Al-Raida Journal

Issues

Women, Activism, and the Arts - Winter 2009 - Issue 124

Vol. 40 (2016)

This special issue of al-Raida is devoted to women, activism, and the arts in the Arab world – a subject that was not chosen at random. Women and creativity has always been a topic of interest in the discipline of Women’s Studies, and this issue in particular has as its focus the ways in which women of the Arab diaspora channel their creativity in a positive way.

Book Reviews

E-mails from Scheherazad

Sirène Harb

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Women and Media in the Middle East: Power through Self-Expression

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

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Editorial

Women, Activism, and the Arts

Cheryl Toman

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Files

No Place Like Home: Domestic Space and Women’s Sense of Self in North African Cinema

Sonia Assa

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Salima Ghezali: The Quintessence of Subversive Creativity

Abdelkader Chered

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The Teacher as Performer and Activist in Assia Djebar’s “La femme en morceaux”

Christa Jones

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The Cinematic Gaze as Social Activism: Yamina Benguigui from Documentary to Fiction

Marzia Caporale

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Painting in America as an Arab-American after 9/11: One Artist’s View

Helen Zughaib

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National Self in the Work of Palestinian Female Artists

Janan Abdu

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‘Mic Check. Can You Hear Me?’ Suheir Hammad and the Politics of Spoken Word Poetry

Theri Alyce Pickens

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News

International Women’s Day - March 2, 2009

Lebanese American University

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Film Screening Maid in Lebanon II Global Ministries - Prison Project

Lebanese American University

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Gender-Based Violence Awareness Campaign

Lebanese American University

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Young Scholars

Confessions of the Mad Wife: A Study of the Role of the Madwoman in Assad Fouladkar’s film Lamma Hikyit Maryam

Dana Hodeib-Eido

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