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From: shahd wadi <shahdwadi@???>
Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:06 AM
Subject: [EstudosFeministasUC] Fw: Call for Papers: Women and Arab Spring
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PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY.
Call for Papers
Jennifer Heath / HeathCollom@???
Rita Stephan / rita.stephan@???
WOMEN AND THE ARAB SPRING: RESISTANCE, REVOLUTION, REFORM
Jennifer Heath, independent scholar, author, and editor, and Rita Stephan,
researcher at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown
University, are assembling an edited volume about women's initiative and
actions up to and during the so-called Arab Spring. This comprehensive
collection will examine historical roots of Arab women's leadership from
antiquity to the present, giving voice to women's voices by exploring
wide-ranging topics such as tweeting in Tunisia, graffiti in Egypt, the
campaign for driving in Saudi Arabia, the "women's revolution" in Syria,
the raisons d'etre of Islamist women, the roles of minority women, and more.
The book will feature essays, interviews, and artwork describing women's
leadership (and threats to it), resistance, mobilization, rights, and
reforms from numerous points of view and contexts throughout the region,
culminating in analysis of what this can mean for the future, its
opportunities and challenges. Our purpose is to produce a cross-over book
that will appeal to both scholarly and general audiences and that
realistically illustrates Arab women's agency and strengths.
Deadline for 500-word abstracts, interview proposals, and images, with
300-word author biographies is June 3, 2013. Articles (no longer than 5,000
words) will be due September 9, 2013. Please send all written materials as
WORD.doc and all images as JPEGs to Jennifer Heath, HeathCollom@???
and Rita Stephan, rita.stephan@???, subject heading SPRING.
Jennifer Heath is an independent scholar, award-winning cultural journalist,
critic, curator, and activist, the author or editor of eleven books of
fiction and non-fiction, including The Scimitar and the Veil: Extraordinary
Women of Islam (Paulist Press, 2004), The Veil: Women Writers on its
History, Lore, and Politics (University of California Press, 2008), Land of
the Unconquerable: The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women (University of
California Press, 2011), co-edited with Ashraf Zahedi, and, also with
Zahedi, Children of Afghanistan: The Path to Peace (University of Texas
Press, forthcoming). She came of age in Afghanistan, founded Seeds for
Afghanistan in 2001 and the Afghanistan Relief Organization Midwife Training
and Infant Care Program, later International Midwife Assistance. Her many
touring exhibitions include Water, Water Everywhere: Paean to a Vanishing
Resource, The Veil: Visible & Invisible Spaces, Black Velvet: The Art We
Love to Hate and The Map is Not the Territory: Parallel Paths-Palestinian,
Native American, Irish, opening at The Jerusalem Fund Gallery in September
2013.
Rita Stephan is a visiting researcher at the Center FOR Contemporary Arab
Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Covering a range of
issues on gender in the Middle East, her publications include "Arab Women's
Solidarity Association-United and Cyberfeminism" in the Journal of Middle
Eastern Women Studies (2013); "Women's Rights Movement in Lebanon" in
Mapping Arab Women Movements: A Century of Transformation from Within,
edited by Nawar Al-Hassan Golley and Pernille Arenfeldt (American University
of Cairo Press, 2012); "Couple's Activism for Women's Rights in Lebanon: The
Legacy of Laure Moghaizel," in Women Studies International Forum (2010);
"Lebanese-Americans' Cultural Identity and Political Behavior," in Palma
(2009); "Arab Women Writing Their Sexuality," in Hawwa, Journal of Women of
the Middle East and the Islamic World (2006); "Virtue and Sin: An Arab
Christian Woman's Perspective," in The Veil: Women Writers on its History,
Lore, and Politics, edited by Jennifer Heath (University of California
Press, 2008); "Leadership of Lebanese Women in the Cedar Revolution" in
Muslim Women in War and Crisis, edited by Faegheh Shirazi (University of
Texas Press, 2010); and "Arab Women Cyberfeminism" in Al-Raida (2007).
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