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Traversing Disciplinary Boundaries, Globalizing Indigeneities: Visibilizing Assyrians in the Present
Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 182–209.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Mariam Georgis Abstract The author’s work spans the disciplinary boundaries of political science, Middle East studies, Indigenous studies, and their subfields. Broadly situated within critical theoretical bodies of knowledge, she focuses on an Indigenous nation in what is today known as Iraq. Her...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 490–509.
Published: 01 October 2024
... . Islamophobie: Comment les élites françaises fabriquent le «problème musulman» . Paris : La Découverte . Hannoum Abdelmajid . 2021 . The Invention of the Maghreb: Between Africa and the Middle East . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Jelassi Mohamed Amine . 2020 . Rapport...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 283–288.
Published: 01 March 2002
..."-these people recognize who this fight is against. The people attacking Muslims, attacking any person of color who looks like they could be from the Middle East, they recognize who this fight is against. The language and words being used are not just slips of the tongue, they reveal a way of thinking, a mindset...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): v–vi.
Published: 01 March 2006
... with the tabooed subjects offemale sexuality, religion, and female genital mutilation. She continued to advocate for the rights of Egyptian women, and in 1981, after serving as the United Nations Advisor for the Women's Program in Africa and the Middle East, Dr. el Saadawi was imprisoned by her government...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 298–301.
Published: 01 March 2002
.... New forms of Orientalist discourse not only legitimize Western intervention and the protection of Western economic and political interests in the "Middle East," but also justify discrimination and the exclusion of Middle Eastern and Muslim immigrants in diaspora. It reduces all Muslims...
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Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 134–160.
Published: 01 September 2002
... by the overt commodification of India's appearance in U.S. popular culture, but there is clearly still an excess of spirituality projected onto "the East" (Prashad 2000, 18). The U.S. has not been involved in a direct colonial relationship with South Asia, or with the regions in the Middle East and North...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 110–132.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement . Chicago : Haymarket . Elia Nada . 2021a . “ How Palestine Is a Critical Feminist Issue .” Middle East Eye , March 25 . Elia Nada . 2021b . “ Israel-Palestine: How Subcontracting the Occupation Fuels Gendered Violence .” Middle East...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 267–296.
Published: 01 October 2023
... ambitions in the Middle East and violence against Muslim populations are justified and institutionalized through the profiling of Muslim men as aggressive/oppressive and of Muslim women as in need of saving (Abu-Lughod 2002 ; Razack 2008 ). I lecture on how in 2001 Laura Bush gave an influential radio...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 482–507.
Published: 01 October 2019
...-crsh.gc.ca/results-resultats/recipients-recipiendaires/2016/syrian_refugee-refugie_syrien-eng.aspx . 5 We thank an anonymous reviewer for asking us to engage this important issue. 6 We use SWANA to refer to the region commonly known as the Middle East. See Culcasi 2011 for a feminist...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 484–507.
Published: 01 December 2020
... but also by imperial women, has played a significant role in portraying the Arab woman as the apolitical exotic of orientalist fantasies. The legacy of colonial photography in the Middle East by European women travelers has contributed to a colonial visual culture. Here the subtext of the image establishes...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 295–296.
Published: 01 April 2024
... al-Qasim, a resistance poet and an outspoken opponent of racism and oppression in the Middle East. Hind was inspired to write about “the Land,” and Dana visualized the poem in color. The artwork is adorned with gold leaf, thread, and newspaper clippings, and is a commentary on the politics...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 150–176.
Published: 01 March 2006
... to Australia with no prospect of having an academic appointment. In 1977, however, I completed my novel. But then the saga of finding a publisher in the Middle East began. A civil war in Lebanon made this search even more difficult. In addition, my fiction/memoir had stirred controversies and objections from...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 443–465.
Published: 01 October 2021
... still exist, and cultural mores around sexual conduct dictate how police and governments treat LGBTQ people (Human Dignity Trust 2021 ). The physical and psychological toll of such oppressive actions can make life unlivable. As queer and trans folks in the Middle East and South Asia continue to gain...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): ix–xiv.
Published: 01 March 2001
... States, the Middle East, and Europe. Genital mutilation has been banned by Senegal due to the efforts of women's organizations but reconfirmed as a legitimate cultural practice elsewhere. In rural Bangladesh, often as a result of development projects, women who seek to be economically independent appear...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 132–138.
Published: 01 March 2003
... old men running the country. And the younger ones think like old fogeys." "Well, you don't need to go all the way to the Middle East," Father insisted. "Japan is safer-the safest country in the world, I'll bet." Privately, to me, she said, "This country is suffocating. I need to have some adventures...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 164–188.
Published: 01 March 2016
... as the apolitical exotic of orientalist fantasies. The legacy of colonial photography in the Middle East by European women travelers has contributed to a colonial visual culture. Here the subtext of the image establishes an imperial feminist discourse through the striking contrast between the "liberated" mobile...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 340–369.
Published: 01 October 2021
...) and more recently, in 1952, had traveled “in eighteen countries in Europe and the Middle East in four and one-half months.” She was very well connected, not only to women like Rose Parsons but also to the State Department which, following her 1952 tour, sought her recommendations, as she later recalled...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 491–503.
Published: 01 October 2021
... to Studying the Middle East ,” King’s College London . Gilmore Ruth W. 2007 . Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California . Berkeley : University of California Press . Jadallah Huda . 2011 . “ Reflections of a Genderqueer Palestinian American...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 251–253.
Published: 01 March 2002
... the Canadian government to bring her up on hate speech charges. As a letter to the San FranciscoChroniclemakes clear, the FBI investigation of Women in Black, a transnational women's peace group dedicated to nonviolent resolutions of conflict in the Middle East [Meridians:feminismr,ace,transnationalism2002...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 78–92.
Published: 01 March 2006
..., this is OUTRAGEOUS BEHAVIOR 79 not the case. Two recent anthologies of articles about the arts of the Middle East, for example, ColorsofEnchantmen(t2001) and ImagesofEnchantment (1998), both edited by Sherifa Zuhur and published by the American University in Cairo Press, contain a wealth of information about...
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