Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 1997
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Director of the International Comparative Studies Program, International Comparative Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011 - 2015
  • Visiting Associate Professor in Women, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Bodies
  • Gender
  • Martyrdom
  • Masculinity
  • Palestine
  • Social movements
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • Bahrain (Country) 
    • Egypt (Country) 
    • Jordan (Country) 
    • United Arab Emirates (Country) 
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Freedom Without Permission Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions. Edited by F Hasso and ZS Salime. Duke University Press Book, October 7, 2016. (Edited Book)
    • Hasso, FS. Consuming Desires: Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East. Stanford University Press, 2011.
    • Hasso, FS. Resistance, Repression and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan. Syracuse University Press, 2005.

  • Book Sections

    • Hasso, FS. "Shifting Practices and Identities: Nontraditional Relationships among Sunni Muslim Egyptians and Emiratis." In Family, Gender, and Law in a Globalizing Middle East and South Asia, edited by KM Cuno and M Desai, 211-222. Syracuse University Press, 2009.
    • Hasso, FS. "Comparing Emirati and Egyptian Narratives On Marriage, Sexuality, and the Body." In Global Migration, Social Change, and Cultural Transformation, edited by E Elliott, J Payne, and P Ploesch, 59-74. Palgrave Publishers, 2007.
    • Hasso, FS, and Lopez, LM. "Frontlines and Borders: Identity Thresholds for Latinas and Arab American Women." In Everyday Inequalities: Critical Inquiries, edited by J O'Brien and J Howard, 253-279. London: Blackwell, 1998.

  • Digital Publications

    • Hasso, FS. "Since the Revolutions: The Challenge of Contemporary Middle East Studies." (January 4, 2014). (Digital Edition)  Link to Item
    • Hasso, FS. "Alternative Worlds at the 2013 World Social Forum in Tunis." (May 1, 2013).  Link to Item

  • Journal Articles

    • Hasso, FS. "Entering and remaking spaces: Young palestinian feminists in Jerusalem." Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 13, no. 2 (July 1, 2017): 337-345.  Full Text
    • Hasso, FS. "Civil and the Limits of Politics in Revolutionary Egypt." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 35, no. 3 (December 29, 2015): 605-621.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • "Association Tounissiet." Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11, no. 3 (November 2015): 365-367.  Full Text
    • Kahraman, H, and Hasso, F. "Art ConceptArtist’s Concept NoteEditor’s Comment." Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11, no. 3 (November 2015): 349-349.  Full Text
    • Kahraman, H, and Hasso, F. "Art concept." Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11, no. 2 (January 1, 2015): 233-234.  Full Text
    • Hasso, FS. "Bargaining with the devil: States and intimate life." Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 10, no. 2 (January 1, 2014): 107-134. (Review)  Full Text
    • Abu-Lughod, L, Adely, FJ, and Hasso, FS. "Overview: Engaging the Arab Human Development Report 2005 on Women." International Journal of Middle East Studies 41, no. 1 (May 28, 2009): 59-60.  Full Text
    • Hasso, FS. "Empowering governmentalities rather than women: The Arab Human Development Report 2005 and western development logics." International Journal of Middle East Studies 41, no. 1 (May 28, 2009): 63-82.  Full Text
    • Hasso, FS. "'Culture Knowledge' and the Violence of Imperialism: Revisiting The Arab Mind." MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies 7, no. Spring (2007): 24-40.  Link to Item
    • Hasso, FS. "Discursive and political deployments by/of the 2002 Palestinian women suicide bombers/martyrs." Feminist Review , no. 81 (November 1, 2005): 23-51. (Review)  Full Text
    • Hasso, FS. "Problems and promise in Middle East and North Africa gender research." Feminist Studies 31, no. 3 (September 1, 2005): 653-678. (Review)
    • Hasso, FS. "Feminist generations? The long-term impact of social movement involvement on Palestinian women's lives." American Journal of Sociology 107, no. 3 (November 1, 2001): 586-611.
    • Hasso, FS. "Modernity and gender in Arab accounts of the 1948 and 1967 defeats." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES 32, no. 4 (November 2000): 491-510.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Hasso, FS. "The "women's front" - Nationalism, feminism, and modernity in Palestine." GENDER & SOCIETY 12, no. 4 (August 1998): 441-465.  Full Text  Link to Item

  • Other Articles

    • Hasso, FS. "Who Covered The War Best? Try al-Jazeera." Newsday (April 16, 2003). (Editorial Comment)  Link to Item
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • AMES 527S: Cartographies of Gender and Sexuality in Middle East 2017
  • GSF 89S: First Year Seminar in Gender Studies 2017
  • GSF 291: Independent Study 2017
  • GSF 293: Research Independent Study 2017
  • GSF 374S: Global Men and Masculinities 2017
  • GSF 503S: Cartographies of Gender and Sexuality in Middle East 2017
  • GSF 891: Independent Study 2017
  • ICS 274S: Global Men and Masculinities 2017
  • ICS 503S: Cartographies of Gender and Sexuality in Middle East 2017
  • SOCIOL 375S: Global Men and Masculinities 2017
  • WOMENST 199S: Thinking Gender: An Introduction to Feminist Theory 2016
  • WOMENST 291: Independent Study 2016
  • WOMENST 493: Honors Independent Study 2016
  • WOMENST 730S: Feminist Knowledge, Interdisciplinarity, and Social Change 2016
  • WOMENST 891: Independent Study 2016
  • WOMENST 89S: First Year Seminar in Gender Studies 2015
  • WOMENST 369S: Transnational Feminism 2015
  • WOMENST 374S: Global Men and Masculinities 2015
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  Advising & Mentoring

  • UNDERGRADUATE HONORS THESES

    
    Thesis Supervisor: Diala Alqadi. International Comparative Studies Program, Duke University, 2015. “’The Door that Cannot Be Closed’: Citizens Bidoon Citizenship in the United Arab Emirates.”
    
    Thesis Supervisor: Jeline Rabideau. International Comparative Studies Program, Duke University, 2013. “Application of the UNHCR's ‘Ceased Circumstances’ Cessation Clauses to the Rwandan Refugee Crisis.”

    Thesis First Reader: Joline Doedens. Women’s Studies Program, Duke University, 2012. “Under the Mask of Tolerance: A Psychoanalytic Investigation of Tolerance in Dutch Society.”

    Thesis Supervisor: Assiatou B. Diallo. Gender and Women’s Studies Program (double major in African and African American Studies), Oberlin College, 2008. “Pleasure, Pain and Power: Experiences of Female Genital Cutting Among Guineans in New York City.”

    Thesis Supervisor: Eva Seligman. Gender and Women’s Studies Program (double major in Religion), Oberlin College, 2005. “Body, Mind, Gender, and Self in the New Buddhism.”

    Thesis Supervisor: Sarah “Annie” Gebhardt. Gender and Women’s Studies Program (double major in Sociology), Oberlin College, 2003. “Broadening the Boundaries of the Birds & the Bees: Pre-Adolescent Sexuality Education in Elementary Schools.”

    Thesis Committee Member: Mitali J. Routh. Art History, Oberlin College, 2003. "Documenting Documenta 11: Contemporary Art & Global Politics."
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • Masculinity, Ideology and the Human in Post-2011 Egyptian ‘Thug’ Films. G.E. Von Grunebaum Center for Middle East Studies. May 10, 2016  2016
  • Is the 1/11 Revolution in Egypt a Feminist Revolution? Assessing its Gender, Sexual and Marriage Dimensions and Implications. January 5, 2014  2014
  • Gendered and other Spatializations of ‘Thawrat al-LuLu’ in Bahrain. University of Warwick, UK. July 9, 2013  2013
  • Consuming Desires: Globalization and ‘Family Crisis’ in the UAE and Egypt. Kennedy School, Center for Public Leadership. June 8, 2012  2012
  • ’Space’ and ‘Civil’ as Arabic Keywords for Gendered and Sexual Dimensions of Egyptian Revolutionary Politics. Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University. Sweden. May 3, 2012  2012
  • The Governance Bargain Between Women and States in the Middle East. Feminist Theory Regular Session. American Sociological Association. August 20, 2011  2011
  • The Governance Bargain Between Women and States in the Middle East. March 9, 2011  2011
  • Patriarchy or Efficient Governance? Law and the “National Family” in the Middle East. November 2, 2010  2010
  • Empowering Governmentalities rather than Women: The Arab Human Development Report and Western Development Logics. September 27, 2008  2008

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