Women in the Performing Arts - Fall 2008 - Issues 122-123

Published July 6, 2016
Women in the Performing Arts - Fall 2008 - Issues 122-123

Editorial

Mona Knio
3-6
Women in the Performing Arts
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Files

Laura Chakravarty Box
8-16
North Africa’s Performing Women: Notes from the Field
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Sahar Assaf
17-23
Stage Directors in the Rehearsal Room: Degendered Bodies in a Degendered Workplace
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Jean Said Makdissi
24-31
Faten Hamama and Hind Rustom: Stars from Different Heavens
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Fakhri Hagghani
32-41
The “New Woman” of the Interwar Period: Performance, Identity, and Performative Act of Everyday Life in Egypt and Iran
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Hind Soufi-Assaf
42-47
Umm Kulthum: A Legend or a Story of Will!
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Hassan Kassab-Hassan
48-52
Tomorrow You Will See How Beautiful Our Home Is
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Ahmad Oueini
53-58
Sunset Boulevard By Way of Wadi Shahrour: A Psychological Profile of Our National Norma Desmond
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Lina Abiad
59-63
Alone With Them All
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Amy Khoury
64-66
Kamilya Jubran’s Solo Journey: Lemon by Lemon and Cigarette by Cigarette
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Zena Meskaoui
67-70
Performing the Body: Haifa Wehbi in the becoming
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Laila Debs
71-77
Hakawati Freestyle
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Lina Issa
78-83
Finding ‘a now’ to Inhabit: Between the Performative in life and Professional Practice
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Marya Kazoun
84-87
Performance & I
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Dalila Mahdawi
88-89
Fear and Laughing in the Occupied Territories: Comedienne Maysoon Zayid Transforms Lives
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Roundtable

Lebanese American University
90-96
Roundtable on Women in the Performing Arts
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Joelle Khoury
97-100
Time Goes One Way - Against the Classification of Arts
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Afaf Shawwa
101-103
Mai Ghoussoub: A Passion for Expression
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Noura Sakkaf
104-106
Aqbal Al-Khayr: The First Women Only Play in Saudi Arabia
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Yasmine Dabbous
107-109
Khayaal Theater Company: Introducing Muslim Theater to Europe
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Book Reviews

Max Weiss, Najla Hamadeh
110-114
Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject / Women’s Rights and Islamic Family Law: Perspectives on Reform
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Shelagh Weir, Lucine Taminian, Feisal Yunis
115-121
Women’s Voices in Middle East Museums: Case Studies in Jordan / Dreaming of Change: Young Middle-Class Women and Social Transformation in Jordan
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Kevin Taylor
122-124
Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East
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News

Lebanese American University
125
Conference on: “The Status of Gender Research in Denmark and the Arab Region” - January 14-16, 2008
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Lebanese American University
126
International Women’s Day: A Tribute to Mai Ghoussoub - March 6, 2008
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Lebanese American University
127
Lecture: “Let Women Rule” - June 20, 2008 / Dream She Is: Monodrama for a Woman’s Voice - July 12 & 13, 2008
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Lebanese American University
128
Lebanese Women Demand Parliamentary Quota - September 23, 2008
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