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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
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The Anti-Aryan Moment: Decolonization, Diplomacy, and Race in Late Pahlavi Iran12
Public Tears: Populism and the Politics of Emotion in AKP's Turkey12
One-Humped History: The Camel as Historical Actor in the Late Ottoman Empire10
“Concrete Soldiers”: T-walls and Coercive Landscaping in Iraq7
Of Nuclear Rials and Golden Shoes: Scaling Commodities and Currencies across Sanctions on Iran6
The Uneven Age of Speed: Caravans, Technology, and Mobility in the Late Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Middle East5
Tribalism in the Middle East: A Useful Prism for Understanding the Region5
“Revolution is the Equality of Children and Adults”: Yaşar Kemal Interviews Street Children, 19755
The Evolution of Tunisian Salafism after the Revolution: FromLa Maddhabiyyato Salafi-Malikism5
Contestations of Imperial Citizenship: Student Protest and Organizing in Qatar's Education City4
The Agricultural Settlement of the Arabah and the Political Ecology of Zionism4
The AKP-Era Higher Education Strategies for Establishing Hegemony over Turkish Universities4
Tribes and Tribalism in the Modern Middle East: Introduction4
Conversion, Identity, and Memory in Iranian-Jewish Historiography: The Jews of Mashhad4
Barbaric Women: Race and the Colonization of Gender in Interwar Egypt4
Uneasy Neighbors: The Making of Sectarian Difference and Alevi Precarity in Urban Turkey4
The Limits of Belonging in Saudi Arabia4
Not All Who Ascend Remain: Afro-Asian Jewish Returnees from Israel3
“Illegitimate Children”: The Tunisian New Left and the Student Question, 1963–19753
The “Second Egypt”: Cretan Refugees, Agricultural Development, and Frontier Expansion in Ottoman Cyrenaica, 1897–19043
Environmental Crises at the End of Safavid History: The Collapse of Iran's Early Modern Imperial Ecology, 1666–17223
The Vagaries of the In-Between: Labor Citizenship in the Persian Gulf3
Democratic Backsliding and Universities: Between Control and Resilience3
Nostalgia of a Frustrated Ottoman Subject: Reading Osman Agha of Timișoara's Memoirs as Self-Narrative3
Time and its Miscounting: Methodological Challenges in the Study of Citizenship Boundaries3
Crowning the “Sun of the Aryans”: Mohammad Reza Shah's Coronation and Monarchical Spectacle in Pahlavi Iran3
Reconsidering Local versus Central: Empire, Notables, and Employment in Ottoman Albania and Kurdistan, 1835–18782
Displaced Scholars as a Contribution to Academic Diversity2
“The Boy Who Wasn't Really Killed”: Israeli State Violence in the Age of the Smartphone Witness2
Building Spectatorial Solidarity against the “War on Terror” Media-Military Gaze2
A Case of Multiple Identities: Uncanny Histories of the Arabic Typewriter2
Betraying Behita: Superstition and the Paralysis of Blackness in Out el Kouloub's Zanouba2
Threats to Academic Freedom are Global, and So Must Be Its Defense2
Mukaddesatçılık: A Cold War Ideology of Muslim Turkish Ressentiment2
Confessionalism, Centralism, Armenians, and Ottoman Imperial Governance in the 18th and 19th Centuries1
Local Legitimacy and Tax Policy: Qaids as Part of a Composite State in Colonial Tunisia1
Imperial Cartography and National Mapping in Afghanistan1
The Archives of Saddam Hussein's Baʿth Party and the Politics of Remembering and Forgetting the Baʿthist Era in Iraq1
Post-Tishreen Online Feminism: Continuity, Rupture, Departure1
A Latin Alphabet for the Arabic Language: Romanizing Arabic in Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt and Beyond1
Industrialization and Academy in Contemporary Turkey1
Woman, Life, Freedom, and the Question of Multiculturalism in Iranian Studies1
Iran's “Self-Deprecating Modernity”: Toward Decolonizing Collective Self-Critique1
Decolonizing Tribal “Genealogies” in the Middle East and North Africa1
Ottoman Ego-Documents: State of the Art1
Jin, Jiyan, Azadi and the Historical Erasure of Kurds1
Women and Crime: Exploring the Role of Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Constructions of Female Criminality1
The Other Legacy of Qasim Amin: The View from 19081
Tribal Priorities1
Between Church and State: The Challenges of Reforming the Church Courts and Family Law in the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem1
The Politics of Tribalization in Syria1
Labor Migration from Kruševo: Mobility, Ottoman Transformation, and the Balkan Highlands in the 19th Century1
Missions, Minorities, and the Motherland: Xenophobic Narratives of an Ottoman Christian “Stab in the Back”1
Possessed or Insane? Diagnostic Puzzles in Contemporary Egypt1
That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260–1500. Hannah Barker (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). Pp. 328. $79.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780812251
Argentina in the Global Middle East. Lily Pearl Balloffet (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 248. $90.00 cloth. ISBN: 97815036117401
Decolonizing Displacement Research: Betweener Autoethnography as a Method of Resistance1
Sidon against Beirut: Space, Control, and the Limits of Sectarianism within the Jewish Community of Modern Lebanon1
The Construction of “Native” Jews in Late Mandate Palestine: An Ongoing Nahda as a Political Project1
Usurpers of Technology: Train Robbery and Theft in Egypt, 1876–19041
When Upper Egypt Spoke: Dramatized Rebellion1
The Absurd Injunction to Not Belong and the Bidūn in Kuwait1
An Unhappy Happy Port: Fin-de-siècle Port Said and Its Connections and Disconnections of Water and Iron1
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: 97808047931791
Out of the Native Pigeonhole: Westernness, Knowledge Production, and Symbolic Capital1
Counting Kisses at the Movies: The Screen Kiss and the Cinematic Experience in Egypt1
Of Fistulas, Sutures, and Silences1
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: 97811087462051
Making “Tribes” in the Late Ottoman Empire1
“The Kurds Have Not Made Love Their Aim”: Love, Sexuality, Gender, and Drag in Ehmedê Xanî's Mem û Zîn1
Gender, Governance and Islam. Deniz Kandiyoti, Nadje Al-Ali, & Kathryn Spellman Poots (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Pp. 240. $110.00 cloth. ISBN: 97814744554281
Reflections on North African History: Abdallah Laroui and his History of the Maghrib1
Provincializing America: Race, Neoliberalism, and Sovereignty in the War on Iraq1
Palestinian Refugees between the City and the Camp1
Decentering Egyptian Historiography: Provincializing Geographies, Methodologies, and Sources1
More than Beast: Muhammad's She-Mule Duldul and Her Role in Early Islamic History1
The Politics of Memory in Contemporary Baghdad: A Comparative Neighborhood Study1
Who Cares about Jellyfish? An Environmental Legacy of the Suez Canal Begins to Surface1
Digital De-Citizenship: The Rise of the Digital Denizen in Bahrain1
Algorithmic State Violence: Automated Surveillance and Palestinian Dispossession in Hebron's Old City1
Between Mezhep and Minority: Twelver Shiʿism in the Turkish Public Sphere1
Unearthing Rabiʿa's Grave: Placemaking, Shrines, and Contested Traditions in Balkh, Afghanistan1
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: 97890043631201
Citizenship without Belonging? Contesting Economic Space in Oman1
The Politics of Tribal Perseverance1
Combating the Double Erasure: Can a Jew (Kalimi) be an Iranian in the Islamic Republic?1
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: 97814780103191
The Abbasid Caliphate: A History. Tayeb El-Hibri (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 360. $89.99 cloth, $29.99 paper, $24.00 e-book. ISBN: 97811071832470
Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East Hilary Falb Kalisman (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022). Pp. 288. $90.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. ISBN: 9780690
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: 97808615404710
Efendilik: Civility, Urbanity, and Homohistoricism in Contentious Istanbul0
Contested Legitimacies: Repression and Revolt in Post-Revolutionary Egypt Jannis Grimm (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022). Pp. 352. €153.00 cloth. ISBN: 97894637226500
Orders and Disorders of Marriage, Church, and Empire in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Armenia0
In Transit: Lives and Afterlives in the Suez Canal: An Introduction0
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: 97805203447160
Abbasid Politics and Performative Panegyric: The Poetry of ʿAli ibn Jabala0
Making an Arab-Muslim Elite in Paris: The Pan-Maghrib Student Movement of the 1930s0
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Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism Guillemette Crouzet (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022). Pp. 304. $39.95 paper, $130.00 cloth. IS0
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: 97814744574530
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: In Search of the Missing Armenians of Turkish/Ottoman Art Historiography with a Decolonizing Eye0
The Quest for Democracy: Liberalism in the Modern Arab World Line Khatib (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 288. $34.99 paperback. ISBN: 97811087109780
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ʿUthman ibn ʿAffan: Legend or Liability? Heather N. Keaney (London: Oneworld Academic, 2021). Pp. 159. $30.00 cloth. ISBN: 97817860769770
Discord in the Diaspora: Agonism in the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement for Democracy0
Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands. Helen Pfeifer (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022). Pp. 320. $39.95 hardcover. ISBN: 97806911952300
Iran's Experiment with Parliamentary Governance: The Second Majles, 1909–1911 Mangol Bayat (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2020). Pp. 505. $45.00 paper. ISBN: 97808156368610
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: 97814985946220
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: 97814798819490
From “Atomic Spies” to Turkish-American Relations: The Cold War in Turkish Children's Magazines in the 1950s0
Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure. Hatim El-Hibri (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021). Pp. 272. $99.95 cloth, $26.95 paper. ISBN: 97814780107770
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: 97815036119550
Muslim-Jewish Sexual Liaisons Remembered and Imagined in 20th-Century Yemen0
Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran. Lior B. Sternfeld (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019). Pp. 208. $24.00. cloth. ISBN: 97815036061420
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A Handbook of Persian Calligraphy and Related Arts. Hamid Reza Ghelichkhani (Leiden: Brill, 2022). Pp. 396. $299.00 hardback. ISBN: 97890042774720
The Making of the Modern Mediterranean: Views from the South. Judith E. Tucker (ed.) (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2019). Pp. 214. $34.95 paper. ISBN: 97805203046040
A Man for All Seasons: Mosaddeq's Image and Legacy in Contemporary Iran0
Female Culpability for Fornication in Ottoman Law and Everyday Life0
Effective Citizenship, Civil Action, and Prospects for Post-Conflict Justice in Yemen0
The Banality of Disruption: Diagnosing Order0
ʿAṣfūriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East. Joelle M. Abi-Rached (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020). Pp. 309. $45.00 cloth. ISBN: 97802620447453440
War on the Desert: The Militarization of the Sinai and its Greater Syrian Sacrificial Frontier during World War I0
Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice Pamela Karimi (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022). Pp. 452. $35.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036318090
Victims of Commemoration: The Architecture and Violence of Confronting the Past in Turkey Eray Çaylı (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2022). Pp. 264. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 97808156375160
All the World Is Awry: Al-Maʿarrī and the Luzūmiyyāt, Revisited R. Kevin Lacey (New York: SUNY Press, 2022). Pp. 478. $95.00 hardcover, $35.95 paper. ISBN: 97814384794530
Mirrored Loss: A Yemeni Woman's Life Story. Gabriele Vom Bruck (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2018). Pp. 289. $49.95 cloth. ISBN: 97801909172890
Communism, Cold War, and the 1953 Coup0
Local Legitimacy and Tax Policy: Qaids as Part of a Composite State in Colonial Tunisia – CORRIGENDUM0
The Multifarious Lives of the Sixth ‘Abbasid Caliph Muhammad al-Amin: Collective Memory Construction, Queer Spaces, and Historical Television Drama in Egypt and Syria0
The Optimist: A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad. Tamir Sorek (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 264. $26.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036127300
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Ibn Hamdis the Sicilian: Eulogist for a Falling Homeland. William Granara (London: Oneworld Academic, 2021). Pp. 175. $30.00 cloth. ISBN: 978-17860784690
A Case of Multiple Identities: Uncanny Histories of the Arabic Typewriter – ERRATUM0
Argentina in the Global Middle East. Lily Pearl Balloffet (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 248. $90.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781503611740 – Corrigendum0
Slavery and Islam. Jonathan A. C. Brown, (London: One World, 2019). Pp. 430. $40.00 cloth. ISBN: 97817860763590
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: 97814773267250
Watermelon Democracy: Egypt's Turbulent Transition. Joshua Stacher (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2020). Pp. 257. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 97808156368780
In Pursuit of Laicized Urban Administration: The Muhtar System in Istanbul and Ottoman Attitudes toward Non-Muslim Religious Authorities in the Nineteenth Century0
Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa Christopher Silver (Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022). Pp. 320. $28.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036316870
Al-Ghazali and his Interpreters: The Case of the Emperor Aurangzeb0
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: 9781500
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The Form of Remembrance: Prison Writing and the Memory of the Ba‘th in Dreaming of Baghdad and I‘jaam0
Dynamics of Disruption: Ethnographic Practice in Contemporary Turkey0
Internal Colonialism in Iran: Gender and Resistance against the Islamic Regime0
Ahmad ibn Tulun: Governor of Abbasid Egypt, 868–884. Matthew S. Gordon. Makers of the Muslim World series (London: Oneworld Academic, 2021). Pp. 159. $30.00 cloth. ISBN: 97818516880980
“Why Is America Interested in Islam in Turkey?”: Fieldwork and Problems of Gaining Trust in a Low-Trust Society0
The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad. Hamid Dabashi (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Pp. 344. $110.00 hardcover, $29.95 paper. ISBN: 97814744792880
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: 97815036146590
National Symbols in Modern Iran: Identity, Ethnicity, and Collective Memory. Menahem Merhavy, (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2019). Pp. 258. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 97808156366630
Ambivalence to Things Armenian in Middle Eastern Studies and the War on Artsakh in 20200
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Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California. Sarah Gualtieri (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019). Pp. 206. $80.00 cloth. ISBN: 97815036061730
Asyut in Modern Times: The Problem of Invisibility0
On the Threshold of Eurasia: Revolutionary Poetics in the Caucasus. Leah Feldman (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018). Pp. 176. $63.95 hardcover. ISBN: 97815017265070
The Libyan War and Student Pan-Islamism: The Edinburgh Declaration of 19110
At the Crossroads of What? Refugee Histories, the Middle East, and the South Caucasus0
Modern Things on Trial: Islam's Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865– 1935. Leor Halevi (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019). Pp. 384. $75.00 cloth. ISBN: 97802311886610
Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony. Jill Jarvis (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021). Pp. 288. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97814780119650
Situating Tribes in History: Lessons from the Archives and the Social Sciences0
The Birth of a University Music Genre in Iran's Woman, Life, Freedom Uprising0
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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 pape0
Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives Mejdulene Bernard Shomali (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023). 224 pp. $25.95 paper. ISBN: 97814780192750
As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark Avner Wishnitzer (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 376. £29.99 hardback. ISBN: 97811088321440
Nahda-izing India: The Urdu-Hindi Debate and its Arabic Alternative, c. 1860s–19470
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.0
Cyprus Under British Colonial Rule: Culture, Politics, and the Movement Toward Union with Greece, 1878–1954. Christos P. Ioannides (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019). Pp. 320. $120.00 cloth. ISBN: 970
A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic. Fatemeh Shams (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021). Pp. 400. $85.00 cloth. ISBN: 97801988588290
Political Sociality in the Narrowing of Time: Hibat al-Din al-Shahrastani and the Late Ottoman Najafi Revival0
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: 97815017539920
Editing and Printing the Arabic Book: Perspectives from South Asia0
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A Response to Aaron Jakes's Review of The Persistence of Orientalism: Anglo-American Historian and Modern Egypt0
The Partisans of Peace in Lebanon and Syria: How Anti-Nuclear Activism in the 1950s Revitalized the Arab Left0
The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes Dana M. Moss (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 294. $29.99 paper. ISBN: 97811088455330
Serial Murder and Honor: Rereading the Story of an Ottoman Murderess0
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Competing to Protect: Repatriation and Legal Protection of Syrians in Istanbul under Allied Occupation (1918–1923)0
Politics of Vengeance in Iranian Diaspora Communities0
Citizenship and Belonging in the Arabian Peninsula0
America's Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins. Marcia C. Inhorn (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018). Pp. 232. $24.95 paper. ISBN: 97815036038750
The Muslim Brothers in Society: Everyday Politics, Social Action, and Islamism in Mubarak's Egypt. Marie Vannetzel (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2021). Pp. 328. $49.95 cloth. ISBN: 90
Ecologies of Imperialism in Algeria Brock Cutler (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2023). Pp. 242. $65.00 cloth. ISBN: 97814962325330
Graveyard of Clerics: Everyday Activism in Saudi Arabia. Pascal Menoret (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 246. $24.00 paper. ISBN: 9781503612464 – Corrigendum0
The Emotional Universe of Insecure Scholars in the Early Modern Ottoman Hierarchy of Learning0
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: 97815036142460
Writing Histories of Capital in the Shadow of War0
Promoting Democracy: The Force of Political Settlements in Uncertain Times. Manal A. Jamal (New York: New York University Press, 2019). Pp. 318. $99.00 cloth, $35.00 paper. ISBN: 97814798784510
Possessed or Insane? Diagnostic Puzzles in Contemporary Egypt – ERRATUM0
Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria Anneka Lenssen (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020). Pp. 283. $65.00 hardcover. ISBN: 97805203432450
Crime, Gender, Sexuality: Female Villains in Late Ottoman Crime Fiction0
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: 97810
Women, Writing and the Iraqi Baʿthist State: Contending Discourses of Resistance and Collaboration, 1968–2003 Hawraa Al-Hassan (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Pp. 258. $125.00 cloth. IS0
Ethnography in War and Peace0
On the Heels of 1967: Chahine, Cinema, and Emotional Response(s) to the Defeat0
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: 97801976366330
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The Past is Never Dead. It's Not Even Past: History and Memory in Iraq Studies0
The Left Wing Turn to Human Rights in Tunisia0
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Decadent Orientalisms: The Decay of Colonial Modernity. David Fieni (New York: Fordham University Press, 2020). Pp. 224. $110.00 cloth. ISBN: 97808232864090
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Eshiretanin Kurdistan0
Escape from Zanzibar: Refugees, Documents, and the Indian Ocean Shipping Regime0
Representations of Muslim Women after 9/11 and the Enduring Entanglements of “Writing Against”0
The Existential Threat of Academic Bias: The Institutionalization of Anti-Assyrian Rhetoric0
Political Culture in the Latin West, Byzantium and the Islamic World, c.700–c.1500. ed. Catherine Holmes, Jonathan Shepard, Jo Van Steenbergen, Björn Weiler (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,0
Axis of Hope: Iranian Women's Rights Activism Across Borders. Catherine Z. Sameh, (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2019). Pp. 187. $95.00 cloth. ISBN: 97802957463020
Seeking Protection and Reconciliation: A Pashtun Legal Custom in Recorded Tribal Histories0
Musical Intimacy, Model Citizenship, and Sufism in the Life of Niyazi Sayın0
Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia. Zainab Saleh (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 280. $25.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036141160
Afterword: Reassessing Arabic in South Asia0
Creating the Desired Citizen: Ideology, State and Islam in Turkey. Ihsan Yilmaz (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 328. $99.99 cloth. ISBN: 97811088325570
Introduction: Arabic as a South Asian Language0
Introduction: Activism, Scholarship, and Shaping History0
Palestinian Citizens in Israel: A History through Fiction, 1948–2010 Manar H. Makhoul (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Pp. 228. $24.95 paper. ISBN: 9781474459280 - Being There, Being Her0
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: 97805203042840
The Persian Whitman: Beyond a Literary Reception. Behnam M. Fomeshi (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2019). Pp. 256. $59.50 paper. ISBN: 97890872833530
How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring: The Politics of Narrative in Egypt and Tunisia. Nathaniel Greenberg (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Pp. 276. $39.95 paper. ISBN: 978147440
Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation Rebecca C. Johnson (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021). Pp. 288. $47.95 hardcover. ISBN: 97815017530600
Migrating Minority: Persecution Politics in Transnational Perspective0
The Dream Diary of an Ottoman Governor: Kulakzade Mahmud Pasha's Düşnama0
A Jar of Shaykhs’ Teeth: Medicine, Politics, and the Fragments of History in Kuwait0
Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria Joshua Cole (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019). Pp. 317. $37.95 cloth. ISBN: 97815017394460
Conspiracy in Modern Egyptian Literature. Benjamin Koerber (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018). Pp. 247. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 97814744558310
Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948. Nadim Bawalsa (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022). Pp. 296. $28.00 paper, $90.00 hardcover. ISBN: 97815036322640
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The End of the Ottoman Empire: A Century after the Fall0
Navigating “Sensitive” States: How Surveillance Practices Affect Research Development between the United States and Iran0
Egyptian Fan Culture and the Afterlife of ʿAbd al-Halim Hafiz0
Anti-Christ in Egypt: Sexual Danger, Race, and Crime in a Narrative of Imperial Crisis0
The Other Fight: Women's Suffrage and Iran's Oil Nationalization0
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: 9781477324547 – CORRIGENDUM0
Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan. Sima Shakhsari (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020). Pp. 312. $27.95 paper. ISBN: 97814780066570
The Ethno-Necrocratic State: Mamillah and the Afterlives of Ethnocracy in Israel0
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Beyond the “War on Terror”: Mobilities and Regimes of Inequality; An Epistemological and Ethical Reflection0
State, Peasants, and Land in Mid-Nineteenth Century Egypt Maha A. Ghalwash (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2023). Pp. 328. $69.95 hardcover. ISBN: 97816490327750
Jin, Jiyan, Azadi and the Historical Erasure of Kurds – ERRATUM0
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