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... and among communities in the diaspora. In “Cover Art Concept,” Ellen McLarney, associate professor of Arabic literature and culture at Duke University and member of JMEWS ’s new editorial team, reflects on Sufism and love in the Jordanian artist Hilda Hiary’s artwork, featured on this issue’s cover...

... to these issues by engaging scholars, thinkers, public intellectuals, activists and artists from the region. Our team of editors brings a diverse set of disciplinary orientations to bear on our work for the journal: anthropology, gender and sexuality studies, political theory, comparative literature, religion...

... an isolated act motivated by urban conditions of poverty, but many women became skilled repeat offenders who worked individually or in teams, taking advantage of the growing transportation networks that linked villages, towns, and cities. The theft examined includes shoplifting, pickpocketing, burglary...

... a trope that characterizes Chinese female medical professionals’ understanding of Algeria’s reproductive culture—that its preference for a large family endangers women’s health. Yang was sent on a medical team to Algeria by the Health Commission of Hubei Province according to a health cooperation...

..., translator, and critic who has been working for years as a feminist film and art critic. Salem, the director, had been wanting to contribute to an artistic production like Lissa that would make a difference among young Egyptians. Once the team came together, we were ready to start working. By the end...

... and creating a participatory space for organizing in the lead-up to the march, and second, forming the various teams that collaborated before and during the march. The Feminist Bloc attempted to practice these two elements in ways that reflect our collective values, as well as to practice feminism, not dictate...

... play that does not hold for fans. When women fans swear, when they sing about how their team’s rival is not man enough, they are also sharing in the delikanlı conceptualization of fairness in football in Turkey. Women fans’ relationship to hegemonic masculinity is not one-dimensional...

... of these materials into a globally accessible virtual archive. Begun in 2002–3, the WWQI was not a neat and cleanly conceived idea, and many years of slow incubation and maturation and failed grant applications passed before a team of five Qajar-era scholars (Dominic Brookshaw, Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar, Nahid...

..., Najmabadi and her team recorded audio details of the story behind the sources so they could later extract the metadata to make an item searchable in its archive. Quickly, however, Najmabadi and her colleagues realized that these stories helped give life to the object, photograph, or document. Thus...

... team for their invitation to this position and to Didem Havlioglu as my predecessor. The books, films, papers, conferences, and various scholarly debates reviewed in this section are not limited to the work that explicitly focuses on gender. For several decades, our predecessors have contributed...

... people to stand up against it. Thus the primary focus of their work is to build community outreach teams comprising local people who speak to their neighbors and community kin to promote zero tolerance for sexual harassment and more recently to recruit schools, universities, small businesses...

..., it was recognized that a newsletter alone could not meet the needs of the growing community of Middle East feminist scholars. Thus, in the early 2000s, a team of senior AMEWS members, including miriam cooke, Sondra Hale, and Suad Joseph, formed an AMEWS publication committee, headed by Hale. Together...

... bath. It offered new dress codes as well as new bodily practices, such as hiking, setting up camp, or playing team sports, which demanded physical strength and endurance and hence were not stereotypically associated with femininity. Muslim and Christian youth movements also allowed many Algerian girls...

.... Banat complemented my own work by allowing my poetry and essays to be framed within ongoing social and cultural conversations about the region. I felt adamant about contributing to Banat in any way I could. Over the next few weeks I got to meet Banat’s team members through Skype. Five in total...

... at www.jmews.org/submission-guidelines/dissertation-abstract-guidelines . The new editorial team includes miriam cooke, Braxton Craven Distinguished Professor of Arab Cultures and director of the Duke University Middle East Studies Center; Banu Gökarıksel, associate professor of geography and global studies...

... three hundred activist men and women and some civil organizations. Working in most Syrian cities, we have organized teams in Damascus, the countryside around Damascus, Aleppo, Al-Sweida, and Homs that foster initiatives under the name Syrian Women’s Forum for Peace. Also, friends and supporters...

... completed her PhD in cultural anthropology at Duke University and accepted a postdoctoral position. She contributed greatly to the journal’s success over the two years she was part of the editorial office team. We are happy at the same time to welcome as the managing editor for volumes 13 and 14 Rachel...

..., HELEM has a team of fifteen activists with a core of five involved in executive and administrative tasks. The legal services aspects of HELEM include monitoring the cases of persons arrested for (homo)sexuality or nonnormative gender identity. This includes supporting transgender women who engage...

... 1960s, Farhat established her own private tapestry atelier in Radès. Farhat worked closely with a small team of weavers to produce grand tapestries, including some that illustrated Penelope weaving and reweaving Odysseus’s funeral shroud. This motif allowed Farhat to depict how, like Penelope, female...