Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures Online
The Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures Online covers all volumes of the print edition, covering the following subjects:
- Methodologies, Paradigms and Sources (volume 1)
- Family, Law and Politics (volume 2)
- Family, Body, Sexuality and Health (volume 3)
- Economics, Education, Mobility and Space (volume 4)
- Practices, Interpretations and Representations (volume 5)
- plus the Supplement and Index Volume
Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures Online is an essential reference work for students and researchers in the fields of gender studies, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, as well as scholars of religion, history, politics, anthropology, geography and related disciplines.
Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures Online is also available in print, visit EWIC and EWI2 for more information.
Features and Benefits
- The only reference work of its kind
- Contributions from over 1,000 scholars in the field
- More than 1,600 thematic, regional and/or disciplinary entries
- Up-to-date research and bibliographies make it indispensable for all levels of users
- Updated once a year with new articles, images and video's
- Accessible style for a wider audience
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The Editors of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures have long been committed to democratizing access to knowledge. As a team, we applied for and won multiple grants to make our EWIC work available to high school teachers, community organizations, and the general public. We also won grants and carried out training seminars for a number of years with early career journalists on the representation of Muslim women in the media. We developed the EWIC Scholars Database to help students and scholars network and communicate. And we uploaded scores of articles from Print EWIC I on the web for free public access. (All the above on https://sjoseph.ucdavis.edu).
Brill opened the below articles in free access. With this, we are taking steps to make more of EWIC extensive archive of scholarly research on women and Islamic cultures available to the public. Opening these articles, at this particular moment, has an historical urgency. Around the world, academics are witnessing silencing and surveillance of their scholarly work. This appears to be particularly heightened in certain areas of the world, one of them being the Middle East. The unprecedented attack on and destruction of Palestinian institutions of higher learning, libraries, research centers, and scholars requires attention and action.
Suad Joseph
General Editor
Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures
April 2024
Representations: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies: Writing in Another Language: Palestinians Writing in English Jean Said Makdisi
Representations: Film: Palestine Nadia Yaqub
Music: Hip-Hop and Rap: Israel/Palestine Amal Eqeiq
Funerary Practices: Palestine Suhad Daher-Nashif
Law: Modern Family Law: Palestine Nahda Shehada
New Modes of Communication: Internet Cafes: Palestine Miriyam Aouragh
Theater: Plays by Women Playwrights, Directors, and Producers: Palestine Elin Nicholson
Migration: Refugee Camps: Palestine Diana K. Allan
National and Transnational Security Regimes: Israel/Palestine Ron J. Smith
Human Rights: Sudan Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
Political-Social Movements Revolutionary: Sudan Sondra Hale
Print EWIC Volumes I–VI were published between 2003–2007. EWIC Online launched in 2010. All articles from Print EWIC are published in EWIC Online. Articles from Print EWIC indicate the volume in which they were originally published with the label “Volume X”. The date of publication “first published online” for all articles in EWIC Online, however, is the date of upload to EWIC Online. For the date of original publication of Print EWIC articles, kindly refer to the publication date of each volume, found on https://sjoseph.ucdavis.edu/encyclopedia-women-and-islamic-cultures or https://brill.com/display/serial/EWIC.
EWIC Online Editorial Board
Suad Joseph, Ph.D., is Distinguished Research Professor, University of California, Davis. Joseph founded the Middle East Research Group in Anthropology, which became the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association; the Association for Middle East Women's Studies; the Arab Families Working Group; UCDAR, a six-university consortium; and the Middle East/South Asia Studies Program at UC Davis. She co-founded the Arab American Studies Association, the Association for Middle East Anthropology; the Women and Gender Studies Program, and the Feminist Research Institute at UC Davis. She was the president of the Middle East Studies Association. She was awarded the UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Research; lifetime achievement awards by the Association for Middle East Women's Studies and the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association; and the Jere Bacharach Service Award from the Middle East Studies Association. She has edited or co-edited over a dozen books and published over 100 articles.
Nurhaizatul Jamil, is an Assistant Professor in Global South Studies at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. Her current research foregrounds minoritized Muslims’ engagements with social media and popular culture, and their imbrications with transnational circuits of Islamic education and consumption. Her next research project examines the entanglements among modesty, fashion, and sustainability within Muslim communities. Her work has been funded by the following institutions/granting agencies: Harvard Divinity School (Women's Studies in Religion Program); ACLS/Henry Luce Foundation; Wenner-Gren Foundation (dissertation & post-PhD); Spencer Foundation/National Academy of Education (Dissertation completion); Social Science Research Council (SSRC, declined). She is an Associate Editor (East and Southeast Asia) of the Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures, and a trainer for the Muslim Women in the Media program (ACLS/Henry Luce).
Jeanette S. Jouili, is associate professor of Religion at Syracuse University. Her research focuses on Muslim communities in contemporary Europe where she has conducted ethnographic fieldwork for two decades. Her work examines the intersections between contemporary expressions of Islamic practice and secular governance, especially in a political context defined by the Global War on Terror. Furthermore, her broader research and teaching interests include anthropology of religion, ethics, religious pluralism and secularism, popular culture, race, gender. She has published articles in various peer-reviewed journals and is the author of Pious Practice and Secular Constraints: Women in the Islamic Revival in Europe (Stanford, 2015) and co-editor of the volume “Embodying Black Religion in Africa and its Diasporas: Memory, Movement and Belonging through the Body,” (Duke 2021). Currently, she is working on her second book manuscript: Islam on Stage: British Muslim Culture in the Age of Counterterrorism.
Dana M. Olwan, is Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Syracuse University. She is also affiliated faculty in the Middle East Studies Program, Native American and Indigenous Studies Program, and LGBT Studies Program at Syracuse University. Her work is located at the nexus of feminist theorizations of gender violence, transnational solidarities, and critical feminist pedagogies. She is the recipient of a Mellon Emerging Faculty Leader Award from the Institute of Citizens and Scholars, a Future Minority Studies postdoctoral fellowship, and a Palestinian American Research Council grant. Her work has appeared in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Feminist Formations, the Journal of Settler Colonial Studies, American Quarterly, and Feral Feminisms. She is co-editor with Margaret A. Pappano of Muslim Mothering: Local and Global Histories, Theories, and Practices (Demeter Press, 2016). Her first book Gender Violence and The Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime was published by Ohio State University Press in 2021. She is currently working on a new project that is centered on marriage and divorce laws and citizenship practices in the Arab world, with a specific focus on Jordan and women’s access to personal status rights. She is co-editor (with Chandra Talpade Mohanty) of Reimagining Comparative Feminist Studies book series from Palgrave Macmillan. She teaches courses on transnational feminism, feminist solidarity, and gender politics in the Middle East and North Africa.
Elora Shehabuddin, is Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and Global Studies, University of California, Berkeley. She received her A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard University and Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University. She is the author of Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism (University of California Press, 2021), which was selected as 2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association; Reshaping the Holy: Democracy, Development, and Muslim Women in Bangladesh (Columbia University Press, 2008); and Empowering Rural Women: The Impact of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh (Grameen Bank, 1992). She has published articles in Meridians, Signs, Journal of Women's History, History of the Present, Economic & Political Weekly, Modern Asian Studies, Südasien-Chronik [South Asia Chronicle], Journal of Bangladesh Studies, and Asian Survey, as well as chapters in numerous edited volumes. She was a guest co-editor of a special issue of Feminist Economics on “Gender and Economics in Muslim Communities.” She currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Bangladesh Studies and a new Cambridge University Press book series titled "Muslim South Asia." Professor Shehabuddin has received several fellowships, including from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the American Association of University Women, the Social Science Research Council, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the U.S. Institute of Peace. She has been selected as a Research Associate in the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at the Divinity School at Harvard University and as a Carnegie Scholar. Her doctoral dissertation was awarded the American Political Science Association’s Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation Award for best dissertation in Religion and Politics.
Zeina Zaatari, Ph.D., is the Director of the Arab American Cultural Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She is also adjunct faculty in Anthropology and Faculty Fellow in the Honors College at UIC. Her recent publications include two co-edited books: Routledge Handbook on Women of the Middle East co-edited with Suad Joseph (2023) and The Politics of Engaged Gender Research in the Arab Region: Feminist Fieldwork and Knowledge Production co-edited with Suad Joseph and Lena Meari (I.B.Tauris 2022). Among her other publications include: "Sarah Hegazy and the Struggle for Freedom," Middle East Report Online (2020), “Social Movements and Revolution” in A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East, edited by Soraya Altorki (2015, Wiley-Blackwell), and “Desirable Masculinity/Femininity and Nostalgia of the “Anti-Modernity”: Bab el-Hara Television Series as a Site of Production” in Sexuality and Culture (2014). She is a trainer and mentor for The Muslim Women in the Media Training Institute supporting journalism graduate students and junior journalists in better coverage and representation of Muslim women and their issues. Zeina was elected as the Member at-Large to serve on the board of the Association for Middle East Women's Studies for 2022-2024. She is a co-founder and elected board member of the Women Human Rights Defenders-MENA Coalition. For more info, please visit.
Supplement 14. Pauline Homsi Vinson, Ph.D., is adjunct professor of English at Diablo Valley College, California. Pauline's doctorate centered on English Renaissance drama and her current work focuses on gender, race, and representation in Arab American literature, cross-cultural portability, and cosmopolitanism. She has taught in the U.S., the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Pauline is co-founder and former secretary of the Arab American Studies Association and 2016 chair and co-founder of the Global Arab and Arab American Literature forum at the MLA. She has published encyclopedia entries, book chapters, and refereed articles on Arab women's autobiographies and Arab American literature. Her current project explores the subversive potential of storytelling in Arab American re-configurations of the 1001 Nights.
- Marilyn Booth, University of Oxford
- Bahar Davary, University of San Diego
- Rosa De Jorio, University of North Florida
- Hoda Elsadda, Cairo University
- Nadia Fadil, University of Leuven
- Virginia Hooker, The Australian National University
- Alice Horner, Independent Scholar
- Amira Jarmakani, Georgia State
- Afsaneh Najmabidi, Harvard University
- Shaheen Pasha, Penn State University
- Julie Peteet, University of Louisville
- Kathryn Robinson, The Australian National University
- Therese Saliba, The Evergreen State College
- Seteney Shami, Social Science Research Council
- Jacqueline Siapno, University of Melbourne
- Jane I. Smith, Hartford Seminary
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EWIC Online Editorial Board
General EditorSuad Joseph, Ph.D., is Distinguished Research Professor, University of California, Davis. Joseph founded the Middle East Research Group in Anthropology, which became the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association; the Association for Middle East Women's Studies; the Arab Families Working Group; UCDAR, a six-university consortium; and the Middle East/South Asia Studies Program at UC Davis. She co-founded the Arab American Studies Association, the Association for Middle East Anthropology; the Women and Gender Studies Program, and the Feminist Research Institute at UC Davis. She was the president of the Middle East Studies Association. She was awarded the UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Research; lifetime achievement awards by the Association for Middle East Women's Studies and the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association; and the Jere Bacharach Service Award from the Middle East Studies Association. She has edited or co-edited over a dozen books and published over 100 articles.
Associate Editors: Associate Editors work closely with the General Editor (Suad Joseph) to solicit and edit articles for EWIC and to develop approaches and frameworks for EWIC volumes or supplements.Nurhaizatul Jamil, is an Assistant Professor in Global South Studies at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. Her current research foregrounds minoritized Muslims’ engagements with social media and popular culture, and their imbrications with transnational circuits of Islamic education and consumption. Her next research project examines the entanglements among modesty, fashion, and sustainability within Muslim communities. Her work has been funded by the following institutions/granting agencies: Harvard Divinity School (Women's Studies in Religion Program); ACLS/Henry Luce Foundation; Wenner-Gren Foundation (dissertation & post-PhD); Spencer Foundation/National Academy of Education (Dissertation completion); Social Science Research Council (SSRC, declined). She is an Associate Editor (East and Southeast Asia) of the Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures, and a trainer for the Muslim Women in the Media program (ACLS/Henry Luce).
Jeanette S. Jouili, is associate professor of Religion at Syracuse University. Her research focuses on Muslim communities in contemporary Europe where she has conducted ethnographic fieldwork for two decades. Her work examines the intersections between contemporary expressions of Islamic practice and secular governance, especially in a political context defined by the Global War on Terror. Furthermore, her broader research and teaching interests include anthropology of religion, ethics, religious pluralism and secularism, popular culture, race, gender. She has published articles in various peer-reviewed journals and is the author of Pious Practice and Secular Constraints: Women in the Islamic Revival in Europe (Stanford, 2015) and co-editor of the volume “Embodying Black Religion in Africa and its Diasporas: Memory, Movement and Belonging through the Body,” (Duke 2021). Currently, she is working on her second book manuscript: Islam on Stage: British Muslim Culture in the Age of Counterterrorism.
Hafsa Kanjwal, is an associate professor of South Asian History in the Department of History at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on the history of the modern world, South Asian history, and Islam in the Modern World. As a historian of modern Kashmir, she is the author of Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation (Stanford University Press, 2023), which examines how the Indian and Kashmir governments utilized state-building to entrench India’s colonial occupation of Kashmir in the aftermath of Partition. Colonizing Kashmir historicizes India’s occupation of Kashmir through processes of emotional integration, development, normalization, and empowerment to highlight the new hierarchies of power and domination that emerged in the aftermath of decolonization. Her second book project examines questions of Muslim political sovereignty and the secular, liberal international order in the context of 20th and 21st century Kashmir. Hafsa has written and spoken on her research for a variety of news outlets including The Washington Post, Al Jazeera English, and the
Charlotte Karem Albrecht, is an Associate Professor of American Culture and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, where she is also core faculty in the Arab and Muslim American Studies program and affiliated faculty for the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Race, Law, and History Program. Her research interests include Arab American and Arab diasporic histories, histories of gender and sexuality, relational ethnic studies, feminist theory, queer of color critique, and interdisciplinary historicist methods. Her first book, Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling, was published open access with University of California Press and was awarded an honorable mention in the Evelyn Shakir non-fiction category of the 2024 Arab American Book Awards. She is an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer and the Associate Editor of the Americas for the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. She previously served as Board Chair for Mizna (a Southwest Asian and North African arts organization) and works closely with the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Karem Albrecht holds a Ph.D. in Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota, and her work has also been published in Arab Studies Quarterly, Gender & History, the Journal of American Ethnic History, and multiple edited collections.
Zeina Zaatari, Ph.D., is the Director of the Arab American Cultural Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She is also adjunct faculty in Anthropology and Faculty Fellow in the Honors College at UIC. Her recent publications include two co-edited books: Routledge Handbook on Women of the Middle East co-edited with Suad Joseph (2023) and The Politics of Engaged Gender Research in the Arab Region: Feminist Fieldwork and Knowledge Production co-edited with Suad Joseph and Lena Meari (I.B.Tauris 2022). Among her other publications include: "Sarah Hegazy and the Struggle for Freedom," Middle East Report Online (2020), “Social Movements and Revolution” in A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East, edited by Soraya Altorki (2015, Wiley-Blackwell), and “Desirable Masculinity/Femininity and Nostalgia of the “Anti-Modernity”: Bab el-Hara Television Series as a Site of Production” in Sexuality and Culture (2014). She is a trainer and mentor for The Muslim Women in the Media Training Institute supporting journalism graduate students and junior journalists in better coverage and representation of Muslim women and their issues. Zeina was elected as the Member at-Large to serve on the board of the Association for Middle East Women's Studies for 2022-2024. She is a co-founder and elected board member of the Women Human Rights Defenders-MENA Coalition. For more info, please visit.
Guest Editors: Guest Editors serve for a specific supplement or volume. They work with the General Editor or an Associate Editor to solicit and edit articles for EWIC.Supplement 14. Pauline Homsi Vinson, Ph.D., is adjunct professor of English at Diablo Valley College, California. Pauline's doctorate centered on English Renaissance drama and her current work focuses on gender, race, and representation in Arab American literature, cross-cultural portability, and cosmopolitanism. She has taught in the U.S., the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Pauline is co-founder and former secretary of the Arab American Studies Association and 2016 chair and co-founder of the Global Arab and Arab American Literature forum at the MLA. She has published encyclopedia entries, book chapters, and refereed articles on Arab women's autobiographies and Arab American literature. Her current project explores the subversive potential of storytelling in Arab American re-configurations of the 1001 Nights.
Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures Online
The Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures Online covers all volumes of the print edition, covering the following subjects:
- Methodologies, Paradigms and Sources (volume 1)
- Family, Law and Politics (volume 2)
- Family, Body, Sexuality and Health (volume 3)
- Economics, Education, Mobility and Space (volume 4)
- Practices, Interpretations and Representations (volume 5)
- plus the Supplement and Index Volume
Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures Online is an essential reference work for students and researchers in the fields of gender studies, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, as well as scholars of religion, history, politics, anthropology, geography and related disciplines.
Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures Online is also available in print, visit EWIC and EWI2 for more information.
Features and Benefits
- The only reference work of its kind
- Contributions from over 1,000 scholars in the field
- More than 1,600 thematic, regional and/or disciplinary entries
- Up-to-date research and bibliographies make it indispensable for all levels of users
- Updated once a year with new articles, images and video's
- Accessible style for a wider audience
Please contact our sales team for more information on prices and licensing.