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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 399–407.
Published: 01 October 2023
.... The conversation with Gray focuses on the ways in which her own experiences, as the child of a traumatized German Jew, intersect with those of formerly persecuted and incarcerated Tunisian women before and after the Arab Spring. What are the possibilities and limitations of restorative justice for those haunted...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 484–507.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., and thereby, to the revolutionary element in the tottering feudal society, a rapid development” (Marx and Engels 1998 , 35–36). 3 Here it is useful to articulate the difficulty in naming the pan-Arab revolutions from December 2010, and the problematic around the putative “Arab Spring” as if the Middle...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 164–188.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., and thereby, to the revolutionary element in the tottering feudal society, a rapid development" (Marx and Engels 1998, 35-36). 3. Here it is useful to articulate the difficulty in naming the pan-Arab revolutions from December 2010, and the problematic around the putative "Arab Spring" as if the Middle East...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 161–182.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., Mackintosh-Smith, Frederico, and Ravi the Indian) embody these types. 15 Beyond 9/11, Yemeni film and theater have progressively evolved with the Arab Spring, but are still—at the artistic level—constrained by the “social and political strictures” of foreign funding agencies, such as Western embassies...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 490–509.
Published: 01 October 2024
... to be described as the Arab Spring revolution. As the country transitioned from authoritarianism to democracy, the appellation of Tunisia as a homogenously “Arab” country came to be challenged by groups that have been minoritized, including Amazigh, Black, and Jewish populations (Pouessel 2012 ). 5...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 182–209.
Published: 01 April 2024
... and the Turkey-PKK Conflict in Iraq .” Assyrian Policy Institute . Zabad Ibrahim . 2017 . Middle Eastern Minorities: The Impact of the Arab Spring . New York : Routledge . Zaya R. S. 2019 . “ What Ancient Stones Still Mean to the Assyrian People Today .” Hyperallergic , November 1...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 269–278.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Feminist Discourses (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Women s Movements in the Post Arab Spring North Africa (Palgrave MacMillan, 2016), and Daesh Ideology and Women s Legal Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2017). She is also a public speaker and a member of many national and international scholarly...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 231–239.
Published: 01 October 2023
... the Meridians website’s “On the Line” feature. 3 Sadly, little more than a decade after the Arab Spring, Tunisia is ruled by autocrat Kais Saied, who has adopted the United States’s “great replacement theory” together with local anti-Blackness in order to scapegoat sub-Saharan (im)migrants for his...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 457–470.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., between the United States (Nadine) and Lebanon (Deema). Copyright © 2019 Smith College 2019 activism social movements Middle East Lebanon transnationalism Arab Spring revolution We began this research in 2015, when Nadine initiated a discussion about what it could look like to produce...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 482–507.
Published: 01 October 2019
... the effects of the Arab Spring in Cairo. 6 The others are Rula Kahil (Education; Lebanon), Rasha Elendari (Archaeology; Syria), and Jessica Radin (Religious Studies; United States). Each RA possessed native or native-level fluency in Arabic and experience in SWANA-region refugee camp settings and Canadian...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 183–192.
Published: 01 April 2021
... : Harper One . Wilson Shawn . 2008 . Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods . Halifax, Canada : Fernwood . 19 Ummah (Arabic) is the worldwide community of Muslims. 18 Qwo-Li Driskill, personal class notes, QS 577: Queer/Trans People of Color Arts & Activisms...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 267–296.
Published: 01 October 2023
... of California, Berkeley. The messages were dated 2013–14, the precise period in which the Erdoğan government was unleashing a wave of repression in response to the Gezi protests. Dubbed the “Turkish summer” that followed quick on the heels of the “Arab spring,” the Gezi protests of 2013 were a mass mobilization...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 220–235.
Published: 01 March 2006
.... These particular sculptures are made oflarge coiled 222 BRINDA MEHTA springs from lorries that I have painted to look like snakes; inside these coiled springs are a few stones painted to look like animals. The snakes symbolize dictatorship." I told her they swallow people whole, not just our sort of dictatorship...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 297–305.
Published: 01 October 2024
..., and Manifest Destiny in Sápmi”—which was published in our “BIPOC Europe” special issue (vol. 22, no. 1, spring 2023), is a first for Meridians . I decided to publish it because, in keeping with this issue’s “Counterpoint” theme, Ellingsen acknowledges the validity of Kuokkanen’s critique and took...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 112–126.
Published: 01 December 2020
.... This assertion of the relevance of human rights to feminism may seem unnecessary. But there has been an all-too-frequent slippage between, on the one hand, recognition of Arab women’s multifaceted struggles on political, economic, social fronts, and, on the other hand, the perception of an irredeemably static...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 443–465.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... [email protected] Copyright © 2021 Smith College 2021 Muslim queer futurism trans How do we express resistance as it exists in the Muslim world through a queer understanding? What does the Arab, Pakistani, and Iranian mujahideen, fedayeen, fighter, and revolutionary leader look like...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 150–176.
Published: 01 March 2006
... Portraitofa DamascenGeirl(Lina:LawhatFatat Dimashqiya),which was published in Beirut in 1982 but not allowed to be sold in any Arab country, Lina came to the conclusion that if she stayed in Syria she would be killed, imprisoned, or at best rot like the rest of her people. She chose exile as an alternative...
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Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 125–132.
Published: 01 September 2002
... was unable to continue with its operations, This Bridgewent out of print. In the spring of 1983, the co-editors of the book negotiated retrieval and control of the book, whose second edition was conceived and actualized entirely by women of color and subsequently republished by Kitchen Table: Women of Color...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 113–126.
Published: 01 September 2001
... of Arab women's multifaceted struggles on political, economic, social fronts, and, on the other hand, the perception ON WRITING AND RETURN 115 of an irredeemably static gender oppression embedded in Arab culture. Arab women's feminist struggles have too often been located against this constructed backdrop...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 209–219.
Published: 01 March 2006
.... residents, most of them originally refugees, remain in [Meridians:feminismra, cet,ransnationalism2006, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 209-219] ©2006 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 209 spring 2006, and the British government has refused to take any responsibility for them, despite several having lived in Britain...