Sahar Amer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sahar Amer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sahar |
| FAMILY NAME | Amer |
| SIGNATURE | AMER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Community Activism and Creative Practice in Australia
In this interview, Paula Abood discusses how her activist work in the community sector is intrinsically tied up with her creative practice. Describing herself as a secular Arab feminist, Abood’s public activism is deeply informed by Spivak’s important question “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Abood acknowledges that “speaking out” is a complicated political act, because it entails speaking on behalf of otherized women who are often silenced and margina…
Arabs in Australia
Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies - Volume 4, Number 2, 2017
Jumana Bayeh, The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora (London
The Headscarf Debates
Journal Article The Headscarf Debates: Conflicts of National Belonging Get access The Headscarf Debates: Conflicts of National Belonging, by ANNA C. KORTEWEG and GÖKÇE YURDAKUL. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014, 272 pp.; $24.95 (paper). Sahar Amer Sahar Amer University of Sydney [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 76, Issue 4, WINTER 2015, Pages 4…
What is Veiling?
An engaging introduction to one of the most visible, controversial and least understood emblems of Islam Listen to Sahar Amer discuss misconceptions of the veil on World News Radio (Australia) The Islamic veil in all its forms – from the headscarf to the full body garment – is one of the most visible signs of Islam as a religion. It is also one of its most controversial and misunderstood traditions among both Muslims and non-Muslims. In an enviro…
What Is Veiling?
Ranging from simple head scarf to full-body burqa, the veil is worn by vast numbers of Islamic women around the world. This book explains one of the most visible, controversial, and least understood emblems of Islam, incisively highlighting the rich, complex meanings of Muslim women's veiling practices today. This book addresses the role and significance of veiling in the religious, cultural, political, and social lives of Muslims, past and prese…
What Is Veiling
Examines the practice of veiling in Muslim culture, discussing its history, its religious, social, and political significance, and its importance to both conservative and progressive Muslim women as a symbol of commitment to their beliefs. --Publishers description.
Naming to Empower
After a brief review of the proliferation of newly coined Arabic words to speak about LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and ally) identities, this article interrogates the facile imitation of Western labels and questions their usefulness in the context of Arab societies and cultures. It demonstrates that the assumptions that underlie the creation of new wordlists overlook and ultimately erase the very rich tradition o…
Joseph Massad and the Alleged Violence of Human Rights
Book Review| October 01 2010 JOSEPH MASSAD AND THE ALLEGED VIOLENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS Desiring Arabs Joseph Massad Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xiv + 453 pp. Sahar Amer Sahar Amer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2010) 16 (4): 649–653. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2010-010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sahar Amer; JOSEPH MASSAD AND …
La dimension spectrale et interculturelle du portrait chez Youssef Nabil
Crossing Borders
Crossing Borders explores cross-cultural representations of gender and sexual practices in the medieval French and Arabic traditions. Amer demonstrates that the medieval Arabic tradition on eroticism played a determining role in French literary writings on gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages.
The Anonymous Marie de France . R. Howard Bloch
Muslim Women in France at the Turn of the Millennium
Cet article decrit l'evolution de la position des femmes musulmanes d'origine arabe en France au seuil du nouveau millenaire : leurs efforts pour assumer leur double identite musulmane-Arabe/Francaise ; leur activisme en matiere d'education non seulement des enfants mais egalement des autres femmes musulmanes ; leur participation politique croissante ; leur contribution intellectuelle et religieuse a l'exegese de l'islam et au dialogue interrelig…
Esope au feminin
Sahar Amer's book on the cross-cultural dimensions of Marie de France's Fables aims to revitalize our perception of a work that enjoyed widespread popularity in the Middle Ages, although it has remained largely undiscovered by contemporary readers outside the small field of medieval French and Anglo-Norman scholars. The originality and significance of Esope au féminin depend in large measure on the unusual gifts that Amer brings to her work. She …
Editors' Preface
Afterword
Toward an Understanding of "Truthfulness" in the French Version of the Pratique by Maitre Bernard de Gordon
Claude Thomasset, Sahar Amer, Toward an Understanding of "Truthfulness" in the French Version of the Pratique by Maître Bernard de Gordon, Yale French Studies, Special Issue: Contexts: Style and Values in Medieval Art and Literature (1991), pp. 171-181
Joseph Massad and the Alleged Violence of Human Rights
Book Review| October 01 2010 JOSEPH MASSAD AND THE ALLEGED VIOLENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS Desiring Arabs Joseph Massad Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xiv + 453 pp. Sahar Amer Sahar Amer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2010) 16 (4): 649–653. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2010-010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sahar Amer; JOSEPH MASSAD AND …
Afterword
Toward an Understanding of "Truthfulness" in the French Version of the Pratique by Maitre Bernard de Gordon
Claude Thomasset, Sahar Amer, Toward an Understanding of "Truthfulness" in the French Version of the Pratique by Maître Bernard de Gordon, Yale French Studies, Special Issue: Contexts: Style and Values in Medieval Art and Literature (1991), pp. 171-181
Editors' Preface
Esope au feminin
Sahar Amer's book on the cross-cultural dimensions of Marie de France's Fables aims to revitalize our perception of a work that enjoyed widespread popularity in the Middle Ages, although it has remained largely undiscovered by contemporary readers outside the small field of medieval French and Anglo-Norman scholars. The originality and significance of Esope au féminin depend in large measure on the unusual gifts that Amer brings to her work. She …
Muslim Women in France at the Turn of the Millennium
Cet article decrit l'evolution de la position des femmes musulmanes d'origine arabe en France au seuil du nouveau millenaire : leurs efforts pour assumer leur double identite musulmane-Arabe/Francaise ; leur activisme en matiere d'education non seulement des enfants mais egalement des autres femmes musulmanes ; leur participation politique croissante ; leur contribution intellectuelle et religieuse a l'exegese de l'islam et au dialogue interrelig…
The Anonymous Marie de France . R. Howard Bloch
Crossing Borders
Crossing Borders explores cross-cultural representations of gender and sexual practices in the medieval French and Arabic traditions. Amer demonstrates that the medieval Arabic tradition on eroticism played a determining role in French literary writings on gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages.
La dimension spectrale et interculturelle du portrait chez Youssef Nabil
Joseph Massad and the Alleged Violence of Human Rights
Book Review| October 01 2010 JOSEPH MASSAD AND THE ALLEGED VIOLENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS Desiring Arabs Joseph Massad Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xiv + 453 pp. Sahar Amer Sahar Amer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2010) 16 (4): 649–653. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2010-010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sahar Amer; JOSEPH MASSAD AND …
Naming to Empower
After a brief review of the proliferation of newly coined Arabic words to speak about LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and ally) identities, this article interrogates the facile imitation of Western labels and questions their usefulness in the context of Arab societies and cultures. It demonstrates that the assumptions that underlie the creation of new wordlists overlook and ultimately erase the very rich tradition o…
What is Veiling?
An engaging introduction to one of the most visible, controversial and least understood emblems of Islam Listen to Sahar Amer discuss misconceptions of the veil on World News Radio (Australia) The Islamic veil in all its forms – from the headscarf to the full body garment – is one of the most visible signs of Islam as a religion. It is also one of its most controversial and misunderstood traditions among both Muslims and non-Muslims. In an enviro…
What Is Veiling?
Ranging from simple head scarf to full-body burqa, the veil is worn by vast numbers of Islamic women around the world. This book explains one of the most visible, controversial, and least understood emblems of Islam, incisively highlighting the rich, complex meanings of Muslim women's veiling practices today. This book addresses the role and significance of veiling in the religious, cultural, political, and social lives of Muslims, past and prese…
What Is Veiling
Examines the practice of veiling in Muslim culture, discussing its history, its religious, social, and political significance, and its importance to both conservative and progressive Muslim women as a symbol of commitment to their beliefs. --Publishers description.
The Headscarf Debates
Journal Article The Headscarf Debates: Conflicts of National Belonging Get access The Headscarf Debates: Conflicts of National Belonging, by ANNA C. KORTEWEG and GÖKÇE YURDAKUL. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014, 272 pp.; $24.95 (paper). Sahar Amer Sahar Amer University of Sydney [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 76, Issue 4, WINTER 2015, Pages 4…
Jumana Bayeh, The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora (London
Community Activism and Creative Practice in Australia
In this interview, Paula Abood discusses how her activist work in the community sector is intrinsically tied up with her creative practice. Describing herself as a secular Arab feminist, Abood’s public activism is deeply informed by Spivak’s important question “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Abood acknowledges that “speaking out” is a complicated political act, because it entails speaking on behalf of otherized women who are often silenced and margina…
Arabs in Australia
Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies - Volume 4, Number 2, 2017
Art (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · History (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works)