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JMEWS Volume 18 Issue 1 (2022)

PUBLICATION: Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (2022) 18 (1): 147–149 ARTICLE The Arab world’s leading feminist activist and writer, Nawal El Saadawi, died on

Protest in the Age of Cyberatomism (2021)

PUBLICATION: Protest XX (2021) ABSTRACT How can we account for the exponential increase in worldwide mass protests over the past twenty years? While protests are

Nawal El Saadawi – Activist, Writer, and Physician

KEYNOTE “Celebrating Arab Women”International Conference UAENovember 7, 2020 Download PDF of the keynote slides

Hijabi Activism (2020)

PUBLICATION: Al Raida Journal Vol. 44, Issue 2, 2020 ARTICLE I was eating a veg dosa at Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University cafeteria when a

Murad vs. ISIS (2019)

PUBLICATION: JMEWS 209 ABSTRACT This article analyzes recent Iraqi texts, some authorizing and others condemning rape as a weapon of war. The focus is on

The Syrian Revolution, Art and the End of Ideology (2018)

PUBLICATION: The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East ARTICLE In May 2013, Syrian graphic artist Sana Yazigi launched The Creative Memory of the Syrian

Arab Women Writers 1980-2010 (2017)

“Arab Women Writers 1980-2010” in Muhsin al-Musawi Arabic Literature for the Classroom: Teaching Methods, Theories and Texts London: Routledge 2017,

Nawal el Saadawi: Writer and Revolutionary (2016)

We live in one world under patriarchal capitalism. I am opposed to anything that divides us. The differences between people and cultures that literature erases, theory

Women and the Arab Spring: A Transnational, Feminist Revolution (2016)

Spanning the Middle East and North Africa region and using real cases, this chapter traces the trajectory of euphoria, backlash, and persistence that has marked