19. Sensing Queer Activism in Beirut: Protest Soundscapes as Political Dissent

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xiii
4. Introduction Advancing Women’s Rights in the Arab World 1
5. Part I. What They Fight For
6. 1. Barefoot Feminist Classes: A Revelation of Being, Doing, and Becoming 13
7. 2. The Labor Strikes That Catalyzed the Revolution in Egypt 28
8. 3. From a Smear Campaign to the Kuwaiti Parliament: My Resolve Persists Despite Rumors 40
9. 4. Palestinian Queerness and the Orientalist Paradigm 44
10. 5. “With All My Force . . .”: Men against Domestic Violence in Lebanon 50
11. 6. “Ne Touche Pas Mes Enfants!”: A Woman’s Campaign against Pedophilia in Morocco 53
12. 7. Two Nonviolence Campaigns Initiated by Women in Syria 58
13. 8. Refusing the Backseat: Women as Drivers of the Yemeni Uprisings 68
14. Part II What They Believe
15. 9. “Women Are Complete, Not Complements”: Terminology in the Writing of the New Constitution of Tunisia 83
16. 10. A Patriotic Christian Woman in the Syrian Parliament 96
17. 11. Iraqi Women’s Agency: From Political Authoritarianism to Sectarianism and Islamist Militancy 98
18. 12. Hidden Voices, Hidden Agendas: Qubaysiat Women’s Group in Syria 107
19. 13. The Egyptian Revolution and the Feminist Divide 117
20. 14. Algerian Feminists Navigate Authoritarianism 129
21. 15. Failing the Masses in Syria: Buthaina Shabaan and the Public Intellectual Crisis 135
22. 16. Time to Seize the Opportunity: A Call for Action from Sudan 143
23. Part III. How They Express Agency
24. 17. Long before the Arab Spring: Arab Women’s Cyberactivism through AWSA United 147
25. 18. Aliaa Elmahdy, Nude Protest, & Transnational Feminist Body Politics 161
26. 19. Sensing Queer Activism in Beirut: Protest Soundscapes as Political Dissent 173
27. 20. On the Contrary: Negation as Resistance and Reimagining in the Work of Bahia Shehab 185
28. 21. Half Syrian Sufi Blogger: Faith and Activism in the Virtual Public Space 198
29. 22. The Light in Her Eyes: A Woman Is a School. Teach Her and You Teach a Generation: An Interview with Filmmakers Julia Meltzer and Laura Nix 204
30. 23. Writing Lebanese Feminist History: Rose Ghurayyib’s Editorial Letters in Al- Raida Journal from 1976 to 1985 208
31. 24. Um Sahar, the Adeni Woman Leader in al- Hirak Southern Independence Movement in Yemen 217
32. Part IV. How They Use Space to Mobilize
33. 25. Marching with Revolutionary Women in Egypt: A Participatory Journal 223
34. 26. Memories of Martyrs: Disappearance and Women’s Claims against State Violence in Libya 233
35. 27. Mapping the Egyptian Women’s Anti– Sexual Harassment Campaigns 245
36. 28. A Village Rises in the First Intifada: International Women’s Day, March 8, 1988 259
37. 29. Revolutionary Graffiti and Cairene Women: Performing Agency through Gaze Aversion 267
38. 30. Celebrating Women’s Day in Baghdad, the City of Men 283
39. 31. Waiting for the Revolution: Women’s Perceptions from Upper and Lower Rural Egypt 290
40. 32. New Media/New Feminism(s): The Lebanese Women’s Movement Online and Offline 299
41. Part V. How They Organize
42. 33. Genesis of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Fez, Morocco 311
43. 34. My Revolution! 318
44. 35. Women’s Political Participation in Bahrain 321
45. 36. Strategies of Nonviolent Resistance: Syrian Women Subverting Dominant Paradigms 330
46. 37. Driving Campaigns: Saudi Women Negotiating Power in the Public Space 339
47. 38. Reclaiming Space(s): Kuwaiti Women in the Karamat Watan Protests 348
48. 39. “The Factory of the Revolution”: Women’s Activism in the Syrian Uprisings 354
49. 40. Arab American Women and the Arab Spring: An Interview with Summer Nasser 363
50. Acknowledgments 367
51. About the Editors 369
52. About the Contributors 371
53. Index 383