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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 117–149.
Published: 01 March 2006
... and a critique of texts that underacknowledge the import of Egyptian secular feminist discourse and practice in Amer's art. Backgrounds: The New Woman in Modern Egypt The role that women have played in the making of modern Egypt has been well documented, and some scholars have suggested the interconnection...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 323–339.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., 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 . [email protected] Copyright © 2021 Smith College 2021 Islamic feminism modern Egypt Doria Shafik Bint al-Nil Doria...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2006
.... Sirry's early paintings are not revolutionary but they acknowledge in their eclecticism the multiplicity and diversity of the heritage of modern Egypt. While acknowledging the different sources and artistic traditions, Sircyis specific in her choice of a central subject matter-women. Her work is dominated...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 164–188.
Published: 01 March 2016
... humiliation and physical violence, the Lebanese blog Beirut Spring created an intriguing collage.3 It was called Blue-Bra Egyptian Girl as Modern Day Hypatia (Mustapha 2011). The collage offered an uncanny analogy by juxtaposing the image of the woman in the blue bra, which it called "Egypt Today...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 484–507.
Published: 01 December 2020
... humiliation and physical violence, the Lebanese blog Beirut Spring created an intriguing collage. 3 It was called Blue-Bra Egyptian Girl as Modern Day Hypatia (Mustapha 2011 ). The collage offered an uncanny analogy by juxtaposing the image of the woman in the blue bra, which it called “Egypt Today...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 146–162.
Published: 01 March 2002
.... In the following interview and accompanying images, we see that the major issues concerning Naeem in her work are shaped by the massive socioeconomic changes that have occurred in Egypt over the past thirty years. Not only are Naeem and her colleagues among the first lower-class Egyptians to move...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 22–32.
Published: 01 March 2006
...,and Dissidence" that I convened in Cairo, Egypt, under the aegis of the Arab Women Solidarity Association (AWSAOne would not need to look far to find reasons for the necessity of such a global gathering at this juncture in transnational and global relations. Grave concerns about the deepening inequalities within...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 78–92.
Published: 01 March 2006
... of their work considers literary and performance texts by women from Morocco, [Meridians:feminismra, cet,ransnationalism2006, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 78-92] ©2006 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 78 Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt to analyze some of the strategies of dissidence they have chosen to employ...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 219–240.
Published: 01 September 2001
..., embarked on a twelve-day trip to Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco accompanied by her daughter Chelsea. Billed as a "bridge-building" tour, the official purpose of the trip was "to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty, Tunisia's good record of educating women and girls...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 62–82.
Published: 01 September 2009
... by citing biblical linkages to Egypt and also Ethiopia. This ideal was perhaps most openly vocalized by clergyman and activist Henry Highland Garnet (1815-82),who counted Cleopatra as one of his black ancestors in his quest to claim a stake in modern culture. In 1848,Garnet wrote that "Ham was the first...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 236–240.
Published: 01 March 2006
... for the presidential elections in Egypt. A multilingual, widely traveled scholar and activist, OBI OMA NNAEMEKA is Professor of French, Women's Studies, and African/African Diaspora Studies and a former Director of the Women's Studies Program at Indiana University, Indianapolis. Professor Nnaemeka is the founder...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 370–395.
Published: 01 October 2021
... accounts by scholars of Middle Eastern Muslim societies, especially Iran, Turkey, and Egypt, where secular feminists have been criticized for their antipathy toward native culture and tradition in favor of secular modernization. In contrast, Pakistani feminists, while demanding universal human rights...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 271–290.
Published: 01 October 2021
... attention to Orientals and what he calls “Mohamatens” as continuing to be fetishistic regardless of their monotheism. He writes: To begin this description of fetishism of Asia with a nation closest to Egypt, the Arabs’ ancient divinity was nothing more than a square stone. There is hardly any reason...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 156–160.
Published: 01 September 2014
... to freedom. I would pick up a stick and put it in my waistband and pull it out like a gun when the runaway slaves would talk about going back to Egypt. I would duck down in the trees and tell everybody to quiet down so that I could hear the dogs and come up with a plan to hide from them. I used to look up...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 239–260.
Published: 01 March 2004
... by union with the mother. For the Asian American female subject, the potential for full subjectivity, for jouissancei,s interrupted by the return of colonial history, which in Hahn's poems appears in the form of Flaubert's encounter with Kuchuk Hanem. From 1849 to 1850, Flaubert traveled through Egypt...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 93–116.
Published: 01 March 2006
...), it is clear that the text draws attention to itself as a work ofliterature whose radical opposition to the gendered forms of oppression prevailing in Egypt during the time the novel was written is enacted through self-referentiality, that is to say, relying on epistemological certainties on the part...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 78–98.
Published: 01 September 2014
... being exiled out of Egypt and crossing the Red Sea to Midian, he reentered the Kingdom of Pharaoh multiple times to request the release of the Israelites. Ultimately, Moses led the Hebrews on an exodus via the Red Sea and beyond the borders of Egypt onward to Canaan. He, like Tubman, understood...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 291–297.
Published: 01 October 2021
... ; Reuters 2021 ). Prohibitions of face veils have been debated, proposed, or had failed attempts at enactment in the United Kingdom, Egypt, Indonesia, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Slovenia, Latvia, and Lithuania (Bakht, 2020 : 122). Grillo and Shah ( 2012 : 12) have aptly stated that the way criminalization...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 220–235.
Published: 01 March 2006
... part of 2003. This humanistic gesture acquires particular resonance for the artist who not only faces the decimation of her people through invasions and sanctions but who has also witnessed the ambivalent consequences of the Suez War in Egypt and the Lebanese CivilWar. She states: "Perhaps I simply...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 73–93.
Published: 01 March 2001
...; Manikganj, Bangladesh; Minia, Egypt; Ziguinchor, Senegal; and Ile-Ife, Nigeria. The first part of the book offers case studies of each place: what is street food, who sells it, who buys it, how safe is it, what public policies have been in place to regulate it, and so forth. The second part offers synthetic...
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