...Roberta Micallef We Have No Microbes Here: Healing Practices in a Turkish Black Sea Village , Önder Sylvia Wing . Durham, NC : Carolina Academic Press , 2007 . Pp. xxv, 304 . ISBN 978-0-89089-573-3 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009 108...

... and France with non-governmental organization workers and village girls, it demonstrates how humanitarian work is rendered meaningful by specific actors, its effects coexisting alongside, rather than supplanting, other forms of sociality. In tracing the ways in which a youth habitus based on rights is “made...

...Arbella Bet-Shlimon The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village , Slyomovics Susan . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1998 . xxv + 294 pp. including appendices, notes, bibliography and index. $19.95 paperback. Copyright © 2005 Association...

... driving in villages needs to be understood, as this allows the regime to avoid popular discontent or a “revolution of the hungry” in the hinterlands. At the same time, women’s-rights activists challenging the regime narrative in big cities has always led to crackdowns, because the regime fears...

...Ray Jureidini From a series of interviews with Lebanese middle- and upper-class women in their latter years, the paper traces an oral history of domestic service in Lebanon over the past century. The interviews reveal various periods when women and girls were recruited from the local village poor...

... on nationalism, bilocality and bifocality, and nuclearity. Presenting the case of five closely related and connected families from the same Christian village in the Metn region of Lebanon, the paper argues that their experiences offer new insights into the relationship between nation and family, and nation...

... an isolated act motivated by urban conditions of poverty, but many women became skilled repeat offenders who worked individually or in teams, taking advantage of the growing transportation networks that linked villages, towns, and cities. The theft examined includes shoplifting, pickpocketing, burglary...

... examine just a few of the many sites where “Muslim women’s rights” are differentially in play: in Egyptian and Palestinian women’s NGOs as well as in rural villages where ordinary women and girls live their lives at the intersection of national media and local institutions. Lila Abu-Lughod is Joseph...

... as a journalist, decides to return to his native village because city life has become too expensive and fraught with racial tension. Signs like “Arabs out = Peace + Security” have proliferated over the landscape. Moreover, the narrator’s position at a Jewish newspa- per has changed. His reports from...

... and allusion. Set mostly in perplexed, transformation-torn Arabian cities and villages, The Tree presents an explicit divergence where modernity and history meet resistance and ambivalence. Reflecting on the past reaffirms its richness, inscribing long-lasting traces on what subsequently...

... . New York : Cambridge University Press . Akşit Bahattin . 1993 . “ Studies in Rural Transformation in Turkey, 1950–1990 .” In Culture and Economy: Changes in Turkish Villages , edited by Stirling Paul , 187 – 200 . Huntingdon : Eothen . Delaney Carol . 1991 . The Seed...

...) 2003, 56 minutes Reviewed by Rhoda Kanaaneh, Department of Anthropology, American University Ebtisam Maar’ana’s first feature film is a meditation on political and sexual silencing and a powerful statement of her refusal to be silenced. Mara’ana’s questions to the people in her village...

... interviewed her about excision. Here is an excerpt from that 1983 interview: NES: Clitoridectomy is still practiced in villages. In my village, where I go once a month, they still want all the girls to be excised. In cities, in Cairo, it’s different. EA: Because of the law? NES: No, there’s no law...

..., but most are clustered in the recent present, from the 1990s until now. Two of the more distant in time involve villages and villagers; neverthe- less, the emphasis is on the elite, upper- and middle-class, Westernized families whose members are likely to encounter expatriate women. Some...

... narratives of Palestinian women in the West Bank village of Musharafah, Nefi ssa Naguib’s ethnography, Women, Water and Memory, brings to life the complex social relationships articulated by their diverse biographies. She highlights practices of the mundane in the village to illuminate...

... new and small movement, and the comprehensive reporting of the changes and improvements that took place until 2002 is not a small accomplishment for a small book. The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village Susan...

... Abu ‘Adil in the waiting room of the Israeli military governor for the Galilee. His upright fi gure clothed in white headdress, grey robe, and black cloak embroidered with gold thread, exudes the dignity of a traditional Pal- estinian village leader. Abu ‘Adil is seeking permission from...

..., like Mergan, had been driven out of the rural areas and into the cities, fates that would unfold as part of postrevolutionary political developments. In the novel’s final pages Mergan is poised to leave the village behind to seek work near the city of Shahroud, asking: “What kind of place are the mines...

... Humaydan Younes. Northampton, MA: Interlink, 2008. Pp. 228. ISBN 978-1-56656-706-1. Reviewed by Maya Mikdashi, Columbia University In Wild Mulberries and B as in Beirut, Iman Humaydan Younes narrates the dialectic between Lebanon’s capital city and its villages through...

..., and active participation. Urban women like the informants cited above found themselves at the center of changes due to the protests and implementation of “Islamic” social codes in cities. Some volunteered to work in villages where these events had not been so directly experienced. During the cultural...