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Comparative and nuanced, attuned to gender and visual culture debates, Nachabe Taan's analysis of Lebanese photographer Marie al-Khazen's rare archive is a must-read for anyone interested in gender studies, histories of photography and middle eastern modernity. * Mary Roberts, The University of Sydney, Australia and author of Istanbul Exchanges * The first book-length critical engagement of indigenously produced women's photography in the Arab world, Nachabe Taan's rigorous and self-reflective study successfully makes the photographic oeuvre of one elite Lebanese woman amateur photographer relevant to the larger interplay between gender and class dynamics in Mandate Lebanon ... A refreshing addition to the growing body of scholarship on indigenous photography of the Arab world. * Stephen Sheehi, William & Mary University, USA * In a novel reading of Marie al-Khazen's oeuvre, Yasmine Nachabe Taan shows how this independent Lebanese woman used her camera creatively to exert control over images, including her self-image, and complicate gender roles. Nachabe Taan's discovery and recovery of a body of forgotten photographs makes a major contribution to gender and visual studies and to critical discussions by scholars of the Middle East about archives, evidence, and intimate histories. * Beth Baron, City University of New York, USA *

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Yasmine Nachabe Taan is Associate Professor in Visual Culture and Graphic and Fashion Design History at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon.

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