Middle Eastern Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Middle Eastern Studies 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Turkey: between democracy and authoritarianism12
Rethinking narratives on Islam in North Cyprus: a new perspective6
The Unionist presence in the Asiatic provinces of the Ottoman Empire, 1908–19124
The end of the pax Britannica in the Persian Gulf, 1968-19714
Sharqzadegi, or how Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution became Islamic3
Winemaking between the claims of the local and the international in late Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine (1860s–1948)3
Israeli foreign policy: a people shall not dwell alone3
Dissenting from the Inevitable? Understanding Omani Approaches to Israel and the Abraham Accords3
Fraternal enemies: Israel and the Gulf monarchies3
The future of petroleum in Lebanon: energy, politics and economic growth3
The ‘villa in the jungle’ nuclear paradigm: Israel’s nuclear narrative and practice in a changing regional security complex3
A subject of dispute between the Ottoman Empire and the American Bible Society in the early 1900s: the Bible colportage3
Lebanese Phalangism and fascism: history of a symbolic appropriation2
Supporters and opponents: a history of the Muslim Brotherhood’s second prison ordeal, 1954–19642
The Palestinian youth of East Jerusalem – between Palestinian and Israeli identity2
Sylvia Kedourie 1925–20162
Introduction2
The evolution of the armed forces of the United Arab Emirates by Athol Yates (Warwick: Helion & Company Limited, 2020). pp. xv + 380. £35 (hardback). ISBN 9781912866007.2
The Gulf Cooperation Council and counter-terror cooperation in the post-9/11 era: a regional organization in comparative perspective2
The Palestine Labor League: the history of a Palestinian labor union2
25 years of Jordan-Israel peace-making: from ‘warm peace’ to ‘cold peace’?2
Justice and vilayat in post-revolutionary Iranian Shiʿism2
The separatist Alawi petition to the French Prime Minister Léon Blum (1936): reliability, background and aftermath1
‘The eye of the beholder’: Öcalan’s reading of Turkish political history1
Exodus too: the story of an ordinary Egyptian Jewish family in extraordinary times1
An evaluation of the catalog of Ottoman newspapers prepared by an Ottoman Jew Abraham Galante1
A war waiting to happen: How Menachem Begin and his administrations paved the way to the 1982 Lebanon war1
External public debt in Jordan: from crisis to reform1
Limited trust and its roots: the attitude of French military and political officials toward North African soldiers during the Great War (1914–1918)1
The Yemeni Civil War: The Arab Spring, State formation and internal instability1
Discourses on outdated but still valid currencies in Israel, from the Egyptian withdrawal in 1841 to 20231
Projective Psychological Warfare (PPW): an analysis of Hamas Hebrew videoclips as part of its propaganda campaign against Israel (2007–2014)1
The search for economic and military aid in the shadow of crises: Turkish-American relations during İnönü governments (1961–1965)1
Lumbering state, restless society: Egypt in the modern era1
United States relations with China and Iran toward the Asian century1
Stephen Pericles Ladas and the 1923 Greco-Turkish Exchange of Populations: the making and unmaking of a narrative1
Making of the Unionist bureaucracy: purging the Hamidian cadres, rule of law, and the limits of the Unionist power (1908–1910)1
Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State1
Limits of economic modernization: smuggling versus monopolies in modern Turkey1
Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire1
Fields into houses: local actors, society, and the making of a new urban landscape in Tarlabaşı and Tatavla in late Ottoman Istanbul1
‘A pretty bad reputation’: reflections of ‘the 31 March incident’ on Ottoman Syria, its background, and its immediate consequences1
The rise of the Hebronite alliance: Hebronite regionalism between Palestine and Jordan, 1940–19671
Ottoman diplomacy in Greece: the case of Syros, 1830–19001
Captive wild animals as visual commodities in the Ottoman Empire: a historical review1
The place of Italy in Turkish foreign policy in the 1930s1
Local government reform in Turkey and its aftermath: the urban transformation of Istanbul between 1984 and 19891
Kadriye Hüseyin: a forgotten female intellectual and a representation of Ottoman consciousness in early twentieth century Egypt1
An ‘Islamist’ intellectual in the late Ottoman Empire: Ali Suavi1
The League of Nations and Turkish political refugees in Greece in the early 1930s1
Socio-musical convergence and interaction in Direklerarası: commercialization of music in late Ottoman Istanbul1
Cold War dilemmas and regional interests: the acknowledgment of Egypt’s King, Farouk I, as ‘King of Egypt and Sudan’ by Greece (October 1951–August 1952)1
Yitzhak Shamir and the unity of contradictions: between the integrity of the whole Land of Israel and integrity of the Jewish People1
Disputes over pastures in the nineteenth-century Balkans1
The emergence of the ‘sovereign debt crisis’ in 1970s MENA economies1
The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood1
Negotiating empire in the Middle East: Ottomans and Arab Nomads in the modern era, 1840-19141
From reconciliation to confrontation: Menachem Begin and the Kibbutz Movement 1968–19811
An alternative approach to total economy of the late Ottoman Empire1
Czechoslovak diplomatic dilemmas in regards to the Adolf Eichmann trial1
Freemasonry’s political and diplomatic entanglements in the last phase of Ottoman history: the peculiar case of the Committee of Union and Progress1
Same reasons, different outcomes: Qatar’s policy on Israel up to 19961
Egypt: how and why a heavily indebted country in the 1980s emerged solvent1
The rise of Iraqi indebtedness, 1979–20030
A reply by David Tal0
The effect of nationalist movements on Turkish and Irish children’s literature: swans and epic heroes: ‘Fly like great birds, who have no voice’0
UNSCOP and the Arab–Israeli conflict: the road to partition0
Journey in the Grand Sahara of Africa0
Public attitudes on peace with Israel in Jordanian politics0
Israel, Turkey, and the Turkish Jewish community in light of Operation Protective Edge0
From Sheikhs to Sultanism: Statecraft and Authority in Saudi Arabia and the UAE0
A propaganda and news backwater: the Foreign Office’s information policy in the Persian Gulf, c. 1948–19600
Cast thy bread’: Israeli biological warfare during the 1948 War0
Coup-proofing and political violence: the case of Iraq0
‘He is living Israeli flag’: The Right and the Presidency in Israel under Chaim Weizmann, 1948–19520
Israel’s 2005 Disengagement from Gaza: a multilateral move under unilateral façade0
The Mojahedin-e Khalq’s utilization of Karbala’s ethos and the creation of an ex-patriot nationalism0
Caring for the sick man? Russian and Greek reactions to the Ottoman reforms (1856–1908)0
Introduction: alcohol production and consumption in the modern Middle East0
Turkish anti-Americanism: between Europe and the Middle East0
American Arabists in the Cold War Middle East, 1946–75: From Orientalism to Professionalism0
‘A man on a watchtower’: Malleson and the British military mission to Turkistan, 1918–200
Exploring alienation and identity in Iraqi Yazidi literature: a study of Under the Sky of ISIS and The Yazidi Exodus0
The French connection: political Islam from the Algerian War to the Iranian Revolution0
Raiders of the Hidden Ark: The Story of the Parker Expedition to Jerusalem Raiders of the Hidden Ark: The Story of the Parker Expedition to Jerusalem , by Graham Addison0
Stella vs. Sadat or how beer helps explain post-1970 Egypt0
‘We have the right to work’: the rise of the ‘national economy’ and reformulating the demands of the women’s movement in the pages of Kadınlar Dünyası in the post Balkan Wars era0
Periodization of piracy in the Persian Gulf Cultural World from the British colonial perspective, 1873–19490
Death Tango: Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat, and three fateful days in March0
The Israeli Arameans: a people-in-progress0
‘Peaceful civil jihad’ – Saudi Arabia’s Islamic civil rights movement and its concept of jihad0
The making of a mixed municipality in Israel: the case of Acre0
Acknowledging loss, materializing language: translation and hermeneutics of gaps in nineteenth century Baghdad0
The Palestine Commission: the forgotten chapter in United Nations peacemaking and peacekeeping in the Arab-Israeli conflict0
Factors influencing the location of the early Zionist settlements in Ottoman Palestine: 1880–19150
Young woman, daughter, mother: female soldiers killed in battle during Israel’s War of Independence (1947–1949)0
Successful failure: American naval engineers at the Imperial Arsenal in Constantinople 1831–18420
A crisis of legitimacy or a source of political consolidation? The deportation of Bulgarian Turks in 1950-1951 and the Democratic Party0
Refugees and migrants in Iran: the Iran-Iraq war (1980–88) and the Intifada (1991)0
Are cinema, TV and football recommended for Muslims? The Millî Görüş movement’s view on popular culture0
Gifting books, bribing elites, reaching the masses: Italian fascist propaganda in Turkey, 1923–380
Regimes of mobility: borders and state formation in the middle East, 1918–19460
Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East: international relations in the interwar period0
The Decline of Empires in South Asia0
Practicing Sectarianism: Archival and Ethnographic intervention on Lebanon0
Bureaucrats into merchants: tea, capitalism and the making of the Republican bourgeois0
Missed opportunity? Jordan’s [insufficient] economic dividends from the peace treaty with Israel0
Turkey’s energy dilemmas: changes and challenges0
The Massacre That Never Was: The Myth of Deir Yassin and the Creation of the Palestine Refugee Problem The Massacre That Never Was: The Myth of Deir Yassin and the Creation of the Pales0
From jihad to resistance: the evolution of Hamas’s discourse in the framework of mobilization0
The Life and World of Francis Rodd, Lord Rennell (1895-1978): Geography, Money and War0
Revolutionaries on revolutionaries: how Chinese Xinhai revolutionaries and Young Turks viewed each other0
Prize announcement0
Exile practices applied to prostitution in the late Ottoman Empire and the voice of Minoş0
Selânikli Tevfik – writer, journalist, translator0
Resilient locusts, ignorant people, modern state and scientific knowledge: a late Ottoman human-animal-state history0
Making property of a marsh: environment, property, and politics in nineteenth-century Ottoman Ioannina0
An Islamist disadvantage? Revisiting electoral outcomes for Islamists in the Middle East0
Arab-Jewish ‘neighbourly relations’ in rural Mandatory Palestine: the case of Khirbat ʿAzzun – Raʿanana0
‘If we take them to the military, where can we deploy them?’ Non-Muslim soldiers during the Turkish War of Independence (1919–1922)0
Extension, renewal or resurgence? The anti-constitutional argument of a cleric in 1920s Iran0
Visualizing Palestine in Arab postage stamps: 1948-19670
In search of a common enemy: Russo-Turkish cooperation and its discontents (1908–1923)0
The role of historical knowledge among contemporary Druze in Lebanon: applying anthropology to preserve intangible cultural heritage0
Floundering Stability: US Foreign Policy in Egypt0
‘An Oriental Gentlewoman’: Princess Nazlı Fazıl’s interview in The Gentlewoman in 18990
From devastating warfare to deficient welfare: the Ottoman-Turkish disabled veterans of the First World War (1918–1930)0
Spring 1923: Turkey’s failed constitutional moment0
Cultural Imperialism and the American scramble for antiquities in Mandate Syria: 1920–19390
The journal İnkılâp and the appeal of antisemitism in interwar Turkey0
Playing with ‘the Great Satan’: the football diplomacy behind the 1998 and 2000 Iran–USA matches0
Changing gender relations in 1950s Ankara: an inside view0
Corporatism without party: the state, war, and industrial labor in the Islamic Republic of Iran0
From ‘brothers in religion’ to ‘bandits’: Chechens in Mardin in the late Ottoman period0
The changing identity of Muslim/Jewish holy places in the State of Israel, 1948–20180
Weaving an empire: the Hereke factory under the banner of Ottomanism (1842–1914)0
Armistice: ‘varied entertainment, spectacular incesaz , etc.’0
Asad’s autocratic dynasty in Syria: civil war and the role of regional and global powers0
Cyprus’s relations with Egypt and Israel during the Makarios era: influence of regional disputes, economy, socio-cultural interactions and UN debates0
George Franghia (b. 1856): a forgotten farsighted Ottoman engineer’s contribution to the development of the province of Jerusalem during the late Ottoman period0
The 1948 turmoil in Sanaa from the viewpoint of two Yemeni Jewish sources0
Re-examining the Foundations of US–Gulf relations0
Terrorism and migration: on the mass emigration of Iraqi Jews, 1950–19510
Nomads in the Middle East0
Kedourie, nationalism, Islamism, and the umma0
A Modern Contagion: Imperialism and Public Health in Iran’s Age of Cholera,0
Endgames: military responses to protest in Arab autocracies0
Producing scientific knowledge by and for the Third World: postcolonial Algeria, South Americans and militant expertise in the Global Cold War0
Outskirts of empire: studies in British power projection0
Utopian imagination in the Zionist movement: the case of ‘Jerusalem Rebuilt’0
Juhayman al-Otaibi and the interpretation of the first violent Islamic movement in contemporary Saudi Arabia0
The Alawi legacy of heroes: from medieval history to the Syrian Civil War0
Kissinger’s wrath: the reassessment of the US-Israel relationship (March 1975)0
Süreyya Ağaoğlu and the emerging liberal order in early Cold War Turkey0
Ending slavery in imperial peripheries: Ottoman abolitionist policy in Trablusgarp and Benghazi provinces (1857–1911)0
Kuwait and Al-Sabah: Tribal politics and power in an oil state0
Imagined landscapes for contested politics of land reform, peasant struggles and women in rural Turkey0
Fig trader Aram Hamparzum and his role in the global fig market0
Mapping the role of intellectuals in Iranian modern and contemporary history0
The colonial swamp in Mandatory Palestine: the Na’amien wetlands between local and global British interests in Palestine0
An initial Shiʿa debate on the Palestinian question0
'Close but no Cigar’: Hamas’s psychological warfare against Israel between 2014 and 20230
What politics does to the army: divisions and reconfigurations to the military institution in the 27 May 1960 coup in Turkey0
Hezbollah and Hamas’s main platforms for recruiting and handling of human sources after 20060
Oman book review0
‘I have come to seek freedom’: enslavement and escape in the Aden Protectorates, 1937-19490
Persian Gulf coups misrepresented0
Rethinking the Turkish socialist left’s perceptions of the US and USSR after the Second World War: an analysis of leftist publications0
İbnülemin Mahmud Kemal İnal – the epitome of late Ottoman culture0
Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, The Arabs, and the Region 1948-20220
Midhat Cemal Kuntay – a man of many parts0
The East India Company in Persia: trade and cultural exchange in the eighteenth century0
Between citizenship and the millet: the Greek minority in republican Turkey0
Rethinking the salons in nineteenth-century Istanbul houses conceptualised in written media0
Syria 2011–2013: Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem0
The Fall of Reza Shah: The Abdication, Exile, and Death of Modern Iran’s Founder0
On Shaky Ground: Iran between Israel and Pan-Arabism, 1930s–1970s0
International politics in Turkish Islamism during the Cold War, 1947–19640
Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East0
Romania and the Palestine Liberation Organization, 1972–19740
The Arabian Mission and education in Bahrain: ‘encounter’ and ‘resistance’, 1892–19170
Syria’s debt or the power of the debtor0
Understanding Turkey’s attitude towards the dispute in Palestine from late 1947 to early 19490
Afterlives of revolution: everyday counter histories in Southern Oman0
The Millî Görüş movement’s view on Muslims in the West: Turkish migration to Germany as a case study0
A tribal confederation at the intersection of the Ottoman, Russian and Qajar empires: the Zilan Confederation and the empires (1810–1860)0
An analytical study of ethnic identity components in the works of contemporary Kurdish painters in Iranian Kurdistan from 1981–20190
Governing by partnership: the role of Abdolhossein Nikpour and the Chambers of Commerce in Iran’s national economy0
Prize announcement0
A Russian stooge or a Greek puppet? Joachim III’s struggle for autonomy of the Patriarchate of Constantinople (1864-1912)0
The battle over the Zionist maritime ethos: ‘Sea Day’ and claims to the Land of Israel’s sea culture0
Unwritten treaty: the historical background to Jordanian–Israeli relations, 1921–19510
Iran’s backwardness from the perspective of nineteenth-century Iranian thinkers0
The decline of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of the Turkish Republic: observations of an American Diplomat, 1919-19270
Hadera: transnational migrations from Eastern Europe to Ottoman Palestine and the glocal origins of the Zionist-Arab conflict0
The British Council, English Language Teaching and Britain’s struggle for educational influence in Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar, 1955–690
Reconstructing the caliphate or bringing liberal democracy to Turkey? Millî Görüş’s view on liberal democracy before reaching power0
The international ‘debt crisis’ of the 1980s in the Middle East and North Africa: a review, an outline0
Passwords in the Ottoman military in the nineteenth century: a political and social analysis0
Muhammad Surur and his work Wa jaʾa dawr al-Majus0
Anti-alcoholism, Turkish and American non-state actors, and their mutual pursuits of national and global sobriety0
Gendering the Muslim Brotherhood: the social network of the Muslim Sisters in twentieth-century Egypt0
The Abyssinian slave trade to Iran and the Rokeby case 18770
Revolutionizing the past: representations of the Mamluks in Egyptian school textbooks, 1954–19700
Bibliography of Sylvia G. Haim0
Political travelers in a polarized country: the Freedom Party experience in Turkish history0
Nuclear topsy turvy: the security-economics nexus in Turkish-American relations0
Education and a sense of security under conditions of sociopolitical uncertainty: the case of the Golan Druze0
Al-malik al-salih – Islam and the monarchy in 1930s Egypt0
Was there room for Christian Turks in early Republican Turkey? Debates on the migration and Turkishness of the Gagauz0
Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın – an introduction to his life and works0
Did as-Saʿidiyya really revolt? An ethnographic investigation0
Algeria’s reforming decade (1988–1998): neoliberalism as a tool for survival0
Cultural nationalism and the spread of a ‘national language’ among Arabophone, Turcophone and Kurdophone Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1840 to c. 18600
Jerusalem 1948–1952 as a ‘no man’s land’: the Israeli policy in Jerusalem as an arena of the Cold War0
Nigâr Hanim – an Ottoman Turkish poetess0
Kuwait’s ʿAjam merchants: a transnational community (1896–1950)0
The 1858 tax reform and the ‘other nomads’ in Ottoman Asia0
Rethinking Syrian nationalism: national identity and state in Syria, from the ‘struggle for Syria’ to the Syrian civil war0
Internal colonization, political geography and security in the Ottoman Eastern Provinces (1895–1899)0
Coercion in Armageddon: the experiences of Ottoman soldiers in the Great War0
Political vs intellectual? Russia’s late Imperial archaeology and the Russian Cause0
Schoolgirls- cum -carpet weavers: the role of the market in public girls’ schools in the late Ottoman Empire0
Of hovels and homes: consumption, class, and domestic space in early republican Turkey0
Change of the built environment in Jerusalem during the late Ottoman period (1840–1917)0
The Ottoman Government crisis of 10–13 February 1909 and the press reaction0
Peace with Israel; Jordan’s profit and loss account0
Preparation for total war: ‘Military Service Preparation Camps’ in the Turkish education system in the early Republican Era (1926–1946)0
New Military Strategies in the Gulf: The Mirage of Autonomy in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar0
How political rights are created from Sharia rules in Iran0
The Karapapaks and their shifting loyalties on the imperial borderlands during the nineteenth century0
Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment: a global and historical comparison0
Red Star Over the Black Sea: Nâzım Hikmet and His Generation0
Common values, different interests: early Israeli-Swedish cooperation on development aid to Africa0
The 1980s ‘debt crisis’ in the Middle East and North Africa: framing regional dynamics within the international stage at UNCTAD0
Salafism in Lebanon: the significance of Fathi Yakan and Al-Jamaʿa Al-Islamiyya0
Zionism and the Hebrew Bible: from religious holiness to national sanctity0
New money in old Tripoli0
UAE book review0
Foundations of a geopolitical entity - the Gaza Strip 1947–19500
Cultural reforms and restructuring Iranian national identity: a case study of the Thought Development Organization and its Public Speech Commission0
Civil society and education in Turkey: the relations between the Society for the Dissemination of Knowledge and Imam Hatip Schools (1951-1976)0
From Iranian Shi’ization to colonization in Syria to establish Shiʿi territorial contiguity0
Motivational factors of Turkish foreign terrorist fighters in ISIS0
Social histories of Iran: modernism and marginality in the Middle East0
The birth of Ottoman penal biopolitics: motherhood, pregnancy and child-protection in the criminal justice system (1850–1918)0
Crime, poverty and survival in the Middle East and North Africa: the ‘dangerous classes’ since 18000
Imperialism after decolonization? British relations with Bahrain from the withdrawal East of Suez to the Iranian Revolution0
Identity disputes in occupied Istanbul: was Istanbul to become a Turkish city or remain a Turkish city?0
Bringing democracy into Iran: a Russian project for the separation of Azerbaijan0
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