Yasmine Nachabe Taan - Reading Marie Al-Khazen’s Photographs: Gender, Photography, Mandate Lebanon

Series Editors: Reina Lewis and Elizabeth Wilson

Advisory Board: Christopher Breward, Hazel Clark, Joanne Entwistle, Caroline Evans, Susan Kaiser, Angela McRobbie, Hiroshi Narumi, Peter McNeil, zlem Sandikci, Simona Segre Reinach

Dress Culturesaims to foster innovative theoretical and methodological frameworks to understand how and why we dress, exploring the connections between clothing, commerce, and creativity in global contexts.

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Reading Marie al-Khazens Photographs: Gender, Photography, Mandate Lebanon

by Yasmine Nachabe Taan

Reina Lewis:reina.lewis@fashion.arts.ac.uk

Elizabeth Wilson:elizabethwilson.auth@gmail.com

Marie al-Khazen, Two women dressed like men, Lebanon/Zghorta, 1927, collection Mohsen Yammine. Courtesy of the Arab Image Foundation

Marie al-Khazen, Lebanon/Baalbek, circa 1920, collection Mohsen Yammine. Courtesy of the Arab Image Foundation

Marie al-Khazen, Lebanon/Baalbek, circa 1920, collection Mohsen Yammine. Courtesy of the Arab Image Foundation

Marie al-Khazen, Lebanon/Baalbek, circa 1920, collection Mohsen Yammine. Courtesy of the Arab Image Foundation

Marie al-Khazen, Lebanon/Baalbek, circa 1920, collection Mohsen Yammine. Courtesy of the Arab Image Foundation

Marie-Lydie Bonfils, Woman in traditional clothing,Lebanon, 18801890, collection Nawaf Salam. Courtesy of the Arab Image Foundation

Marie-Lydie Bonfils, Woman in traditional clothing,Lebanon, 18801890, collection Nawaf Salam. Courtesy of the Arab Image Foundation

Marie-Lydie Bonfils, Woman in traditional clothing,Lebanon, 18801890, collection Nawaf Salam. Courtesy of the Arab Image Foundation

Karimeh Abbud, Mateel Abbud,Palestine, circa 1920. Courtesy of Issam Nassar (gifted by Ahmad Mrowat)

C. Sawides, Karimeh Abbud behind her lens,Palestine, circa 1920.