...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...

...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...

... 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...

... of society or as socially marginalized; they are outside the usual social structures, not part of them. Another article, from the Egyptian daily newspaper Youm7 , describes how two Ghagar women tried to “travel to Yemen with forged passports, to cross over to Saudi Arabia and to carry out theft, looting...

... of Subversive Feminism .” Guardian , June 5 . www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/05/why-wonder-woman-is-a-masterpiece-of-subversive-feminism . 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...

...Eileen Kuttab [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2024 Since World War II the United States has established and maintained political, economic, cultural, and military hegemony at the global level (Davis and Ness 2022 ). Samir Amin...

...Angie Abdelmonem; Susana Galán Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 One way to change prevailing perceptions that have made sexual harassment acceptable . . . is to work together as a community, where each of us . . . is vigilant . . . and do[es...

...Narges Montakhabi Bakhtvar; Hoda Niknezhad-Ferdos Abstract Women’s bodily experiences, radically stigmatized in Persian culture, have barely been approached in the literature of Iran. However, Rosa Jamali, an eminent postmodern poet in contemporary Iran, mobilizes her poetic palette...

... 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...

... Consultant with Truth Central, a division of McCann WorldGroup. He has also consulted with the World Monuments Fund, IREX, and the Iraqi Board of Heritage & Antiquities. Copyright © 2012 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2012 Rodney Collins...