This original and historically rich book examines the influence of gender in shaping the
Egyptian nation from the nineteenth century through the revolution of 1919 and into the …

For outside observers, current events in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank are seldom related
to the collective memory of ordinary Palestinians. But for Palestinians themselves, the …

The oppressed yet highly sexualized woman of the Muslim harem is arguably the pivotal
figure of Western orientalism. Yet, as Reina Lewis demonstrates, while orientalist thinking …

This paper seeks to renegotiate the role of visuals and visual practice within the tourist
experience. Embracing recent developments in tourist studies, I seek to move from …

From Belonging to Belief presents a nuanced ethnographic study of Islam and secularism in
post-Soviet Central Asia, as seen from the small town of Bazaar-Korgon in southern …

Dress serves as a discursive daily practice of gender, and this article explains the dress
practices of Bosnian Muslim refugee women living in Vermont. These dress practices tend …

1. A meta-spatial movement from designer's paper to the actual fabric choice, cut, and
garment creation. The transfer from a bi-dimensional representation to a tri-dimensional …

This study is an empirical, interdisciplinary project building on scholarship in the fields of
Translation Studies, linguistics, Cultural Studies and literary theory. The main objective of …

ABSTRACT In 2004 Clone, a Brazilian soap opera that featured Moroccans and Brazilians
as main characters, broadcast throughout post-Soviet Central Asia. The program rose to …

Tourism is an important part of many national economies in Europe and beyond. Tourism
imagery is a reflection of national environmental values and national claims upon nature …