Women in the Performing Arts - Fall 2008 - Issues 122-123
Vol. 40 (2016)
The articles in this issue of al-Raida cover a fairly wide territory as they address different attributes of contemporary Arab women performers working all over the world. The contributors come from diverse academic and professional backgrounds.
Book Reviews
Women’s Voices in Middle East Museums: Case Studies in Jordan / Dreaming of Change: Young Middle-Class Women and Social Transformation in Jordan
Shelagh Weir, Lucine Taminian, Feisal Yunis
PDFPolitics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject / Women’s Rights and Islamic Family Law: Perspectives on Reform
Max Weiss, Najla Hamadeh
PDFEditorial
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Finding ‘a now’ to Inhabit: Between the Performative in life and Professional Practice
Lina Issa
PDFThe “New Woman” of the Interwar Period: Performance, Identity, and Performative Act of Everyday Life in Egypt and Iran
Fakhri Hagghani
PDFSunset Boulevard By Way of Wadi Shahrour: A Psychological Profile of Our National Norma Desmond
Ahmad Oueini
PDFFear and Laughing in the Occupied Territories: Comedienne Maysoon Zayid Transforms Lives
Dalila Mahdawi
PDFNews
Conference on: “The Status of Gender Research in Denmark and the Arab Region” - January 14-16, 2008
Lebanese American University
PDFInternational Women’s Day: A Tribute to Mai Ghoussoub - March 6, 2008
Lebanese American University
PDFLecture: “Let Women Rule” - June 20, 2008 / Dream She Is: Monodrama for a Woman’s Voice - July 12 & 13, 2008
Lebanese American University
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