Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies: Recent submissions
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From Kabul to Cairo and back again: The Afghan women’s movement and early 20th century transregional transformations
(Association Mnémosyne, 1 March 2020)When Afghan women are mentioned in the story of the country’s independence, it is most often in relationship to men, as either objects of King Aman Allah Khan’s Islamic reforms (r.1919-1929) or else as the locus of backlash ... -
Disentangling the “War on Terror”: Present pasts and possible futures
(Cambridge University Press, 4 July 2022)As the US-led global “War on Terror” enters its third decade, the structural, physical, and epistemological violence it has wrought continues to shape lives and landscapes in Afghanistan and Iraq. At present, the scholarship ... -
Representations of Muslim Women after 9/11 and the enduring entanglements of “writing against”
(Cambridge University Press, 4 July 2022)In the fall of 2021, I taught a graduate seminar entitled Women and Gender in the Arab World at Georgetown University. It had been two decades since 9/11 and the start of the “War on Terror,” events that most of my students ... -
Mourning Sarah Hegazi: Grief and the cultivation of queer Arabness
(The Feminist Press, 12 October 2022)In this article, we engage in a discursive analysis and affective reading of written and recorded responses to the suicide of Sarah Hegazi, an Egyptian queer feminist communist who took her own life in exile in Canada in ... -
Affect, excess & settler colonialism in Palestine/Israel
(Routledge, 18 August 2022)What happens when we pay attention to the sensations of our research? Based on an image and encounter during fieldwork in West Jerusalem, this article traces how a feeling of discomfort both confirms and challenges what ...