British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

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Inaudible screams: intersectional experiences of oppression and violence in the Kurdish Novel	27
Appropriating Hafez’s ghazals for Shiite rites and rituals in the Islamic Republic of Iran	14
An increasingly corrosive expedient? Israel’s evolving relationship with back-channel diplomacy	13
Regime trajectories of Tunisia and Turkey: a comparative analysis	10
Intimate conversations ( Munājayāt ) and supplications ( Adʿiya ) in early Islamic literature: Yaḥyā ibn Muʿādh al-Rāzī (d. 258/872) and A	10
Breaking the chains: women’s writing against patriarchy in Saudi narratives	8
Populists’ struggle for epistemic hegemony and anti-gender attacks on higher education in authoritarian contexts: the case of Turkey	6
Embedded diaspora diplomacy and inward-facing mobilization: mapping the Yemeni diaspora in Türkiye	6
Examining the AKP’s military intervention and civil reconstruction policy in northwestern Syria from 2015 until 2024 through the lens of the Narrative Policy Framework	6
We are not them! Self-presentation of North African Muslim soldiers in the German captivity in 1914–1918	5
Buying modernization. Western NGOs and gender politics in Pahlavi Iran	5
Loved Egyptian night: the meaning of the Arab spring	5
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	4
The failure of democracy in Afghanistan	4
Between revolution and tradition: Hassan Nasrallah’s rhetorical evolution and transnational alliances, 1982–2024	4
The power of the gift and the spirit of the tribe: how to win elections in Jordan	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
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
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
Between tradition and progress: portraying nurses on Muslim countries postage stamps	3
In search for a spiritual authority. Shi’i clergy in Iranian post-revolutionary cinema	3
Gaps and underlying casualties in labour market policy reforms, and targeted local and international assistance programmes in Arab Mediterranean countries	3

Struggle for alliance: Russia and Iran in the era of war in Ukraine	2
Becoming temporarily protected, producing temporarily protecting places: how Syrian refugee women and children co-create place in Istanbul	2
The dynamics of humanitarianism, religion and politics in the Middle East, 1860s-1960s: introductory remarks	2
The impact of language fragmentation on Kurdish literature: a case study of diasporic Kurdish women novelists writing in English	2
Contested ground: law and legitimacy in Iran’s constitutional revolution	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
Islamic identity and development after the Ottomans the Arab Middle East	2
Truth and other lies: online foreign image management in Iran during the Rouhani Era	2
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	2
Social Change in Syria: Family, Village and Political Party	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
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
The Medieval Turks: Collected Papers	2
At the crossroads: A critical discourse analysis of gender and societal norms in Rajaa Alsanea’s ‘ Girls of Riyadh’	2
Grounded nationalisms: a sociological analysis Grounded nationalisms: a sociological analysis , by Siniša Malešev	2
Da and its mothers of the martyred: meaning and contest in an Iranian war memoir	2
Women’s gifting of their inheritance share to male kin is void: a study of late Ottoman fatwas on social coercion	2
Diasporic Syrian women writers: stories of resilience and survival	2
Parvin Etesami in the literary and religious context of twentieth-century Iran: a female poet’s challenge to patriarchy	2
The modern silk road: trade in Persian opium across Central Asia in the long nineteenth century	1
States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey	1
Caribbean Zion: A creolization perspective on Jewish-Israeli cultures	1
Street-level governing: negotiating the state in urban Turkey	1
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
The sea symbolism and the Palestinians’ traumatic memories of departure, displacement and death	1
Blasphemy and apostasy in Islam: debates in Shi’a jurisprudence Blasphemy and apostasy in Islam: debates in Shi’a jurisprudence , by M	1
The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries; Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary	1
Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran	1
Missionary involvement with the Simele massacre in 1933: the end of American sympathy for the Assyrians	1
Foreign direct investment and authoritarian resilience: Saudi and Emirati investment in Egypt and the role of foreign policy motivations	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
Saudi women writers sociopolitical and literary landscapes	1
Identity entanglements of descendants of Polish emigrants during the transformation of the multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire into a nation-state	1
Westophobia and the clash of civilizations rhetoric: a critical discourse analysis of misrepresented Western quotations in Arabic Islamic scholarship	1
Television series as propaganda: the populist discourse in Aghazadeh	1
Syria 2011–2013: Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem	1
Visualizing ideology: a visual grammar analysis of sociocultural and gender representations in the Saudi film Mandoob (Night Courier)	1
Regime continuity and Islamists’ limited opportunities in post-2019 Algeria and Sudan	1
Leo Africanus : a reflection of Amin Maalouf’s deterritorialized migrant self	1
The Kurds in Erdogan’s Turkey: balancing identity, resistance, and citizenship The Kurds in Erdogan’s Turkey: balancing identity, resistance, and citizenship	1
Iraqi Jewish Immigrants, Palestinian refugees, and intercommunal relations in Tira Transit Camp	1
Deliberate polarization as a distractive political strategy in economic downturns: the case of Turkey	1
Disowning the past: an assassination, complex transnational influences, and the generational rift within the Iranian communist movement	1
In pursuit of promotion, a life lost in ottoman petitions: the case of Doctor Ahmed Arif (1900–1910)	1
Morocco’s colonial mutation of Arab Jewishness in the 20 th century, the case of Elie Malka	1
The legal politics of Islamic bioethics: drunk driving and the reconfiguration of privacy in the modern Gulf	1
Expecting the best: Palestinian Utopianism and trans-sectarianism in the Mandate period	1
Introduction: propagandas, cultural production, and negotiating ideology in Iran	1

Iran’s changing naval strategy in the Persian Gulf: motives and features	1
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: World Bank and Truman-Churchill proposals rejoinder to Mr Gorjestani	1
Understanding revolutions: opening acts in Tunisia	1
Women of Komala, gender and revolution in Iranian Kurdistan	1
The myth of the Basiji: Morteza Avini’s legacy for the propaganda in Iran	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
Why anti-LGBTQIA+ law is supported in Iraq? An evidence from conjoint analysis	1
Spaces of youth politics and the Arab uprisings: environmental activism and the Algerian Hirak	1
Tribal Mobilisation Forces in Iraq: Subtleties of Formation and Consequential Power Dynamics	1
A question of autonomy: the Islamic-conservative cultural sphere in Turkey	1
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: Iran ’s rejection of the World Bank intervention and the 1953 coup	1
Politics and writing in the shadow of the Cold War in I Was a Soviet Spy in Iran	1
Political opposition and voter mobilization in an authoritarian state: The case of parliamentary elections in Iran	0
Selimiye as a commemorative monument in modern Turkey	0
Virtual visions of the Middle Kingdom: Arab YouTube trends and transformations regarding China	0
Allied rivalry over oil concession during World War II occupation of Iran: the Soviet perspective based on Soviet documents	0
Propagating the Young Turk Revolution to Izmir Armenians: Doctor Nazım and Enver Bey in Izmir	0
Styles of ‘religion’, ‘non-religion’ and ‘spirituality’ in post-revolutionary Iran: the ‘ironic’ impact of ‘Islam’ on people’s ‘religiosity’	0
Self-branding and representation in Arab influencers’ bios on Instagram: a corpus linguistic study	0
Investigating Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation	0
Frequencies of deceit: how global propaganda wars shaped the Middle East	0
The Crusade of 1456 Texts and Documentation in Translation	0
Colouring inside the lines: how youth reproduce restrictive choices of vocational education in Saudi Arabia	0
Narratives of forced mobility and displacement in contemporary literature and culture	0
Urbicide in Syria: a postcolonial understanding of Civil War	0
Joseph Campbell, Shiʿism, and the Karbala Narrative	0
Political economy of budgeting under autocratization	0
1890 cholera epidemic, al-Tur lazaretto, and the Hijaz railroad: early popular support	0
Populism at the UN: comparing Netanyahu’s and Abbas’s speeches, 2010–19	0
Agents of social change: cultural connections between Emirati women and camels	0
Türkiye-China relations revisited: a neo-Gramscian perspective	0
Kindred Voices: a literary history of Medieval Anatolia	0
China’s rise in the global south	0
Islamic theology and extraterrestrial life; new frontiers in science and religion	0
The compromise of Islamism and democracy in the light of the Tunisian revolution and views of Rachid al-Gannouchi	0
‘ There is no compulsion in marriage’ . Divorce and gendered change in Afghanistan during the Islamic Republic	0
“The old rains are gone, so are we”: Kurdish Nomads of Mount Ağrı (Ararat)	0
Selling god: Al-Azhar, UAE and transnational transferability of religious capital	0
Islamic and sectarian or secular and nationalist? New classification of Iraqi Shi’a political actors based on ideological anchorage	0
Authoritarian adaptability: the selective enforcement of the unified sermon in Jordanian mosques	0
(Un)rooted elsewhere: Palestinians and the making of a diaspora in the Arab Gulf	0
Negotiating gender during times of crisis in the Islamic Republic of Iran: visual propaganda from the Iran–Iraq War to COVID-19	0
India’s policy towards west Asia: the modi era	0
Measuring the evolution of Arab States’ perceptions of the Iranian threat: a quantitative text analysis of Arabic-language state media, 2010–20	0
International Security in a World of Fragile States: Islamic States and Islamist Organisations	0
Negotiating modernity: Islamic legal reform and national identity in Morocco a theoretical inquiry with reflections on digital transformation	0
Statelet of survivors: the making of a semi-autonomous region in Northeast Syria	0
The PLO’s political communication arena; Arafat and the struggle for media legitimacy	0
The influence of the social contract on the stability of Moroccan society after its Independence	0
Nationalizing the fig commerce: Aram Hamparzum’s warehouse from the Empire to the Republic	0
Azeri Turkish narratives in twentieth-century Iran: resisting monolingualism	0
Alliance and sectarian attitudes in the MENA: the case of Arab opinion towards Iran	0
The practice of informal marriages in the Muslim world: a comparative portrait	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 (Un)translatability of Qur’anic idiomatic phrasal verbs: a contrastive linguistic study The (Un)translatability of Qur’anic idiomatic phrasal verbs: a	0
The religious soundscape of Mount Lebanon in the 18th and the first half of the 19th century	0
“Stalin’s final hope to secure a Soviet foothold in Iran’s government and oil industry, 1943–1953”	0
The rise & decline of the Dargazin’s Sunnis and their role in the events of Afghan’s invasion to Isfahan	0
Muslim women’s diasporic identity: a critical discourse analysis of Leila Aboulela’s Minaret (2005)	0
Crisis between Britain and the United States over the Sinai multinational force	0
Sufi Civilities: religious authority and political change in Afghanistan	0
Ciné-martyrographies. Media techniques of witnessing in Iranian cinema	0
Rethinking the contemporary art of Iran	0
“Nasir’s Vietnam”: analysing Egyptian intelligence literature on the Yemen intervention	0
Islam, science fiction and extraterrestrial life: the culture of astrobiology in the muslim world	0
Shi‘a, Tribalism and the Iraqi state: the ethno-religious dimension	0
Lost in translation: unravelling the lexical intricacies of trust in Arabic	0
Channelling (in)security: governing movement and ordinary life in ‘imagined geographies’	0
Challenges in the conceptualization and implementation of normalization: insights from Egyptian–Israeli Relations	0
Authority without territory: the institutionalization of religious transnationalism in the Shia clerical establishment	0
‘Unfinished business’: the unrealized development path of Israeli occupation, the Palestinian refugee issue, and 1948 nation-building	0
War and peace within the Israeli Right (1970 - 1978): the path of a Hawkish party towards pragmatism	0
How Islam rules in Iran; theology and theocracy in the Islamic Republic	0
Revisiting Erdoğan’s century of Turkey: unmasking populism’s political strategies through the Lens of the Canal Istanbul	0
Syria 2011–2013: revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem	0
The Labor of Hope. Meritocracy and precarity in Egypt	0
The Near East Relief and the American Board Commissions for foreign missions. Humanitarian partnership and divorce in the Near East (1918–1929)	0
Policy success or policy failure? Narrative analysis of the Islamic parliament of Iran’s debates on the FATF recommendations bill	0
Refugee resilience and adaptation in the Middle East (reclaiming agency in the informal economies of Lebanon and Jordan)	0
Impact of the Ukrainian crisis on Middle Eastern food security and countermeasure	0

Slavery in the early Mughal world: the life and thoughts of Jawhar Aftabachi (1520s–1580s)	0
Muslim women’s identity in Orhan Pamuk’s Snow	0
The resistance axis and regional order in the Middle East: nomos, space, and normative alternatives	0
Creating the Qur’an: a historical-critical study	0
The end of a myth? Turkish-American relations during the National Unity Committee Governments (1960–1961)	0
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: World Bank and Truman–Churchill proposals; Rejoinder to Mr. Katouzian’s rejoinder	0
Polarization & populist backlash in transitioning Tunisia: the role of internet media & media ownership	0
Everyday life and tactical resistance of the political prisoners: the case of F-type prisons in Turkey	0
The Kizilbash/Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics and Community	0
Islamic reform with or without Ulama? A comparative study between al-Kawakibi and Naini	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
Unmaking mother, wife, and chaste woman: subverted femininities in Theodosia Sophroniades’ narratives	0
The development of the education system in Qatar: assessing the intended and unintended impacts of privatization policy shifts	0
Iran and a French empire of trade, 1700-1808: the other Persian letters	0
Exploring the metaphors of the body in the novels of Rajaa Alem: special focus on Khātam and Ḥubbā	0
The rise and decline of Iran’s Forward Defense Strategy	0
Social classes and political Islam: a comparative ecological approach of post-Arab Spring elections in Northern Africa (2011- 2014)	0
Correction	0
From pharaoh to hero: contested constructions of Mubarak’s image in Egyptian post-uprising collective memory	0
“Tunisianness” in contention: state power, religious identity, and cultural diversity in postcolonial Tunisia	0
When the Israeli Right turned Left: Gahal during the recession (1966–1967)	0
Achilles tendon of local fiscal governance: city councils and participatory budgeting with chances and uneasinesses for Türkiye	0
Regional identity and the sense of political belonging in a disputed land: the Golan Trail as symbolic socio-political initiative	0
Middle eastern television drama: politics, aesthetics, practices	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
The independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan: the position of Egypt and the coverage in Egyptian online media	0
A new capital pipeline to the Gulf? Geopolitical conflicts, capital flight, and the Russian exodus to the United Arab Emirates	0
Capitalism in contemporary Iran. Capital accumulation, state formation and geopolitics Capitalism in contemporary Iran. Capital accumulation, state formation and geopolitics	0
Contested territory: the spatial dynamics of social media use by LGBTQIA+ influencers and activists in Lebanon	0
Hamid Dabashi, The Last Muslim Intellectual, the Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad	0
‘The perspectives of Iranian Feminists and Women Activists on Gender Equality in Iran’	0
Repression equals return of the repressed: a discourse analysis of Bakhtiyar Ali’s conquering Darkness	0
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis re-revisited: World Bank and Truman–Churchill proposals	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
Amina Al-Saʿid: a liberal femocrat under state feminism	0
Jordanian stamps of Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem: 1967-1989	0
The role of protestant missionaries during the Great Arab Revolt in Jerusalem and South Palestine (1936-1939) – towards humanity?	0
Structural dividers in the Qur’an Structural dividers in the Qur’an , by Marianna Klar, Abingdon, Routledge, 2020, 418 pp., $ 160.00 (	0
Tunisian youth: catalyst for socio-political change and emergence of identity politics in post-Arab Spring Tunisia	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
Narratives of the Sino-Middle Eastern futures: in the eye of the beholder	0
The absence, marginalization and culturalization of the presence: representation of the Kurds in Persian post-revolution novels: 1980–2011	0
Musa al-Sadr and the missing fatwa concerning the ʿAlawi religion	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
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
Translation and traditions: Taha Abderrahmane’s intersectional views as a threshold for cultural dialogue	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
Classless Politics. Islamist movements, the left, and authoritarian legacies in Egypt	0
Sephardic longshoremen at the Haifa Port (1933-1936): dynamics of skill-selective labor immigration from Thessaloniki to mandatory Palestine	0
Manifestations of exile and diaspora in the poetry of Abdullah al-Baradouni	0
The political economy of implementing IMF reforms: evidence from Egypt and Tunisia	0
The Arabic linguistic and cultural impact on African languages: focus on Swahili	0
China’s economic and political presence in the Middle East and South Asia	0
Al-Lajjun: a social and geographic account of a Palestinian Village during the British Mandate Period	0
Manipulating English news reports translated into Arabic: the influence of patronage and socio-narratives	0
A Shiʿi Lebanese reading of Sunni Hadith: progress, inclusivity, and an empowered contestation of narratives	0
Jordan: politics in an accidental crucible	0
The Arabian Mission and the healthcare services in Bahrain 1901–1920	0
Shadow education in the Middle East: private supplementary tutoring and its policy implications	0
Gli arabi e la Sardegna. Un’introduzione	0
Review of Iran’s rise and rivalry with the US in the Middle East	0
What does it mean to oppose sectarianism? An ordinary language study among Lebanese across social backgrounds	0
Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities: Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics	0
Mourning mothers and wars that never end: reading Nasim Marashi’s Haras (Pruning) in the shadow of the Iran-Iraq war	0
Tracing the origins of Sufism in India: the representation of Hinduism and Buddhism by late Ottoman Bektashi intellectuals	0
The desert, poetry and Ibn ʿArabī	0
To fight ‘Justly’: Shia Clerics under Safavids and Qajars	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
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
Triumph and despair: in search of Iran’s Islamic Republic	0
Placing the environment in Middle East studies: beyond the single story	0
Damsels in distress: manufacturing ‘Lolitas’ for the West in Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran	0
Religious Parties and the Politics of Civil Liberties	0
An introduction to arabic translation: translator training and translation practice An introduction to arabic translation: translator training and translation practice ,	0
Alienation, gender, and transnational lives: an ethnographic study of undocumented Afghan women in Istanbul	0
Understanding the Jihadi Salafi threat in Jordan in 2011-2017	0
A New Diaspora Press: Persian Periodicals in 1950s Israel	0
When democracy died: the Middle East’s enduring peace of Lausanne	0
The Palestinian refugees, Christian humanitarianism, and the remaking of the Melkite church in Jordan	0
Arab nationalism and the politics of “othering” in Kuwait: evidence from al-taliʿa	0
Russian geonarratives and Arab media: multipolarity, Eurasianism and constructed ‘non-Wests’	0
Freedom for Morocco: a family tale	0
The rise and fall of the life of Mostafā Qoli Khān, Farrāshbāshi of Zell-e Soltān (1294-1309 AH/1877-1891 AD)	0
From heaven to earth: the rise of ulema as landowners during the Qajar Persia	0
Islamic studies in European higher education: navigating academic and confessional approaches	0
A dream of lies: stories of Bangladeshi maid migrants in the Middle East	0
Forgetting Amir Boktor: the quintessential humanist Arab educator	0
The Roc’s egg as vanishing mediator in Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from text to film	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
The blessed handful of light: genesis and message of the Yezidi berat	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
Hagop Mnts‘uri’s The Second Marriage: Armenian realities in the pre- and post-genocide Ottoman Empire and Turkey	0