Middle East Critique

Article	Citations
Remembering Nubia’s Past: Space, Generations and Memorial Practices	21
Multiple Consciousness and Transnationalism in Iranian Armenian Cultural Productions	12
Palestine and the Ends of Theory	9
Missing Gender: Conceptual Limitations in the Debate on “Sectarianism” in the Middle East	8
Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Maghreb: A Materialist Critique	8
Media, Imperialism, and Ideology: US Partisan Media’s Discursive Approach to Latin America and the Middle East	7
Mediating Poverty on Arab Television	7
‘Axis of Evil’ and the Academic Repression of Palestine Solidarity	6
Urbanized Rural Women: A Study in Rural Areas of Gilan, Isfahan, and Semnan Provinces	6
Palestine is the Vanguard for Our Liberation: Insights from the Students’ Intifada at Columbia University	6
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Turkey’s Diaspora Governance Policies from the Past to the Present	5
Follow the Grid, Follow the Violence: The Project for a Transregional Mediterranean Electricity Ring	5
Self-Identification of Indigeneity within Turkey’s Kurdish Political Movement	5
Indigenous Internationalism Against Imprisoned Indigeneity in Australia and Palestine	5
Navigating Digital Sovereignty and Hegemony: Arab Countries’ Digital Economy and China’s Role	4
Eco-Tech Odyssey: The Political Craftsmanship of a Green Technostate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)	4
Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Power Struggle over ‘Muslimness’: Reification, Securitization, and Identification	4
Soqotra’s Formation as a Research Colony: Epistemic Annexation of an Indigenous Commons	4
The Contribution of Āstān-e Quds-e Razavī to Iran’s Soft Power Projection	4
Impact of 1962-68 North Yemen War on Cold War Balance of Power	4
Antisemitism and Zionism: The Internal Operations of the IHRA Definition	4
Diaspora Engagement Policies as Transnational Social Engineering: Rise and Failure of Turkey’s Diaspora Policies	4
Beyond Orientalism: The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Strategic Preferences Regarding Nuclear Weapons	3
A Rhetorical Analysis of the Iranian Critical Theorists: Yousof Abazari and the ‘Phenomenology of a Death’	3
The Hegemony of Resistance: Hezbollah and the Forging of a National-Popular Will in Lebanon	3

Foreign Policy and the Performance of Collective State Recognition Amidst Genocide	3
Gulf Women and Anti-European Imperialism: Forgotten Gender Discourses in Interwar Iran’s Shi’i Reformation Movement	3
Locating Iranian Diasporas in Fifty Years of Academic Discourse: Critical Review of Acculturation Theory	3
Home-State Politics Vis-à-Vis Turkish Emigrants: Instrumentalizing Emigrants	3
Democracy and the State in Contemporary Moroccan Political Thought	3
From ‘Practical Application of Knowledge’ to ‘Academic Self-Awareness’: A Historical Examination of Knowledge Production in Chinese Middle East Studies	3
10 Years On: New Contextual Factors in the Study of Islamism	3
Debt Economy and Class Transformation in Tunisia: A Critical Comparative Analysis (1860s–1970s)	3
The Decline of Political Parties in Transitional Societies: Arab Palestinian Local Government in Israel	3
The Flower That Broke Through the Rubble: The Legacy of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah	3
Gunning for Damascus: The US War on the Syrian Arab Republic	3
Think Tanks as Stenographers of the State: Crafting the War on Yemen Through an Imperial Discourse	3
Practicing wujud : A Constellation of sumud in the Fragmented Palestinian Present	2
Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic	2
Editor’s Note	2
The Fellaha/Laji’a Double Consciousness of Nakba Generation Palestinian Women	2
Re-Narrating the Past, Producing the Present and Unlocking the Future: Haris al-Quds, a TV-Dramatization of ‘Post-war’ Syria	2
Poverty and Deprivation Problems in Post-Revolutionary Iran	2
Introduction: Surviving Egypt’s Foreclosed Revolution	2
The Imperialist Question: A Sociological Approach	2
China’s Changing Role in the Middle East: Filling a Power Vacuum?	2
‘Stretching’ Social Reproduction: (Re)Conceptualizing Informal and Gendered Labor in Egypt under Global Capitalism	2
Dark Humor and ‘Humor Talk’ in Algeria’s Hirak	2
Editorial Note: New Directions for Middle East Critique	2
Kemalism vs Erdoğanism: Continuities and Discontinuities in Turkey’s Hegemonic State Ideology	2
Iran’s Foreign Policy from Non-Alignment to ‘Look to the East’: Between Ideology and Pragmatism	2
Editor’s Note	1
Feeling of Insecurity and Hope in the Future: Case Study of Tehran	1
Discourse Analysis of Social Justice Policies in Post-Revolutionary Iran	1
Correction	1
The Violence of Extractive Urbanization: Dying to Live in Lebanon	1
Social Construction of Population Policies and Problems in Iran Since 1963	1
The Impresario State: Rituals of Diaspora Governance and Constructing Regime-Friendly Publics beyond Turkey’s Borders	1
From the White Man’s Burden to the Responsible Saviour: Justifying Humanitarian Intervention in Libya	1
The Student Basij and the Holy Defense: Self-Formation and Revolutionary Counterpublics	1
Spaces of Colonial Oppressions: Palestinians’ Bodily Experiences of Checkpoints	1
Where is Palestine in the Anzacs’ Palestine Campaign? Israel and the Struggle for Indigeneity in Commemorative State Practice	1
Hydro-Political Relations Between Turkey and Iraq Over the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers: Dyadic Relationships and Structure Matter	1
Decolonizing Knowledge Production: Perspective on Promotion and Tenure Regulations in Palestine and beyond	1
Re-Thinking Islam and Islamism: Hamas Women between Religion, Secularism and Neo-Liberalism	1
Defying Social Inequality in the Gulf: Skilled Survivors’ Coping Routes, Racialized Capitalism, and Temporary Filipino Migrants in the UAE	1
Iran’s Demographic Transition and Its Potential for Development	1
Taifa: A Journey of Integration beyond the Subaltern Narrative	1
The Visual Narratives of the 1979 Iranian Revolution	1
The Lasting Impact of Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ on the Question of Palestine	1
The Principled Fine Line in Egypt’s Sociology: Farewell Mona Abaza1	1
Soft Power Narratives of Fifty Years of Kuwaiti-Senegalese Relations	1
The Threat of (the Lack of) Social Cohesion: Preventing Violent Extremism in Lebanon	1
China and the Third World: Arab Region in Perspective	1
Leaders and the Breakdown of Democracy in Turkey, 1973-1980	1

Neoliberal Urbanism and Authoritarian Rule Consolidation: The Post-2013 Socio-Geographical Reconfiguration of Public Spaces in Cairo Through Real Estate Projects	1
Echoes of the Past: Egyptian Student Activists between Revolution, Repression and Memory of the Student Movement	1
Home and Host Country Policy Interaction in the Making of Turkey’s Diasporas	1
Reproduction of Palestinian Heterotopic Space: Encountering First Wave of Covid-19 in East Jerusalem	1
Women and Economic Reform in Egypt: Impact of Production Changes on Female Waged Labor Force Participation	1
One Thousand and One Cities: Socio-Spatial Patterns and Challenges over a Half-Century of Urbanization in Iran	0
Editor’s Note	0
Intent to Harm: Settler Colonial Outposts in Psychoanalysis	0
Weaponizing Democratization: Street Battles and Transformation in Post-Revolutionary Egypt	0
The Mahdavī Society: The Rise of Millennialism in Iran as the Cultural Outcome of Social Movements (2000–2016)	0
Logics of Elimination and Settler Colonialism: Decolonization or National Liberation?	0
UNHCR’s Expansion to the GCC States: Establishing a UNHCR Presence in Saudi Arabia 1987-1993	0
Salafi Women in Contemporary Egypt: The Politics of Integration	0
Palestine Studies, Knowledge Production, and the Struggle for Decolonisation	0
Turkey between the Third World and the West: Consequences of Failing to Strike the Right Balance (1961–1965)	0
Correction	0
‘The High Art Unites Us’: Staging Unity Through Honoring in Cairo’s Literary Clubs	0
The Sultan of Muscat in Vermont: Reimagining the Middle East in World History	0
Forbidden Melodies: Music and Arab-Jewish Identity in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema	0
In a Twist of Irony: Subverting Gendered and Racial Boundaries through Charged Humor in the Saudi TV Series Tāsh mā Tāsh [Fizz or Fizzle]	0
Afghanistan’s Political Settlement Puzzle: The Impact of the Breakdown of Afghan Political Parties to an Elite Polity System (2001–2021)	0
Erasing Palestine in Germany’s Educational System: The Racial Frontiers of Liberal Freedom	0
The Coloniality of Academic Freedom and the Palestine Exception	0
Correction	0
Bare Life and the Production of Docile Sects: The Case of Christian Community in Lebanon	0
Air Power, Controversy, and Colonial Continuities: UK Arms Sales and the War in Yemen	0
Emergence of Palestine as a Global Cause	0
Beyond Empire: Why the Soviet invasion (and withdrawal) of Afghanistan was different	0
Collective Identity Change under Exogenous Shocks: The Gülen Movement and Its Diasporization	0
Modified J-Curve Theory, Iran’s Socio-Economic Bottlenecks and the 1979 Fall of the Pahlavi Monarchy	0
Historical Overview of Development’s Impact on Rural and Urban Governance in Iran	0
Archaeological Plunder and the Wendell Phillips Expedition: A Case Study of Cultural Imperialism in Yemen	0
Gezi Insurgency as ‘Counter-Conduct’	0
The Defiant Ones: The Growing Alignment of Turkish-Qatari Interests Since 1985	0
Right-Wing Populism and Turkey’s Post-Hegemonic Populist Moment	0
Remembering Defeat in Counter-Revolutionary Egypt	0
American Colony in Jerusalem: Rebuilding the Eight Palestinian Villages Buried by USA Independence Park	0
Sanctions and Stigma: Regional and Global Ordering in the Gulf Crisis	0
Crises of Authority in the Arab World: Readings from Contemporary Tunisia	0
Hypocrisy & Norm Enforcement: US Responses to Chemical Weapons Allegations against Iraq and Syria	0
Palestinian Music and the Potential for the Nation Branding of Palestine	0
Editor’s Note	0
A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms	0
Resistance to Repression and Back Again: The Movement for Palestinian Liberation in US Academia	0
The Arab Lecturer on a Zionist Campus: Student Practices Replicating National Hegemony	0
Palestine Solidarity and Zionist Backlash in Australian Universities	0
Analysis of Social Capital Trends after Iran’s Islamic Revolution	0
Trading Wheat for Books in the Cold War: Public Law 480 (Food for Peace) and Its Connection to Middle East Studies	0
The ‘Yemeni Threat’ to Saudi Arabia: Mirage in the Desert or Quicksand Beneath the Throne?	0
How States Empathize? Arab Conflicts and the Making of China’s Global Emotional Order	0
Imagining Sect and Class Through Cosmetic Surgery: ‘Self-Care’ as Social Distinction in Lebanon	0
From Drone Strikes to Coalition Bombings: The United States and Ruination of Yemen	0
Editorial Note	0
Special Section: “Circuits of Production, Crisis and Revolt: The Environment and Capital in the Middle East and North Africa”	0
‘I Have Learned Things Late in Life’: The Aftereffects of Revolutionary Participation in Egypt	0
Sociology of Rival Music Genres and Music Consumption in Post-1979 Revolution Iranian Society	0
Arab World Cinemas: A Reader and Guide	0
A Land Acknowledgment in a Different Key: Palestine, Solidarity and the Disruption of the Liberal Script	0
Bargaining for the Colonial Model of Conditional Citizenship: The Local Civic Discourse among Palestinian Citizens in Israel over the Last Decade	0
The Free Speech Exception to Palestine	0
The ‘War on Terror’ as Primitive Accumulation in Tunisia: US-Led Imperialism and the Post-2010-2011 Revolt/Security Conjuncture	0
The Neoliberal Cage: Alternative Analysis of the Rise of Populist Tunisia	0
The Class Politics of the Rentier State: Rentierism as a Strategy in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq	0
‘Expectations Kill. Please Do Not Expect’: The Intimate Effects of Revolution and the Questioning of Normality	0
Guest-Editors’ Introduction: Re-Worlding the Gulf: Anomaly as Geopolitical Function	0
Imperialism and Neoliberal Redeployment in Post-uprising Tunisia	0
Interwoven Dynamics of Israel and El Salvador as Nodes in a Global Carceral Archipelago Dominated by US Imperialism	0
Israeli Colonial Governance vs. Palestinian Resistance: An Institutional Genealogy	0
To Drink from the Source: Tobie Nathan’s A Land like You and Jewish-Egyptian Identity	0
Diasporic Democratic Futures	0
China against US Imperialism in the Arabian Sea: The Case of Oman	0
Thinking Theoretically about the Kurds	0
Anthropology of Water in Varzaneh, Iran	0
Five-Star Humanitarianism? Navigating Gulf Aid in the Aftermath of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan	0
On the Receiving End of Diaspora Engagement Policies: Evidence from the Turkish Diaspora in Sweden	0
Claiming an Individual: Party, Family and the Politics of Memorialization in the Lebanese Civil War	0
The Politics of Faith among the Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel: Increasing Human Capital and Public Engagement	0
The European Union’s Policies in Historic Palestine: Two-Step Securitisation, Differentiation and Its Discontents	0
Normalization and the Erasure of Palestine: Ideology and Myth in Arab Drama Series	0
Claiming Democracy and Environmental Justice at the Margins: Land Rights and Urban Informality as Sites of Mobilization in Morocco	0

The Theory of Uneven and Combined Development and the Sociopolitical Transformations in Syria and Libya	0
The Iranian-American Intelligentsia in U.S. Foreign Affairs: Ahistoricism, Anti-Structuralism, and the Production of Idealism	0
Fuel Smuggling in the West Bank (2018–2021): Palestinian Economic Agency under the Israeli System of Spatial Control	0
Back to Normal – Whose Normal? The 2019 Africa Cup of Nations and the Staging of a New Postrevolutionary Normality in Egypt	0
A new ring in the spiral: re-reading Marini’s work at the end of the hegemony of US-led imperialismBook Review of Ruy Mauro Marini, The dialectics of dependency . New Yo	0
Extractive Water Policies as a Driver of Capitalism Expansion in the Mediterranean: Analyzing Tunisia’s Commodity Frontier	0
Land Reform and Kurdish Nationalism in Postcolonial Iraq	0
Hassan Nasrallah: Impact of a Leadership on Shiite Sectarian and National Political Cultures	0
Symbolic Megaprojects: Atatürk’s Mausoleum in Turkey and the Construction of Hegemony	0
The Academic Question of Palestine	0
Youth Protests or Protest Generations? Conceptualizing Differences between Iran’s Contentious Ruptures in the Context of the December 2017 to November 2019 Protests	0
Intergenerational Transmission of Social Movement Activism in Bahrain	0
Notes on the ‘Exceptionalism’ of the Israeli Settler-Colonial Project	0
From Erasure to Expression: Aroosa Kanwal's Reinscription of Muslim Subjectivity and the Biopolitics of Being in Postcolonial Discourse	0
The Slippery Pearl: A World-Systems Assessment of China’s Economic Hegemony in the United Arab Emirates	0
Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and Nationalism: On Motivations and Violence	0
Editor’s Note	0
IMF’s Social Protection between Rhetoric and Action: The Case of Egypt	0
Palestine, and the Colonial Unconscious of German Critical Theory	0
Editor’s Note	0
Witnessing the Architecture of a Cancellation: The Silencing of Voices on Palestine in Austrian Academia	0
Educational Influence on Political Culture: Insights from Israel’s Arab Political Elite	0
From Exit to Voice: Reflections on Exile through the Accounts of Turkey’s Intelligentsia	0
Emergence, Development, and Impact of Population Displacement in Damascus During Syria’s Civil War	0
Reflections on the Failure of the Egyptian Revolution	0