British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

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What is Iran? Domestic politics and international relations in five musical pieces What is Iran? Domestic politics and international relations in five musical p	22
Inaudible screams: intersectional experiences of oppression and violence in the Kurdish Novel	13
Regime trajectories of Tunisia and Turkey: a comparative analysis	9
An increasingly corrosive expedient? Israel’s evolving relationship with back-channel diplomacy	9
Intimate conversations ( Munājayāt ) and supplications ( Adʿiya ) in early Islamic literature: Yaḥyā ibn Muʿādh al-Rāzī (d. 258/872) and A	9
Appropriating Hafez’s ghazals for Shiite rites and rituals in the Islamic Republic of Iran	9
Populists’ struggle for epistemic hegemony and anti-gender attacks on higher education in authoritarian contexts: the case of Turkey	5
Breaking the chains: women’s writing against patriarchy in Saudi narratives	5
In search for a spiritual authority. Shi’i clergy in Iranian post-revolutionary cinema	4
Buying modernization. Western NGOs and gender politics in Pahlavi Iran	4
Politics and poetics of witnessing: Choman Hardi and Nazand Begikhani’s poetry of witness in English	4
The failure of democracy in Afghanistan	4
Loved Egyptian night: the meaning of the Arab spring	4
We are not them! Self-presentation of North African Muslim soldiers in the German captivity in 1914–1918	4
Oil money: middle east petrodollars and the transformation of US empire, 1967–1988	4
Palestinian workers of Israel Railways	4
China-Iran strategic partnership and the future of US hegemony in the Persian Gulf Region	3
Gaps and underlying casualties in labour market policy reforms, and targeted local and international assistance programmes in Arab Mediterranean countries	3
The dynamics of humanitarianism, religion and politics in the Middle East, 1860s-1960s: introductory remarks	3
Bedouins, blacks, and the bringers of Islam: the Arabs in late Ottoman encyclopaedic literature, 1876–1928	3
Violence and representation in the Arab uprisings	3
Islam and democracy after the Arab Spring Islam and democracy after the Arab Spring , by John L. Esposito, Tamara Sonn, and John O. Voll, Oxford, Oxford University Press	3
Television and the Afghan culture wars: brought to you by foreigners, warlords, and activists Television and the Afghan culture wars: brought to you by foreigners, warlords, and activis	3
Ahmad Qābel and Contemporary Islamic Thought, Rational Shariah in Twenty-First-Century Iran Ahmad Qābel and Contemporary Islamic Thought, Rational Shariah in Twenty-First-Century Iran	3
Civil wars and international conflicts revisited: insights from the southern theatre of the Syrian uprising, 2011–2017	3

Da and its mothers of the martyred: meaning and contest in an Iranian war memoir	2
Grounded nationalisms: a sociological analysis Grounded nationalisms: a sociological analysis , by Siniša Malešev	2
The Medieval Turks: Collected Papers	2
Ageing in faraway lands: nostalgic reminiscences and place reproduction in Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Lalami’s The Other Americans	2
Leo Africanus : a reflection of Amin Maalouf’s deterritorialized migrant self	2
In pursuit of promotion, a life lost in ottoman petitions: the case of Doctor Ahmed Arif (1900–1910)	2
Contested ground: law and legitimacy in Iran’s constitutional revolution	2
Becoming temporarily protected, producing temporarily protecting places: how Syrian refugee women and children co-create place in Istanbul	2
Diasporic Syrian women writers: stories of resilience and survival	2
An Ottoman mission to Tehran: Mehmed Tahir Münif Paşa’s second ambassadorship to Tehran and the re-making of Perso-Ottoman relations (1876-1897)	2
Parvin Etesami in the literary and religious context of twentieth-century Iran: a female poet’s challenge to patriarchy	2
The legal politics of Islamic bioethics: drunk driving and the reconfiguration of privacy in the modern Gulf	2
Blasphemy and apostasy in Islam: debates in Shi’a jurisprudence Blasphemy and apostasy in Islam: debates in Shi’a jurisprudence , by M	2
The impact of language fragmentation on Kurdish literature: a case study of diasporic Kurdish women novelists writing in English	2
Truth and other lies: online foreign image management in Iran during the Rouhani Era	2
At the crossroads: A critical discourse analysis of gender and societal norms in Rajaa Alsanea’s ‘ Girls of Riyadh’	2
Disinformation as an authoritarian strategy: the populist playbook in Egypt and Tunisia	2
Managing religion and religious changes in Iran: a socio-legal analysis	2
Islamic identity and development after the Ottomans the Arab Middle East	2
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: World Bank and Truman-Churchill proposals rejoinder to Mr Gorjestani	2
Women’s gifting of their inheritance share to male kin is void: a study of late Ottoman fatwas on social coercion	2
Social Change in Syria: Family, Village and Political Party	2
A revolution in rhyme: poetic co-option under the Islamic Republic A revolution in rhyme: poetic co-option under the Islamic Republic , by Fatemeh Shams, Oxford, Oxford	1
Introduction: propagandas, cultural production, and negotiating ideology in Iran	1
Iran’s changing naval strategy in the Persian Gulf: motives and features	1
States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey	1
The end of a myth? Turkish-American relations during the National Unity Committee Governments (1960–1961)	1
Spaces of youth politics and the Arab uprisings: environmental activism and the Algerian Hirak	1
Syria 2011–2013: Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem	1
Shadow education in the Middle East: private supplementary tutoring and its policy implications	1
Iraqi Jewish Immigrants, Palestinian refugees, and intercommunal relations in Tira Transit Camp	1
Disowning the past: an assassination, complex transnational influences, and the generational rift within the Iranian communist movement	1
Caribbean Zion: A creolization perspective on Jewish-Israeli cultures	1
Understanding revolutions: opening acts in Tunisia	1
The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries; Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary	1
Tribal Mobilisation Forces in Iraq: Subtleties of Formation and Consequential Power Dynamics	1
Women of Komala, gender and revolution in Iranian Kurdistan	1
Regime continuity and Islamists’ limited opportunities in post-2019 Algeria and Sudan	1
Street-level governing: negotiating the state in urban Turkey	1
Politics and writing in the shadow of the Cold War in I Was a Soviet Spy in Iran	1
Manipulating English news reports translated into Arabic: the influence of patronage and socio-narratives	1
China’s rise in the global south	1
Missionary involvement with the Simele massacre in 1933: the end of American sympathy for the Assyrians	1
Identity entanglements of descendants of Polish emigrants during the transformation of the multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire into a nation-state	1
Persian petroleum: oil, empire and revolution in late Qajar Iran Persian petroleum: oil, empire and revolution in late Qajar Iran	1
The Kurds in Erdogan’s Turkey: balancing identity, resistance, and citizenship The Kurds in Erdogan’s Turkey: balancing identity, resistance, and citizenship	1
A question of autonomy: the Islamic-conservative cultural sphere in Turkey	1
Television series as propaganda: the populist discourse in Aghazadeh	1
Saudi women writers sociopolitical and literary landscapes	1
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: Iran ’s rejection of the World Bank intervention and the 1953 coup	1

The myth of the Basiji: Morteza Avini’s legacy for the propaganda in Iran	1
Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar	1
The modern silk road: trade in Persian opium across Central Asia in the long nineteenth century	1
Expecting the best: Palestinian Utopianism and trans-sectarianism in the Mandate period	1
Slavery in the early Mughal world: the life and thoughts of Jawhar Aftabachi (1520s–1580s)	1
Populism at the UN: comparing Netanyahu’s and Abbas’s speeches, 2010–19	1
Deliberate polarization as a distractive political strategy in economic downturns: the case of Turkey	1
Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran	1
Foreign direct investment and authoritarian resilience: Saudi and Emirati investment in Egypt and the role of foreign policy motivations	1
Ethnographic documentary: the sky wept for forty days Ethnographic documentary: the sky wept for forty days , by Sabrina Mervin, available also in French:	1
Hidden Arab water: transfer of Palestinians and Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1948 and after	1
Israel as a ‘Democracy of Masters’: on the politics of an exclusive Jewish homeland	1
Morocco’s colonial mutation of Arab Jewishness in the 20 th century, the case of Elie Malka	1
The sea symbolism and the Palestinians’ traumatic memories of departure, displacement and death	1
A New Diaspora Press: Persian Periodicals in 1950s Israel	0
“Tunisianness” in contention: state power, religious identity, and cultural diversity in postcolonial Tunisia	0
The enigma of the number of ʿAlawis in Syria: 11% indeed?	0
Arab nationalism and the politics of “othering” in Kuwait: evidence from al-taliʿa	0
Alliance and sectarian attitudes in the MENA: the case of Arab opinion towards Iran	0
The rise & decline of the Dargazin’s Sunnis and their role in the events of Afghan’s invasion to Isfahan	0
Jihad in the City – militant Islam and contentious politics in Tripoli Jihad in the City – militant Islam and contentious politics in Tripoli , by Raphael Lefevre, Cambr	0
The use of foreign languages in Saudi television advertisements	0
The Manama riots 1947: Bahraini Jews between Palestine and Gulf labour politics	0
‘Islamization of Knowledge’: a Utopian dream or a viable project? A critique of the views of two prominent Iranian proponents of the ‘Islamization Project’	0
Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE contest over the Arab Spring and the Gulf crisis	0
The power of silence: rethinking Iranian Jews’ power relations during the Qajar dynasty	0
From resentment to hatred: the Islamist complex and Iran’s anger-charged foreign policy	0
The role of protestant missionaries during the Great Arab Revolt in Jerusalem and South Palestine (1936-1939) – towards humanity?	0
Ciné-martyrographies. Media techniques of witnessing in Iranian cinema	0
Publics forums in the Algerian and Lebanese hiraks or autonomy in the making	0
Arabic media coverage of pandemics: Discourse, strategy and impact	0
Muslim women’s diasporic identity: a critical discourse analysis of Leila Aboulela’s Minaret (2005)	0
An introduction to arabic translation: translator training and translation practice An introduction to arabic translation: translator training and translation practice ,	0
Narratives of the Sino-Middle Eastern futures: in the eye of the beholder	0
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis re-revisited: World Bank and Truman–Churchill proposals	0
Negotiating Lebanon’s urban boundaries and sectarian space: Syrian refugees in Beirut and Tripoli	0
Manifestations of exile and diaspora in the poetry of Abdullah al-Baradouni	0
The Palestinian refugees, Christian humanitarianism, and the remaking of the Melkite church in Jordan	0
Tracing the origins of Sufism in India: the representation of Hinduism and Buddhism by late Ottoman Bektashi intellectuals	0
Frequencies of deceit: how global propaganda wars shaped the Middle East	0
Ethnopolitics to geopolitics: the Turkish State and the Kurdish question since 2015	0
Political Islam and democracy in Central Asia, the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan Political Islam and democracy in Central Asia, the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan	0
‘And never the twain shall meet’? The Western other in the Saudi novel and the contrastive construction of Saudi identity	0
‘The perspectives of Iranian Feminists and Women Activists on Gender Equality in Iran’	0
The Arabic linguistic and cultural impact on African languages: focus on Swahili	0
The absence, marginalization and culturalization of the presence: representation of the Kurds in Persian post-revolution novels: 1980–2011	0
Allied rivalry over oil concession during World War II occupation of Iran: the Soviet perspective based on Soviet documents	0
The birth of a poetry of political criticism: the transformation that took place in the political verses of the Negev Bedouin at the close of the Ottoman period	0
Conflicting German Orientalism: Zionist Arabists and Arab scholars, 1926–1938	0
A dream of lies: stories of Bangladeshi maid migrants in the Middle East	0
Al-Lajjun: a social and geographic account of a Palestinian Village during the British Mandate Period	0
New order in the Gulf: the rise of the UAE	0
Mourning mothers and wars that never end: reading Nasim Marashi’s Haras (Pruning) in the shadow of the Iran-Iraq war	0
Review of Iran’s rise and rivalry with the US in the Middle East	0
The blessed handful of light: genesis and message of the Yezidi berat	0
Colouring inside the lines: how youth reproduce restrictive choices of vocational education in Saudi Arabia	0
Placing the environment in Middle East studies: beyond the single story	0
Lost in translation: unravelling the lexical intricacies of trust in Arabic	0
Measuring the evolution of Arab States’ perceptions of the Iranian threat: a quantitative text analysis of Arabic-language state media, 2010–20	0
From sit-ins to bureaucratic seats: absorbing pious women into Turkey’s Presidency of Religious Affairs	0
The role of the Israeli-Syrian mixed armistice commission in the fate of the Arabs of Krad al-Baqqara and Krad al-Ghaname 1948-1956	0
Martyrdom, mysticism and dissent: the poetry of the 1979 Iranian revolution and the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) Martyrdom, mysticism and dissent: the poetry of the 1979	0
Damsels in distress: manufacturing ‘Lolitas’ for the West in Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran	0
Exploring the metaphors of the body in the novels of Rajaa Alem: special focus on Khātam and Ḥubbā	0
Metamorphosis of Turkey’s political landscape: unveiling the evolving party system in the aftermath of the presidential system shift and the 2023 elections	0
Regional identity and the sense of political belonging in a disputed land: the Golan Trail as symbolic socio-political initiative	0
Tunisian youth: catalyst for socio-political change and emergence of identity politics in post-Arab Spring Tunisia	0
The symbol and ideological connotations in the theatre of Raja Alem: Al-Mawt al-Akhiir li-l-Mumaththil ( the actor’s last death	0
An Inclusion demoderation hypothesis: the revolutionary socialists in a democratic transition	0
Achilles tendon of local fiscal governance: city councils and participatory budgeting with chances and uneasinesses for Türkiye	0
‘ There is no compulsion in marriage’ . Divorce and gendered change in Afghanistan during the Islamic Republic	0
Religious Parties and the Politics of Civil Liberties	0
Wars of Ambition: the United States, Iran, and the Struggle for the Middle East	0
The religious soundscape of Mount Lebanon in the 18th and the first half of the 19th century	0
Capitalism in contemporary Iran. Capital accumulation, state formation and geopolitics Capitalism in contemporary Iran. Capital accumulation, state formation and geopolitics	0
Configuring the present for the future: personal narratives of the Arab spring	0
Hamid Dabashi, The Last Muslim Intellectual, the Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad	0
To fight ‘Justly’: Shia Clerics under Safavids and Qajars	0
Islamic studies in European higher education: navigating academic and confessional approaches	0
Selling god: Al-Azhar, UAE and transnational transferability of religious capital	0

From pharaoh to hero: contested constructions of Mubarak’s image in Egyptian post-uprising collective memory	0
The Labor of Hope. Meritocracy and precarity in Egypt	0
Translation and traditions: Taha Abderrahmane’s intersectional views as a threshold for cultural dialogue	0
Israel, the United States, Saudi Arabia and the Fahd Plan of 1981: an historic missed opportunity	0
Structural dividers in the Qur’an Structural dividers in the Qur’an , by Marianna Klar, Abingdon, Routledge, 2020, 418 pp., $ 160.00 (	0
The Near East Relief and the American Board Commissions for foreign missions. Humanitarian partnership and divorce in the Near East (1918–1929)	0
Muslim women’s identity in Orhan Pamuk’s Snow	0
Nationalizing the fig commerce: Aram Hamparzum’s warehouse from the Empire to the Republic	0
Türkiye-China relations revisited: a neo-Gramscian perspective	0
How Islam rules in Iran; theology and theocracy in the Islamic Republic	0
“Nasir’s Vietnam”: analysing Egyptian intelligence literature on the Yemen intervention	0
David Yellin, Muhammad Kurd ‘Ali and the Great Library of Damascus during the First World War	0
A Shiʿi Lebanese reading of Sunni Hadith: progress, inclusivity, and an empowered contestation of narratives	0
The (Un)translatability of Qur’anic idiomatic phrasal verbs: a contrastive linguistic study The (Un)translatability of Qur’anic idiomatic phrasal verbs: a	0
Selimiye as a commemorative monument in modern Turkey	0
Refugee resilience and adaptation in the Middle East (reclaiming agency in the informal economies of Lebanon and Jordan)	0
Channelling (in)security: governing movement and ordinary life in ‘imagined geographies’	0
The Kizilbash/Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics and Community	0
Agents of social change: cultural connections between Emirati women and camels	0
Islam, science fiction and extraterrestrial life: the culture of astrobiology in the muslim world	0
Investigating Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation	0
China’s economic and political presence in the Middle East and South Asia	0
Creating the Qur’an: a historical-critical study	0
Political opposition and voter mobilization in an authoritarian state: The case of parliamentary elections in Iran	0
The resistance axis and regional order in the Middle East: nomos, space, and normative alternatives	0
1890 cholera epidemic, al-Tur lazaretto, and the Hijaz railroad: early popular support	0
How sanctions work: Iran and the impact of economic warfare How sanctions work: Iran and the impact of economic warfare , by Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Is	0
China and the transfer of military technology to the Middle East: dimensions, developments, and challenges	0
Triumph and despair: in search of Iran’s Islamic Republic	0
What does it mean to oppose sectarianism? An ordinary language study among Lebanese across social backgrounds	0
Syria 2011–2013: revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem	0
Correction	0
The compromise of Islamism and democracy in the light of the Tunisian revolution and views of Rachid al-Gannouchi	0
Islamic and sectarian or secular and nationalist? New classification of Iraqi Shi’a political actors based on ideological anchorage	0
Self-branding and representation in Arab influencers’ bios on Instagram: a corpus linguistic study	0
India’s policy towards west Asia: the modi era	0
The PLO’s political communication arena; Arafat and the struggle for media legitimacy	0
The ‘myth of moderation’ following the Arab Uprisings: polarization in Tunisia and Egypt’s founding elections	0
Correction	0
Social classes and political Islam: a comparative ecological approach of post-Arab Spring elections in Northern Africa (2011- 2014)	0
Middle eastern television drama: politics, aesthetics, practices	0
The influence of the social contract on the stability of Moroccan society after its Independence	0
Witness Reporting as Resistance and Recovery–The Swedish Missionary Alma Johansson and the 1915 Armenian Genocide	0
A new capital pipeline to the Gulf? Geopolitical conflicts, capital flight, and the Russian exodus to the United Arab Emirates	0
Understanding the Jihadi Salafi threat in Jordan in 2011-2017	0
Contested territory: the spatial dynamics of social media use by LGBTQIA+ influencers and activists in Lebanon	0
Amina Al-Saʿid: a liberal femocrat under state feminism	0
Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities: Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics	0
Repression equals return of the repressed: a discourse analysis of Bakhtiyar Ali’s conquering Darkness	0
“Stalin’s final hope to secure a Soviet foothold in Iran’s government and oil industry, 1943–1953”	0
The practice of informal marriages in the Muslim world: a comparative portrait	0
The rise and fall of the life of Mostafā Qoli Khān, Farrāshbāshi of Zell-e Soltān (1294-1309 AH/1877-1891 AD)	0
Emotions and narratives of the spirit of Gallipoli: Turkey’s collective identity and status in international relations	0
Sufi Civilities: religious authority and political change in Afghanistan	0
Political economy of budgeting under autocratization	0
Forgetting Amir Boktor: the quintessential humanist Arab educator	0
Hagop Mnts‘uri’s The Second Marriage: Armenian realities in the pre- and post-genocide Ottoman Empire and Turkey	0
International Security in a World of Fragile States: Islamic States and Islamist Organisations	0
Constitutional choice in emerging democracies: adoption of the 2004 Afghan Constitution	0
Mission impossible: the Italian bombing of Bahrain and the British response	0
Turkish politics and ‘the people’: mass mobilisation and populism Turkish politics and ‘the people’: mass mobilisation and populism , by Spyros A. Sofos, Edinburgh, Edin	0
Narratives of forced mobility and displacement in contemporary literature and culture	0
The independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan: the position of Egypt and the coverage in Egyptian online media	0
R. Moses Edrehi: a Moroccan Jew’s gaze upon his native land from 1830s London	0
Arabic media and the Ukrainian conflict: discourse and ideology	0
Everyday life and tactical resistance of the political prisoners: the case of F-type prisons in Turkey	0
Faces of Muhammad: Western perceptions of the prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to today Faces of Muhammad: Western perceptions of the prophet of Islam from the Mi	0
Styles of ‘religion’, ‘non-religion’ and ‘spirituality’ in post-revolutionary Iran: the ‘ironic’ impact of ‘Islam’ on people’s ‘religiosity’	0
The Roc’s egg as vanishing mediator in Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from text to film	0
Policy success or policy failure? Narrative analysis of the Islamic parliament of Iran’s debates on the FATF recommendations bill	0
Whispers across continents: in search of the Robinsons Whispers across continents: in search of the Robinsons , by Gareth Winro	0
Musa al-Sadr and the missing fatwa concerning the ʿAlawi religion	0
The struggle for supremacy in the middle east: Saudi Arabia and Iran The struggle for supremacy in the middle east: Saudi Arabia and Iran , by Simon Mabon, New York, NY,	0
Jordanian stamps of Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem: 1967-1989	0
Joseph Campbell, Shiʿism, and the Karbala Narrative	0
Negotiating gender during times of crisis in the Islamic Republic of Iran: visual propaganda from the Iran–Iraq War to COVID-19	0
Impact of the Ukrainian crisis on Middle Eastern food security and countermeasure	0
Challenges in the conceptualization and implementation of normalization: insights from Egyptian–Israeli Relations	0
When the Israeli Right turned Left: Gahal during the recession (1966–1967)	0
Polarization & populist backlash in transitioning Tunisia: the role of internet media & media ownership	0
Kindred Voices: a literary history of Medieval Anatolia	0
Sephardic longshoremen at the Haifa Port (1933-1936): dynamics of skill-selective labor immigration from Thessaloniki to mandatory Palestine	0
The Arabian Mission and the healthcare services in Bahrain 1901–1920	0
State capacity and termination of terror campaigns: a qualitative evidence from PKK	0
Freedom for Morocco: a family tale	0
Power, politics & resistance: secularism and women’s marital rights in Egypt and Iran	0
Iran and a French empire of trade, 1700-1808: the other Persian letters	0
The desert, poetry and Ibn ʿArabī	0
Authoritarian adaptability: the selective enforcement of the unified sermon in Jordanian mosques	0
‘Unfinished business’: the unrealized development path of Israeli occupation, the Palestinian refugee issue, and 1948 nation-building	0
Statelet of survivors: the making of a semi-autonomous region in Northeast Syria	0
Is the Arab Spring over? Unpacking perceptions of democracy, elections and regime-types in MENA countries	0
When democracy died: the Middle East’s enduring peace of Lausanne	0
Egypt ’s new authoritarianism from an institutionalist perspective: formal-informal interactions before and after the Egyptian revolution	0
Shi‘a, Tribalism and the Iraqi state: the ethno-religious dimension	0