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Abstract: Marriage customs, as important cultural particularities, are indicative of a group's values and perceptions of cultural conservation and transformations. Negotiating these customs and individuals' marriage preferences uncovers their differently contextualized identities as well as hierarchical or democratic gender relations and roles. These negotiations are influenced by an array of forces that shape and reshape social values, marriage patterns, and gender roles. Centralizing the renewed interest by Palestinian Americans in Islam among these interconnected forces, this article explores the ways second-generation Muslim Palestinian women in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with parents who immigrated between the 1950s and ... Read More PubDate: 2022-09-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: It is an ordinary Monday afternoon at the end of January, but the row of cars parked on the street for two full blocks shows that something is going on in the one house that still has a lit Christmas wreath on the front door. The smell of saffron rice wafts through the driveway, filling my nostrils as I linger before the large wooden entrance, peeking through the frosted glass at what looks like the silhouette of a row of heads. Three dozen pairs of women's shoes are scattered behind the entrance, and a muffled female voice can be heard talking over a loudspeaker inside. I can tell I am at the right place even before opening the door.This is the home of Mrs. H in a northwestern suburb of Los Angeles (LA), where a ... Read More PubDate: 2022-09-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Marjane Satrapi is among the best-known authors, illustrators, and filmmakers of the Iranian diasporic community. Her graphic novel Persepolis, written and published in four volumes from 2000 to 2004 (Satrapi 2004), has been read, analyzed, and written about across academic disciplines, from Middle Eastern and Iranian studies to literary and comics studies, and by scholars who focused on a variety of topics from the representation of gender roles in Iran, to the formation of the self, trauma, and more. This article, however, rereads Persepolis through the lens of transnational feminist theory and the concept of politics of location to argue two things: first, Persepolis, as a place, is not equivalent to Iran nor ... Read More PubDate: 2022-09-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Syria will never be the same again. It has been hung, drawn and quartered.The 2011 Syrian revolution has inspired an outburst of creativity in the form of novels, poetry, theater, art, and multimedia performance pieces. The Francophone Arab poet Maram al-Masri makes a crucial poetic intervention within this diversity with her writings in French. Her work focuses attention on a marginalized aspect of contemporary Syrian literature through its Francophone positionality that complements writings in Arabic, German, and English. Elle va nue la liberté (Freedom Walks Naked, 2013) constructs a politically expedient form of poetic writing from a gendered social justice perspective. It recrafts al-Masri's earlier poetry ... Read More PubDate: 2022-09-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Working Out Desire is an engaging and theoretically informed ethnographic account of Istanbulite women's interest in sport and exercise (spor merakı), which has transformed these women's lives in myriad ways. In this fascinating ethnography, Sertaç Sehlikoğlu illustrates how Istanbulite women's ever-growing passion for physical exercise is not a "banal" fad but an "object of desire" that reveals women's agentive aspirations to reconfigure their subjectivity beyond the confines of the domestic sphere. By participating in physical exercise, these women do not simply work out their bodies but also recalibrate their relationship to their body image, gender roles, sexuality, faith, and familial duties—"physically ... Read More PubDate: 2022-09-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Lebanese Women at the Crossroads is an incisive intervention into a series of questions that Nelia Hyndman-Rizk calls the "women's rights puzzle" in Lebanon (114): Why is women's political representation so low in Lebanon' Why is women's participation in the labor force relatively thin, even though they are highly educated in aggregate' Why can Lebanese women not pass Lebanese citizenship on to their children' In facing these questions, Hyndman-Rizk asks whether introducing a secular nationality and civic marriage law would solve the many legal, political, social, and economic contradictions that women face in Lebanon. Although it would not be a panacea, it would nevertheless guarantee that "citizenship status will ... Read More PubDate: 2022-09-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa is a timely volume, since academic interest in masculinities is carving a greater space for itself day by day in area studies, which have been spending greater energy in women's studies to discuss gender. Masculinities have been invisible to the academics for a long time, but now critical masculinity studies is trending. Edited by Mohja Kaf and Nadine Sinno, this valuable collection of sixteen articles illuminates how masculinities, their anxieties, crises, and socalled toxicity, are relevant issues in the discussion of European imperialism and the backlash it caused, authoritarian state institutions, mentality of reaction and revolt, and also ... Read More PubDate: 2022-09-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Women's Political Activism in Palestine is a timely intervention. In 2021 a new generation of Palestinian activists came into the global spotlight. Young influencers turned away from more established political avenues, using social media to broadcast the damaging effects of Israel's military rule on everyday life in Palestine. Their narratives drew global attention to the injustices of Israel's occupation, framing the Palestinian struggle alongside growing movements against racism and dispossession worldwide. As 2021 demonstrated, and as Sophie Richter-Devroe writes in her introduction, "the need to refocus and rethink what 'doing politics' really means in Palestine seems even more urgent today" (2). Her analysis ... Read More PubDate: 2022-09-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Graduation Day is part of my soft powers series of velvet fiber etchings. The notion of soft power is understood as the ability to attract and co-opt, rather than coerce. Reframing this concept to describe a kind of "code-switching," this series considers the covert skills that many of us begin to develop as children as we adapt to various environments. For children of immigrants, particularly those of families who have migrated from the global South to the global North, these skills are uniquely nuanced. Continuously traversing private to public spheres, from households of collectivist ideals to institutional and social spaces that encourage individual expression, children quickly learn to code-switch and navigate ... Read More PubDate: 2022-09-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In June 2020 a new wave of feminist activism emerged in the Egyptian public sphere.1 Building on almost two decades of mobilization and organization against sexual harassment and assault, the new organizers are upper-middle- and upper-class Egyptians in their early twenties who politicize social networks to push the problem of sexual violence and women's bodily integrity back into public discourse (Fayed 2021). Inspired by the global #MeToo movement, they built on its feminist discourse against sexual violence and its model of organization, relying heavily on social media as a tool for action to revitalize feminist activism in authoritarian Egypt (Khorshid 2021).Nadeen Ashraf, a student at the American University ... Read More PubDate: 2022-09-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The vast majority of the Iranian diasporic population in Europe is concentrated in the United Kingdom, with an estimate of seventy thousand Iranian first generation migrants (CT0723_2011 Census n.d.).1 Learning a new culture but not losing one's own has always been a challenge among Iranians. This article offers a comparative analysis of two studies examining Iranian first-generation migrants' understandings of power, belonging, and respectability in the diaspora. It provides important insights into how Iranian migrants in the United Kingdom differently conceptualize these notions at the intersection of class, gender, and race. The first study, by Mastoureh Fathi (2017), explores the intersectional experiences of ... Read More PubDate: 2022-09-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In Saudi Arabia the social segregation of men and women has arguably led to the development of a public sphere that operates, to some extent, separately across gender lines but that is rapidly changing. The important roles played by café culture, khutba meetings in mosques, the dissemination of cassette tapes, and forums such as Saudi Arabia's King Abdul Aziz Centre for National Dialogue will be considered in this article. Social media (SM) platforms such as Twitter have added a new dimension to the public sphere, since they have the ability to both empower individuals to communicate on their own terms and to restrict and shape that communication.The literature includes many definitions of the term public sphere. ... Read More PubDate: 2022-09-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: I was born in Jerusalem, where my ancestors planted roots centuries ago. My family is from Shuʾfat, a village north of the Old City, where I spent the first few years of my life. My connection to Jerusalem has always been strong, even when my father moved our family to the United States to avoid the political problems of the region. He also did not want us to experience the poverty he endured as a child in post-Nakba Jerusalem, then under Jordan's jurisdiction. We left Palestine on a snowy, cold day at the end of 1987, just as the first intifada was brewing. In the United States, Palestine was always present in our new home. My parents spoke only Arabic at home, my father told us of his adventures in Jerusalem ... Read More PubDate: 2022-09-05T00:00:00-05:00
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