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Tarkib’s Contemporary Arts Festival in Baghdad: Women Artists Play and Perform Memories and New (Hi)stories of Iraq
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 424–432.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Marta Bellingreri [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 In the center of Baghdad’s Zawraa Park, Roze Muhammed begins her performance. With a red thread attached to a needle, the young artist sews a line onto a thick piece...
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Lalla Essaydi’s Bullets and Bullets Revisited : Aesthetic and Epistemic Violence in a Globalized Art World
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2021
... Hamid . 2009 . Post-Orientalism: Knowledge and Power in Time of Terror . London : Transaction . Danto Arthur . 2000 . “ Shirin Neshat .” Bomb , no. 73 : 60 – 67 . Dashti Gohar . 2017 . “ Artist’s Concept Note .” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 13 , no. 1 : 141...
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The Doubling Self: Contemporary Tunisian Art by Meriem Bouderbala and Najah Zarbout
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 267–290.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of vision, doubling, and mirroring, reframing the female body as an absent presence that eludes surveillance and regulation. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2023 Tunisia surrealism women artists contemporary art Knees, shins...
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Forough Goes West: The Legacy of Forough Farrokhzad in Iranian Diasporic Art and Literature
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 103–116.
Published: 01 March 2010
... women exploring issues of gender, faith, social justice, and human rights across historical and cultural boundaries. I argue that the imaginative recovery of Farrokhzad by Iranian immigrant women writers and artists not only complicates the West’s frequently reductive contemporary representations...
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Performers or Prostitutes?: Artistes during the French Mandate over Syria and Lebanon, 1921–1946
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 287–311.
Published: 01 July 2017
... Mandate Syria and Lebanon (1921–46). The French metropolitan system of regulated prostitution was imported yet transformed in the mandate region as women performers were sorted into legitimate, if morally suspect, foreign artistes and autochthonous performers defined as prostitutes by decrees and codes...
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The Vagina and de Facto Feminism in the Artwork of Naʿama Snitkoff-Lotan
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 143–153.
Published: 01 March 2017
...David Sperber Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 In 2011 Zipi Mizrachi established “Studio of Her Own—a space for young Modern Orthodox female artists in Jerusalem,” to fulfill a requirement in the Gender Studies Program at Bar Ilan University in Israel...
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 2. Joseph Sheppard, Rape of German Refugee Women . Reproduced by permission of the artist.
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Motherhood, Women, and Feminine Cycles: A Room of Our Own Exhibition
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 374–378.
Published: 01 November 2018
... included twenty-two women artists and used a feminist perspective that encouraged artists’ solidarity. 2 Our goal was to make visible the works of female artists usually ignored by the male-dominated art world. The exhibition included painting, drawing, video, photography, sculpture, installation...
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Under the Skin: Feminist Art and Art Histories from the Middle East and North Africa Today
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 141–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... By poignantly retrieving the names of MENA women fiber artists from this “unintended” archive of refusé artists, Gerschultz resists the “dis-naming” of “craftswomen” (131–34). Akila Kizzi’s practice resembles that of Gerschultz. Kizzi unearths scarce traces of the groundbreaking Algerian singer Taos Amrouche...
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From the New Editorial Team of “Third Space”
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 419–422.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of “Third Space.” The first, “Tarkib’s Contemporary Arts Festival in Baghdad: Women Artists Play and Perform Memories and New (Hi)stories of Iraq,” is by Marta Bellingreri, a journalist specializing in the Arab world and an independent scholar with a PhD from the University of Palermo in Italy. Bellingreri...
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Popular Culture, Gender, and Revolution in Egypt
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 137–146.
Published: 01 March 2021
... by McClure Mandy , 359 . Cairo : American University in Cairo Press . Aswat Masriya . 2016 . “ Women Artists Defy Stereotypes, Mainstream Music in Egypt .” Egypt Independent , May 11 . ww.egyptindependent.com/women-artists-defy-stereotypes-mainstream-music-egypt . El Nabawi Maha...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 329–330.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Ellen McLarney Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 The Egyptian Laila El Sadda is part of the Art Trio, a collective of women artists that also includes al-Assmaa Taki Deen and Mariam Mahdy. El Sadda’s art reflects her practice, showing the intimacy...
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One of Tarkib’s artists, Hussain Muttar (right), during his storytelling at...
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Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 2. One of Tarkib’s artists, Hussain Muttar (right), during his storytelling at the festival. © Alessio Mamo.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 March 2019
... forums dedicated to emergent events in the Middle East, themed issues, book reviews, cover art by women artists from the Middle East, and the “Third Space” section. “Third Space” will continue to be a venue for academics and nonacademics alike to feature women’s activism, organizations, and collectives...
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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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The Women of Bataille D’Alger : Hearts and Minds and Bombs
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 80–106.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Catherine Sawers This article explores the gendered subtext of film criticism that both praises and vilifies Gillo Pontecorvo’s Bataille d’Alger . The female characters play a prominent role in the film’s action, and, in particular, the women’s roles underscore the film’s ideological emphasis...
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With Love, from Your Sister: Khtek’s Hip-Hop Queendom and Women’s Revolutionary Music in Morocco and Beyond
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (3): 396–399.
Published: 01 November 2024
... Asia and North Africa). Khtek’s views reflect the global emergence of women as prominent creators in various artistic locales (El Nossery 2023 ; LeVine 2022 ). Like Khtek, many activists and artists across Morocco and the SWANA region use art to conceptualize creative and intellectual goals...
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Regarding the Images of Others
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 216–220.
Published: 01 July 2015
... with the hijab as its regulating instrument and emblem. Through such curatorial frameworks, the works of women artists are pigeonholed and positioned as the only resistant currents in broader sociocultural and political environments in desperate need of outside intervention. Exhibitions granting equivalent...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 235–236.
Published: 01 July 2019
... Wings series at the Athr Gallery in Jeddah in 2017, as part of a sequence of exhibits featuring women artists from the Gulf. Al Khalifa’s series is about “intimacy and vulnerability, but also strength and perseverance” (Al Khalifa 2017 ). References Al Khalifa Hala . 2017 . She Wore Her...
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Finding a Common Language: Iraqi and US Women Seek Reconciliation in Dubai
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 423–429.
Published: 01 November 2019
... fostering important conversations on human rights. For instance, empathy enabled Jennifer to derive from Iraqi personal stories and artistic practice a much deeper sense of the suffering experienced by the Iraqi women who are sold in slave-trade markets and sexually assaulted, and to envisage that pain...
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