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Afifa’s MigrationSyrian Prostitutes and Port Said’s “White Slave Trade” in Local and Transnational Perspective

Afifa’s MigrationSyrian Prostitutes and Port Said’s “White Slave Trade” in Local and... Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article-pdf/17/3/473/1169815/473carminati.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 THIRD S PACE Roundtab l e: Gendered T r ansnatio nalisms in the M iddle E ast and N orth Africa Afifa’s Migration Syrian Prostitutes and Port Said’s “White Slave Trade” in Local and Transnational Perspective LU C I A C A R M I N A T I fifa Tamer El Asmar was born in Beirut in 1900. At sixteen she ran away with a A Muslim Egyptian man who passed through the Lebanese port city and promised to marry her. Between 1916 and 1919 Afifa lived with him in Al-Fayu¯m, a district that was a roughly three-hour train ride south of Cairo. For unknown reasons, her Egyptian paramour then abandoned her. She went on to reside in Cairo and Tanta, working as a dressmaker. Unable to make ends meet, she landed in a brothel in Ismailia, a town located in the central stretch of the Isthmus of Suez and perched on the Canal banks. The keeper of the house where Afifa operated was a woman known as “El Kharcha,” possibly the Arabic epithet for “the dumb” or “the mute.” The historical record hints that in 1920 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Duke University Press

Afifa’s MigrationSyrian Prostitutes and Port Said’s “White Slave Trade” in Local and Transnational Perspective

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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article-pdf/17/3/473/1169815/473carminati.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 THIRD S PACE Roundtab l e: Gendered T r ansnatio nalisms in the M iddle E ast and N orth Africa Afifa’s Migration Syrian Prostitutes and Port Said’s “White Slave Trade” in Local and Transnational Perspective LU C I A C A R M I N A T I fifa Tamer El Asmar was born in Beirut in 1900. At sixteen she ran away with a A Muslim Egyptian man who passed through the Lebanese port city and promised to marry her. Between 1916 and 1919 Afifa lived with him in Al-Fayu¯m, a district that was a roughly three-hour train ride south of Cairo. For unknown reasons, her Egyptian paramour then abandoned her. She went on to reside in Cairo and Tanta, working as a dressmaker. Unable to make ends meet, she landed in a brothel in Ismailia, a town located in the central stretch of the Isthmus of Suez and perched on the Canal banks. The keeper of the house where Afifa operated was a woman known as “El Kharcha,” possibly the Arabic epithet for “the dumb” or “the mute.” The historical record hints that in 1920

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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies – Duke University Press

Published: Nov 1, 2021

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    Bayly, C. A. Beckert, Sven Connelly, Matthew Hofmeyr, Isabel Kozol, Wendy Seed, Patricia.
  • ‘She Will Eat Your Shirt’: Prostitution as Business and Survival; Foreign Migrant Women as Brothel Keepers in Port Said and along the Suez Canal, 1880–1914
    Carminati, Lucia
  • Loose Women or Lost Women? The Re-emergence of the Myth of White Slavery in Contemporary Discourses of Trafficking in Women
    Doezema, Jo
  • Women’s Migration for Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East and North Africa
    Kozma, Liat
  • Prostitution in Port Said
    Kozma, Liat Chaumont, Jean-Michel Garcia, Magaly Rodriguez Servais, Paul
  • The White Slave Trade and the British Empire
    Levine, Philippa
  • Moving Mashreqis: Empire and the Politics of Notables
    Pastor, Camila Batrouney, Trevor Boos, Tobias Escher, Anton Tabar, Paul