Mlodoch mn ABSTRACT This article focuses on Kurdish women in Iraq who survived the Iraqi army’s Anfal operations against...

...” of the ethnographic agenda. She argued that ethnography, particularly when addressing controversial practices, creates cultural difference rather than the generating solidarity for the struggles of women, such as the Sudanese struggles she studied. Hale recognized that the issue of female circumcision (or female...

...Nadine Sinno Abstract Directed by Saudi Arabian filmmaker Faiza Ambah, Mariam (2015) portrays the struggles of Mariam, a Muslim French teenager who decides to wear the hijab but must contend with her school’s enforcement of a 2004 French law banning religious symbols from public institutions...

... documented thus far. Antigender campaigns can easily infiltrate Middle Eastern and/or Muslim-majority contexts in which feminists and queers have long struggled to transform societies, cultures, and states. In Turkey a state-led antigender movement has been unfolding, with burdensome outcomes for women...

..., and Berlin in 2015–16, we show that Kurdish activists have struggled to make the eradication of gender-based inequalities and violence central to the wider Kurdish peace movement, while Turkish women’s rights activists have increasingly recognized that the war against the Kurds, “like a blanket,” often...

... East. We very much value your impressive pioneering and important work on medical anthropology, science and reproductive technologies, the anthropology of gender, and religion in the Middle East. Your thick ethnographic accounts of the lives of men and women who struggle with infertility and how...

... and language to bring out the autobiographical subject’s struggle to identify with and against authority figures while forging her own voice. It highlights Abouzeid’s mother’s powerful presence voicing indigenous and traditional perspectives and the father’s silent (and silenced) voice, despite his patriarchal...

... am attentive to interiority and psychology in A Mountainous Journey , which I read to examine the writing of self in relation to intimates in Tuqan’s life. I examine Tuqan’s writing of life-as-journey and the protagonist’s struggle to articulate a self in a traumatic family context the author...

...Liina Mustonen Abstract This article looks at how specific gendered practices and ideas about female bodies were instrumentalized in the struggle for political authority during Egypt’s transitional period between 2011 and 2013. It argues that in the aftermath of the uprising, when Islamists won...

... women’s different forms of political activism in the national struggle and/or peace-building initiatives, this paper critically discusses a variety of gendered conflict resolution approaches and concludes that, contrary to such charges, contextualized culturally specific gender norms might in fact prove...

... women use various forms of art to make sense of these obstacles and navigate the struggles of daily life. By narrating the story of one Palestinian woman and her relationship with writing, this article explores Palestine women’s attempts to redefine public space and discourse while reflecting on broader...

..., and figures promi- nently in the genesis of those modern struggles that seek, in the face of that subjection, to reclaim their humanity for men and women (Guttman 1988, 118). INTRODUCTION his paper begins from a triple point of interrogation regarding...

...Rania Jawad References Gelfand Elissa . 1993 . “ Liberation Struggles .” Review of Barred: Women, Writing, and Political Detention , by Harlow Barbara . Women’s Review of Books 10 , nos. 10–11 : 20 . Harlow Barbara . 1986a . Introduction to “ Third World...

... preserve such immediacy despite the datedness of the revolutionary struggle. Th e theme is relevant partly because the struggles of occupied people nowadays—whether in Palestine, Lebanon, or Iraq—raise the same issues and tensions, and partly because—inde- pendent of the strife...