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