...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...

...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...

... in the kingdom was less relevant, not because they are ultraconservatives or anti–women driving activists but because they have been driving for years in Saudi villages, remote areas, and across agricultural cities without facing major reprisals. There have never been actual provisions in the Saudi traffic...

... 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...

...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...

... to apply a specific form of agency in relation to the handweaving tradition in northern Iran. This study is the result of empirical research in two villages, Sakineh-abaad and Anbarran, and two cities, Rasht and Tehran. While for one group of women weaving is incompatible with modern ideals of womanhood...

... 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...

... mobilization and women’s labor in Istanbul. She talks with villagers and barbers, feminists and politicians, minorities and businesspeople—sometimes people who are all of these at once—and observes how seemingly Islamic themes relate to nationalism. She also observes that women and minorities are more likely...

...) 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...

... 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. There’s something like a directive from...

... Sea coast. A few episodes occurred twenty to forty years ago, 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...

... 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...

... 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 Slyomovics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. xxv + 294 pp. including...

..., exudes the dignity of a traditional Pal- estinian village leader. Abu ‘Adil is seeking permission from the Israeli authorities to host a wedding for his son. To do so, he must convince the governor to lift the curfew he has imposed on the village. Abu ‘Adil’s demeanor contrasts starkly...

... this internal emotional life range from themes of desire and sexuality to shifts between love and resentment of Mergan’s children, given their naïveté and carelessness when dealing with the new industrial farming project in their village. Seen holistically, Dowlatabadi’s representations of militancy, love...

... 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...