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Ellen McLarney

Ellen McLarney

Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
ellenmc@duke.edu
Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
2204ERWIN Road Room 226, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

Black Muslims and the Angels of Afrofuturism

Journal Article Black Scholar · January 1, 2023 Full text Open Access Cite

Malcolm X's Gospel

Journal Article Black Perspectives · March 28, 2022 Open Access Link to item Cite

The Burning House: Revolution and Black Art

Journal Article Souls · January 1, 2022 In a 1961 radio discussion about Black art and its relationship to Black nationalism, Lorraine Hansberry asked: “Is it necessary to integrate oneself into a burning house?” James Baldwin quoted Hansberry in The Fire Next Time without citing her—words that ... Full text Cite

Agency versus Insurgency

Journal Article Journal of Middle East Women's Studies · July 1, 2021 Full text Cite

Soundscapes of the iranian revolution

Journal Article Journal of Middle East Women's Studies · July 1, 2020 Full text Cite

Images of an undocumented revolution: Interview with claudine mulard

Journal Article Journal of Middle East Women's Studies · July 1, 2020 Full text Cite

Cover art concept

Journal Article Journal of Middle East Women's Studies · January 1, 2020 Full text Cite

Cover art concept

Journal Article Journal of Middle East Women's Studies · January 1, 2019 Full text Cite

Cover art concept

Journal Article Journal of Middle East Women's Studies · January 1, 2019 Full text Cite

From the new editorial team

Journal Article Journal of Middle East Women's Studies · January 1, 2019 Full text Cite

Reviving Qasim Amin, Redeeming Women’s Liberation

Chapter · January 1, 2018 The fin-de-siècle concept of “women’s liberation” attributed to Egyptian lawyer Qasim Amin (d. 1909) has been revived for the age of the Islamic awakening, both in state discourse and in writings of thinkers associated with the Islamic movement. Two major ... Full text Cite

Freedom, Justice, and the Power of Adab

Journal Article International Journal of Middle East Studies · February 1, 2016 Full text Cite

Soft force: Women in Egypt's Islamic awakening

Book · June 9, 2015 In the decades leading up to the Arab Spring in 2011, when Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime was swept from power in Egypt, Muslim women took a leading role in developing a robust Islamist presence in the country's public sphere. Soft Force examines the ... Cite

Egypt on the Brink

Other The State of Things · August 21, 2013 Cite

Review: Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition: Reform, Rationality, and Modernity by Samira Haj

Journal Article International Journal of Middle East Studies · February 2012 Full text Link to item Cite

The Islamic Public Sphere and the Discipline of Adab

Journal Article International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies · 2011 Open Access Cite

Muslim Women, Consumer Capitalism, and the Islamic Culture Industry

Journal Article Journal of Middle East Women's Studies · October 2010 Open Access Cite

The private is political: Women and family in intellectual Islam

Journal Article Feminist Theory · August 6, 2010 In Hiba Ra'uf's Woman and Political Work, she argues that the family is the basic political unit of the Islamic community or nation (the umma). Her thesis is both feminist and Islamist, as she argues that the 'private is political'. By drawing analogies be ... Full text Open Access Cite

Marketing Muslim Women, Special Issue

Journal Article Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies · 2010 Cite

Burqa in Vogue: Fashioning Afghanistan

Journal Article · December 2009 Open Access Cite

Burqa in Vogue: Fashioning Afghanistan

Journal Article Journal of Middle East Women's Studies · December 2009 Open Access Cite

The socialist romance of the postcolonial Arabic novel

Journal Article Research in African Literatures · September 1, 2009 This essay examines the politics of love in the Arabic novel: how love is used to envision a more just and egalitarian society. The marriage market, courtship practices, and kinship ties - which propagate and calcify gender and class hierarchies - prove fo ... Full text Cite

Secularism Confronts Islam

Journal Article Middle Eastern Studies Association Bulletin · 2009 Cite

Latifah al-Zayyat

Journal Article · 2008 Cite

Latifah al-Zayyat

Chapter · 2008 Cite

Islam in Vogue: Muslim Women in the Media

Other "Imagining Ourselves." International Museum of Women · 2007 Link to item Cite

Literacy and the Literary: Reading and Speaking Arabic

Journal Article ADFL Bulletin · October 2005 Cite

The Politics of Driss Chraibi’s Le passé simple

Journal Article Journal of North African Studies · July 2003 Cite

Review: The House on Arnus Square by Samar Attar

Journal Article Journal of Arabic Literature · 2003 Cite

Politics of Le passé simple

Journal Article Journal of North African Studies · January 1, 2003 The uproar incited by Driss Chraibi's Le passé simple resulted from the political climate at the time of the novel's publication in 1954, skewing the interpretation of the text. The novel allegorically describes tensions between different political groups ... Full text Cite

The 'House on Arnus Street'

Journal Article JOURNAL OF ARABIC LITERATURE · 2003 Cite

Review: Under the Naked Sky by Denis Johnson-Davies

Journal Article Journal of Arabic Literature · 2002 Cite

Unlocking the Female in Ahlem Mosteghanemi

Journal Article Journal of Arabic Literature · 2002 Cite

The Algerian Personal Statute: A French Legacy

Journal Article Islamic Quarterly · 1997 Cite