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Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women
Marnia LazregMarnia Lazreg, a preeminent authority in Middle East women's studies, combines her own experiences growing up in a Muslim family in Algeria with interviews and the real-life stories of other Muslim women to produce this nuanced argument for ...
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Letizia Comba, John Gregory Dunne, Marnia Lazreg, Stefano Tomassini, Cinzia ScarpinoTorture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad
Marnia LazregThis book is nothing less than an anatomy of torture--its methods, justifications, functions, and consequences.
The Eloquence of Silence: Algerian Women in Question
Marnia LazregCovering both pre-colonial and colonial eras as well as the independence period, this book focuses on the changes that took place in family structure and law, customs, education, and the war of decolonization as they affected gender ...
Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East
PreviewMARNIA LAZREG IN THIS AGE of economic globalization and greater unequal cultural encounters, citizenship is emerging as the focal point of resistance to the centralizing tendencies of states in the developing world and to protests against ...
Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism in the Maghrib: History, ...
PreviewFor an analysis of Ben Badis's thought, see Marnia Lazreg, The Eloquence of Silence: Algerian Women in Question (New York, London: Routledge, 1994), pp. 81–88. Lhouari Addi, “Religion et Politique dans le Nationalisme Algerien: le Role ...
Foucault's Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, ...
Marnia LazregMaurice Pinguet, a friend of Foucault's from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, remembers that the Algerian War did not “move” Foucault when he tried to talk to him about it in 1956. By comparison “[May] 1968 excited him.” See Maurice Pinguet ...
Making the Transition Work for Women in Europe and Central Asia
Full viewMarnia Lazreg. Rural. Women. in. Russia: What. Does. Private. Farming. Mean? Sue Bridger The question of land and farming reform has been one of the most bitterly contested in Russia's economic transformation since 1991. The core issue ...
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