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Topic 12: Gender in the Middle East

Gender and migration in the Middle East (November 20-25)

Soha Bayoumi; Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Writing History in the Middle East: Interview with Afsaneh Najmabadi. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 1 July 2020; 16 (2): 213–226. doi:

Kozma, Liat. "Women’s Migration for Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East and North Africa,” Journal of Women's History 28, no. 3 (Fall, 2016): 93-113,188

Koçak, Mert. "Who is “Queerer” and Deserves Resettlement?: Queer Asylum Seekers and Their Deservingness of Refugee Status in Turkey." Middle East Critique 29.1 (2020): 29-46.

Kozma, Liat. "Women’s Migration for Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East and North Africa,”
Kozma, Liat. "Women’s Migration for Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East and North Africa,” Journal of Women's History 28, no. 3 (Fall, 2016): 93-113,188.

Chamas, Sophie "Lil Watan: Queer patriotism in chauvinistic Lebanon"
Chamas, Sophie. "Lil Watan: queer patriotism in chauvinistic Lebanon." Sexualities 26.1-2 (2023): 230-251.

Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Writing History in the Middle East
Editors’ Note: This interview was conducted with Afsaneh Najmabadi following a conversation with an audience in January 2019 at Harvard University. It was part of a series of seminars and events hosted by Harvard’s Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality to mark the first year that Harvard hosted the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies.
Politics of critique: Understanding gender in contemporary Middle East