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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 1–27.
Published: 01 November 2013
... disadvantaged by neoliberalism and a demographic youth bulge. They were economically excluded by high unemployment and insecure jobs in the informal sector; they were politically excluded by authoritarianism and state repression; and they were socially excluded by the limbo of “waithood,” or prolonged...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 26–50.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Rania Kassab Sweis Bridging literature on modern governance with youth subjectivity, this article examines the globalization of female youth in contemporary Egypt through transnational humanitarian interventions. Drawing on over twenty-seven months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Egypt...
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 3. Tahia Carioca posing with the poster of The Youth of a Woman at the Cannes Festival, 1956. Source: Archive of Nabiha Lotfy. More
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 40–61.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Sondra Hale Using ideas from postmodern, postcolonial, and feminist thought, this paper analyzes recent global insurrections, e.g., the Arab Spring, to demonstrate their departure from modernist frameworks. Participants in the new uprisings, which are mainly comprised of youth and populated...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 July 2007
... for economic independence, challenging the very concept of namus (honor), and at times calling into question the value of the institution of marriage. The column often appeared in proximity to reports of youth suicides. Thus the column and its context allow us to examine the social tensions produced...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 108–135.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Amélie Le Renard This article deals with young urban Saudi women’s transgressions of rules regulating dress and public conduct in Riyadh. Many researchers on Middle Eastern societies interpret as resistance the silent practices adopted by subalterns such as women or youth. The existence...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 144–164.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., in doing so, they forge a sense of solidarity with other women and global fans. The fandom phenomenon of the Iranian Muslim women shows how youth can effect social change in Iran while demonstrating that it is possible to trace the cultural changes taking place in Iran. References Abbasgholizadeh...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 63–79.
Published: 01 March 2015
... a cream ʿabaya over a navy blue shirt and black trousers ( sirwal ) tucked into combat boots. Swaying side to side, they chant: “Hello, hello, welcome you are [ Hala hala wa bik ya hala ] / She is a jewel, she is beautiful [ Hiyya hilya, hiyya hilwa ].” dance youth Jordan sexuality patriarchy...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (2): 59–85.
Published: 01 July 2010
... reproductive and sexual health work. Previously, she worked for the National Council for Research on Women and supported youth participation efforts at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). A graduate of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, she has written and published on reproductive justice issues...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 411–415.
Published: 01 November 2016
... . Turam Berna . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2015 . 250 pages. isbn 9780804794480. New Desires, New Selves: Sex, Love, and Piety among Turkish Youth . Ozyegin Gul . New York : New York University Press , 2015 . 369 pages. isbn 9781479853816. Copyright © 2016...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 1–10.
Published: 01 November 2009
.... Her research focuses on family, gender, citizenship, and youth in the Middle East, primarily in her native Lebanon. She is the general editor of the six-volume Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (Brill, 2003–2008), the first of its kind. She has edited and co-edited seven books and published...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 July 2009
... experiences in recent years. Five years ago, no one would dare say the word condom, but now, as the youth are changing and enacting what they call a sexual revolution, much of the health infrastructure has had to catch up. According to Lily, one of Shohreh’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 121–123.
Published: 01 November 2011
... of the intersection of sexu- ality and politics in the lives of contemporary Iranian youth. Mahdavi draws her analysis from participant observation, focus group research, and in-depth interviews she conducted in Iran between 2000 and 2007. 122  mn  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES  7:3 She contends...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 354–375.
Published: 01 November 2017
... have been Kurdish. Between the general elections in Turkey on June 7 and November 1, 2015, around seven hundred deaths occurred (Amnesty International 2016 ; International Crisis Group 2015 ). When suicide bombs exploded at a youth organization’s humanitarian event in Suruç in June 2015, at a peace...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 433–449.
Published: 01 November 2016
... interview with Yanar Muhammad and Ali al-Hilli on the massacre of emo youths. References Abdulameer Ali . 2014 . “ Nationalist Themes Co-opt Iraqi Music, Again .” Al-Monitor , January 12 . www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/01/iraq-songs-state-propaganda.html . Al-Ali Nadje...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 89–118.
Published: 01 November 2008
... Balzan Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 2002 she has been an Associated Researcher with Le Monde Iranien et Indien, CNRS-Paris. Her research focuses primarily on Tehran, women, youth, public space, the public sphere, cyberspace, and weblogging. Copyright © 2008 Association...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 359–361.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and backgrounds launched the Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace (LWPP; lwpp.org ) in October 2011 to ensure that women remain a vital part of post-Gaddafi Libya. We emphasize inclusive transition, women’s rights, youth leadership, security, women’s political and economic participation, constitutional reform...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 198–202.
Published: 01 November 2009
... research on Palestinian society in the areas of gender, ed- ucation, and vocational education; the family and the household; gender case studies on the Palestinian Ministry of Youth and Sports; women’s microcredit projects; community-based rehabilitation programs; gender integration...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 171–172.
Published: 01 March 2022
... with the evolution of the phases, but one message remained consistent: women have brains that some religious people (whom she qualified as “traders of religion”) want to veil. This is a message she repeated endlessly to the youth during and after the Arab Spring. When asked by a CNN journalist on August 17, 2016...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 199–215.
Published: 01 July 2019
... (Malik bn Nabi) .” French Colonial History 7 : 129 – 42 . Parsons Timothy . 2009 . “ The Limits of Sisterhood: The Evolution of the Girl Guide Movement in Colonial Kenya .” In Scouting Frontiers: Youth and the Scout Movement’s First Century , edited by Block Nelson R...