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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 105–133.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Dongxin Zou Abstract Sent by the Chinese government on medical missions, Chinese female ob-gyns have served in rural and small-town public hospitals in Algeria and Morocco for more than fifty years. Yet little is known about the medical encounters or how the ob-gyns perceived patients...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 376–394.
Published: 01 November 2017
... 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...
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Published: 01 November 2018
Figure 5. Arab Camp in foreground; American Camp, also known as “Dhahran Camp,” in background. Oilmen unselfconsciously established Dhahran Camp as a colonial implantation. Most of the American inhabitants were white Texans hailing from oil towns. Note the stark difference in construction
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 423.
Published: 01 November 2022
... there. Stories lurk on each of the historical streets that crisscross Mardin and turn it into a labyrinth—my town with the ocher atmosphere. Armenians, Arabs, Syriacs, Chaldeans, Mahallamis, Kurds: in this town we have all lived together for centuries. At times the history of the powerful led us to kill one...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 126–138.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., a town on Tehran’s southern outskirts. Mahdieh believed that her position as a religious but socially active woman allowed her to be culturally accepted by the conservative villagers and to serve as a role model for women, which helped normalize women’s education and work. When Mahdieh taught a class...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 120–122.
Published: 01 July 2007
... for France. Touma is a young
Algerian woman who sides with the French colonial rulers and works
as an informant against her own people. Despite the treason involved
and the curses she receives from the town’s people, including those of
her brother who ends up killing her, we feel sorry for her...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 157–162.
Published: 01 July 2005
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achievements, particularly in her ability to leave her home town in western
Iran at the age of eighteen and live on her own in Tehran for the past few
years. Most men, she says at one point, are very surprised to find out that a
woman lives by herself. But now, she emphasizes, many are used to her work...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 135–138.
Published: 01 March 2008
... that of the
two couples Rothenberg describes was opined. Rather, as the years went
by, the young husband, a pharmacist, loaded his wife down with gold
jewelry, a very visible sign, much discussed among women, of her value
to him notwithstanding their lack of children, and she was the fi rst in
town...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 473–478.
Published: 01 November 2021
... with him in Al-Fayūm, a district that was a roughly three-hour train ride south of Cairo. For unknown reasons, her Egyptian paramour then abandoned her. She went on to reside in Cairo and Tanta, working as a dressmaker. Unable to make ends meet, she landed in a brothel in Ismailia, a town located...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 110–125.
Published: 01 March 2013
... the way they made financial decisions and treated monetary issues.
I took part in some of their parties, gatherings, and out-of-town trips. I
visited them in their homes when a new baby was born or a young couple
got married and invited them to mine. Through verbal and non-verbal...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 65–94.
Published: 01 March 2006
....
A visit to the barracks in any town or the seminaries in religious cit-
ies in Iran reveals the wide extent of early marriage among boys. The
conscripts’ families marry them off for a variety of reasons, including
an attempt to gain exemption from the army by claiming family re...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 268–291.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Figure 5. Arab Camp in foreground; American Camp, also known as “Dhahran Camp,” in background. Oilmen unselfconsciously established Dhahran Camp as a colonial implantation. Most of the American inhabitants were white Texans hailing from oil towns. Note the stark difference in construction...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (1): 129–131.
Published: 01 March 2011
... articles and two
books, Patience and Power: Women’s Lives in a Moroccan Village (Schen-
kman Books, 1983) and Adolescence in a Moroccan Town: Making Social
JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES
Vol. 7, No. 1 (Winter 2011) © 2011...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 115–117.
Published: 01 July 2007
...
the process of learning Turkish and the problems encountered when one
has only a limited vocabulary in one’s host’s language.
Th e stories come from urban settings, especially Istanbul, and from
smaller cities and towns, mostly in western Turkey. Only in two tales do
the protagonists...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 222–243.
Published: 01 July 2017
..., Turkishness, and proper citizenship (132–33). While this medical discourse discouraged returning soldiers from illicit sex, men originally from small villages and towns were now seasoned in the sexual possibilities and encounters offered by an urban lifestyle and might have cultivated new desires...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 354–375.
Published: 01 November 2017
... on Kurdish towns need to be understood in relation to its fear of the growing strength of the Kurdish political movement in bordering northern Syria, particularly in light of its close links to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). However, in this article our focus will be on the Turkish-Kurdish context...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 107–111.
Published: 01 March 2016
... if the joke is on her. Her frankness about her own sexual awakening leads to her excommunication from church, town, family, and society. Tante Rosa bravely confronts poverty, social isolation, and the risk of unemployment during wartime, preferring these to the comforts and luxuries of a tedious marriage...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 147–151.
Published: 01 November 2005
..., studying, or teaching in Kurdish, although possession of Kurd-
ish-language materials is permitted. While signifi cant communities of
Kurds in Damascus and Aleppo—600,000 altogether—now speak Ara-
bic, Kurds in the mountainous region of Kurd Dagh and in plain towns
in northeast...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 195–215.
Published: 01 July 2022
... considerations: “[My sister] married somebody who was from the same small itty-bitty town as us, who was on the same path as her, and had the same level of education as her. Somebody whose family was well known and was financially stable fulfilled all the expectations that my dad had set.” Ayda’s tone and words...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 July 2009
...-to-face, in-depth,
qualitative interviews with urban youth of Tehran (ages 18–25), both
men and women of varying socioeconomic classes, but with an em-
phasis on the urban youth residing in certain parts of town.4 I have
done 43 online interviews with students from Tehran University (in
the form...
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