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Vol. 1 No. 1 | Summer 2015

Rethinking Intersections

A MENA-centered Definition of Gender and Sexuality

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Artwork by Monica Basbous

Persephone ink on paper 2012 ©

Acknowledgments:

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Editorial

Rethinking Intersections, Rethinking Contexts: Writing in Times of Dissent

Ghiwa Sayegh

Commentary

Feminism as a Moral Imperative in a Globalised World

Arianne Shahvisi

Articles

Women as Space/Women in Space: Relocating our Bodies and Rewriting Gender in Space

Jana Nakhal

Reconceptualizing Sexual Harassment in Egypt: A Longitudinal Assessment of el-Taharrush el-Ginsy in Arabic Online Forums and Anti-Sexual Harassment Activism

Angie Abdelmonem

From Diaspora to Nationalism via Colonialism: The Jewish “Memory” Whitened, Israelized, Pinkwashed, and De-Queered

Sahar Mandour

Re-Orienting Desire from With/In Queer Arab Shame: Conceptualizing Queer Arab Subjectivities through Sexual Difference Theory in a Reading of Bareed Mista3jil

Sarah Hamdan*

Signifying Bodies: Artistic Representations of Embodiments in the Works of Samir Khaddaje, Rabih Mroué and Lina Saneh

Zéna M. Meskaoui

Testimony

Pinkwashing: Israel’s International Strategy and Internal Agenda

Ghadir Shafie

Women’s Rights in Iraq: Old and new challenges

Ilham Hammadi

Openings

A Political Movement for Lebanon? A Conversation on Feminism and Queerness

Sanaa H.

Resource

The Bill on Fighting Violence against Women in Morocco: Anything new?

Anass Sadoun

Editorial Team

Ghiwa Sayegh – Editor in Chief
Deema Kaedbey – Managing Editor

Translation and Copy Editing

Aya Adra
Deema Kaedbey
Ghiwa Sayegh
Jana Nakhal
Karla Bou Serhal
Mohannad Daba
Sahar Mandour

Advisory Board

Arianne Shahvisi
Ebtihal Mahadeen
Elisabeth Armstrong
Fatima Sadiqi
Islah Jad
Khouloud Mahdhaoui
Maissan Hassan
Nadje Al-Ali
Sahar Mandour
Samar Habib

Designer

Toni Bou Serhal

Artwork

Monica Basbous

Editorial Review Board

Alaa Hijazi
Alanoud Alsharekh
Deema Kaedbey
Dina Georgis
Ebtihal Mahadeen
Elisabeth Armstrong
Ghiwa Sayegh
Katharine Halls
Leen Hashem
Lynn Darwich
Maya El Helou
Nancy Gallagher
Nicole Khoury
Salam Al-Mahadeen
Sarah Schulman