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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 71–97.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Jared McCormick This inquiry explores questions of movement and tourism in relation to sexuality within the context of Lebanon’s nascent gay travel industry. The first section examines how imagery of Arab men is mediatized and circulated, with (un)intended effects. Many of the images take form...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 354–358.
Published: 01 November 2015
... an elegant woman in a two-piece red dress suit, Amel Karboul. Several days earlier Karboul had been named minister of tourism in Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa’s independent technocratic government, which was tasked with preparing for the 2014 elections ( fig. 3 ). 3 While this appointment pleased the elites...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 89–112.
Published: 01 November 2012
... that is in place for the femmes de nuit
(literally “women of the night,” prostitutes) or the authorization to pro-
vide tourist guidance from the Tunisian Ministry of Tourism, although
these are both terrains of their practice. When I refer to the beznessa as
a group in this essay, I do so...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 343–347.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Ellen J. Amster References Cherry April L. 2014 . “ The Rise of the Reproductive Brothel in the Global Economy: Some Thoughts on Reproductive Tourism, Autonomy, and Justice .” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change 17 , no. 3 , article 2: 1 – 33...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 1–5.
Published: 01 November 2011
... to a growing gay tourism industry. Complementing
this set of articles, the issue also includes book reviews of recent works
that have emerged in the field and collectively demonstrate the growing
importance of sexuality studies.
One of the challenges posed by Middle East sexuality studies...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 331–336.
Published: 01 November 2015
... themselves as redeemed agents of moral rescue at a time when they were facing rising tides of resistance and critique at home. These police offered themselves as allies of Saudi investors interested in eliminating cabaret and tourism businesses along the Nile waterfront and on Giza’s Pyramids Road to make...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 294–303.
Published: 01 July 2021
... mothers are not necessarily PSWs, a disproportionate number of PSWs are in fact single mothers who turn to sex work to provide for themselves and their children. Some Moroccan areas, such as the Mellah District of Marrakech and the beaches and hotels of Agadir, are known for sex tourism, while...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 132–133.
Published: 01 November 2007
... on the
social impact of infertility and in vitro fertilization in Egypt. Her recent
research in Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, and Arab America fo-
cuses on male infertility, Islamic attitudes toward gamete donation, and
reproductive tourism.
Amalia Sa‘ar (Ph.D., Boston University...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 110–111.
Published: 01 July 2009
... and
reproductive tourism in the Arab world. She is the founding editor of
JMEWS and co-editor of the Berghahn Books Series on Fertility, Repro-
duction and Sexuality.
Pardis Mahdavi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Pomona
College in Claremont, California. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociomedical...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 118–119.
Published: 01 July 2008
... in Middle Eastern gender and health issues,
Dr. Inhorn has conducted Fulbright and National Science Foundation–
funded research on the social impact of infertility, assisted reproductive
technologies, and fertility tourism in Egypt, Lebanon, the United Arab
Emirates, and Arab America over...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 326–328.
Published: 01 November 2020
... became increasingly Tunisian in the postindependence period, its leadership and allies in Habib Bourguiba’s regime still sought to create Tunisian art and artisanry that would convey a particular palatable image of Tunisia that would serve the growing tourism industry. At the same time, artisanal...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 343–345.
Published: 01 November 2015
... cameras caught corrupt police in the act of racketeering sex workers. Sex workers in turn began mobilizing and together with the tourism industry revived the profit benefits of “erotic nationalism” (178). Chapter 6 indicts middle-class and state feminism’s collaboration with state brutality in Egypt...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 119–121.
Published: 01 July 2013
... driven by globalization, accelerated
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inequality around the world, the mass movements of peoples, intensified
regional wars and violence, and the increasing medical tourism made
paradoxically possible by disruptions...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11176365.
Published: 18 April 2024
... (Moallem 2018: 111). It has worked closely on this task with the organization of the Iran National Carpet Center and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism (111). As part of the preservation policy for indigenous crafts, the Iranian state has created a loan program to support...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 110–146.
Published: 01 March 2005
... a stabilization and adjustment program and
implemented trade liberalization in 1990–91. As a non-oil economy, it sought
to increase its manufacturing base (e.g., textiles, garments, pharmaceuticals)
as well as its services sector (e.g., banking, tourism, and telecommunications).
After the end...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 81–86.
Published: 01 July 2008
... study of cul-
tural productions of Iranian diasporic communities in New York City,
focusing on representations of sexuality and identity.
Janell Rothenberg (UCLA) described the fi eld of her research as
the interplay of tourism and migration and of gender and sexuality in
urban Morocco...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 62–86.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Yemen: Qat in
Reproductive Tourism Reproductive
Practices Black in a Turkish Sea Village
Depression in Egypt in Cairo Today Press...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 115–136.
Published: 01 July 2006
... by the Department of Antiquities of the Ministry of Tourism and
Antiquities.
Morocco’s first museum, the Kasbah Museum, opened in 1922, its
collection amassed by the French scholar Edouard Michaux-Bellaire dur-
ing the late nineteenth century. This was followed by the opening of the
Dar Jamaï in Meknes...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 147–156.
Published: 01 March 2021
... Parenteau and Carli Hansen at University of Toronto Press. Are there any other forthcoming titles addressing questions of gender and sexuality in the MENA region? SH : Not yet! We have a title, Gringo Love , about the politics of sex tourism in Brazil, which is really interesting. I’d love to get...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 203–224.
Published: 01 July 2016
... . New York : Columbia University Press . Deomampo Daisy . 2013a . “ Gendered Geographies of Reproductive Tourism .” Gender and Society 27 , no. 4 : 514 – 37 . Deomampo Daisy . 2013b . “ Transnational Surrogacy in India: Interrogating Power and Women’s Agency .” Frontiers...
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