Cross-Glocalization: Syrian Women Immigrants and the Founding of Women's Magazines in Egypt

Zachs, Fruma

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“…Mervat Hatem points out that the pioneers of Lebanon, Palestine, and Egypt, although from not a homogeneous culture, were “actively involved in the ongoing debates” about women's position in society together since there were many Lebanese and Palestinian women who had “settled in Egypt” (1992, 37). Likewise, Fruma Zachs has written on the contributions of Syrian and Lebanese women in the establishment of women's magazines in Egypt (2014). These sites within al-mashreq have been selected due to their geographical and political proximity 7 .…”

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“Like Seeking out a Lost Friend”: Reconsidering “Pioneer” Arab Feminists and Their Networks as Part of a/the First Wave

Douglas

2024

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Contemporary Arab feminist writers such as Margot Badran and Mona Eltahawy describe their personal discovery of Arab “pioneers.” This label positions “pioneers” as exceptional figures, which untethers their legacy from contemporary Arab feminists, and from one another. Drawing on the Warwick Research Collective's concept of “combined and uneven development,” this essay rethinks how we understand the first wave to account for the feminist histories in al-mashreq, and therefore reimagines the feminist wave model to account for waves of transmission, of emotion such as inspiration drawn from solidarity with other women. Through analysis of Anglophone scholarship and biographies, translated autobiographical writings of “pioneers,” and analysis of L'Egyptienne magazine, this article offers a new way of framing the work of “pioneer” feminists as part of a wide network of collaborators, and a wave of feminist activism that is locally and globally imbricated. This paper examines women's journals and salons which contribute to a period of “invisible feminism” from 1860 to the early 1920s. The endeavors of three “pioneer” figures, Huda Sha'rawi (Egypt, 1879–1947), Anbara Salam Khalidi (Lebanon, 1897–1986), and May Ziadeh (Palestine/Lebanon, 1886–1941) are then discussed through the lens of their influential friendships with other women.

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“Like Seeking out a Lost Friend”: Reconsidering “Pioneer” Arab Feminists and Their Networks as Part of a/the First Wave

Douglas

2024

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“…This dual challenge of mainstreaming gender in Middle East studies and mainstreaming the Middle East in gender studies will help us formulate a viable alternative to the Eurocentric perspective that still dominates our historical thinking and that we cannot completely avoid. If Egyptian feminists inherited some of their understanding of women's rights from Lebanese authors who had already discussed the same issues two decades before, and if Ottoman feminists published magazines in Paris, 16 for example, we can trace vectors of influence more complex than the ones we have become accustomed to drawing. One of the things that we can do (and that I have done, not without pleasure) is to sit in Middle East studies panels and complain that, once again, the panelists forgot to talk about gender, and/or to sit in gender studies conferences and complain about Eurocentrism or murmur "but colonialism" out loud.…”

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Going Transnational: On Mainstreaming Middle East Gender Studies

Kozma

2016

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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Middle East gender studies is a lively and fascinating field. With two very different journals (HawwaandJournal of Middle East Women Studies) and dozens of panels at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference and the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, we have come a long way over the last two decades. Women's, queer, and masculinity studies are now part of how we understand gender studies in the region. Middle East gender studies does, however, remain marginal in two fields—Middle East studiesandgender studies. It is normally assigned to the end of a Middle East studies conference (“and gender”), or, conversely, to the end of a gender studies conference or edited volume (“and elsewhere”). But can a discussion of technology or World War I in the modern Middle East weave in insights gained from gender or queer studies? And can a discussion of women's movements or women's labor incorporate what we know about the Middle East? I believe that more can be done to mainstream gender in Middle East studies, and to mainstream the Middle East in gender studies. Transnational history is a particularly promising direction for this endeavor.

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Gender in Magazines

Groeneveld¹

2020

The Handbook of Magazine Studies

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Cross-Glocalization: Syrian Women Immigrants and the Founding of Women's Magazines in Egypt

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“Like Seeking out a Lost Friend”: Reconsidering “Pioneer” Arab Feminists and Their Networks as Part of a/the First Wave

“Like Seeking out a Lost Friend”: Reconsidering “Pioneer” Arab Feminists and Their Networks as Part of a/the First Wave

Going Transnational: On Mainstreaming Middle East Gender Studies

Gender in Magazines

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