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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 457–470.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Deema Kaedbey; Nadine Naber Abstract This essay reflects upon the themes of collaborative research, intersectional feminist activism, and social movements against corruption and sectarianism in the context of Lebanon. The authors focus on the summer of 2015 when protesters filled the streets...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 202–208.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Emma Schubert Copyright © 2020 Smith College 2020 In 1953, Lebanon became the first Arab nation-state to grant women suffrage. The story of that monumental moment begins in the 1910s with the rise of the Lebanese women’s movement. The Lebanese women’s movement has a long history...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 286–294.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of a Black Feminist Leadership Model: African-American Women and Political Activism in the Nineteenth Century." In Black Women's Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds, edited by Kristin Waters and Carol. B. Conaway, 328-45. Lebanon, NH: University of Vermont Press. Beoku-Betts, Josephine A. 1995. "We...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 209–211.
Published: 01 March 2001
... Diasporain the UnitedStates(Soho Press 2001). PAULAJ. GIDDINGS is Research Professor of Women's Studies and African-American Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Whenand WhereI Enterand In SearchofSisterhood. LAILAHALABYwas born in Lebanon, the daughter of a Jordanian father and an American...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 112–126.
Published: 01 December 2020
...) title deeds and front door keys. Now numbering over four million, Palestinian refugees live in often desperate conditions in camps in Lebanon, Jordan, and the West Bank and Gaza, and individually in other countries. Although fifty-three years have intervened since their original dispossession, neither...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 113–126.
Published: 01 September 2001
... Palestinian homes were taken over by Israeli Jews, despite the fact that their refugee owners, denied re-ntry, possessed (and still possess) title deeds and front door keys. Now numbering over four million, Palestinian refugees live in often desperate conditions in camps in Lebanon, Jordan, and the West Bank...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 220–235.
Published: 01 March 2006
... Pottery in London. After teaching briefly at the American University in Beirut in the 1960s, she returned to Baghdad at the onset of the 1991GulfWar to be close to her mother and sister. Al-Radi lived in political exile in Lebanon until her untimely death in August 2004 from leukemia. Her work represents...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 253–260.
Published: 01 October 2019
... the archives of feminist struggle. Deema Kaedbey and Nadine Naber model collaborative research and embodied praxis in their reflections on research in Lebanon. Their essay centers a regional, Middle Eastern feminism, and asks what it would look like to think through the female participation in anti...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 289–297.
Published: 01 March 2002
... by the United States including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the apartheid regime in South Africa, Suharto's 290 SUN ERA THOBANI dictatorship in Indonesia, Marcos in the Philippines, and Israel's various occupations of Lebanon, the Golan Heights, and the Palestinian territories. The U.S. pattern of foreign intervention...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 139–148.
Published: 01 December 2020
... States including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the apartheid regime in South Africa, Suharto’s dictatorship in Indonesia, Marcos in the Philippines, and Israel’s various occupations of Lebanon, the Golan Heights, and the Palestinian territories. The U.S. pattern of foreign intervention has been to overthrow...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 482–507.
Published: 01 October 2019
... resident while maintaining Iranian and U.S. citizenship. Melissa’s grandmother emigrated from Damascus, Syria and her grandfather from Bishmizzine, Lebanon to the United States. She was born and lived in the United States before coming to Canada recently as a senior scholar. Ito was born in Taiwan...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 239–249.
Published: 01 October 2020
... Francesca . 1991 . Latin American Women and the Search for Social Justice . Lebanon, NH : University Press of New England . Pinkola Estés Clarissa . 2003 . “ Do Not Lose Heart: A Letter to a Young Activist during Troubled Times .” Creations Magazine . www.creationsmagazine.com/articles/C93...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 April 2020
... becomes clear in our second In the Archives selection, “The Struggles for Women’s Suffrage” by Nayla Saab. As Saab recounts, upon the establishment of the newly independent state in 1943, women in Lebanon organized immediately for political rights, including suffrage, and they did so with the support...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 397–412.
Published: 01 October 2022
... to a state of constant movement, traveling out of Palestine to study in Lebanon—a challenge for someone who had only Palestinian documents and came from extreme poverty—then to the United Arab Emirates where he worked for twenty years without receiving citizenship rights, then to Jordan, then back to Surif...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 443–465.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., Palestinians continue to resist Zionist oppression and queers and feminists continue to become an undeniable and unavoidable presence in all grassroots movements. In the 2019 thawra of Lebanon, a huge popular uprising against corruption and inequality in the country, queer folks showed up in huge numbers...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 372–393.
Published: 01 October 2019
... “the thread of my blood” (55). At the close of this early work, Levins Morales situates her Ashkenazi–Puerto Rican heritage in relation with the Palestinian struggle for survival and freedom in the extended prose piece, “If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem”; responding to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 April 2020
.... Microcredit loans, once a Third World financial technology embraced by Mohammad Yunus’s Grameen Bank and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, have now been taken up by the World Bank. Ananya Roy calls microcredit loans “a subprime frontier where development capital and finance capital merge and collaborate such that new...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 110–132.
Published: 01 April 2024
... roles has often been perceived as essential in preserving precolonial—that is, pre-1948—identity among Palestinian communities, as Rosemary Sayigh ( 2007 ) indicates in her research conducted in the refugee camps in Lebanon. While the research might be perceived as context specific, the results resonate...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 62–90.
Published: 01 March 2013
... for modern, critically aware, and articulate women who are religiously observant. As such these new articulations can be likened to what Lara Deeb has referred to in the case of pious Shi'i women in Lebanon as an "alternative model for an ideal modern woman" (Deeb 2006, 30). In Al-Huda'sdiscourses...
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Traversing Disciplinary Boundaries, Globalizing Indigeneities: Visibilizing Assyrians in the Present
Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 182–209.
Published: 01 April 2024
... Idir . 2018 . Syria and Lebanon under the French Mandate: Cultural Imperialism and the Workings of Empire . New York : I. B. Tauris . Parpola Simo . 2004 . “ National and Ethnic Identity in the Neo-Assyrian Empire and Assyrian Identity in Post-empire Times .” Journal of Assyrian...
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