Marya Hannun
Biographic Data
| ID | 5191127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marya Hannun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marya |
| FAMILY NAME | Hannun |
| SIGNATURE | HANNUN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beyond Domesticity: Translating Cookbooks as State-building in Afghanistan (1890–1920)
This paper examines two Persian-language cookbook translations published by the Afghan state in 1895 and 1919 as tools of statecraft, challenging traditional understandings of “domesticity” in early twentieth-century Afghan history and situating these culinary texts in global culinary history and transregional circuits of knowledge production. The 1895 translation of a British Indian text, Dainty Dishes for Indian Tables, was produced for Amir Ab…
Representations of Muslim Women after 9/11 and the Enduring Entanglements of “Writing Against”
In the fall of 2021, I taught a graduate seminar entitled Women and Gender in the Arab World at Georgetown University. It had been two decades since 9/11 and the start of the “War on Terror,” events that most of my students were not old enough to recall, but which still had, in one way or another, profoundly shaped their interest or experience in the region. In planning the course, I received a syllabus that had been used in past years. The first…
Disentangling the “War on Terror”: Present Pasts and Possible Futures
As the US-led global “War on Terror” enters its third decade, the structural, physical, and epistemological violence it has wrought continues to shape lives and landscapes in Afghanistan and Iraq. At present, the scholarship of an entire generation of Middle Eastern Studies has been embedded in the geopolitical realities of this indefinite war, even those whose work does not directly confront it. Yet despite the war's enduring presence, scholars …
From Afghan Pan-Islamism to Turkish Feminism
The above excerpt is from a 1917 intelligence report commissioned by the British Colonial Government’s Department of Information. The report explores pan-Turanianism, a political movement to bring the world’s Turkic and Turkish-speaking peoples into unity, as it related to pan-Islamism, a parallel political movement to unite Muslims of the world. The text discusses these two supranational ideologies as a source of tremendous anxiety for the Briti…
From Kabul to Cairo and Back Again: The Afghan Women’s Movement and Early 20th Century Transregional Transformations
Lorsque les femmes afghanes sont mentionnées au cours de l’histoire de l’indépendance de leur pays, c’est le plus souvent à travers leur relation aux hommes, soit comme objets des réformes islamiques du roi Aman Allah Khan (1919-1929), soit comme enjeux de la réaction à ces réformes. Ce récit s’est réfléchi jusqu’à nos jours dans des discours évoquant le fait de « sauver » les femmes afghanes, discours qui peignent le tableau d’une société enclin…
From Afghan Pan-Islamism to Turkish Feminism
The above excerpt is from a 1917 intelligence report commissioned by the British Colonial Government’s Department of Information. The report explores pan-Turanianism, a political movement to bring the world’s Turkic and Turkish-speaking peoples into unity, as it related to pan-Islamism, a parallel political movement to unite Muslims of the world. The text discusses these two supranational ideologies as a source of tremendous anxiety for the Briti…
Representations of Muslim Women after 9/11 and the Enduring Entanglements of “Writing Against”
In the fall of 2021, I taught a graduate seminar entitled Women and Gender in the Arab World at Georgetown University. It had been two decades since 9/11 and the start of the “War on Terror,” events that most of my students were not old enough to recall, but which still had, in one way or another, profoundly shaped their interest or experience in the region. In planning the course, I received a syllabus that had been used in past years. The first…
From Kabul to Cairo and Back Again: The Afghan Women’s Movement and Early 20th Century Transregional Transformations
Lorsque les femmes afghanes sont mentionnées au cours de l’histoire de l’indépendance de leur pays, c’est le plus souvent à travers leur relation aux hommes, soit comme objets des réformes islamiques du roi Aman Allah Khan (1919-1929), soit comme enjeux de la réaction à ces réformes. Ce récit s’est réfléchi jusqu’à nos jours dans des discours évoquant le fait de « sauver » les femmes afghanes, discours qui peignent le tableau d’une société enclin…
From Afghan Pan-Islamism to Turkish Feminism
The above excerpt is from a 1917 intelligence report commissioned by the British Colonial Government’s Department of Information. The report explores pan-Turanianism, a political movement to bring the world’s Turkic and Turkish-speaking peoples into unity, as it related to pan-Islamism, a parallel political movement to unite Muslims of the world. The text discusses these two supranational ideologies as a source of tremendous anxiety for the Briti…
Representations of Muslim Women after 9/11 and the Enduring Entanglements of “Writing Against”
In the fall of 2021, I taught a graduate seminar entitled Women and Gender in the Arab World at Georgetown University. It had been two decades since 9/11 and the start of the “War on Terror,” events that most of my students were not old enough to recall, but which still had, in one way or another, profoundly shaped their interest or experience in the region. In planning the course, I received a syllabus that had been used in past years. The first…
Disentangling the “War on Terror”: Present Pasts and Possible Futures
As the US-led global “War on Terror” enters its third decade, the structural, physical, and epistemological violence it has wrought continues to shape lives and landscapes in Afghanistan and Iraq. At present, the scholarship of an entire generation of Middle Eastern Studies has been embedded in the geopolitical realities of this indefinite war, even those whose work does not directly confront it. Yet despite the war's enduring presence, scholars …
Beyond Domesticity: Translating Cookbooks as State-building in Afghanistan (1890–1920)
This paper examines two Persian-language cookbook translations published by the Afghan state in 1895 and 1919 as tools of statecraft, challenging traditional understandings of “domesticity” in early twentieth-century Afghan history and situating these culinary texts in global culinary history and transregional circuits of knowledge production. The 1895 translation of a British Indian text, Dainty Dishes for Indian Tables, was produced for Amir Ab…
Islamic Studies and History (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Afghan (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)