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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 129–133.
Published: 01 March 2006
... that will appeal not only to linguists but to
cultural anthropologists, folklorists, feminists, and anyone interested in
the history of gender studies in Morocco, North Africa, and the Islamic
world in general.
The Tree and Other Stories
Abdallah Al-Nasser, translated by Dina Bosio...
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in The Mute E of a Listening Presence: A Collaboration and Interview with Corine Shawi
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Published: 01 November 2020
Figure 5. The tree shot in e muet (2013). © Corine Shawi.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 75–102.
Published: 01 March 2010
... that has few parallels in Western societies. Kazan is, in a sense, a living national treasure. The study situates Kazan and other Muslim women in a genealogical tree of master calligraphers. It suggests furthermore that some of these women are akin to religious scholars. Finally, the study demonstrates...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 126–129.
Published: 01 March 2006
..., and anyone interested in
the history of gender studies in Morocco, North Africa, and the Islamic
world in general.
The Tree and Other Stories
Abdallah Al-Nasser, translated by Dina Bosio and Christopher Tingley. Interlink,
2004. 124 pp.
Reviewed...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 331–340.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Figure 5. The tree shot in e muet (2013). © Corine Shawi. ...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 368–373.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of Women’s Unemployment; Agriculture”). Heinrich Böll Stiftung Derneği Türkiye Temsilciliği, June 23 . tr.boell.org/tr/2015/06/23/turkiyede-kadin-ve-toprak-kadin-issizliginin-kamuflaji-tarim . Erensu Sinan , and Karaman Ozan . 2017 . “ The Work of a Few Trees: Gezi, Politics, and Space...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 177–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
... where the house was, someplace in Durham near campus. In my memory it was a brick house with large trees in the back, very common in this area. But not for Nawal: Since January 1993, I have been in this small house overlooking Duke Forest with its dense masses of tall cedars, pines and oak trees...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 424–432.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of cloth in front of her. The thick white cloth hangs between two tall trees by cords attached to its four corners. After sunset, it is illuminated by lights arranged high up on the trees’ branches. Roze and members of the audience walk around its two sides. As Roze stands on one side of the cloth...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 75–94.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and alternative rituals, such as venerating female saints, visiting shrines, or undertaking local pilgrimages. Intriguingly, after her conversion, Halima recalls a pilgrimage to a sacred tree in a shrine. Throughout the novella these personal revivals are unexpected because they reveal various notions...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11412052.
Published: 19 September 2024
... of sweet pea owers, a gift that seems to please her (Pirzad 2001: 289, 270). Chiragh-ha ends with the image of butter ies ying over a red rose, which can be understood as a reinscription of the spiritual dimension to Artush s love for Clarice. Yet Clarice also refers to the Judas tree in her yard, noting...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 139–143.
Published: 01 July 2006
... of uninitiated readers) is the dif-
ficulty in establishing an historically anchored chronological sequence of
events in (and interpersonal features of) Helen’s life and the lives of her
family members, which must be pieced together by widely dispersed bits
of information. The family tree (ix), for example...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 240–255.
Published: 01 July 2021
... they quite happily feed on the nectar of nearby date trees, but following a bombing that destroys many date trees and wipes out an entire apartment building, Dalal and Abu Ghāyib discover that hives have begun to war with one another. Dalal describes the scene: “The bees start circling around the hives...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 107–124.
Published: 01 March 2008
....
Th is movement began in the mountains of Lebanon and Syria,
on the mountain of the white-haired old man of Lebanon, where the
ground is covered with trees whose wood was taken to Solomon the
Wise, the same mountain that has witnessed many wonders of the
world...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 137–140.
Published: 01 March 2018
... share, from Middle Eastern literature to women’s roles, and issues about violence, sexuality and war. We also connect at a deep emotional level; we talk about our fears, joys and experiences. . . . miriam cooks a delicious chicken Masala, and we have many lunches under the trees in my garden...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 374–378.
Published: 01 November 2018
... project titled Visual Conversations—VI (2017). The installation is a photo dialogue on fertility between ten female participants. Arbak initiated the conversation by sending an identical photo of a woman’s hand on the trunk of a tree in a forest to each person, inviting her to send a response photograph...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 95–121.
Published: 01 March 2006
...). There the child encounters
trees and flowers resembling boys and girls, with arms, legs, and hair, and
their companions, which are hoes and jugs of water. The child pursues his
quest for knowledge by engaging the fantastic, hybrid creatures inhabit-
ing the island. These plant/children befriend him and show...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 193–197.
Published: 01 November 2009
... the Sheikh speaks of how mulberry trees grow
wild without taming and cultivation by human hands. At several points
in the novel, Younes equates the Sheikh’s insistence on taming nature
with the patriarchal control he exercises, in varying degrees, over his
sister, daughter, and son. As he...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 343–347.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., Göknar finds that most of the torment comes from other women, especially mothers-in-law and neighbors, including their cruel references to infertile women as “barren trees” (126). Motherhood is the main source of a woman’s belonging, adult gender identity, marital stability, family relations, and power...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 125–130.
Published: 01 November 2006
... of this land for endless generations, our ances-
tors have planted and tended these trees, and the settlers have been here
a mere two years, yet they claim it as theirs,” explains a frustrated older
woman as she makes the comment that gives the documentary its title.
Nor does death seem...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 265–286.
Published: 01 July 2017
....” With each murdered girl, a palm tree appeared until there were seven palm trees, “but no boys came and the queen wept and made vows and prayed to the Lord to grant her anything” but this affliction (al-Tahawy 2000 , 73). According to Hamdar ( 2014 , 88), Fatima “repeatedly attempts to exclude her mother’s...
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