International Journal of Middle East Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Middle East 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity. Manata Hashemi (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2020). Pp. 256. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 978147988194912
Counting Kisses at the Movies: The Screen Kiss and the Cinematic Experience in Egypt7
Usurpers of Technology: Train Robbery and Theft in Egypt, 1876–19047
The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America Rhoda Kanaaneh (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2023). Pp. 216. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 97814773267256
Of Nuclear Rials and Golden Shoes: Scaling Commodities and Currencies across Sanctions on Iran5
Tunisia's Modern Woman: Nation-Building and State Feminism in the Global 1960s Amy Aisen Kallander (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 280. £75.00 hardback. ISBN: 97811088450455
“The Field of Endless Intrigue”: The Contest for North Iranian Oil, 1916–19475
Palestinian Rituals of Identity: The Prophet Moses Festival in Jerusalem, 1850–1948. Awad Halabi (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2022). Pp. 279. $55.00 cloth. ISBN: 97814773263125
The Last Nahdawi: Taha Hussein and Institution Building in Egypt Hussam R. Ahmed (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021). Pp. 312. $90.00 cloth, $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036153424
Situating Tribes in History: Lessons from the Archives and the Social Sciences4
Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire Malte Fuhrmann (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. 477. $103.00 hardback, $44.99 paper. ISBN: 97814
The Ethno-Necrocratic State: Mamillah and the Afterlives of Ethnocracy in Israel4
Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making Rachel M. Scott (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021). Pp. 282. $19.95 paper. ISBN: 97815017539924
Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy David M. Freidenreich (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022). Pp. 314. $29.95 hardcover. ISBN: 97805203447163
A Handbook of Persian Calligraphy and Related Arts. Hamid Reza Ghelichkhani (Leiden: Brill, 2022). Pp. 396. $299.00 hardback. ISBN: 97890042774723
Soviet– and Russian–Arab Linkages: A Dimension of Global Middle East Studies3
The Regency of Tunis, 1535–1666: Genesis of an Ottoman Province in the Maghreb. Leïla Temime Blili, translated by Margaux Fitoussi and Anna Boots (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2021). Pp.3
Dynamics of Disruption: Ethnographic Practice in Contemporary Turkey3
Migrating Minority: Persecution Politics in Transnational Perspective3
Ways of Seeking: The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation. Emily Drumsta (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2024). Pp. 240. $34.95 paper. ISBN: 97805203901953
National Symbols in Modern Iran: Identity, Ethnicity, and Collective Memory. Menahem Merhavy, (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2019). Pp. 258. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 97808156366632
The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures. C. Ceyhun Arslan (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024). Pp. 248. $120.00 cloth. ISBN: 97813995258242
Displaced Scholars as a Contribution to Academic Diversity2
Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism. Samuel Hodgkin (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024). Pp. 310. £85.00 cloth. ISBN: 97810094116392
Introduction: Arabic as a South Asian Language2
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer and Poetry in Iran. Niloofar Haeri (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 224. $25.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036142462
Israel, Annexation, and Sovereignty: Within the Green Line and Across It2
The Optimist: A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad. Tamir Sorek (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 264. $26.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036127302
On the Heels of 1967: Chahine, Cinema, and Emotional Response(s) to the Defeat1
Competing to Protect: Repatriation and Legal Protection of Syrians in Istanbul under Allied Occupation (1918–1923)1
A Man for All Seasons: Mosaddeq's Image and Legacy in Contemporary Iran1
Making “Tribes” in the Late Ottoman Empire1
The Politics of Memory in Contemporary Baghdad: A Comparative Neighborhood Study1
Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media Marc Owen Jones (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2022). Pp. 272. $40.00 hardcover. ISBN: 97801976366331
The Libyan War and Student Pan-Islamism: The Edinburgh Declaration of 19111
Woman, Life, Freedom, and the Question of Multiculturalism in Iranian Studies1
The Politics of Tribal Perseverance1
Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria Anneka Lenssen (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020). Pp. 283. $65.00 hardcover. ISBN: 97805203432451
Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran. Nazanin Shahrokni (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020). Pp. 176. $85.00 cloth, $34.95 paper. ISBN: 97805203042841
Creating the Desired Citizen: Ideology, State and Islam in Turkey. Ihsan Yilmaz (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 328. $99.99 cloth. ISBN: 97811088325571
The Libyan Novel: Humans, Animals and the Poetics of Vulnerability. Charis Olszok (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Pp. 308. $100.00 hardcover, $29.95 paper. ISBN: 97814744574531
Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism. Mana Kia (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 312. $35.95 cloth, $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036119551
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Argentina in the Global Middle East. Lily Pearl Balloffet (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 248. $90.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781503611740 – Corrigendum1
Between Mezhep and Minority: Twelver Shiʿism in the Turkish Public Sphere1
A Response to Aaron Jakes's Review of The Persistence of Orientalism: Anglo-American Historian and Modern Egypt1
The End of the Ottoman Empire: A Century after the Fall1
Representations of Muslim Women after 9/11 and the Enduring Entanglements of “Writing Against”1
Efendilik: Civility, Urbanity, and Homohistoricism in Contentious Istanbul1
Musical Intimacy, Model Citizenship, and Sufism in the Life of Niyazi Sayın1
Jin, Jiyan, Azadi and the Historical Erasure of Kurds – ERRATUM1
Decolonizing Tribal “Genealogies” in the Middle East and North Africa1
Democratic Backsliding and Universities: Between Control and Resilience1
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Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War: Shay Hazkani (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021). Pp. 352. $90.00 cloth, $28.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036146591
Pluralism in the Iraqi Novel After 2003: Literature and the Recovery of National Identity. Ronen Zeidel (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020). Pp. 209. $95.00 cloth. ISBN: 97814985946221
Al-Ghazali and his Interpreters: The Case of the Emperor Aurangzeb1
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A Case of Multiple Identities: Uncanny Histories of the Arabic Typewriter1
The Left Wing Turn to Human Rights in Tunisia1
The Politics of Tribalization in Syria1
Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice Pamela Karimi (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022). Pp. 452. $35.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036318091
Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression Amahl Bishara (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022). Pp. 376. $90.00 hardcover, $30.00 paper. ISBN: 9781501
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Jin, Jiyan, Azadi and the Historical Erasure of Kurds1
ʿUthman ibn ʿAffan: Legend or Liability? Heather N. Keaney (London: Oneworld Academic, 2021). Pp. 159. $30.00 cloth. ISBN: 97817860769771
Internal Colonialism in Iran: Gender and Resistance against the Islamic Regime1
On the Threshold of Eurasia: Revolutionary Poetics in the Caucasus. Leah Feldman (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018). Pp. 176. $63.95 hardcover. ISBN: 97815017265071
Ibn ʿAsakir of Damascus: Champion of Sunni Islam in the Time of the Crusades Suleiman A. Mourad (Oxford, UK: Oneworld, 2021). Pp. 160. $30.00 cloth. ISBN: 97808615404711
Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony. Jill Jarvis (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021). Pp. 288. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97814780119651
Escape from Zanzibar: Refugees, Documents, and the Indian Ocean Shipping Regime1
Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks—Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide. Marc David Baer (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2020). Pp. 360. $95.00 cloth, $45.00 pape1
Seeking Protection and Reconciliation: A Pashtun Legal Custom in Recorded Tribal Histories1
Life After the Harem: Female Palace Slaves, Patronage, and the Imperial Ottoman Court. Betül İpşirli Argıt (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. 293. $99.99 cloth. ISBN: 97811084883650
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The Growth of Arabic Biographical Writing in South Asia from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century0
Enlightenment on the Eve of Revolution: The Egyptian and Syrian Debates Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019). Pp. 226. $90.00 cloth. ISBN: 97802311763230
War on the Desert: The Militarization of the Sinai and its Greater Syrian Sacrificial Frontier during World War I – CORRIGENDUM0
Iranian Literature After the Islamic Revolution—Production and Circulation in Iran and the World. Laetitia Nanquette (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Pp. 301. $105.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781470
Partitioning Palestine: British Policymaking at the End of Empire. Penny Sinanoglou (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019). Pp. 256. $40.00 cloth. ISBN: 97802266657880
Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam. Evren Savcı (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021). Pp. 248. $99.95 cloth, $25.95 paper. ISBN: 9781478010319 – CORRIGENDUM0
The Accidental Palace: The Making of Yıldız in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul Deniz Türker (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023). Pp. 272. $114.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780271093910
Russian Media Correspondents in Syria: War Stories in an Oriental Fantasyland0
Stateless: The Politics of the Armenian Language in Exile. Talar Chahinian (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2023). Pp. 296. $80.00 hardcover; $34.95 paper. ISBN: 97808156380250
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Hitching a Ride: Cholera, the Canal, and Quarantine0
The Egyptian Labor Corps: Race, Space, and Place in the First World War Kyle J. Anderson (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2021). Pp. 288. $55.00 cloth. ISBN: 97814773245470
Imperial Bodies: Empire and Death in Alexandria, Egypt. Shana Minkin, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 224. $60.00 cloth. ISBN: 97815036089240
Inventing the Berbers: History and Ideology in the Maghrib. Ramzi Rouighi (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). Pp. 261. $79.96 cloth. ISBN: 97808122513020
Algorithmic State Violence: Automated Surveillance and Palestinian Dispossession in Hebron's Old City – CORRIGENDUM0
Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt. Jessica Barnes (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022). Pp. 320. $27.95 paper. ISBN: 97814780185200
The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary. Hamid Keshmirshekan (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Pp. 320. $110.00 hardback. ISBN0
Creating the Modern Iranian Woman: Popular Culture between Two Revolutions. Liora Hendelman-Baavur (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019). Pp. 340. $120.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781108498740
Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison. Ahmet Kuru (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019). Pp. 316. $34.99 paper. ISBN: 97811084094760
Revolution and Counterrevolution in Egypt0
Of Echoes and Utterances: A Brief Sketch of Arabic Hauntings in Hindi Cinema and Song0
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Walter Armbrust, Martyrs & Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution, Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019). Pp. 344. $99.00 cloth. ISB0
Refracted: Mohammad Mosaddeq and Iranian National Identity0
Zoroastrians in Early Islamic History: Accommodation and Memory. Andrew D. Magnusson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022). Pp. 214. $82.33 hardcover. ISBN 97814744895220
The Art of Resistance in Islam: The Performance of Politics among Shia Women in the Middle East and Beyond. Yafa Shanneik (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 270. $99.99 cloth. ISBN0
Readings in Syrian Prison Literature: The Poetics of Human Rights. R. Shareah Taleghani (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2021). Pp. 270. $80.00 cloth. ISBN: 97808156370660
Sufi Warrior Saints: Stories of Sufi Jihad from Muslim Hagiography Harry S. Neale (London: I. B. Tauris, 2022). Pp. 182. $100.91 hardcover, $39.85 paper. ISBN: 97807556433700
Enlightening Europe on Islam and the Ottomans: Mouradgea d'Ohsson and His Masterpiece. Carter Vaughn Findley (Leiden: Brill, 2019) Pp. 410. $90.00 cloth. ISBN: 9789004363120 – Corrigendum0
The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry. Farshad Sonboldel (New York: Bloomsbury, 2024). Pp. 255. $108.00 hardback. ISBN: 97987651035930
Markets of Civilizations: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria Muriam Haleh Davis (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022). Pp 288. $99.95 cloth, $26.95 paper. ISBN: 97814780185060
Vocal Arrangements: Technology, Aurality, and Authority in Qur'anic Recording0
Managing Uncertain Times in Turkey: Refugee Healthcare Research during a Global Pandemic0
The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India Alexander Jabbari (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023). Pp. 260. $110.00 hardcover. ISBN: 978100930
The 200-Million Student Classroom: Teaching Islamicate History, One Video Game at a Time?0
Missions, Minorities, and the Motherland: Xenophobic Narratives of an Ottoman Christian “Stab in the Back”0
Israel/Palestine: Border Representations in Literature and Film. Drew Paul, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.) Pp. 224. $100. Cloth. ISBN: 97814744561280
A Social History of Modern Tehran: Space, Power, and the City Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi. The Global Middle East Series (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023). Pp. 488. $120 cloth. ISBN: 9781000
Metrics of Modernity: Art and Development in Postwar Turkey. Sarah-Neel Smith (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022). Pp. 216. $50.00 cloth. ISBN: 97805203834180
Boom Cairo: Egypt in Disaster, 17870
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Iran's Reconstruction Jihad: Rural Development and Regime Consolidation after 1979. Eric Lob, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. 406. $120.00 cloth. ISBN: 97811087668520
A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon Munira Khayyat (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022). Pp. 286. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. ISBN: 97805203899910
The Archives of Saddam Hussein's Baʿth Party and the Politics of Remembering and Forgetting the Baʿthist Era in Iraq0
What's in a Name? To Call or Not To Call the Revolutionary Guards a Terrorist Organization0
Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine. Rebecca L. Stein (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021). Pp. 248. $85.00 cloth, $26.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036149700
Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean. Karla Mallette (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021). Pp. 264. $105.00 cloth, $35.00 paper. ISBN: 97802267959040
Uneasy Neighbors: The Making of Sectarian Difference and Alevi Precarity in Urban Turkey0
Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine. Dana El Kurd (London: Hurst, 2019). Pp. 240. £45.00 hardback. ISBN: 97817873821380
Not All Who Ascend Remain: Afro-Asian Jewish Returnees from Israel0
Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State Dawn Chatty (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021). Pp. 289. $19.95 paper. ISBN: 97801975777760
Ethnography under Authoritarianism: Notes from Medical Anthropological Fieldwork0
Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. Amanda Phillips (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021). Pp. 360. $65.00 cloth. ISBN: 97805203035910
Tribalism in the Middle East: A Useful Prism for Understanding the Region0
Armenian Studies in Middle East Studies: Internationalism and Solidarity0
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon Maya Mikdashi (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022). Pp 288. $28.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036315570
Palestinian Football and the Struggle for Identity0
Prophetic Translation: The Making of Modern Egyptian Literature. Maya Kesrouany (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Pp. 250. $24.95 paper. ISBN: 97814744745040
Quagmire in Civil War. Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. 340. $32.99 paper. ISBN: 97811087082650
Bread and Freedom: Egypt's Revolutionary Situation. Mona El-Ghobashy (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021). Pp. 392. $90.00 cloth, $28.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036017650
A Latin Alphabet for the Arabic Language: Romanizing Arabic in Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt and Beyond0
Latin American and Arab Literature: Transcontinental Exchanges Tahia Abdel Nasser (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022). Pp. 224. $103.05 hardcover. ISBN: 97813995071270
Blackness in Morocco: Gnawa Identity through Music and Visual Culture. Cynthia J. Becker (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2020). Pp. 275. $120.00 cloth, $30.00 paper. ISBN: 978151790930
The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan Hanan Toukan (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021). Pp. 316. $90.00 cloth, $30.00 paper. ISBN: 9781503600
Between Muslims: Religious Difference in Iraqi Kurdistan. J. Andrew Bush (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 240. $105.00 cloth, $26.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036145810
Empire and Tribe in the Afghan Frontier Region: Custom, Conflict and British Strategy in Waziristan until 1947. Hugh Beattie, (London: I.B. Tauris, 2019). Pp. 308. $115.00 cloth. ISBN: 97818488589610
Exporting the Iranian Revolution: Ecumenical Clerics in Lebanon0
Argentina in the Global Middle East. Lily Pearl Balloffet (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 248. $90.00 cloth. ISBN: 97815036117400
On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-Andalus Eric Calderwood (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023). Pp. 345. $45.00 cloth. ISBN: 97806749803650
Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War. Ronak K. Kapadia (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019) Pp. 352. $28.95 paper. ISBN 97814780040110
Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives. Laila Shereen Sakr (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023). Pp. 194. $85.00 cloth, $26.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036358830
Electric News in Colonial Algeria. Arthur Asseraf, (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2019). Pp. 256. $80.00 hardcover. ISBN: 97801988440440
Iran's “Self-Deprecating Modernity”: Toward Decolonizing Collective Self-Critique0
Politics as Worship: Righteous Activism and the Egyptian Muslim Brothers. Sumita Pahwa (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2023). Pp. 296. $39.95 paper. ISBN: 97808156382470
Science without Leisure: Practical Naturalism in Istanbul, 1660–1732. Harun B. Küçük (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019). Pp. 336. $50.00 cloth. ISBN: 97808229458020
City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk. Arbella Bet-Shlimon, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019). Pp. 296. $26.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036091360
When the Revolutions Aligned: Soviet Documentary Films of the Aswan High Dam0
Soviet Nationalities Policies and Post-Ottoman State Formation: A Scholarly Agenda0
War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon Yasmine Khayyat (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2023). Pp. 312. $80.00 hardcover, $34.95 paper. ISBN: 97808156379360
Who Is a Muslim? Orientalism and Literary Populisms. Maryam Wasif Khan (New York: Fordham University Press, 2021). Pp. 257. $35.00 paper. ISBN: 97808232901300
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“A Roaring Farce”: The State Department, Sinclair Oil, and Iranian Economic Sovereignty in the Early 1920s0
Women and Crime: Exploring the Role of Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Constructions of Female Criminality0
Two Sources for Abu Dhuʾayb al-Hudhali's Famous Elegy0
Oil and the US Decision to Overthrow Mosaddeq0
21st-Century Arabic Literary Remixes of the Arab-Soviet Romance0
The Funambulists: Women Poets of the Arab Diaspora. Lisa Marchi (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2022). Pp. 235. $75.00 hardcover, $29.95 paper. ISBN: 97808156375230
The Art of Defiance: Dissident Culture and Militant Resistance in 1970s Iran Peyman Vahabzadeh (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022). Pp. 439. £85.00 cloth. ISBN: 97814744922250
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Algorithmic State Violence: Automated Surveillance and Palestinian Dispossession in Hebron's Old City0
Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam. Evren Savcı (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021). Pp. 248. $99.95 cloth, $25.95 paper. ISBN: 97814780103190
Reorienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry. Levi Thompson (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023). Pp. 231. $99.99 hardcover. ISBN: 97810091644740
Sovereignty and Nationalism in Contemporary Iraq through the Memory of the 1991 Uprising0
Experimental Visions of Modern Morocco: Expertise, Popularization, and Everyday Technologies in the Work of ʿAbd al-Salam al-Diyuri0
“Filling in the Blanks”: Jaffa's Oranges, an English Suit, and the Rememorying of Palestinian History0
Change Visible from a Distance: Digital Analysis of theFetvas of OttomanŞeyhülislams in the Early Modern Era0
Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution across Turkey and the Soviet Union. Nergis Ertürk (New York: Columbia University Press, 2024). Pp. 341. $35.00 paper. ISBN: 97802312148580
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Autobiographies and Weak Ties: Saʾin al-Din Turka's Self-Narratives0
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The National Frame: Art and State Violence in Turkey and Germany. Banu Karaca (New York: Fordham University Press, 2021). Pp. 288. $138.00 cloth, $39.00 paper. ISBN: 97808232902150
Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey. Zeynep K. Korkman (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023). Pp. 276. $26.95 paper. ISBN: 97814780195410
Erasure at Home, Erasure in the World: Armenian History in Turkey (and Beyond) and Non-Discourses on Modern Political Conflict0
The Greeks and the Making of Modern Egypt Alexander Kitroeff (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2019). Pp. 256. £39.95 cloth. ISBN: 97897741685810
The Evolution of Tunisian Salafism after the Revolution: FromLa Maddhabiyyato Salafi-Malikism0
Barbaric Women: Race and the Colonization of Gender in Interwar Egypt0
The Endurance of Palestinian Political Factions: An Everyday Perspective from Nahr el-Bared Camp Perla Issa (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021). Pp. 186. $34.95 paper. ISBN: 97805203800
On “Recognition”0
Searching for the Last Genizah Fragment in Late Ottoman Cairo: A Material Survey of Egyptian Jewish Literary Culture0
Tribes and Tribalism in the Modern Middle East: Introduction0
A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Ulrike Freitag (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. 407. $44.99 paper. ISBN: 97811087462050
Provincializing America: Race, Neoliberalism, and Sovereignty in the War on Iraq0
A Tale of Three Brothers: Ezra, Meʾir, and Hayyawi Sawdaʾi and the History of an Iraqi Jewish Cinema Business0
The Persistence of Orientalism: Anglo-American Historians and Modern Egypt Peter Gran (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2020). Pp. 232. $70.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. ISBN: 97808156369840
Au pays du raki. Le vin et l'alcool de l'Empire ottoman à la Turquie d'Erdoğan. François Georgeon (Paris: CNRS, 2021). Pp. 368. €25,00 paper. ISBN: 97822711312010
Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality Iain S. Lustick (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). Pp. 232. $27.50 hardcover. ISBN: 97808122519510
Writing in Arabic in Gujarat and the Hijaz: Some Reflections from the Early Modern Period0
Revolution in Syria: Identity, Networks, and Repression Kevin Mazur (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 306. $99.99 cloth, $34.99 paper. ISBN: 97811088241700
The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier Chris Gratien (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022). Pp. 328. $28.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036312670
The Other Legacy of Qasim Amin: The View from 1908 – Corrigendum0
School Protests and the Making of the Post-Ottoman Mediterranean: Student Politicization as a Challenge to Italian Colonialism in Rhodes, 1915–19370
Women, Art, and Literature in the Iranian Diaspora. Mehraneh Ebrahimi (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2019). Pp. 224. $24.95 paper. ISBN: 97808156365570
Nostalgia of a Frustrated Ottoman Subject: Reading Osman Agha of Timișoara's Memoirs as Self-Narrative0
Tarantino in the Ottoman Empire: Glorious Viziers, Pulp Fiction, and Scrambled Narratives0
Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan. Annika Schmeding (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023). Pp. 348. $130.00 cloth, $32.00 paper. ISBN 97815036375350
An Unhappy Happy Port: Fin-de-siècle Port Said and Its Connections and Disconnections of Water and Iron0
Women and Crime: The Egyptian Women's Prison in Drama0
Reading Iraqi Women's Novels in English Translation: Iraqi Women's Stories. Ruth Abou Rached (London: Routledge, 2020). Pp. 120. $59.95 cloth, $60.00 paper. ISBN: 97803678571720
Graveyard of Clerics: Everyday Activism in Saudi Arabia. Pascal Menoret (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 246. $24.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036124640
A Global Idea: Youth, City Networks, and the Struggle for the Arab World Mayssoun Sukarieh (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023). Pp. 186. $26.95 paper. ISBN: 97815017710950
Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope. Michael Sorkin and Deen Sharp (eds.) (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2021). Pp. 348. $70.00 cloth. ISBN: 97816490307190
Sacralizing the Nation: The Adoption of Takfīr in Mandate Palestine, 1929–350
Out of the Native Pigeonhole: Westernness, Knowledge Production, and Symbolic Capital0
“A Nation in Turmoil, A Field in Crisis: The Upshots of Woman, Life, Freedom”0
Egypt's Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism. Aaron G. Jakes (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 376. $90.00 cloth, $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036126170
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Environmental Crises at the End of Safavid History: The Collapse of Iran's Early Modern Imperial Ecology, 1666–17220
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Prophetic Piety, Mysticism, and Authority in Premodern Arabic Devotional Literature: al-Jazuli's Dala'il al-Khayrat (15th Century)0
The Multiple Registers of Arabic in the Daudi Bohra Daʿwa and South Asian Public Life, c. 1880–19200
Global Reflections on Mohammad Mosaddeq0
Hijra from the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: Middle East Routes of Muslim Displacement0
Reading Marie al-Khazen's Photographs: Gender, Photography, Mandate Lebanon. Yasmine Nachabe Taan (London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021). Pp. 185, 53 illustrations. $28.00 cloth. ISBN: 97817883148000
Arab Constitutionalism: The Coming Revolution. Zaid Al-Ali (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 331. $35.99 paperback, $130.00 hardback. ISBN: 97811084297020
Shariʿa and Governance in Ottoman Egypt: The Waqf Controversy in the Mid-Sixteenth Century0
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The Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World. Ussama Makdisi (Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 2019). Pp. 312. $29.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780520258840
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Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq. Sara Pursley (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019). Pp. 320. $90.00 cloth, $30.00 paper. ISBN: 9780804793179 – Corrigendum0
Arc of the Journeyman: Afghan Migrants in England. Nichola Khan (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2020). Pp. 293. $108.00 cloth, $27.00 paper. ISBN: 97815179096280
Martyrdom, Mysticism and Dissent: The Poetry of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988). Asghar Seyed-Gohrab (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021). Pp. 313. $91.99 hardcover. ISBN: 978311070
Hyper-exegesis in Persian translations of the Qu'ran: On the Disjointed Letters as Translational Challenges0
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Fairouz and the Arab Diaspora: Music and Identity in the UK and Qatar Dima Issa (New York: I.B. Tauris, 2023). Pp. 232. $103.50 cloth. ISBN: 97807556417650
The Children of Wadi Salib and the 1959 Moroccan Jewish Protest in Haifa0
(Mis)translating the Life Stories of the “Heroes of the Year 2022: Women of Iran”0
Pious Peripheries: Runaway Women in Post-Taliban Afghanistan Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021). Pp. 256. $26.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036147100
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Masculinity in Contention: Performance, Language, and Gender in the Lebanese Army during the Civil War0
Ottomans in the Caucasian Highlands: Recruitment of the Circassians and the Ottoman Mission in Anapa, 1812–18280
Enabling Oblivion: Global Activism and the Erasure of Middle Eastern Christians0
The Politics of Stardom, Entertainment and Industry: New Studies in Egyptian Cinema History0
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Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey Marlene Schäfers (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022). Pp. 240. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97802268230580
Navigating the Dynamics of Private Security in Turkey: Reflections from a Field in Flux0
Between Church and State: The Challenges of Reforming the Church Courts and Family Law in the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem0
Unearthing Rabiʿa's Grave: Placemaking, Shrines, and Contested Traditions in Balkh, Afghanistan0
From Cisr-i Mustafa Paşa to Svilengrad: The Ethnic Homogenization of a Thracian Town in the Balkan Wars0
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Transnational Culture in the Armenian Iranian Diaspora Claudia Yaghoobi (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Pp. 288, £85.00 cloth. ISBN: 97813995123740
Aziz Nesin about Himself and His Parents: Poor People in Istanbul during the Late Ottoman Period0
Combating the Double Erasure: Can a Jew (Kalimi) be an Iranian in the Islamic Republic?0
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