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“It Used to Be Forbidden”: Kurdish Women and the Limits of Gaining Voice
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Marlene Schäfers Abstract Women’s rights and human rights projects in Turkey and elsewhere routinely construe and celebrate subaltern voice as an index of individual and collective empowerment. Through an ethnographic study of Kurdish women singers’ ( dengbêj s) efforts to engage...
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Narrative Strategies of Self-Definition and Voice in Leila Abouzeid’s Return to Childhood
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Ariel M. Sheetrit Abstract This article presents an analysis of the Moroccan writer Leila Abouzeid’s Rujuʿ ila al-tufula ( 1993 ; Return to Childhood: The Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman , 1998) through the prism of relational theories of autobiography. It exposes narrative strategies of voice...
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An Inner Voice Liberated: Feminist Reading of Lilian Weisberger’s Artwork
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 22–42.
Published: 01 March 2021
... a quest for liberating an inner voice through creation. Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2021 girlhood studies Israeli art art and psychology feminist art Lilian Weisberger is an artist, feminist, and political activist. Born in Buenos Aires in 1961, she...
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in Translating across Genres: A Conversation with Sherine Hamdy and Tarek Moustafa Abdel-Salam
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 7. Bodoor, a young Egyptian feminist writer, while doing the voice-over for Lissa the audio film.
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A Much-Needed Voice of Resistance
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 162–165.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... Hers was the outspoken, eloquent voice of resistance I needed. It helped me address and analyze what had troubled me for so long that I needed to run away to discover it. I didn’t know it at the time, but when in 1972 I started writing my first novel, L’excisée , about the physical...
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The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual: Devotional Practices of Pakistan and India by Shemeem Burney Abbas
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 133–138.
Published: 01 November 2005
...Karen G. Ruffle The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual: Devotional Practices of Pakistan and India , Abbas Shemeem Burney . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2002 . Pp. xxx + 209 . $45.00 Copyright © 2005 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2005...
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Dissident Writings of Arab Women: Voices against Violence
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 438–441.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Abdelkader Cheref Dissident Writings of Arab Women: Voices against Violence . Mehta Brinda J. . London : Routledge , 2014 . 292 pages. isbn 9780415730440. Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 Right from the outset Brinda J. Mehta’s...
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Dissident Writings of Arab Women: Voices against Violence
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 233–234.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Brinda Mehta Editors’ Note: Dissident Writings of Arab Women: Voices against Violence won the African Literature Association’s 2016 Book of the Year Award for “its originality, meticulous research, detailed analysis, nuances, anti-essentialist negotiations of identity, thought-provoking...
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Veiled Voices by Brigid Maher
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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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Feminist Voices of the 1990s Generation: A Quest for Identity in Miral al-Tahawy’s Blue Aubergine
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 87–106.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., channeled through creative arts and literature. Due to various political, socioeconomic, and cultural factors, the 1990s became a decade of intensive identity seeking focused especially on feminist issues: A variety of women’s voices and competing ideas on women’s potential and appropriate roles in Egypt...
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Displaced Arab Families: Mothers’ Voices on Living and Coping in Postwar Beirut
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 54–73.
Published: 01 November 2009
... is currently the managing director of a recruitment company in Lebanon. Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009 54 ./ JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 5:3
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Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 433–435.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Francis O’Connor [email protected] Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey . Marlene Schäfers . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2021 . 240 pages. isbn 9780226823058. Copyright © 2023 by the Association...
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Breaking the Silence: French Women’s Voices from the Ghetto by Fadela Amara with Sylvia Zappi
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 97–100.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Mayanthi Fernando Breaking the Silence: French Women’s Voices from the Ghetto , Amara Fadela Zappi Sylvia . Translated with an Introduction by Helen Harden Chenut. Berkeley : University of California Press , 2006 . Pp. 179. ISBN 0-520-24621-7 . Copyright © 2009 Association...
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Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices by Ella Shohat
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 88–90.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Nada Elia Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices , Shohat Ella . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2006 . Pp. xxi, 406 . ISBN 978-08223-3771-1 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009 88 ./ JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 5:2...
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in Translating across Genres: A Conversation with Sherine Hamdy and Tarek Moustafa Abdel-Salam
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 6. Selim, the production assistant of Lissa the audio film, while in the voice-recording studio.
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"If You Ask Me": Sabiha Sertel’s Advice Column, Gender Equity, and Social Engineering in the Early Turkish Republic
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 July 2007
... by the Republican elites’ attempts to redefine family life and gender roles, and to hear, albeit at some remove, the voices of those caught up in such tensions. It also reveals the diversity of voices within the Republican camp in this early formative period. A. HOLLY...
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The Saadawian Androgyny
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 71–86.
Published: 01 March 2017
... androgyny,” is both an innovation and a restoration. Many ancient religious and mystic texts from across the world held very similar views, before patriarchy prevailed and history became dominated by the voice of the few, turning sex/gender into a privilege or a limitation. The Saadawian androgyny...
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Sondra Hale’s “Ethnographic Residuals”: Silence and Non-Silence on Female Genital Cutting
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 105–127.
Published: 01 March 2014
.... In light of the escalating use of FGC in inflamed journalism, misplaced condemnations, and the continuing globalization of the movement for change, I argue we must not cede terrain to the arrogance of such voices, lest we find ourselves complicit with the conflagration undermining human dignity...
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Engendering or Endangering Politics in Algeria? Salima Ghezali, Louisa Hanoune and Khalida Messaoudi
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 60–85.
Published: 01 July 2006
... in Algeria. Equally, he acknowledged the rise of active women who have been fighting to make their voices heard and to break into the public sphere, which has so often been judged as men’s sphere. Armed with professional expertise, social science data, and political commitment, these women campaigned...
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Product and Producer of Palestinian History: Stereotypes of “Self” in Camp Women’s Life Stories
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 86–105.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., and resistance to coercive change.) The Palestinian resistance movement, like other twentieth-century anti-colonialist national movements, rigidified gender “tradition” as a key element of cultural nationalism, while political and economic mobilization gave women new scope for action and for “voice.” The life...
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