Al-Raida Journal

Issues

Women and Photography - Spring/Summer 2013 - Issues 141-142

Vol. 40 (2016)

This special issue of al-raida on Women and Photography addresses photography as a medium that challenges gender roles, positions, and attributes as seen in the mainstream media. It includes papers by contributors who examine the practice of women photographers in the Middle East as well as the different ways women are represented in photographs.

Articles

The Beach: The Politics of Gender in Modern Day Egypt

Yasmine Allam

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Silent Shout Photography, Women, and the Iranian Rooftop (1953, 1979, 2009)

Brynn Hatton

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In/distinction On Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh’s A Photographic Conversation from Burj al-Shamali Camp

Daniel Berndt

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Car Flirting and Morality Cruising: Neurotic Gazes and Paranoid Glances in Contemporary Iranian Art

Sara Mameni

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Editorial

Women and Photography

Yasmine Nachabe Taan

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Cross-dressing in Photographs of 1920s and 1930s Egypt, Palestine and Lebanon

Yasmine Nachabe Taan

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Interviews

Interview with Karen Kalou: A Photographer

Hiba Mikdashi

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Interview with Christina Rahme: A Fashion Photographer Based in Beirut

Yasmine Nachabe Taan

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Obituary

Obituary: Farewell Rita

Guita Hourani

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Review

A Review of Rasha Kahils Photographic Practice

Helen Karam

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The Passport of the 21st Century

Farah Berrou

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A Review of Rasha Kahil’s Photographic Practice

Helen Karam

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Word from the Editor

Word from the Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Dima Dabbous

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