...Sumru Atuk Abstract High rates of gender-based violence and sexist political rhetoric are central features of contemporary Turkey. This article explores the complex relationship between the two by drawing on the literature that investigates the (re)making of the category of “woman” in the Middle...

...Christopher Livanos Shirin: Christian-Queen-Myth of Love: A Woman of Late Antiquity—Historical Reality and Literary Effect , Baum Wilhelm . Piscataway : Gorgias Press , 2004 . 114 pp. $38.00 paper. Copyright © 2005 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2005...

... Buthina Canaan Khoury. Women Make Movies, 2004. 56 minutes. Soraida, A Woman of Palestine Tahani Rached. Women Make Movies, 2004. 52 minutes. Reviewed by Nada Elia, Antioch University Seattle “Th e Israeli occupation invades your most private spaces, the space...

...Gülriz Şen [email protected] Creating the Modern Iranian Woman: Popular Culture between Two Revolutions . Liora Hendelman-Baavur . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . ix + 330 pages. isbn 9781108726931 . Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s...

... work to create the figure of the “Kurdish woman.” Instead of falling into the trap of Orientalist constructions of womanhood, Kurdish diasporas imagine “Kurdish woman” as a way to challenge nation-state assimilation projects and erasure by practicing identity at the intersections of ethnicity, religion...

... involved in other politicized ideological movements in Turkey. Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics Beth Baron. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 287. ISBN 0520238575. Reviewed by Omnia El Shakry, University...

...Schirin Amir-Moazami The Production of the Muslim Woman: Negotiating Text, History, and Ideology , Zayzafoon Lamia Ben Youssef . Lanham : Lexington Books , 2005 . Pp. xii, 213 . ISBN 0-739-10962-6 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009 94...

...Anna Cavness The Myth of the Silent Woman: Moroccan Women Writers , Diaconoff Suellen . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2009 . 269 pages. ISBN 978-1-4426-4005-4 . Copyright © 2011 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2011...

...Mona Abaza Russell Mona L. , Creating the New Egyptian Woman: Consumerism, Education and National Identity 1863–1922 . Palgrave, Macmillan , 2004 . Copyright © 2006 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2006 BOOK REVIEWS  149...

...-figure both exotic and familiar. MARILYN BOOTH  149 “THE MUSLIM WOMAN” AS CELEBRITY AUTHOR AND THE POLITICS OF TRANSLATING ARABIC: Girls of Riyadh Go on the Road Marilyn Booth...

... subject position as a turn-of-the-century, female, Egyptian public intellectual. 4  mn  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES  9:2 READING AND WRITING THE TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY EGYPTIAN WOMAN INTELLECTUAL NABAWIYYA MUSA’S TA’RIKHI BI-QALAMI...

...Salam Al-Mahadin References Barrows-Friedman Nora . 2017 . “ Why Wonder Woman Is Banned in Lebanon .” Electronic Intifada , June 8 . electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-why-wonder-woman-banned-lebanon . Beale Lewis . 2017 . “ Wonder Woman...

...Madawi Al-Rasheed Al-Sudairy contends that “no one understands the Saudi woman better than a woman, plus I am a Saudi citizen and have lived my entire life in Saudi Arabia. . . . I am the product of my society’s culture, which makes it easier for me to explain this culture to others” (1–2...

.... Fanon ( 2011 : 251) ends Black Skin, White Masks with a prayer: “O my body: make me always a man who questions.” That self is always in question, because the body of the black man, the body of the brown woman, evacuates each from ontology and being: “She swallowed bitter saliva and moved her dry...

... the parliamentary and presidential elections in Egypt, the figure of the “modern” woman gained renewed political significance. By exploring Egyptian English-language women’s lifestyle magazines, the article illustrates how socioeconomically privileged, Cairo-based women crafted “modern” female bodies and engaged...

... for the emancipation of Moroccan women might reassert royal hegemony over the anticolonial liberation struggle. The project to create a new Moroccan woman self-consciously took place amid dramatic transformations across the Arab world. The legendary Algerian resistance fighters Djamila Bouazza and Djamila Bouhired...

... revolutionary culture. Finally, it contends that only with the consolidation of Khomeini’s power and the start of the Iran-Iraq War is this figure renamed Zainab and sustained as a central icon of the Islamic Republic. My argument about the era-specific, boundary-crossing figure of the “militant woman...