The Middle East Women's Studies Review articles from September 2003

The Middle East Women's Studies Review archives from September 2003

Voices of resistance: two Iraqi women speak out: Azza Basarudin and Khanum Shaikh interview Amal Al-Khedairy and Nermin Al-Mufti.(Interview)
September 22, 2003... On November 17, 2003, Amal Al-Khedairy and Nermin Al-Mufti, two visitors from Iraq, gave a talk at the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) on the impact of the United States' military occupation on Iraqi men and women. Khedairy's...

Message to AMEWS Val Moghadam, president-elect Amman, 21 October 2003.(Association of Middle Eastern Women's Studies)
September 22, 2003... As I write this message, I am sitting at a friend's desk in Amman, Jordan, where I have been interviewing women leaders and activists in connection with a project on globalization, transnational feminism, and women's movements in the Middle...

Editor's note.(Editorial)
September 22, 2003... As was noted in the Fall 2002/Winter 2003 issue, the situation in Iraq is dire and it is often difficult to obtain information from women in Iraq. We are therefore very pleased to include in this issue an interview of Iraqi activists Amal...

Barbara Aswad receives AMEWS' Lifetime Achievement Award: introductory comments by Louise Cainkar: MESA 2003 Annual Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska.(Association for Middle East Women's Studies)(Biography)(Transcript)
September 22, 2003... Introductory Remarks by Louise Cainkar: This Lifetime Achievement Award could not go to a more deserving person. Barbara Aswad's scholarly interest in Arab women's issues began in 1956, when she was a young college student on a Middle East...

Barbara Ibrahim receives AMEWS' Lifetime Achievement Award: introductory comments by Suad Joseph: MESA 2003 Annual Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska.(Association for Middle East Women's Studies)(Biography)(Transcript)
September 22, 2003... Introductory Remarks by Suad Joseph: It is my pleasure, on behalf of The Association for Mid die East Women's Studies (AMEWS) to present Barbara Ibrahim with the AMEWS Life Time Achievement Award for her work on women and human rights and...

Gendering Encyclopedia Knowledge: the Making of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures.(Panel Discussion)
September 22, 2003... Gendering Encyclopedia Knowledge: The making of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures A panel was held on November 8 at the 2003 Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Conference in Anchorage, Alaska to discuss the developmental...

Clash or Consensus: Gender and Human Security in a Globalized World.(human security conference)
September 22, 2003... Clash or Consensus: Gender and Human Security in a Globalized World More than 250 activists, academics, policy-makers, and organizational and religious leaders from over 20 countries gathered at Women's Learning Partnership's human security...

The Dance of the Rose and the Nightingale.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... The Dance of the Rose and the Nightingale by Nesta Ramazani Syracuse U. Press, 2002 Ever since the Iranian revolution of 1979, the image that many in the US have of the country is a collage of turbaned mullahs, bearded revolutionaries and...

Women's Rights: a Global View.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Women's Rights: A Global View edited by Lynn Walter Westport, Connecticut:Greenwood Press, 2001 This volume contains fifteen case studies that discuss women's rights struggles in the following countries: Argentina, Bolivia, China, Cuba,...

Remembering Childhood in the Middle East: Memoirs from a Century of Change.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Remembering Childhood in the Middle East: Memoirs from a Century of Change edited by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea Austin: University of Texas Press (2002) ISBN 0-292-72547-7,vi+354. This is a collection of narratives written by men and women...

Islamic Family Law in a Changing World: a Global Resource Book.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Islamic Family Law in a Changing World: A Global Resource Book edited by Abdullahi A. An-Na'im Zed Books, 2002 Islamic Family Law in a Changing World: A Global Resource Book, edited by Emory University law professor Abdullahi An-Na'im,...