Al-Raida Journal

Issues

Women in the Arab Family -Winter 1997 - Issue 76

Vol. 21 (1997)

For over forty years, most Western and traditional Arab writers dealing with Arab women’s concerns, issues, and . problems, adopted a Western discourse that remains for the most part unchallenged. Only recently have two prominent Arab women successfully attempted to dismantle this discourse by deconstructing its basic premises and criticizing its concepts and theories.

AiW News

IWSAW Celebrates International Women’s Day With Palestinian Author Sahar Khalifeh

Lebanese American University

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Book Reviews

Politics, Gender and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of A’ishah Bint Abi Baker

Fatme Charafeddine Kamal

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Feminists, Islam and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt

Hosn Abboud

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Editorial

Arab Women: From Misconceptions to Reality

Hassan Hammoud

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File Intro

The Arab Family in Transition

Hassan Hammoud

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Files

The Girl in the Lebanese Family

Saleh Ibrahim

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How Young People Relate to their Parents

Ghena Ismail

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Opinions and Practices of University Students Surveyed

Ghena Ismail

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The Disabled in the Family

Rita Mufarrij Merhej

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A Program that Made a Difference

Anita Farah Nassar

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Women-Headed Households in Lebanon

Ghena Ismail

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Temporary Marriage

Myriam Sfeir

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Changing Marriage Patterns in Lebanon

Adele Khudr

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Abstracts on Family Issues in the Arab World

Adnan Hammoud

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Family in Lebanon

Abdo Kaii

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Women and the Family in Lebanon: Figures and Facts

Hassan Hammoud

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News

From Palestine/From Egypt

Lebanese American University

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Poems

To Mother on Mother’s Day

Abdel Kareem Adeeb

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Quote/Unquote

Quote/Unquote

Lebanese American University

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Research Articles

Research Abstracts/Recent Publications/Conference

Lebanese American University

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Short Stories

How We Were

Emily Nasrallah

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Special Features

Alicia Ghiragossian: The Trilingual Poet

Azadouhi Simonian Kalaidjian

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Assia Djebar: An Algerian Woman’s Voice of Maturity and Vision

Evelyne Accad

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