Middle East Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Middle East Journal is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Seizing Nuclear Tehran: Obstacles to Understanding Iranian Nuclear Activities12
Modern History and Politics: Saudi Arabia and Iraq as Friends and Enemies: Borders, Tribes and a History Shared , by Joshua Yaphe (book review)7
Egypt4
Toiling for Oil: A Social History of Petroleum in Iran4
How Post–October 7 Wars Reshaped Iran-Huthi Ties3
Modern History and Politics: Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East , by Jonathan Wyrtzen (boo2
Kurds: Kurdish Politics in the Middle East: Lessons from the Kurdistan Regional Government KRG in Iraq2
Recent Publications2
Jordan: Jordan: Politics in an Accidental Crucible2
Morocco: Killing Contention: Demobilizationin Morocco during the Arab Spring , by Sammy Zeyad Badran (book review)1
Syria’s State-Rebuilding Challenge: Reintegrating the Border Peripheries1
Why Were They Not Radicalized? Young Members of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Aftermath of Egypt's 2013 Military Coup1
Economy: Dams, Power, and the Politics of Ethiopia’s Renaissance , by Tom Lavers (book review)1
Editor's Note1
The Case of Decentralization in Yalova, Türkiye1
Israel: Searching for Peace: A Memoir of Israel , by Ehud Olmert. Translated by David Hazony (book review)1
Worse than Camp David? Revisiting the May 17, 1983, Lebanon-Israel Agreement1
The GCC’s Economic Diplomacy in a Multi-Polar World1
Iran: The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards, by Annie Tracy Samuel (book review)1
Oman: Britain and the Dhofar War in Oman, 1963‐1976: A Covert War in Arabia , by Geraint Hughes (book review)1
Turkey: Return to Point Zero: The Turkish-Kurdish Question and How Politics and Ideas (Re)Make Empires, Nations, and States , by Murat Somer (book review1
Fixing America’s Failed Strategies in the Middle East1
Electoral Management in Iran: The Ministry of Interior’s Role in Parliamentary Elections1
The Limits of Right-Wing Populism in Power and the Israeli Political Crisis of 2018–20211
Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization , by Elham Fakhro (book review)1
Yemen1
Foreign Policy Agendas and Participation in Locally Led Informal Security Coalitions: Pakistan, Sudan, and the Yemen War Coalition1
Recent Publications1
Egypt: Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt ,by Andrew Simon (book review)1
Yemen: South Yemen's Independence Struggle: Generations of Resistance , by Anne-Linda Amira Augustin (book review)1
North African Affairs: Shouting in a Cage: Political Life after Authoritarian Co-Optation in North Africa , by Sofia Fenner0
Iran: Revolution of Things: The Islamism and Post-Islamism of Objects in Tehran , by Kusha Sefat (book review)0
Environment0
Libya: Violence and Social Transformation in Libya , edited by Virginie Collombier and Wolfram Lacher0
Pre-Twentieth-Century History: Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands , by Helen Pfeifer (book review)0
Historical Trajectories of Qatar’s Survival Strategy0
How to Upgrade US-Saudi Defense Relations0
"King Bibi" and Israeli Illiberalism: Assessing Democratic Backsliding in Israel during the Second Netanyahu Era (2009–2021)0
The Logic of Political Independence Endures0
Can Trump Break the Middle East’s Non-Tariff Barriers?0
Palestinians in Israel: Bare Citizenship during the Gaza War0
The Rashid Theater in Baghdad: The Drama of a Nation0
The Enduring Challenges of Middle East Security and the Evolving Role of the United States (review article)0
Iran: An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville , by Reza Aslan (book review)0
A Century of Changing Perceptions of "Christian Militias" in Iraq0
Iran: Wars of Ambition: The United States, Iran, and the Struggle for the Middle East , by Afshon Ostovar (book review)0
A Two-State Solution Remains a Core American Interest0
US Regional Policy: The End of Ambition: America’s Past, Present, and Future in the Middle East , by Steven A. Cook (book review)0
Local Governments in a Competitive Authoritarian Regime: Opposition-Run Metropolitan Municipalities in Turkey0
Police, Protests, and State Power: Confronting Order and Disorder in Jordan (review article)0
Can Morocco’s Party of Justice and Development Rebuild?0
Palestine: Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System , by Anne Irfan0
Palestine and Palestinians: The Bride: An Illustrated History of Palestine, 1850–1948 , by Roger Hardy (book review)0
Saudi Arabia: Wahhabism and the World: Understanding Saudi Arabia's Global Influence on Islam , edited by Peter Mandaville (book review)0
Water Issues: Reflections: Understanding Our Use and Abuse of Water, by Mark Zeitoun0
The Use and Misuse of Palestinian Statehood Recognition0
Israel’s Clan Strategy in Gaza: Using Disorder to Create Order?0
Security and Empowerment as Justice: Yezidi Women's Demands and Perceptions of Post-Genocide Justice0
Modern History and Politics: Entrepreneurs of Identity: The Islamic State's Symbolic Repertoire , by Christoph Günther (book review)0
Iran0
Dueling Legacies: Which Sultan Deserves Credit for Oman's Oil-Driven Development?0
Eat the State (review article)0
Arab-Israeli Conflict0
Syria: Moscow's Game of Poker: Russian Military Intervention in Syria , 2015–2017, by Tom Cooper0
Syria: Syria Betrayed: Atrocities, War, and the Failure of International Diplomacy , by Alex J. Bellamy (book review)0
Israel: Amos Oz: The Legacy of a Writer in Israel and Beyond , edited by Ranen Omer-Sherman (book review)0
A New Project of a Gulf-Based Regional Order in the Middle East0
Tunisia: A Fledgling Democracy: Tunisia in the Aftermath of the Arab Uprisings , edited by Mohamed Zayani (book review)0
Modern History and Politics0
Tunisia: The Tunisian Revolution and Democratic Transition: The Role of al-Nahdah , by Mohammad Dawood Sofi (book review)0
Modern History and Politics: Battleground: Ten Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East , by Christopher Phillips (book review)0
A Wall of Despair: The Interplay of the Turkish Wall and Foreign Policy in Syria0
From the Mountains to the Élysée: The Precarious International Legitimacy of the Syrian Kurdish YPG and PYD0
Iraq: Iraq against the World: Saddam, America, and the Post–Cold War Order, by Samuel Helfont0
Levant Affairs: Reaching for the Heights: The Inside Story of a Secret Attempt to Reach a Syrian-Israeli Peace , by Frederic C. Hof (book review)0
The Blocked Road to Democracy: Culture Wars in the Arab World and the End of Politics (review article)0
Egypt: Egypt: Revolution, Failed Transition and Counter-Revolution , by Azmi Bishara. Translated by Mandy McClure, Chris Hitchcock, and Peter Daniel (boo0
Libya: Tribalism and Democracy in Libya: State Building and Identity after Gaddafi0
Iran0
Gulf Affairs: The Gulf Monarchies after the Arab Spring: Threats and Security , by Cinzia Bianco (book review)0
Modern History and Politics: Women's Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the Table , by Mona Tajali0
Iran: Enduring Hostility: The Making of America’s Iran Policy0
Recent Publications0
Sheikh, Beik, and Muallim: Kamal Jumblatt and the Lebanese Political Elites0
Gulf Affairs: Centers of Power in the Arab Gulf States , by Kristian Coates Ulrichsen (book review)0
Iraq: Mosul under ISIS: Eyewitness Accounts of Life in the Caliphate , by Mathilde Becker Aarseth (book review)0
Egypt: The Muslim Brothers in Society: Everyday Politics, Social Action, and Islamism in Mubarak's Egypt , by Marie Vannetzel. Translated by David Tresil0
China0
Modern History and Politics: Soldiers of Democracy? Military Legacies and the Arab Spring , by Sharan Grewal (book review)0
Afghanistan: The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan , by Ahmad Shuja Jamal and William Maley (book review)0
From Securitization to National Rebranding: Saudi–Muslim Brotherhood Relations since 20100
Surviving the Islamic State: Contention, Cooperation, and Neutrality in Wartime Iraq0
Editor’s Note0
Tunisia: Rethinking Islamic Politics in Tunisia: A Gramscian Analysis0
Morocco: Immigration Nation: Aid, Control, and Border Politics in Morocco, by Lorena Gazzotti (book review)0
Palestine: The Hamas Intelligence War against Israel , by Netanel Flamer (book review)0
Contesting “Moderate Islam”: Religious Legitimacy in Post–Civil War Algeria0
Beyond Instrumentalism: Arab Nationalism and the Foreign Policy of Kuwait in the 1960s and 1970s0
Bordering on War: A Social and Political History of Khuzestan , by Shaherzad Ahmadi (book review)0
Modern History and Politics: Conflict Mediation in the Arab World , edited by Ibrahim Fraihat and Isak Svensson0
Iran: Creating Local Democracy in Iran: State Building and the Politics of Decentralization , by Kian Tajbakhsh (book review)0
Special Issue Introduction0
The AKP's Syria Policy and the Emergence of Competitive Authoritarianism in Turkey0
Syria: Statelet of Survivors: The Making of a Semi-Autonomous Region in Northeast Syria , by Amy Austin Holmes (book review)0
Türkiye: The Transformation of Turkish Foreign Policy: Islamism and Nationalism0
The Long Economic Shadow of the Twelve Day War0
Making Sense of the Arab State0
Book Reviews0
Sudan0
Editor's Note0
Tobacco Cultivation in Palestine: Struggles over Agriculture and Land Ownership in the West Bank0
Failed Leadership and the Endurance of the Two-State Solution0
Iraq: Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq , by Melvyn P. Leffler (book review)0
Symposium Introduction0
Egypt: A Fragile Power , by Eberhard Kienle and Egypt under El-Sisi: A Nation on the Edge , by Maged Mando0
Women: The Unforgotten Women of the Islamic State , by Gina Vale (book review)0
Modern History and Politics: The Contemporary Middle East in an Age of Upheaval, edited by James L. Gelvin (book review)0
Recent Publications0
Algeria: Algeria: Politics and Society from the Dark Decade to the Hirak , by Michael J. Willis (book review)0
Turkey: Street-Level Governing: Negotiating the State in Urban Turkey , by Elise Massicard (book review)0
Modern History and Politics: The Muslim Brotherhood: Ideology, History, Descendants , by Joas Wagemakers (book review)0
Saudi Arabia0
Iraq: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Saudi Struggle for Iraq , by Katherine Harvey (book review)0
The Dhofar War: British Covert Campaigning in Arabia 1965‐1975 , by Stephen Quick (book review)0
Arab Media Portrayals of Anti-Uyghur Repression: Chinese Propaganda, Anti-Islamist Anxiety, and Anti-Westernism0
Collective (Non-)Memory of the Iran-Iraq War and Sectarian Thinking among Veterans-Turned-Shi'i Militia Fighters0
Complex Equation: Relations between Russia and the Middle East (review article)0
Modern History and Politics: Understanding the New Proxy Wars: Battlegrounds and Strategies Reshaping the Greater Middle East, edited by Peter Bergen, Candace Rondeaux, Daniel R0
Editor’s Note0
The Root Causes of Suicide Terrorism in Türkiye0
Egypt: Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo , by Yoram Meital (book review)0
Libya0
The Trump Effect on Global Autocratization: Theory and Evidence from Israel and Türkiye0
Syria: Revolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Ba'thist Syria , by Max Weiss (book review)0
Modern History and Politics: When Parliaments Ruled the Middle East: Iraq and Syria, 1946–63 , by Matthieu Rey (book review)0
Recent Publications0
Party Practices in the Context of Lebanon’s Sectarian Political System: Explaining the Unachieved Goals of the Free Patriotic Movement0
Philosophy, Religion, and Science: Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama between Democracy and Autocracy , by Usaama al-Azami (book review)0
The Oil Thief of Baghdad: Understanding Saddam's Motives for Invading Iran0
Turkey: Turkey and the Kurdish Peace Process: Actors, Issues, and Context , by Arin Y. Savran (book reviews)0
Modern History and Politics: America’s Middle East: Ruination of a Region0
The Yemeni Civil War: The Arab Spring, State Formation and Internal Instability , by Elham Manea (book review)0
United Arab Emirates: Reinventing the Sheikhdom: Clan, Power and Patronage in Mohammed bin Zayed's UAE , by Matthew Hedges (book review)0
Editor's Note0
Modern History and Politics: The Politics of Immigration beyond Liberal States: Morocco and Tunisia in Comparative Perspective , by Katharina Natter (boo0
The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Elusiveness of Defense Cooperation: The Revealing Effect of the 2017–2021 Crisis0
Libya: Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder , by Jason Pack (book review)0
Turkey: Crafting Turkish National Identity, 1919–1927: A Rhetorical Approach , by Aysel Morin (book reviews)0
Editor’s Note0
Syria0
Modern History and Politics: West Asia: A New American Grand Strategy in the Middle East0
Pre-Twentieth-Century History: The Lost and Untold History of the Kurds: Rediscovering the Beginning of the Western Civilisation and the Origin of the Indo-European Languages ca0
Editor’s Note0
Israel: Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth , by Asaf Elia-Shalev (book review)0
Sports and Entertainment0
Iraq0
Editor's Note0
Editor’s Note0
Iran0
Surviving Genocide and Overcoming Collective Trauma: Yezidis from Sinjar in the Aftermath of 20140
Israel: We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight over Israel , by Eric Alterman (book review)0
Türkiye0
Iran: Iran's Soft Power in Afghanistan and Pakistan , by Zahid Shahab Ahmed and Ali Akbar0
Jordan0
Mission Manifest: American Evangelicals and Iran in the Twentieth Century , by Matthew K. Shannon (book review)0
The Tale of a Feud: Domination, Resistance, and Agency in Highland Yemen , by Marieke Brandt (book review)0
Egypt: The Egyptian Revolution of 1919: Legacies and Consequences of the Fight for Independence , edited by H. A. Hellyer and Robert Springborg and 0
Morocco: L’Affaire Ben Barka: La fin des secrets0
Bouteflika’s Foreign Policy in the Service of Algeria’s Internal Power Struggle, 1999–20040
Egypt: Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities, and Counterrevolution in Egypt , by Atef Shahat (book review)0
Philosophy, Religion, and Science0
Iraq: The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A. and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq , by Steve Coll (book review)0
The Mo'talefeh (Islamic Coalition Society): From Revolutionary Allies to Challengers of Ayatollah Khomeini's Policies, 1979–19890
Levant Affairs: In Search of Greater Syria: The History and Politics of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party , by Christopher Solomon and 0
United Arab Emirates: The UAE after the Arab Spring: Strategy for Survival , by Khalifa Al-Suwaidi, and New Order in the Gulf: The0
Demographic Transition, Development Potentials, and Policy Requirements: A Comparative Study of the Kurdish Regions of Iran and Iraq0
Gender: History, Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East: From Orientalism to the Arab Spring , by Lisa Pollard and Mona L. Russell (book review)0
Gulf Affairs: The Gulf States and the Horn of Africa: Interests, Influences and Instability , edited by Robert Mason and Simon Mabon (book review)0
Modern History and Politics: Tribes and the State in Libya and Iraq: From the Nationalist Era to the New Order , by Alison Pargeter (book review)0
Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and the limits of Gulf Unity0
Iran: What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom , by Arash Azizi (book review)0
Iran: The Long War on Iran: New Events, Old Questions0
Iraq0
The World Cup: A Mixed Blessing for Qatari Soft Power (review article)0
Modern History and Politics0
Political Economy0
Egypt: Cronyism and Elite Capture in Egypt: From Businessmen Cabinet to Military Inc. , by Sarah Smierciak (book review)0
Local Governments in a Competitive Authoritarian Regime: Opposition-Run Metropolitan Municipalities in Turkey0
Editor’s Note0
Yemen: Yemen Model: Why U.S. Policy has Failed in the Middle East , by Alexandra Stark (book review)0
Surviving Genocide and Overcoming Collective Trauma: Yezidis from Sinjar in the Aftermath of 20140
Activism and Community-Based Climate Adaptation in Kuwait0
Afghanistan: Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul , by Saad Mohseni with Jenna Krajeski (book review)0
Turkey: Turkey under Erdoğan: How a Country Turned from Democracy and the West , by Dimitar Bechev and Erdoğan’s War: A Strongman’0
Israel: The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel: Promise Unfulfilled , by Dahlia Scheindlin0
Recent Publications0
Israel: Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom , by Maya Wind (book review)0
Gulf Affaris: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates: Foreign Policy and Strategic Alliances in an Uncertain World , by Robert Mason0
Palestine and Palestinians: Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future, by Gil Z. Hochberg, and Networked Re0
Israel: Continuity and Change in Political Culture: Israel and Beyond, edited by Yael S. Aronoff, Ilan Peleg, and Saliba Sarsar (book review)0
The Grimness of the Alternatives: Carter, Israel, and the Civil War in Lebanon0
Recent Publications0
Turkey: Memory, Patriarchy and Economy in Turkey: Narratives of Political Power , by Meral Uğur-Çınar (book review)0
Syria: Syria Divided: Patterns of Violence in a Complex Civil War , by Ora Szekely0
Modern History and Politics: Islam, Justice, and Democracy , by Sabri Ciftci (book review)0
The Evolution of a Contemporary Iraqi Intellectual: Reflections on Ahmed Saadawi's First Four Novels0
The Re-Enchantment of the Orient: Mista‘arvim and Their Special Status in Jewish-Israeli Society0
Worse than Camp David? Revisiting the May 17, 1983, Lebanon-Israel Agreement0
Policing Copts: Sadat, Shenouda, and the Transnational Diaspora Politics of Cold War Egypt0
Jordan: Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency , by Melissa Gatter0
Rethinking Islamophobia: Race, Empire, and Islam in a Global Context (review article)0
Afghanistan: Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan , by Elisabeth Leake (book review)0
Iran: Triumph and Despair: In Search of Iran’s Islamic Republic , by Mehran Kamrava (book review)0
Recent Publications0
Yemen: Yemen in the Shadow of Transition: Pursuing Justice amid War , by Stacey Philbrick Yadav (book review)0
Philosophy, Religion, And Science: Islam, Revival, and Reform: Redefining Tradition for the Twenty-First Century , edited by Natana J. DeLong-Bas (book r0
Book Reviews0
Changing Security Dynamics in the Persian Gulf after Epic Fury: A Preliminary Assessment0
Recent Publications0
Egypt: Tahrir's Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution , by Rusha Latif (book review)0
Problematic Archives: Documentary Knowledge of Modern Iraq between Ex- and Repatriation0
Egypt: Youth in Egypt: Identity, Participation, and Opportunity, by Nadine Sika (book review)0
Baghdad behind Walls: Mapping Urban Heritage for Spatial Justice0
Modern History and Politics: God's Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State, by Nada Moumtaz (book review)0
Palestine: The Social and Cultural History of Palestine: Essays in Honour of Salim Tamari, edited by Sarah Irving0
Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Arab World (review article)0
Urbanism, Climate Change, and the Public Utility of Greening Cairo0
Iran: The Other Side of Silence: A Memoir of Exile, Iran, and the Global Women’s Movement , by Mahnaz Afkhami (book review)0
Biography: Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa, by Susan Gilson Miller (book review)0
Modern History and Politics: The Aftermath of the Arab Uprising: Towards Reconstruction, Democracy and Peace , edited by Samir Makdisi and Raimundo Soto0
Egyptian State Media in Opposition: Al-Ahram under Morsi, 2012–20130
Zionism: Emotions, Language and Experience - New Hebrews: Making National Culture in Zion0
Kurds0
Modern History and Politics: Seeing Is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better0
Saudi Arabia: Charity in Saudi Arabia: Civil Society under Authoritarianism , by Nora Derbal (book review)0
E-Government, Corruption, and Administrative Reform in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries0
Book Reviews0
Peacebuilding, Patronage-Building, and Post-Conflict NGO Corruption: Barriers to Democratization in Anbar, Iraq0
The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present0
Israel: Jewish Women and the Defense of Palestine: The Modest Revolution , 1907–1945, by Meir Chazan0
Gulf States0
US Regional Policy: Grand Delusions: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East, by Steven Simon0
Pakistan: Vigilante Islamists: Religious Parties and Anti-State Violence in Pakistan0
Recent Publications0
The Iraq War as a War over the Meaning of Europe0
Syria0
Turkey: The Nation or the Ummah: Islamism and Turkish Foreign Policy , by Birol Başkan and Ömer Taşpınar (book review)0
Iraq: God’s Man in Iraq: The Life and Leadership of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani , by Sajad Jiyad (book review)0
Modern History and Politics: Democracy or Authoritarianism: Islamist Governments in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia, by Sebnem Gumuscu0
Iraq: The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq , by Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt (book review)0
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