by Rachel Greenspan | Mar 16, 2018 | Announcements, Previous Announcements
We are pleased to announce that a new issue of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies is now available online! Volume 14:1 features three original articles, including the winner of the 2017 JMEWS Graduate Student Paper Prize, “Cruising Baghdad: Desire...
by Rachel Greenspan | Jan 7, 2018 | Announcements, Previous Announcements
We are pleased to make available a preview of our Third Space essay on the 2017 film, Wonder Woman [1] . This essay will be published in Volume 14:2 of JMEWS, a themed issue on decolonizing sex and sexuality. It has not yet undergone copy editing by Duke University...
by Rachel Greenspan | Dec 8, 2017 | Announcements
This article uses a queer lens to analyze two short stories of Iraqi writer Dhu al-Nun Ayyub: “The Eagles Anthem” and “How I found a Guy,” which were both in his collection Sadiqi (1938). This article is an essential contribution to the field, elaborating on...
by Rachel Greenspan | Dec 8, 2017 | Announcements
Hanan Hammad, Industrial Sexualities: Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt (University of Texas Press 2016) The first prize winner of AMEWS’s 2017 book award is Industrial Sexualities by Hanan Hammad. In ways not yet tackled in the filed, the book...
by Rachel Greenspan | Dec 8, 2017 | Announcements
Madeline Otis Campbell, Interpreters of Occupation: Gender and the Politics of Belonging in an Iraqi Refugee Network (Syracuse University Press 2016) This year’s honorable mention is Interpreters of Occupation, by Madeline Otis Campbell. Her work, grounded in an...
by Rachel Greenspan | Nov 6, 2017 | Announcements, Previous Announcements
We are pleased to announce that a new issue of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies is now available online! Volume 13:3 includes four original articles on the theme “Borders and Margins,” prefaced by Sara Smith. It features beautiful cover...
