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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 48–74.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Rahaf Aldoughli Abstract This is a revisionist study of Syrian Baʾathism. At its heart is an examination of ingrained masculinist bias. This article argues that there is a reciprocal relationship between militarism and masculinity, achieved through gratifying protection for both the nation...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 473–478.
Published: 01 November 2021
...-proclaimed “international” organization recast Afifa as a “white” Syrian woman in need of rescue. However, it does not explain why. By piecing the fragments of Afifa’s story together, I approach her jumbled portrait to argue that women’s movements across national borders (as well as the efforts of those bent...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 305–325.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Aitemad Muhanna-Matar Abstract This article analyzes the relationship between men’s physical disability and the trajectories of negotiating masculinities in the context of Syrian refugee displacement in Jordan and Turkey. The article draws its analysis from the personal narratives of five displaced...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 244–246.
Published: 01 July 2023
.... Theoretically informing her “urban ethnography by appointment” is Farha Ghannam’s concept of “masculine trajectories” (cited on 15), which allows Suerbaum to explore how Syrian refugee men creatively respond to the challenges to their notion of masculinity as they move from one state of oppression to another...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 50–67.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Rebecca Joubin Abstract Syrian miniseries engage in multifaceted discourses of fatherhood inherently linked with the rise and fall of the qabaday (tough man). Before the uprising, while the avowed focus was on gender constructions, in truth, politics lay at the heart of the messages...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 224–226.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Shayna M. Silverstein This study presents Syrian television drama as a multifaceted genre through which writers challenge state rhetoric by critiquing and subverting the gendered relations between Syrian state and society. Drawing on allegories of marriage and sexuality, television writers posit...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 244–245.
Published: 01 July 2015
... The forum launched the experimental broadcasting station Souriat FM to be a free and interactive platform for discussing Syrian and Arab women’s issues through interesting, simple, specialized programs also available through social media. Many professional reporters living in Syria also report...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 306–322.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of women fighting Islamist male aggressors aroused outrage, admiration, and pity among observers. But had all Kurdish fighters been male or had women fought for ISIS, viewers might have reacted differently. To examine some of the most widely disseminated gendered pictures and videos of the Syrian uprising...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 197–219.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Shayna Silverstein Abstract This essay analyzes how dance, gender, and state power function together as a significant node of critique in recent cultural production that addresses authoritarianism in Syria. Identifying the symbolic trope of dabke , a popular dance ubiquitous in Syrian life...
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Published: 01 November 2018
Figure 11. An ordinary domestic scene with our Syrian grandmother, Muzayyan Kotob, sewing in the foreground in their Aramco home and our uncle Ghassan in the background at the open American-style table set for a meal (early 1960s). Photograph by Fahmi Basrawi.
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in Ladies Aid as Labor History: Working-Class Formation in the Mahjar
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 1. Syrian Ladies Aid Society at Boston’s Armistice Day Parade, 1925. Hannah Sabbagh appears at left, in white. Courtesy of the Schlesinger Library, Harvard University.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 326–347.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Figure 1. Syrian Ladies Aid Society at Boston’s Armistice Day Parade, 1925. Hannah Sabbagh appears at left, in white. Courtesy of the Schlesinger Library, Harvard University. ...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (2): 86–114.
Published: 01 July 2010
...John Tofik Karam This article asks how Syrian-Lebanese men and non-Middle Eastern Brazilian women have enacted their relationship to belly dancingin São Paulo. While men and women of Arab origins have usually framed the dance as an essential link to their ethnic heritage, non-Arab female...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 80–107.
Published: 01 July 2013
... use gendered, maternal imagery to produce a liberal stance on terrorism that combines sympathetic comprehension of the forces that foster violence with condemnation of the violence itself. The article uses Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa’s Madih al-Karahiya (In Praise of Hatred , 2006...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 260–284.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of ordinary people during the Syrian revolution (2011). This essay demonstrates how al-Masri’s poetry grafts landscapes of pain and resistance in a poetics of the gut that bears witness to horror, trauma, and resistance. It focuses on the trope of blood writing, documentary poetry or poésie-vérité...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 74–101.
Published: 01 November 2009
... as well from among Syrians, Palestinians, Kurds, Egyptians, and others in accordance with convenience and regional political circumstances. The long-term employment of Arab women in domestic service, with a primary focus on “live-in” maids, may be characterized as carrying a “burden” of obligation...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 291–316.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Susanna Ferguson Abstract In 1874–75 American Protestant missionaries in Beirut published two astronomy textbooks in Arabic. While male students at the Syrian Protestant College studied Cornelius Van Dyck’s Foundations of Astronomy , girls at secondary schools—the highest level of female education...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 303–305.
Published: 01 November 2016
.... This is what the Syrian women civil society activists are calling on the men in Geneva to do. This is what they, together with the authors of these provocative articles, are calling on each of us to do. Then came a further official proposal, perhaps even an insistence: Syrian women civil society activists...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 111–113.
Published: 01 March 2009
.... ISBN 978-0-8223-4035-5.
Reviewed by Christa Salamandra, Lehman College, City University of New York
In Dissident Syria, scholar of contemporary Arabic literature miriam
cooke sheds light on the heretofore neglected world of Syrian opposi-
tional culture. Expanding beyond her usual focus...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 107–124.
Published: 01 March 2008
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she shared an interest in the promotion of Arabic language and literature.
Little is known of her marriage, which was childless and seems
to have been brief. Said Bey al-Naaman Hamada was a kinsman and a
Syrian-French military offi cer. One document indicates that he encour-
aged her to de...
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