Middle East Critique

Article	Citations
The Political Economy of the 12-Day War in the Age of Dying Imperialism	40
Missing Gender: Conceptual Limitations in the Debate on “Sectarianism” in the Middle East	37
Resistance Economies: An Analysis of Resilience against US Sanctions on Iran and Cuba	22
Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Maghreb: A Materialist Critique	20
Exceptionalism and Its Discontents: Israel, Iran, and the Crisis of Global Norms	20
Media, Imperialism, and Ideology: US Partisan Media’s Discursive Approach to Latin America and the Middle East	20
Palestine and the Ends of Theory	17
The Emergence of a Queer Pre -Movement in Sudan	17
The Palestine Exception: Academic Freedom and the Logic of Occupation in US Higher Education	16
Urbanized Rural Women: A Study in Rural Areas of Gilan, Isfahan, and Semnan Provinces	14
Mediating Poverty on Arab Television	14
‘Axis of Evil’ and the Academic Repression of Palestine Solidarity	13
Deciphering China’s Policy in the Arab Region from the Lens of Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy	11
The Israel–Palestine Conflict, Neoliberalism and the Global Hegemony of Imperialism—An Interview with Professor Yin Zhiguang, Fudan University	11
Framing Gaza: Narratives of Erasure	10
Palestine is the Vanguard for Our Liberation: Insights from the Students’ Intifada at Columbia University	10
Follow the Grid, Follow the Violence: The Project for a Transregional Mediterranean Electricity Ring	9
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Turkey’s Diaspora Governance Policies from the Past to the Present	9
Middle East and Global Strategic Dynamics	8
Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Power Struggle over ‘Muslimness’: Reification, Securitization, and Identification	8
Cuba and Saudi Arabia: Trade, Investment, and Cooperation between Non-Aligned Economies in the Twenty-First Century	8
Transregionalizing the Middle East	8
Indigenous Internationalism Against Imprisoned Indigeneity in Australia and Palestine	8
Soqotra’s Formation as a Research Colony: Epistemic Annexation of an Indigenous Commons	8
Self-Identification of Indigeneity within Turkey’s Kurdish Political Movement	8

Iranian Community, Horizontal Comradeship, and the 12-Day War	8
A New ‘Emergent’ Powerhouse in the Global Automotive? Uneven Development, Exploitation, and Dependency in Morocco’s Car Industry	8
Eco-Tech Odyssey: The Political Craftsmanship of a Green Technostate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)	8
Antisemitism and Zionism: The Internal Operations of the IHRA Definition	7
Navigating Digital Sovereignty and Hegemony: Arab Countries’ Digital Economy and China’s Role	7
The Contribution of Āstān-e Quds-e Razavī to Iran’s Soft Power Projection	7
Networks of Transregional Power: Migration, Intermediaries, and Governance in the Syrian–Lebanese Context	7
Think Tanks as Stenographers of the State: Crafting the War on Yemen Through an Imperial Discourse	6
Beyond Orientalism: The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Strategic Preferences Regarding Nuclear Weapons	6
Gulf Women and Anti-European Imperialism: Forgotten Gender Discourses in Interwar Iran’s Shi’i Reformation Movement	6
Locating Iranian Diasporas in Fifty Years of Academic Discourse: Critical Review of Acculturation Theory	6
The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America	6
Diaspora Engagement Policies as Transnational Social Engineering: Rise and Failure of Turkey’s Diaspora Policies	6
Iran’s 12-Day War of Resistance: National Liberation as Self-Reliance	6
Narratives Without Substance: A Critical Review of Narratives of Sino-Middle Eastern Futures	5
Khomeini Meets Bolivar: Iran’s Expanding Relations with Venezuela and Bolivia Through Their Presidents, Postures, and Pressures	5
The Decline of Political Parties in Transitional Societies: Arab Palestinian Local Government in Israel	5
A Rhetorical Analysis of the Iranian Critical Theorists: Yousof Abazari and the ‘Phenomenology of a Death’	5
Is Latin America Pro-Palestine? Israel’s Arms Diplomacy, Solidarity, and the Genocide in Gaza	5
The Stain That Stays: The Uneasy Rehabilitation of Mubarak’s Men in Postrevolutionary Egypt	5
From ‘Practical Application of Knowledge’ to ‘Academic Self-Awareness’: A Historical Examination of Knowledge Production in Chinese Middle East Studies	5
Debt Economy and Class Transformation in Tunisia: A Critical Comparative Analysis (1860s–1970s)	5
Democracy and the State in Contemporary Moroccan Political Thought	4
Home-State Politics Vis-à-Vis Turkish Emigrants: Instrumentalizing Emigrants	4
Examining ‘Victory’: Outcomes and Implications of the Hezbollah-Israeli Conflict (2023-2024)	4
Resetting Deterrence: The Evolution of Iran’s Defense Doctrine Following the 12-Day War	4
The Flower That Broke Through the Rubble: The Legacy of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah	4
The Sound of Silence: Neoliberal Capitalism and Subversion of Class and Religious Minority Issues in the Indo-Gulf Relations	4
Lordship and Liberation in Palestine-Israel: The Promise of Decolonial Sovereignties	4
Introduction: Surviving Egypt’s Foreclosed Revolution	4
The 12-Day War and the Collapse of US Imperialism	4
What the Movement of Contraband Western Brand-Name Sneakers in Iran Can Tell Us About Transregional Territorialization	4
The Hegemony of Resistance: Hezbollah and the Forging of a National-Popular Will in Lebanon	4
National Integration and Identity: The Impact of the 12-Day War on the Iranian People	4
Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic	4
Practicing wujud : A Constellation of sumud in the Fragmented Palestinian Present	3
Universalizing Capital, Foreclosing Necro-Imperialism: Žižek’s Liberal-Zionist Response to the Gaza Genocide	3
Dark Humor and ‘Humor Talk’ in Algeria’s Hirak	3
Re-Narrating the Past, Producing the Present and Unlocking the Future: Haris al-Quds, a TV-Dramatization of ‘Post-war’ Syria	3
Reimagining Intercultural Communication Through Chinese Cosmopolitanism	3
‘Stretching’ Social Reproduction: (Re)Conceptualizing Informal and Gendered Labor in Egypt under Global Capitalism	3
North and East Syria (Rojava): Liberatory Project or US Proxy?	3
Poverty and Deprivation Problems in Post-Revolutionary Iran	3
All Roads Lead to Beijing? Global Value Chains and China’s ‘Global South Diplomacy’ towards the Arab Countries	3
Kemalism vs Erdoğanism: Continuities and Discontinuities in Turkey’s Hegemonic State Ideology	3
Complex Integrated Necropolitics: Hopelessness and Defuturing in Neoliberalized Lebanon	3
Foreign Policy and the Performance of Collective State Recognition Amidst Genocide	3
Gunning for Damascus: The US War on the Syrian Arab Republic	3
The Imperialist Question: A Sociological Approach	3
‘Look East’ Without Deliverance from Crisis: Iran’s Policy Reorientation and the Predicament of Developing Countries	3

The Lasting Impact of Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ on the Question of Palestine	2
The Visual Narratives of the 1979 Iranian Revolution	2
Iran’s Foreign Policy from Non-Alignment to ‘Look to the East’: Between Ideology and Pragmatism	2
China’s Changing Role in the Middle East: Filling a Power Vacuum?	2
Editorial Note: New Directions for Middle East Critique	2
The Many Forms of Iran’s Foreign Policy Seen Through Its Social Logics	2
Where is Palestine in the Anzacs’ Palestine Campaign? Israel and the Struggle for Indigeneity in Commemorative State Practice	2
Correction	2
The Violence of Extractive Urbanization: Dying to Live in Lebanon	2
The Impresario State: Rituals of Diaspora Governance and Constructing Regime-Friendly Publics beyond Turkey’s Borders	2
The Impossible Factory: Dependency and Elimination in Israel’s Settler-Colonial Economy (1956–1960)	2
Home and Host Country Policy Interaction in the Making of Turkey’s Diasporas	2
The Fellaha/Laji’a Double Consciousness of Nakba Generation Palestinian Women	2
Espionage as a Settler-Colonial Practice: The Case of the Palestine–Syrian Front During World War I	2
Iraq, Regime Change, and the Reconstruction of the Security Field: the Rebirth of Impunity in a Disaggregated State	2
The Decolonization of Minds	2
The US-China Strategic Competition in the GCC Countries: A Case of ‘New Infrastructure Statecraft’	2
Remix and the Afterlife of Digital Archives: Reconstructing History and Identity in Palestine Remix	2
Spaces of Colonial Oppressions: Palestinians’ Bodily Experiences of Checkpoints	2
Leaders and the Breakdown of Democracy in Turkey, 1973-1980	2
Social Construction of Population Policies and Problems in Iran Since 1963	2
Iraq’s Rhizomatic State and the Politics of Impunity	2
Neoliberal Urbanism and Authoritarian Rule Consolidation: The Post-2013 Socio-Geographical Reconfiguration of Public Spaces in Cairo Through Real Estate Projects	2
The Student Basij and the Holy Defense: Self-Formation and Revolutionary Counterpublics	2
Interculturality, Pluriversality, and the Disciplined Art of Remaining in Relation: A Reply to Magaña-Huerta, Sousa and Li, and Bhatt	2
Tell China’s Story Well : China and the Middle East	2
The Many Faces of Jamila—Women and Lineages of Revolt in Bahrain	2
Iran’s Demographic Transition and Its Potential for Development	2
China and the Third World: Arab Region in Perspective	2
Defying Social Inequality in the Gulf: Skilled Survivors’ Coping Routes, Racialized Capitalism, and Temporary Filipino Migrants in the UAE	2
Re-Thinking Islam and Islamism: Hamas Women between Religion, Secularism and Neo-Liberalism	2
Erasing the Past: Domicide and Settler Colonialism in Susiya and Sheikh Jarrah	1
The Free Speech Exception to Palestine	1
Soft Power Narratives of Fifty Years of Kuwaiti-Senegalese Relations	1
Correction	1
The Class Politics of the Rentier State: Rentierism as a Strategy in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq	1
Transregional Agency and Politics in Defining the ‘Middle East’: Unpacking Critique and Cartography Through Syrian–Turkish Borderlands	1
The Neoliberal Cage: Alternative Analysis of the Rise of Populist Tunisia	1
Special Section: “Circuits of Production, Crisis and Revolt: The Environment and Capital in the Middle East and North Africa”	1
Editor’s Note	1
Erasing Palestine in Germany’s Educational System: The Racial Frontiers of Liberal Freedom	1
Arabia’s Anti-Colonial Hub: Kuwait and the Bahraini Nationalist Movement (1957–1966)	1
Euro-American Middle East Studies: An Intellectual Apparatus of Empire	1
The Agency of People Seeking Asylum in Aberdeen: The Micro-Level Impact of Anti-Immigration Policies	1
South–South Intercultural Philosophical Dialogues in the Context of the Anthropocene: Chinese Cosmopolitanism Read from Nuestramerica and the Production of a Possible Transmodernity	1
A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms	1
Neom/Nature: Regreening and Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Saudi Arabia	1
Youth Protests or Protest Generations? Conceptualizing Differences between Iran’s Contentious Ruptures in the Context of the December 2017 to November 2019 Protests	1
Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	1
Research Based on Domestic and Foreign Reality: Applying the ‘Problem–Practice–Theory’ Academic Paradigm into China’s Country and Region Studies	1
Syrian Debates	1
Archaeological Plunder and the Wendell Phillips Expedition: A Case Study of Cultural Imperialism in Yemen	1
Remembering Defeat in Counter-Revolutionary Egypt	1
Diasporic Democratic Futures	1
Introduction: The Impunity Politics of Contested Security in Iraq	1
The Iranian-American Intelligentsia in U.S. Foreign Affairs: Ahistoricism, Anti-Structuralism, and the Production of Idealism	1
Prioritized Intermediate Zone: China’s New Third Worldism in the Middle East	1
On the Coloniality of Solidarity: Iran, Imperialist Aggression, and the Western Left’s Blind Spot	1
Hassan Nasrallah: Impact of a Leadership on Shiite Sectarian and National Political Cultures	1
Notes on the ‘Exceptionalism’ of the Israeli Settler-Colonial Project	1
Arab World Cinemas: A Reader and Guide	1
Turkey between the Third World and the West: Consequences of Failing to Strike the Right Balance (1961–1965)	1
The Threat of (the Lack of) Social Cohesion: Preventing Violent Extremism in Lebanon	1
Witnessing the Architecture of a Cancellation: The Silencing of Voices on Palestine in Austrian Academia	1
Hydro-Political Relations Between Turkey and Iraq Over the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers: Dyadic Relationships and Structure Matter	1
Israeli Colonial Governance vs. Palestinian Resistance: An Institutional Genealogy	1
Feeling of Insecurity and Hope in the Future: Case Study of Tehran	1
Hypocrisy & Norm Enforcement: US Responses to Chemical Weapons Allegations against Iraq and Syria	1
Discourse Analysis of Social Justice Policies in Post-Revolutionary Iran	1
Is the Fate of Gaza Sealed? The US–Israeli ‘Imperial Expansion Dream’ Has Just Begun	1
The Sanctions Must Go On: The Transnational Investment Bloc Support for the Iran Sanctions	1
Sanctions and Stigma: Regional and Global Ordering in the Gulf Crisis	1
The Discourse About Kurdishness and Indigeneity: Kurdish Political Movement in Turkey	1
The Making of the Duruʿ Working Class: Empire, Oil, and Resistance in Fahud, Oman from the 1950s to the 1970s	1
A new ring in the spiral: re-reading Marini’s work at the end of the hegemony of US-led imperialism	1
From Silence to Resistance: Second-Generation Palestinians in Germany	1
Bare Life and the Production of Docile Sects: The Case of Christian Community in Lebanon	1
From Exit to Voice: Reflections on Exile through the Accounts of Turkey’s Intelligentsia	1
The Iraqi Thawrat Tishrīn as a Revolutionary Process	1
Emergence of Palestine as a Global Cause	1

How States Empathize? Arab Conflicts and the Making of China’s Global Emotional Order	1
On the Receiving End of Diaspora Engagement Policies: Evidence from the Turkish Diaspora in Sweden	1