H-Gender-MidEast

is an international electronic network for social scientists and humanists interested in scholarly exchange on issues of gender in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. It aims to build a network in tune with shifting geographical articulations and to bring together gender-focused issues from within a wide range of (inter) disciplinary positions.

- Workshop: CONSTELLATIONS, CONFRONTATIONS AND ASPIRATIONS Reflections on Diaspora and Transnationalism Through the Lens of Youth Formation  Martina Rieker <mrieker@AUCEGYPT.EDU> - Call for Papers - Audre Rapoport Prize for Scholarship on Gender and Human Rights  Martina Rieker <mrieker@AUCEGYPT.EDU> - JMEWS Graduate Student Paper Prize - deadline extended  "Schulman, Bonnie" <bonnie.rose.schulman@YALE.EDU> - Thank you, from H-Net  H-Net Donations <donation@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU> - New Volume: Women, Leadership, and Mosques: Changes in Contemporary Islamic Authority  Martina Rieker <mrieker@AUCEGYPT.EDU> - Query: Research on orphans, fosterage, adoption in the Arab region  Martina Rieker <mrieker@AUCEGYPT.EDU> - CSBR 5th Sexuality Institute: Call for Applications, deadline May 20! -- Alexandria, Egypt (September 18-23, 2012)  Martina Rieker <mrieker@AUCEGYPT.EDU>

Reviewer: Nada Shabout Title: Women's Voices in Middle Eastern Museums: Case Studies in Jordan Author: Carol Malt   Reviewer: Babak Rahimi Title: Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism Author: Janet Afary, Kevin B. Anderson   Reviewer: Linda Boxberger Title: Haram Yemen: The Hidden Half Speaks Author: None