Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016)

Published May 30, 2016

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Nidaba Issue 1, Vol 1, 2016 Cover

Nidaba

Leif Stenberg

3

Introduction from the director of CMES

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Dalia Abdelhady

4-5

Introduction from the editor

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Articles

Staci Strobl

6-18

“The Dream Recently Came True”: Globalization and Media Discourse about Kuwaiti Policewomen

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Rania Maktabi

20-34

Female Citizenship and Family Law in Kuwait and Qatar: Globalization and Pressures for Reform in Two Rentier States

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Shefali Jha

36-46

Dilemmas of Community: Reflections on Transmigrant Working Women in Qatar

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Susan Dun

48-58

Role Models in the Media and Women’s Sport Participation in Qatar

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Jillian Schedneck

60-71

"We’re Normal. We’re Just Like You": Gendered Practices of Cultural Exchange and Translation in Dubai

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Leila DeVriese

72-82

Genie out of the Bottle: Social Media and the Expansion of the Public Sphere in the Arab Gulf

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Reviews

Adile Sedef Dönmez

84

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Esther Schoorel

85

Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

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Danielle Soskin

86

Nation-Building, State and the Gender-Framing of Women’s Rights in the United Arab Emirates (1971-2009)

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Asmae Badr Ibrahim

87

An Islam of Her Own

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The Middle East That No One Knows

Marie Hallberg

88-89

In the Shadow of Imam Hussein: The Karbala Film Festival 2016

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