The Middle East Women's Studies Review articles from March 22 2004

The Middle East Women's Studies Review archives from March 22 2004

Gendered occupation and resistance in Palestine.(Column)
March 22, 2004... My name is Su'ad Al-Najjar. I live with my husband, five sons and three daughters in the 'Khan Shahin' neighborhood of the Old City of Hebron. We rented our house from the Building Society two years ago. Our house is located in front of an...

Message from AMEWS president Val Maghadam.(Editorial)
March 22, 2004... Sept 2, 2004 Dear AMEWS members, Greetings from Paris. I trust you all have had a restful summer and are now settled into another productive academic year. As we finalize our preparations for the annual MESA meetings, in San Francisco...

Editor's note.(Editorial)
March 22, 2004... As many of you already know, this issue marks the end of the Middle East Women's Studies Review. As editor for over six years, I want to thank all the AMEWS members who contributed to the Review! I have really enjoyed having the opportunity to...

New AMEWS publication.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... Beginning in February, AMEWS members will be receiving our new peer reviewed publication--the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (JMEWS). AMEWS members are encouraged to submit articles for review with JMEWS editors Marcia Inhorn and Mary...

Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870-1920.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870-1920 by Akram Fouad Khater Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001. Akram Khater's Inventing Home is an engaging, enjoyable study that raises new...

Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East: Gender, Economy and Society.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East: Gender, Economy and Society edited by Eleanor Abdella Doumato and Marsha Pripstein Posusney Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003. An Egyptian friend of mine who taught in a...

A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East Edited by Sami Zubaida and Richard Tapper London & New York: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2000. Food studies are rapidly becoming an important field of inquiry in varied disciplines such...

Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo by Farha Ghannam Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Farha Ghannam's Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in...

Arab Women in the Middle Ages: Private Lives and Public Roles.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Arab Women in the Middle Ages: Private Lives and Public Roles by Shirley Guthrie London: Saqi Books, 2001 In this book, Shirley Guthrie attempts to address a subject that is of great interest to scholars, teachers and students--the everyday...

The Nomad: The diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt translated by Nina de Voogd, edited by Elizabeth Kershaw, Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2003 Travelers have always posed a dilemma for scholars. On the one hand, they represent that most...

Women's learning partnership: working to build women's leadership and technology capacity for the future.
March 22, 2004... Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development and Peace (WLP), a transnational network, partners with grassroots organizations primarily in Muslim majority countries to create culture and language specific curricula and conduct...

The legacy of a remarkable Muslim woman: Sharifa Alkhateeb.(creator, co-founder, and president of the North American Council of Muslim Women (NACMW))(Obituary)
March 22, 2004... American Muslim intellectual, activist, journalist, writer, and friend to all Muslim women, Sharifa Alkhateeb, passed away Wednesday, October 20, 2004 AD/6 Ramadhan, 1425 AH. Sharifa has been an advocate for Muslims and more specifically Muslim...

A report on the loss of Modern Art in Iraq.
March 22, 2004... The destruction of Iraq's cultural heritage is a subject which is rarely mentioned in the US and other western media. The occasional mention in academic circles of the wanton destruction, lack of protection and neglect of Iraq's archaeological...