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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 75–98.
Published: 01 November 2007
...Ashraf Zahedi This article examines the history of the veil and its changing social meanings in Iran. Embedded in the meaning of the veil is the erotic meaning of female hair. The symbiotic relations of the “cover” (the veil) and the “covered” (female hair) are central to this history. Iranian...
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in The Doubling Self: Contemporary Tunisian Art by Meriem Bouderbala and Najah Zarbout
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 3. Najah Zarbout, image 1 from Veil Flight ( Vole voile , 2007). China ink with quill pen on drawing paper, 60 × 80 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
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in The Doubling Self: Contemporary Tunisian Art by Meriem Bouderbala and Najah Zarbout
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 4. Najah Zarbout, image 2 from Veil Flight ( Vole voile , 2007). China ink with quill pen on drawing paper, 80 × 60 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
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in The Doubling Self: Contemporary Tunisian Art by Meriem Bouderbala and Najah Zarbout
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 5. Najah Zarbout, image 4 from Veil Flight ( Vole voile , 2007). China ink with quill pen on drawing paper, 80 × 60 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 416–437.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Farzaneh Hemmasi Abstract This article explores the media controversy surrounding the victory of Ermia, a veiled female vocalist, on the 2013 expatriate Iranian talent competition Googoosh Music Academy (GMA). A historically and ethnographically informed “ethnotextual” analysis of a selection...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 139–160.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Saba Abbas Abstract This article provides insight into the fashionable veiling trend in Amman, Jordan. Drawing on interviews I conducted in 2011 and 2012, I argue that the women in this study understand veiling to be a means for enhancing, rather than containing, the beauty of the body. Through my...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 85–88.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Nada Elia Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S. , Jarmakani Amira . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2008 . Pp. xiii, 236 . ISBN 987-0-230-60472-8 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 113–116.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Elham Gheytanchi Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patriarchy in Iran , Moallem Minoo . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2005 . Pp. ix, 269 . ISBN 0-520-24345-5 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 123–125.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Hosna Sheikholeslami Veiled Voices , Maher Brigid . Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, USA : Typecast Films , 2009 . 59 minutes. ISBN 4351912238 . Copyright © 2011 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2011 FILM REVIEW mn 123...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 116–119.
Published: 01 July 2012
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A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence,
from the Middle East to America
Leila Ahmed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011
352 pages. ISBN 978-0-300-17095-5.
Joan Wallach Scott, Institute for Advanced Study
Leila Ahmed’s Women...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 126–129.
Published: 01 November 2007
..., anthropology, history, and
Middle Eastern cultures will find this book an intriguing and challenging
exploration of a subject that merits more academic attention.
Veiled Empire:
Gender & Power in Stalinist Central Asia
Douglas Northrop. Ithaca...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 220–239.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Claudia Yaghoobi Abstract While text-based and cyberspace campaigns against compulsory veiling in Iran have received much attention, Iranian diasporic creative writers have also engaged in this resistance through their writings, but they have remained almost unacknowledged. This article argues...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11575522.
Published: 10 January 2025
...Merve Kütük-Kuriş [email protected] Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: State, Society, and Gender in the Early Republic . Sevgi Adak . Tauris , 2022 . 222 pages. isbn 9781784537920 . Copyright © 2025 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2025 REVIEW Anti...
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in “My Veil Makes Me Beautiful”: Paradoxes of Zeena and Concealment in Amman
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 July 2015
Figure 5. A veiling style that exposes the neck, displayed in a shop window in Amman. Author’s personal collection.
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in “My Veil Makes Me Beautiful”: Paradoxes of Zeena and Concealment in Amman
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 July 2015
Figure 3. Fashionable veiling over Western-style clothes. Author’s personal collection.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Ellen McLarney In the months leading up to 9/11 and in its immediate aftermath, the media demonized the burqa as “Afghanistan’s veil of terror,” a tool of extremists and the epitome of political and sexual repression. Around the time of Afghanistan’s presidential and parliamentary elections in 2004...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 46–74.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Noor Al-Qasimi This article examines how the phenomenon of the ‘abaya-as-fashion is accommodated by the hegemonic order of Islamic patriarchy in the region of the Arab Gulf states. The traditional ‘abaya, or body veil commonly worn by national women across the Arab Gulf, is juxtaposed against...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 54–80.
Published: 01 March 2013
... to veiling, gender relations, marriage, and sexuality. This paper examines this particular segment of titles in order to determine how they present a set of behaviors, thoughts, and feelings that we would recognize as erotic in nature—that is, pertaining to sexual desire and its expression, romantic...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 89–118.
Published: 01 November 2008
... and the public spheres. In the past two decades, gradual transgressions of urf and sharia have become a sign of modernity and resistance for many women and young people who wish to generate changes in their situation. Since 2001, the trend of willfully neglected veiling (bad-hejabi) in physical space has been...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 24–41.
Published: 01 March 2015
... and reproduces Amin as a modern pious role model for Iranian women, a conservative in her viewpoints on gender relations, and an advocate of the veil. This selective attention worked to recuperate the traditional gender viewpoints of the Islamic Republic while facilitating demands to expand religious education...
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