WGS340 WOMEN & REVOLUTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST

interrogating the misrepresentation of women's & queer resistance in the Middle East

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DIALA ABOU MATAR
Victimhood Framed on the Western Stage:
How Misrepresentation Impacts the Resistance of Syrian Women

ABDUR RAHEEM DESAI
From Displacement to Defiance:
The Entanglement of Memory and Resistance in Syria

SANJAY GOVINDARAJAN
What a 1958 Film about the Algerian Revolution Can Teach us about Resistance, Patriarchy, and the Impact of Misrepresentation

ALEX JUMA
Faith as Empowerment: Muslim Women’s Resistance to Oppression

SUHANI KAUR
Unreadable Bodies, Unbreakable Gaze: Lalla Essaydi’s Art of Refusal

TARA KAZEMI
Homonationalism, Pinkwashing & the Weaponization
of Palestinian LGBTQ+ Rights

CHIARA LEONE
Class and Gender in the Anti-Shah Protests of 1979: Photographing Women’s Resistance in Iran

MARIE MALLARE
Shut Up!: Silence as Resistance in the Photography of Newsha Tavakolian

YALDA MATIN
State-Led or Self-Made?: Women’s Rights in Pahlavi Iran

LEO PU
Sadaf Khadem’s Double Knockout: Fighting Iran’s Oppression and America’s Double Standards

EMILY RAMNAUTH
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: How Accurate Representations of Internally Displaced People in Iraq Make a Difference

MADELYN STANLEY
Reimagining Forms of Iranian Women’s Resistance
through Dance & Social Media

SHAMMA TANK
Iranian Women’s Head Coverings as Symbols of Resistance

JENA WOUAKO
What Nadine Labaki’s Caramel Does Right
when Portraying Lebanese Queerness