MER Article On Gender and Citizenship in Turkey In the summer of 1993, True Path Party delegates -- 99.8 percent of them males -- selected Tansu Çiller as chairperson of their party and thus their candidate for prime minister. For the first time since 1934, when women gained the right to vote and to be elected to Parliament, a woman became prime Yesim Arat • 9 min read
MER Article Three Intifada Books F. Robert Hunter, The Palestinian Uprising: A War by Other Means (I. B. Tauris, 1991). Joost Hiltermann, Behind the Intifada: Labor and Women’s Movements in the Occupied Territories (Princeton, 1991). Julie Peteet, Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement (Columbia, 1991). Lucine Taminian • 4 min read
MER Article Gender, Sexuality and the Iraq of Our Imagination Writings on colonialism and post-colonial portrayals of the Third World are rife with constructions of the Other as feminine, or as subject, like women, to the passionate irrationality, weakness, cowardice, traditionalism and superstition that mark the feminine as subordinate in Western discourse. I Anne Norton • 8 min read
MER Article War and Sexuality The Gulf way may ultimately transform Arab politics even more radically than the political-military defeats of 1948 and 1967. Those experiences were the midwives of self-critical reassessments that, while severe, accepted the fundamental legitimacy of Arab nationalism and its political project. In t Joel Beinin • 4 min read
