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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 14–40.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Sima Shakhsari In this essay, I argue that during the post-September 11 th “war on terror,” the Iranian homosexual became transferred from the position of the abject to the representable subject in transnational political realms. This shift involves Iranian opposition groups, transnational media...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 416–437.
Published: 01 November 2017
... transnational media popular music Iran veiling and piety political participation In 2011 Iranian pop icon Googoosh began a new venture through the London-based Manoto 1 satellite television station Googoosh Music Academy (GMA), a pop music talent competition in which nonprofessional contestants...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 139–142.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., and Cultural Studies and Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies , as well as book chapters in texts including Circuits of Visibility: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures , ed. Radha Hegde (New York University Press, 2011). Al-Qasimi is currently working on a manuscript entitled, Anticipatory Governance...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 155–157.
Published: 01 November 2012
... including Circuits of Visibility: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures, ed. Radha Hegde (New York University Press, 2011). Al-Qasimi is currently working on a manuscript entitled, Anticipatory Governance, Queer Difference and the Post-Oil Generation in the United Arab Emirates. She received...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 1–13.
Published: 01 November 2012
... and Communication also at NYU. She has authored numerous articles in Camera Obscura: Feminism, Media, and Cultural Studies and Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies , as well as book chapters in texts including Circuits of Visibility: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures , ed. Radha Hegde (New York...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2024
... media influencers (both Iranian and non-Iranian) who garnered outsize social media attention. While the movement in Iran gained extraordinary transnational support, there was also a great deal of manipulation happening among the movement’s hashtags with a large number of bots and trolls (Al Lawati...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 1–7.
Published: 01 July 2006
..., and transnational linkages. Feminist activism is propelling non-state actors to the forefront of social change, making them of inescapable relevance for governments and the global system. The themes of the papers regarding public debates and knowl- edge-production, the media, policymaking...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 1–18.
Published: 01 November 2010
... is currently collaborating with Anna Secor on a National Science Foundation–funded project on the transnational veiling-fashion industry based in Turkey. Ellen McLarney is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. She is currently...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 58–85.
Published: 01 March 2007
... and religion (see also Ignatieff 1993; Kurdish Media 2000) in the evolving life of the transnational Kurdish nation. In early 2003, the Iraqi Baathist regime was overthrown through US military inter- vention, leading to a deterioration in the status of women in Arab areas of Iraq. The continued...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 35–57.
Published: 01 March 2007
... feminists would especially benefit from regional transnational links—given the nature of the social, economic, political, and geopolitical challenges that face the women and the people of the region in an age of capitalist globalization and empire—the paper warns that some dominant feminisms in the region...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 81–109.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Rita Stephan The Arab Women’s Solidarity Association United (AWSA United) is a pluralistic, transnational, and scholastic women’s advocacy group that emerged in cyberspace in 1999. Arab women in the diaspora sought cyberspace as a safe space to connect with one another in their activism for women’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 145–174.
Published: 01 November 2009
... inspired a sense of belonging to a transnational Lebanese family under siege. This naturalized the practice of “comfort mothering,” which met the emotive needs of a diaspora engaged from a distance with a war in the homeland. The paper explores how concepts and practices of belonging to a transnational...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 149–163.
Published: 01 March 2014
...,” rather than by a party affiliation (e.g., Sudanese Communist Party) or an ideology (e.g., Communist). We noted that this change is extant elsewhere in the world, and that launched an ongoing project (Hale and Kadoda 2012). We are also working on youth activism and social media, with reference...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 40–61.
Published: 01 November 2014
... movements”—an oxymoron in postmodern par- lance? I have tried to make sense of this. Simultaneously, I have been working on knowledge production, especially transnational feminist knowledge production and relating it to what I have called “migrating epistemologies” (Hale 2009). Then I began...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 111–113.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of the world. The book’s insider view, therefore, is important given the misrepresentations of Iran and Iranians, especially women, in international media, as well as the lack of access to Iran, which has resulted in skewed knowledge of the country and its people. The first part of the book pays close...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 96–116.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of struggle offline, and they fit the American social-media corporation’s vision of a community that empowered women to live their best lives. With its English name and support-group genre, Surviving Hijab adroitly blended religious specificity and transnational self-help culture. Manal’s post announcing...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 144–164.
Published: 01 July 2020
... in the national and transnational debates on political gender issues but also to share their perspectives on more personal and taboo subjects such as sexuality, divorce, and hijab wearing (Batmanghelichi and Mouri 2017 ). Women in Iran are using social media as a platform to raise gender awareness and to gain...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2017
... ). Existing works on transnational forms of Muslim practice focus on the global circulation and cross-border movements of Islamic movements (Louer 2012 ; Mandaville 2003 ; Al-Rasheed 2005 ); Muslim populations, media, and consumer goods (cooke and Lawrence 2005 ; Ewing 2008 ; Werbner 2002...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 58–90.
Published: 01 November 2010
... to incorporate regional characteristics without alienating readers in terms of age or location—de Zwart aiming for features that were “transnational, cross-generational.”3 The need to cater to a wider than usual reader demographic is typi- cal of the early stages of a new media market—like...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 143–154.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Adi Kuntsman; Sanaz Raji Adi Kuntsman is Simon Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests include queer politics in Israel-Palestine; war and violence in digital media...