Al-Raida Journal

Issues

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

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Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East

Kevin Taylor

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Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject / Women’s Rights and Islamic Family Law: Perspectives on Reform

Max Weiss, Najla Hamadeh

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Editorial

Women in the Performing Arts

Mona Knio

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Kamilya Jubran’s Solo Journey: Lemon by Lemon and Cigarette by Cigarette

Amy Khoury

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Stage Directors in the Rehearsal Room: Degendered Bodies in a Degendered Workplace

Sahar Assaf

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Performing the Body: Haifa Wehbi in the becoming

Zena Meskaoui

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Tomorrow You Will See How Beautiful Our Home Is

Hassan Kassab-Hassan

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Finding ‘a now’ to Inhabit: Between the Performative in life and Professional Practice

Lina Issa

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Umm Kulthum: A Legend or a Story of Will!

Hind Soufi-Assaf

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Performance & I

Marya Kazoun

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The “New Woman” of the Interwar Period: Performance, Identity, and Performative Act of Everyday Life in Egypt and Iran

Fakhri Hagghani

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North Africa’s Performing Women Notes from the Field

Laura Chakravarty Box

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Sunset Boulevard By Way of Wadi Shahrour: A Psychological Profile of Our National Norma Desmond

Ahmad Oueini

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Alone With Them All

Lina Abiad

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Faten Hamama and Hind Rustom: Stars from Different Heavens

Jean Said Makdissi

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Hakawati Freestyle

Laila Debs

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Fear and Laughing in the Occupied Territories: Comedienne Maysoon Zayid Transforms Lives

Dalila Mahdawi

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News

Conference on: “The Status of Gender Research in Denmark and the Arab Region” - January 14-16, 2008

Lebanese American University

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International Women’s Day: A Tribute to Mai Ghoussoub - March 6, 2008

Lebanese American University

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Lebanese Women Demand Parliamentary Quota - September 23, 2008

Lebanese American University

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Lecture: “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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Roundtable

Time Goes One Way - Against the Classification of Arts

Joelle Khoury

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Mai Ghoussoub: A Passion for Expression

Afaf Shawwa

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Khayaal Theater Company: Introducing Muslim Theater to Europe

Yasmine Dabbous

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Roundtable on Women in the Performing Arts

Lebanese American University

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Aqbal Al-Khayr: The First Women Only Play in Saudi Arabia

Noura Sakkaf

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