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{"title":"Feminist Geographies of the Middle East and North Africa: A Panel Discussion at the Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Conference, 2020","authors":"Gabriella Nassif","doi":"10.32380/ALRJ.V45I1.2297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32380/ALRJ.V45I1.2297","url":null,"abstract":"This piece provides a brief overview of a panel session organized for the Middle East Studies Association of North America’s Annual Conference in 2020. The goal of the panel was to explore the ways that insights from the field of feminist geography can contribute to the work of feminist scholars on the Middle East and North Africa region. The panel was organized by Gabriella Nassif (University at Buffalo) and was led by Caroline Nagel (University of South Carolina), and included presentations from Karen Culcasi (West Virginia University), Yalda Hamidi (Minnesota State University), A. Marie Ranjbar (University of Colorado), and Brittany Cook (University of Kentucky).","PeriodicalId":215420,"journal":{"name":"Al-Raida Journal","volume":"192 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121534133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Local, Regional and Transnational Queer-feminist Arab, Muslim, and People of Color Insurgent-Abolitionist Horizons","authors":"Mohammed M. Abdou","doi":"10.32380/ALRJ.V45I1.1857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32380/ALRJ.V45I1.1857","url":null,"abstract":"How can radical queer-feminist contestations of the longstanding disciplining and punishment of women, trans peoples, and gender dissidents elucidate the blast radius of the multiple, dynamic, intersectional ‘cages’ that define the daily conditions of racialized gendered-queer life that require obliterating? I examine the notion of capitalist and authoritarian nation-state ‘cages’ that punitively condemns racialized queer-feminist lives in the decolonial context of gender-based sexual harassment in Egypt and the inspiring autonomous and lateral anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist initiative that some of my queer-feminist Egyptian and Muslim fieldwork participants incepted to combat harassment in an ongoing post-revolutionary Egyptian ‘Arab Spring/Islamist Winter.’ My participants did not rely on state-discipline and carceral punishment mechanisms nor did they seek to replicate the reproduction of patriarchal violence towards abusers. Rather, through knowledge production (al-intag al-marify) they sought a more compassionate-transformative justice approach in combatting harassment that centered on illuminating harassment as a micro-fascistic cis-heteropatriarchal by-product emergent from macro-fascistic statist and capitalist structural hierarchies and inequities that cyclically reify each other at the vertical and horizontal level. Even prior to a covet19-viral laden world, they recognized that there is nowhere left to hide (if there ever was one for innumerable disenfranchised racialized/queered/feminized/classed/disabled/debilitated lives marked and targeted by a necro-politics of death. They gesture towards a non-ideological revolutionary driven ethics and politics that demands that we must all ask how we will collectively decide how live or die. They reject playing to a statist-politics of recognition, reform and rights, or recourse to martial and emergency laws that are contingent on and reify capitalist-state paradigms that (further) strips and extinguishes our communitarian and individual agency as a species. Instead, they argue for a politics of responsibility that focuses on interconnecting the burning ashes, timbres, and fires of our intersecting local, regional, and transnational struggles through mutual aid and social solidarity towards each other and nonhuman life.","PeriodicalId":215420,"journal":{"name":"Al-Raida Journal","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127738687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sovereign attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and affective politics in Pakistan","authors":"Ziyanah Ladak","doi":"10.32380/ALRJ.V45I1.2296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32380/ALRJ.V45I1.2296","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":215420,"journal":{"name":"Al-Raida Journal","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132962085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sarah and her Sisters: American Missionary Pioneers in Arab Female Education, 1834-1937: A Review, and a Word from the Author","authors":"L. Abirafeh, Robert Stoddard","doi":"10.32380/ALRJ.V45I1.2301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32380/ALRJ.V45I1.2301","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":215420,"journal":{"name":"Al-Raida Journal","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134213405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Young Muslim Women, Willfulness, and the Honor Crime.","authors":"Amina Jamal","doi":"10.32380/ALRJ.V44I2.1839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32380/ALRJ.V44I2.1839","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper I suggest that Muslim women’s emotional and affective relation to ‘culture’, ‘honor’ and Islam, often evident in transgressive acts but also attributed to them to serve other interests, becomes elided in feminist rhetorical and discursive struggles over the interrelationship between colonialism, Islam, gender and culture in existing scholarship on ‘the honor crime.’ As a Pakistani–Canadian Muslim woman, I draw from experiences in my own classes to reflect on young Muslim women’s emotional responses to cultural and honor-related regulation. Conceptualizing Canada and Pakistan as culturally, politically and affectively entangled transnational sites, I consider a strategy to validate the emotions of my students in Toronto by describing, sharing and theorizing the story of young Pakistani Muslim women’s disruptive acts, as demonstrated in Aurat (Women’s) March. I draw on Sarah Ahmed’s concept of willfulness as one possible strategy for young Muslim women to understand their own – and other Muslim women’s – transgressive desires, emotions and acts, which may run counter to identitarian constructs of Muslim/Western, Islamic/unIslamic, good/bad women. In doing so, this paper draws upon, but also diverges from, postcolonial and critical feminist approaches that have responded variously to the dilemma of confronting honor-related violence against Muslim women, which is (always) intersected by colonialism, racism and imperialism.","PeriodicalId":215420,"journal":{"name":"Al-Raida Journal","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131708224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mernissi, F. (1987). Beyond the veil: Male-female dynamics in modern Muslim society","authors":"Yusra Abdul-Rahim","doi":"10.32380/ALRJ.V44I2.1828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32380/ALRJ.V44I2.1828","url":null,"abstract":"In Beyond the veil: Male–female dynamics in modern Muslim society, Mernissi explores the impact of modernization on the social order in Morocco in the early 1970s, which was traditionally built on segregation and patriarchal understandings of Shariah law. Divided into two parts, the book begins with the traditional Muslim view of women and the social order through an analysis of the Qur’an and hadiths. Using Imam Ghazali’s concept of sexuality, Mernissi illustrates how this concept, and our understanding of it, resulted in inequalities between the sexes, as well as the belief that the social order is dependent upon women as a consequence of their active female sexuality. Social order is described as being “secured when the woman limits herself to her husband and does not create fit, or chaos, by enticing other men to illicit intercourse” (Mernissi, 1987, p.39).","PeriodicalId":215420,"journal":{"name":"Al-Raida Journal","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116475558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Badran, M. (2009). Feminism in Islam: Secular and religious convergences. Oneworld.","authors":"Nicole Correri","doi":"10.32380/ALRJ.V44I2.1814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32380/ALRJ.V44I2.1814","url":null,"abstract":"What does it mean for a woman to speak? This is one of the central underlying questions in Margot Badran’s Feminism in Islam: Secular and Religious Convergences. She situates what women’s speaking means in the context of modernity and Islam in the wake of colonialism, public education, nationalism, secularism, and later Islamist revival and Islamic feminists’ ijtihād. Badran juxtaposes patriarchal traditions and the emergence of self-authorizing female voices in their negotiation of changing social realities. A theme that runs throughout the whole collection of essays is women speaking for themselves about their own lives, which constitutes “a form of shedding of the patriarchal surrogate voice” (Badran, 2009, p. 97).","PeriodicalId":215420,"journal":{"name":"Al-Raida Journal","volume":"210 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123167719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Revolution Is Female","authors":"Alya Humran","doi":"10.32380/ALRJ.V44I1.1819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32380/ALRJ.V44I1.1819","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":215420,"journal":{"name":"Al-Raida Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122922070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"I Discovered Feminism in a Revolution","authors":"Mae Anna Chokr","doi":"10.32380/ALRJ.V44I1.1812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32380/ALRJ.V44I1.1812","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":215420,"journal":{"name":"Al-Raida Journal","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129365767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Women’s Untamed Voices Roar as They Lead the Lebanese Revolution","authors":"Reem Zrein","doi":"10.32380/ALRJ.V44I1.1823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32380/ALRJ.V44I1.1823","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":215420,"journal":{"name":"Al-Raida Journal","volume":"23 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114013234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}