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...Sedef Arat-Koç This paper proposes that regional feminisms would be productive in avoiding some of the problems of “global feminism” or the co-opted shapes feminist transnationalism might take when it serves the priorities of international organizations or imperial powers. While Middle Eastern...

... argue that “Muslim marriages” constitute transnational forms that are not simply marked by the extension or diffusion of kinship networks, ethnonational forms, and religious piety movements across borders. They reveal how transnationalism constitutes a dynamic field in which kinship, ethnonationalism...

... with Transnationalism Suad Joseph ./ ABSTRACT A new lexicon for studying families living across and between the borders of states and nations emerged in the past two decades...

... feminist fiction reveals her cosmopolitan female subjectivity, offering a radical vision of global sisterhood that transcends geographic, political, and religious boundaries. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 gender transnationalism Arabic literature novel...

.... MARY ANN FAY  1 INTRODUCTION early twentieth-century Middle Eastern Feminisms, Nationalisms, and Transnationalisms Mary Ann Fay  he essays in this special issue of JMEWS deepen our...

... of this paper are twofold: One, we argue that diaspora should be understood as a historical rather than only a cultural phenomenon. Second, diaspora and transnationalism are both historical and political categories of social organization which involve a complex of national, international, and transnational...

... lives and political engagement, and to changing political economy locally, nationally, and transnationally. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2023 Turkish-Kurdish conflict Islamist women Kurdish women...

... subjectivities and histories in unique ways. Finally, Gülşah Torunoğlu’s essay addresses the promises and limitations of transnationalism as a method of analysis, and discusses “relational comparison” as an alternative analytic lens through which to scrutinize the interconnected feminist networks in the Middle...

...). Transnationalism necessarily complicates the ways in which cultural and historical specifi city informs the academic study of Islam and Muslims in Europe. More precisely, it demands that the secular organization of post-Christian societies within which Islamic subjectivities are consti- tuted as well...

... traditions in force in the United States and Europe and their colonies and the many other tribal and religious legal traditions that granted women rights and protections. Finally, once representation was secured, activists organized transnationally with their allies to get their concerns on the radar...

..., and responses to global- ization, transnationalisms, and neoliberalism in the Arab Gulf region. She is currently working on a book manuscript on anticipatory gover- nance, biopolitics, and the Emirati post-oil generation. David Simonowitz is Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle East...

... in Canada since 9/11 and on the “white Turk” phenomenon as it relates to the reconfi guration of social and political identities under neoliberal globalization and post-Cold War geopolitics. Her publications include “Whose Transnationalism? Canada, ‘Clash of Civilizations’ Discourse and Arab...

... the power to re-direct the course of individual students’ lives. Transnationalism and Gender Studies For both of us, questions of what it means to do transnational work and azza basarudin & khanum shaikh  mn  7 how to construct a methodology that allows...

... of Heritage & Antiquities. Mathew Gagné is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He has an academic and professional background in sociol- ogy, Middle East Studies, diaspora and transnationalism studies, and program and policy evaluation. After some wandering...

..., and transnationalism, with valuable insights for scholars investigating contemporary modes of international intervention and gendered imperialist practices in the Middle East more broadly. ...

... who are primarily interested in gender stud- ies and debates on immigration and transnationalism in Europe. Bowen begins by noting that scarves are not unusual in the Mediterranean: the Spanish mantilla, Hermès scarves, and images of Grace Kelly meander- ing through Monaco, hair bescarved...

... informed “psychiatric subjectivities” mediated by affective attachments to postrevolutionary generational identities in the Islamic Republic (110). Clinical depression is a pathology codified and circulated transnationally through the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical...

..., and Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. ...

...,” and “intellec- tual Arab feminists.” One respondent described the group as “an online group of transnationally based Arab women, mostly living in the West and united by the struggle for women’s rights in the Arab world, for Arab rights in the West, and for freedom and democracy in the Arab...

... a traditional Middle Eastern Studies perspective, the region stretches from North Africa through Iraq, and covers the non-Arab countries of Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Is- rael, as well as sub-Saharan Sudan. But in an age of globalization and transnationalism, such a geographically bounded notion...