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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 161–178.
Published: 01 July 2015
... Saddam Hussein trauma autobiography This article uses Lacanian theory to examine Zainab Salbi’s autobiography, Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny; Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam , published in 2005 and written in English with Laurie Becklund. 1 Salbi is a US citizen who was born...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 22–47.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Kamran Rastegar A comparative study of Liana Badr’s The Eye of the Mirror and Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India shows that these two novels present intriguingly similar feminist frameworks through which the traumas of war and communal violence may be addressed. They do so by erasing the distinction...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 268–274.
Published: 01 July 2016
... historiography situated at the intersections of memory, trauma, and resistance. 1. Since 2004 the new governing bodies and ruling elites have co-opted ʿAshura’s meaning, practices, and rituals to advance their own political agendas. 2. I have published articles related to the first and third...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 283–305.
Published: 01 November 2015
... notably, the testimony of French doctors was increasingly used to assess physical traumas endured by young brides claiming “wrongful consummation” of their betrothal and women demanding release from marriages they claimed had never been consummated. I found that the effects of this expertise shift were...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 238–259.
Published: 01 July 2022
.... Notably, the article examines the politics of writing trauma, gender, and race into the text and analyzes the picture of other Iranian women through the mirror of Satrapi’s graphic novel. It argues that in writing Persepolis , Satrapi has made an undeniable contribution to challenging the dominant...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 63–91.
Published: 01 March 2012
... contributes to socially and politically contextualized and gender-sensitive trauma research, as well as to the larger political and sociological debate on reconciliation processes after war and conflict. Karin Mlodoch is psychologist and research fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 260–284.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of ordinary people during the Syrian revolution (2011). This essay demonstrates how al-Masri’s poetry grafts landscapes of pain and resistance in a poetics of the gut that bears witness to horror, trauma, and resistance. It focuses on the trope of blood writing, documentary poetry or poésie-vérité...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 382–410.
Published: 01 November 2016
... domain as an expression of collective traumas and silenced pasts, contribute to peace building in Turkey? 25. Ibid. 26. Gülten, interview with author, Istanbul, August 7, 2009. 27. Ibid. References Açıkgöz Salih Can . 2011 . “ Sacrificial Limbs of Sovereignty .” PhD diss...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 124–127.
Published: 01 March 2017
... investigate femininity in some capacity, though Jarmakani’s chapters on sheikhs attend more to the construction of masculinity. Meanwhile, Al-Samman studies how tropes around Arab femininity are visited and revised in Arab women’s writing. Each text situates close readings within discourses of trauma...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 424–432.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., occupation, and civil war. Iraqis have struggled to overcome the collective and often ongoing traumas of this history to shape new collective narratives. The young protagonists of the Tarkib arts collective seek to change the narrative about the city of Baghdad with the simple but powerful slogan “Baghdad...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 433–441.
Published: 01 November 2022
....” The overall effect is that of “a painful abscess,” she explains, “that is prodded and examined only to burst, releasing a pent-up torrent that takes on a force of its own: it is like a descent from the quiet contemplation of old traumas to an uncontrolled rage triggered by the memories revisited...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 287–293.
Published: 01 July 2021
... reconcile her own experiences of gender-based violence and trauma. The cathartic use of her works contrasts with the viewing experience of the spectators, who may be disturbed by the violent subject matter and its explicit presentation. On this question Mokded recognized that her intent is to shock viewers...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 111–113.
Published: 01 March 2015
... intriguing aspects is its treatment of normative scripts, such as the one connecting Holocaust trauma with Jewish nationalism. Instead of naturalizing the conjugation of genealogy and territorialism, Schulman’s narrative suggests a critical conceptualization of diaspora that is driven by a counterdiscourse...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 423–429.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and suffering. Listening to stories of domestic violence, sexual abuse, and trauma from both Iraqi and US women artists made me realize that one form of suffering is not more severe than another, and that US and Iraqi women’s stories have much in common. I was touched by Elham’s stories of the Yazidi women...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 377–382.
Published: 01 November 2019
... comprises two main vocabularies: the national narrative of sumūd (endurance) and the language of trauma, promoted by the international humanitarian interventions that thrive throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territories. In both these vocabularies, detainees’ wives are neither survivors of violence nor...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 199–215.
Published: 01 July 2015
... recall of past experience is also an attempt to overcome trauma and consolidate fragmented parts of selfhood through the act of writing. The narrating “I” in A Mountainous Journey confesses that “our childhood complexes influence us all our lives. Those who generated them in us pass on; the days...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 238–240.
Published: 01 July 2023
...-called honor killings and related suicides. Even though Schmidinger did not explicitly highlight the protection of the Êzidi in Europe and North America from a gender perspective, this book clearly presents the need for post-trauma support for the vulnerable gender groups who fled from the war...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 98–100.
Published: 01 March 2019
... to the theme of postrevolutionary trauma, Varzi explores the lack of artistic freedom and freedom of expression in contemporary Iranian society. Last Scene Underground considers the risks taken by writers, playwrights, directors, and actors as they practice their art in a heavily censored environment where...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 323–342.
Published: 01 November 2016
... motivated sexual violence in conflict has been instrumental to breaking the silence on the topic. The motives (humiliation, emasculation, domination) and impact (trauma, loss of dignity, denial) of such politically motivated acts in the Egyptian context are similar to those reported in contexts of armed...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 389–391.
Published: 01 November 2019
... part of a collective effort to manage the trauma and loss of political violence, as well as the socially fragmenting effects of modernization. Taking Prozak can also indicate an embodied aspiration toward Western modernity’s liberal individualism, rooted in biomedical accounts of mental illness...