Middle East Research and Information Project

Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

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Zjaleh Hajibashi

Zjaleh Hajibashi is a professor of Middle East and Southeast Asian culture and language at University of Virginia.

MER Article

Book Review

Lila Abu-Lughod, Writing Women’s Worlds (California, 1992). Edmund Burke III, ed., Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East (California, 1993).

Zjaleh Hajibashi • 5 min read

MER Article

Feminism or Ventriloquism

Margot Badran and Miriam Cooke, eds., Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing (Indiana, 1990). Introduced by the editors as “the first collection of Arab women’s feminist writing,” Opening the Gates is both an important and problematic anthology. Following the basic format of two prev

Zjaleh Hajibashi • 7 min read