...Hanan Hammad Abstract Court records, police reports, and security statistics indicate that theft was the most frequent crime committed by imprisoned Egyptian women in the interwar period, although scholarship has largely focused on their involvement in prostitution. Theft by women was typically...

... Gökarıksel 2016 ). In “Disreputable by Definition” Hanan Hammad explains how interwar Egyptian women participated in theft. Poverty placed women in an antagonistic relationship with the elite ideal of satr , a concept of Egyptian respectability that emphasizes “sexual, moral, and socioeconomic...

...Mona L. Russell Love, Theft, and Other Entanglements . A film by Alayan Muayad . Palcine Productions , 2015 . 93 minutes. (Arabic with English subtitles). Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 For most of Muayad Ayalan’s first full-length...

... of “this group of families living in the slums and working in theft and pickpocketing, where women are the ones who are working, while the men stay at home” ( El-Mogaz 2014 ). Another article describes the Ghagar depicted in the series in these terms: “[They are] a new slice of the Egyptian society...

...Salam Al-Mahadin Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 W onder Woman (dir. Patty Jenkins, 2017), a US film based on a DC Comics superhero, was released to rave reviews in the United States even as it was mired in controversy related to its Israeli female...

...Angie Abdelmonem; Susana Galán Between 2005 and 2010, in contrast, anti–sexual harassment interventions in Egypt by women’s and feminist nongovernmental organizations had focused largely on raising awareness and improving laws and policies, although there were early efforts at bottom-up...

... and reproduces Amin as a modern pious role model for Iranian women, a conservative in her viewpoints on gender relations, and an advocate of the veil. This selective attention worked to recuperate the traditional gender viewpoints of the Islamic Republic while facilitating demands to expand religious education...

... a framework for rereading the graphic novel that highlights intersectional aspects of identities that appeared in the text. Through this lens this article looks at how Satrapi ties her personal story to the story of other Iranian women and at the nuances of the identities she represents to her Western readers...

..., although recent events suggest a pronouncedly different future. Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies Vol. 8, No. 3 (Fall 2012) © 2012 89 90  mn  Journal of Middle East women’s studies  8:3...