by Rachel Greenspan | Feb 22, 2017 | Announcements
Volume 13:1 features cover artwork by Gohar Dashti, a themed section on Egyptian women writers, and a photo essay by Noor Al-Qasimi. It also features a special forum, “Feminist Perspectives on the 2016 Military Coup Attempt in Turkey,” which is freely...
by Rachel Greenspan | Nov 20, 2016 | Announcements
Congratulations to 2016 AMEWS Book Award winner Ellen McLarney, a member of the JMEWSEditorial Board! The annual prize recognizes Soft Force: Women in Egypt’s Islamic Awakening (Princeton University Press 2015) for excellence in the field of Middle East gender,...
by Rachel Greenspan | Nov 20, 2016 | Announcements
Congratulations to Reina Lewis for earning an Honorable Mention in the 2016 AMEWS Book Award competition! Lewis was recognized for her new monograph, Muslim Fashion: Contemporary Style Cultures (Duke University Press 2015). In the shops of London’s Oxford...
by Rachel Greenspan | Nov 8, 2016 | Announcements
Volume 12:3, “The Gender and Sexuality of Militarization and War,” features cover artwork by Khaled Akil, five new articles, several exciting reviews and Third Space contributions, as well as an essay remembering the work of Fatima Mernissi (1940–2015). To...
by Rachel Greenspan | Aug 2, 2016 | Announcements
The Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies invites sexuality and gender scholars working in any discipline or interdisciplinary area in the interpretive social sciences and humanities to submit area-focused manuscripts of no more than 10,000 words on any topic related...
by Rachel Greenspan | Jul 31, 2016 | Announcements
Our new issue, “Everyday Intimacies of the Middle East,” is now available online! Guest edited by Aslı Zengin and Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Volume 12:2 features striking cover artwork by Mona Hatoum and tribute essays to Assia Djebar (1936-2015).
