...Nathalie Peutz Pioneers or Pawns? Women Health Workers and the Politics of Development in Yemen , Regt Marina de . Syracuse : Syracuse University Press , 2007 . Pp. xvi, 383 . ISBN 978-0-8156-3121-7 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009...

...Stacey Philbrick Yadav The gradual but marked Islamization of the public in Yemen since unification in 1990 is often treated as a dynamic that marginalizes women and limits their opportunities for political activism. By retheorizing the spatial features of public activism, however, this article...

...Sophia Pandya This paper looks at the ways in which older generations of Yemeni women in Sanaa negotiate religious change. Practices that are associated with Sufism and popular folk Islam are prevalent in Yemen, especially among older, illiterate women who have had little to no access to textual...

... the issue of women unavoidable. In the context of a cross-ideological oppositional alliance in Yemen that has been largely fostered by the conferences, this enduring tension over women seems to have created just enough space to push the issue of women’s right to representation as political candidates...

... of destruction, Essaydi’s photographs are uncritically linked to events and situations as varied as the Arab uprisings, violence in the Palestinian territories, and the wars in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq. Instead of illuminating complex sociopolitical issues and reshaping dominant discourses, they become part...

... in women, religion, and globalization. Having spent three summers in Sanaa, her current research focuses on religious change among younger and older generations of women in Yemen, and how they negotiate self-interest and conflicting religious discourses. Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East...

...Nadia Al-Sakkaf [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2024 THIRD SPACE Yemeni Women s Economic Empowerment during Con ict Between Transient Change and Masculine Backlash NADIA AL-SAKKAF T he protracted con ict in Yemen, now...

... summers in Sana’a, her current re- search focuses on religious change among younger and older generations of women in Yemen, and how they negotiate self-interest and confl icting religious discourses. Stacey Philbrick Yadav is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political...

..., as Yemen is undergoing a merciless war that is actively halting and destroying decades-old progress of civil-rights work. As a queer, migrant Yemeni artist who uses personal narrative as a primary source of expression, I thought it privileged, almost irrelevant, to continue conceptualizing a queer Yemeni...

... revolutionary movements? What type of counterrevolution characterized the Arab Spring? How did counterrevolutions succeed? The Age of Counter-revolution answers these questions in eight chapters and 367 pages. Allinson argues that there were revolutions in Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia, and Bahrain...

...: in North Yemen Embodiment and Health Care...

... and Yemen, which both had significant Jewish populations who left before and during the Nakba. Both countries have substantial Shiʿite populations, alongside Sunnis and non-Muslim minorities. They also have comparatively short-lived and culturally superficial periods of Western imperialism (Dresch 1993 , 3...

... them, still works in the propaganda wars that serve to justify various imperial agendas. Pioneers or Pawns? Women Health Workers and the Politics of Development in Yemen Marina de Regt. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007...

... and competencies of immigrant women between the ages of eighteen and seventy, from countries across the Arab world, including Yemen, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Algeria, and Morocco, enabling them to overcome many obstacles in their pursuit of a decent, rewarding life. Some of these members...

..., health, and welfare, along with limited access to jobs in the manufacturing sector.5 Thus, a UN study (see ILO/INSTRAW 1985) found that among those developing countries where female employment grew significantly during the 1970s, especially high increases were reported in Tunisia and South Yemen...

... between a Jewish boy and a Muslim girl in late seventeenth-century Yemen. Reading the discourses of Turkish and Kurdish mothers of the disappeared, Emine Rezzan Karaman examines the meanings attached to women’s performance of identity, citizenship, and political agency in Turkey in the early twenty-first...

... such as Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen (World Bank 2002). Price controls were certainly viewed by the population in most of the region as a basic right and thus an indispensable part of the social contract, as evidenced by the various riots that occurred when governments tried...

... specializes in women and Islam, and more broad- ly in women, religion, and globalization. Having spent three summers in Sanaa, her current research focuses on religious change among younger and older generations of women in Yemen, and how they negotiate self- interest and confl icting religious...

... of political uprising that swept the region earlier in the decade. Civil, proxy, and imperialist wars in Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen; the reconsolidation of authoritarianism in Egypt; and the reversal of long-established democratic gains in Turkey—these are all developing realities that have affected gender...

...- thority and, with it, power (Badran 2002, 2003). In Yemen, a woman who uses a combined secular and religious dis- course of feminism has made it to the center of the state establishment. Amat al-Aleem Alsoswa, daughter of a religious judge and a woman who calls her- self a feminist, tells how she...