Journal articleJournal of Middle East Women S Studies · January 1, 2019
This article analyzes recent Iraqi texts, some authorizing and others condemning rape as a weapon of war. The focus is on Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) perpetrators of sexual violence, their Yazidi victims, and two women's demands for reparative, ...
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Journal articleReview of Middle East Studies · January 1, 2013
The situation in Syria has continued to deteriorate. The government has increased its aggression against the people, and outside elements with unclear motives have joined the opposition. On 21 August, the people of Ghuta suffered a chemical attack, and ove ...
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Journal articleJournal of Arabic Literature · April 1, 2010
This essay argues that the writings of Libyan Ibrahim al-Kuni, and particularly Nazif al-hajar with its emphasis on animal-human juxtapositions and metamorphoses, should be considered examples of Arab magical realism. The circular narrative tells the story ...
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Journal articleContemporary Islam · August 1, 2007
In the 6 years that have elapsed since the events of 9/11 Muslims have become the Other and veiled Muslim women have become their visible representatives. Standing in for their communities, they have attracted international media attention. So intertwined ...
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Journal articleNepontala · 2000
Reprint in L. Donaldson & K. Pui-Lan, Postcolonialism, Feminism and Religious Discourse (eds) Routledge, 2002. ...
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Journal articleCritique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies · March 1999
Translated into Chinese, Middle East Studies of Peking University vol.1, 2015. ...
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Journal articleGeographical Review · January 1, 1999
The Mediterranean has traditionally been approached from a geographical and historical perspective that has collapsed the material and political differences between water and land. This conflation has been instrumental in homogenizing the diversity of this ...
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Journal articlePeuples Mediterraneens, Mediterranean Peoples · 1998
Reprint in S. Morton & C. Schlote (eds) Reading Literature from the Middle East and its Diasporas, 2009. ...
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Journal articleJournal of Arabic Literature · 1995
Reprint in The Postcolonial Crescent. Islam’s Impact on Contemporary Literature (John C. Hawley, ed.), 1997. ...
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