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...Umayyah Cable Abstract This article focuses on the life experience and political activism of Palestinian American lesbian activist Huda Jadallah as a representative example of how lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT/queer) Arab Americans came out to both queer communities and Arab...

... internal meetings as a diverse, multigenerational group open to learning from others. Second, a feminist approach requires that the authors center mothers’ words through the critical practice of ensuring shared Arabic language and local knowledge in the research process. The authors offer excerpts...

... images of women from the global south. It also examines the figure of the pan-Arab feminist Huda Shaarawi, who in 1919 organized the largest women's anti-British demonstration, and became in 1935 the vice president of the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship, and in 1945...

... the 2011 people’s uprising in Egypt as well as on the iconic pan-Arab feminist leader Huda Shaarawi to evoke powerful images of Muslim women. Finally, the essay turns to transnational feminists such as Angela Davis, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Cynthia Enloe, Miriam Cooke, and Zillah Eisenstein for cross-border...

... to this good/bad binary by imagining a “queer” Muslimness through Usama Alshaibi’s 2011 film Profane . Profane centers on Muna, a Muslim Arab-American professional dominatrix who attempts to reconcile her perverse sexuality with her religious identity. In doing so, she unravels understandings of both her role...

.... 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...

...,” through algorithmic interpretations of their online activity—therefore enabling what John Cheney-Lippold calls “soft biopolitics.” Given the ability of this sort of data to materially shape a person’s life, the author looks at the roles of metadata and big data in apprehending Muslims, Arabs, and SWANA...

..., political, and cultural milieu. The second part consists of translations from the Arabic of four editorials that Shafik wrote in her feminist magazine Bint al-Nīl . These are some, but not all, of the strategies we adopt to achieve our goals. As for our other strategies, they include fighting with all...

... racism in both Tunisia and France. It details Abdelhamid’s trajectory in becoming conscious of her Black and African identities, her complex relationship with her Arab identity, her role in building the Black movement in Tunisia after the 2011 revolution, and her arrival in France and experiences...

... 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...

... of power to the shadows,” we might do more to uplift what research themes like anti-racism, self-determination, dignity, liberation, or social justice mean to people disproportionately impacted by anti-Muslim racism, including immigrant and refugee women. In Chicago’s southwest suburbs, working-class Arab...

... Best Article Award Honorable Mention Umayyah Cable for their article “Coming Out for Community, Coming Out for the Cause: Queer Arab American Activism in the 1990s,” Meridians 23:2 (fall 2024) Bio: Umayyah Cable is an assistant professor in the departments of American Culture and Film...

... but, due to his paternal heritage, as a Southerner from Lahej, while his father’s family thought of him as a Northerner from the Hajjah area due to his maternal heritage. Hirsi returned the following year to marry a native Yemeni woman. 6 Growing up in London at a time when there were very few Arabs...

... 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 when read as femme or even simply homo/trans-welcoming instead of homo...

... on the life Nana Asma'u, who distinguished herself as one of the most eloquent of the "Fodiawa" reformists, one can trace not only formation of the esthetic canons of West African Arabic literature but aspects of Islamic discourse in this literature as it relates to the role of women. The term "Fodiawa...

... of this territory. 2 Southwest Asia is a more accurate and anticolonial label for this region. Geographically, it refers to its location in the world and not merely its distance from Europe. Politically, it can encompass the heterogeneity of this region since the Middle East has become synonymous with Arab...

.... In these paintings, therefore, Sirry simultaneously claims the modernist aesthetic of the Parisian avant-garde, particularly the decorative style of Henri Matisse, Arabic surface patterning (that already inspired Matisse and other European modernists), and Pharaonic art. This formal eclecticism may have resulted...

... South Asia. While a description of the tensions between the languages that I use in this piece is beyond the scope of this piece, I offer minimal context and translations for Urdu-Hindi, Hindko, and Arabic words through the footnotes. 1 Masi (Hindko) means “maternal aunt.” 2 As Saalam...

... Copyright © 2006 by Smith College 2006 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Guest Editors NAWAL EL SAADAWI is a writer, a psychiatrist, and an author who is well known not only in Arab countries but all over the world. She has more than forty books to her credit. Her works have been translated into over...

... on The Arab Mind (1973) is a good example. In his pioneer work, Orientalism , Edward Said questioned Patai’s book, showing the linkage between the Orientalist texts and the context of empire. As noted by Nadia Abu El-Haj ( 2005 : 541): He [Said] sought to understand how, in the context of specific...