International Journal of Middle East Studies

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Why Decolonization?22
Bankrupt: Financial Life in Late Mandate Palestine16
Public Tears: Populism and the Politics of Emotion in AKP's Turkey10
Beyond sectarianism: Intermarriage and social difference in Lebanon7
One-Humped History: The Camel as Historical Actor in the Late Ottoman Empire7
Tribalism in the Middle East: A Useful Prism for Understanding the Region5
The Many Voyages ofFateh Al-Khayr: Unfurling the Gulf in the Age of Oceanic History5
PALESTINIAN DOCTORS UNDER THE BRITISH MANDATE: THE FORMATION OF A PROFESSION4
“Revolution is the Equality of Children and Adults”: Yaşar Kemal Interviews Street Children, 19754
Barbaric Women: Race and the Colonization of Gender in Interwar Egypt4
The Great Depression and the Making of Turkish-Syrian Border, 1921–19394
Of Nuclear Rials and Golden Shoes: Scaling Commodities and Currencies across Sanctions on Iran4
To Stand by the Ruins of a Revolutionary City4
“Concrete Soldiers”: T-walls and Coercive Landscaping in Iraq4
Not All Who Ascend Remain: Afro-Asian Jewish Returnees from Israel3
“Produce and Consume” in the Islamic Republic: The 1990s Myth of the Winner in the Iranian Public Sphere and Its Impact on Workers3
The Vagaries of the In-Between: Labor Citizenship in the Persian Gulf3
Conversion, Identity, and Memory in Iranian-Jewish Historiography: The Jews of Mashhad3
The Agricultural Settlement of the Arabah and the Political Ecology of Zionism3
Neoliberal Expansion and Aesthetic Innovation: The Egyptian Independent Music Scene Ten Years After3
The Evolution of Tunisian Salafism after the Revolution: FromLa Maddhabiyyato Salafi-Malikism3
Crowning the “Sun of the Aryans”: Mohammad Reza Shah's Coronation and Monarchical Spectacle in Pahlavi Iran3
THE SOUNDS OF NATIONALISM: MUSIC, MOROCCANISM, AND THE MAKING OF SAMY ELMAGHRIBI3
Contestations of Imperial Citizenship: Student Protest and Organizing in Qatar's Education City3
Tribes and Tribalism in the Modern Middle East: Introduction3
Uneasy Neighbors: The Making of Sectarian Difference and Alevi Precarity in Urban Turkey3
Law and Moral Regulation in Modern Egypt:Ḥisbafrom Tradition to Modernity3
The Uneven Age of Speed: Caravans, Technology, and Mobility in the Late Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Middle East3
A Prolonged Abrogation? The Capitulations, the 1917 Law of Family Rights, and the Ottoman Quest for Sovereignty during World War 12
Living through Thick Concepts in Revolutionary Egypt2
The “Second Egypt”: Cretan Refugees, Agricultural Development, and Frontier Expansion in Ottoman Cyrenaica, 1897–19042
New Arab Maids: Female Domestic Work, “New Arab Women,” and National Memory in British Mandate Palestine2
Environmental Crises at the End of Safavid History: The Collapse of Iran's Early Modern Imperial Ecology, 1666–17222
Decolonizing the Figure of the Migrant, or What Does Palestine Teach Us About the Migrant Question?2
“The Boy Who Wasn't Really Killed”: Israeli State Violence in the Age of the Smartphone Witness2
The Limits of Belonging in Saudi Arabia2
Telegraphy, Typography, and the Alphabet: The Origins of Alphabet Revolutions in the Russo-Ottoman Space2
Observations on the Egyptian Independent Music Scene and Political Dynamics in a Post-Revolutionary Context2
“The Kurds Have Not Made Love Their Aim”: Love, Sexuality, Gender, and Drag in Ehmedê Xanî's Mem û Zîn2
Turbulent from the Start: Revisiting Military Politics in Pre-Baʿth Syria2
Betraying Behita: Superstition and the Paralysis of Blackness in Out el Kouloub's Zanouba2
Reconsidering Local versus Central: Empire, Notables, and Employment in Ottoman Albania and Kurdistan, 1835–18782
Time and its Miscounting: Methodological Challenges in the Study of Citizenship Boundaries2
On the Margins of the Arab World?1
More than Beast: Muhammad's She-Mule Duldul and Her Role in Early Islamic History1
The Construction of “Native” Jews in Late Mandate Palestine: An Ongoing Nahda as a Political Project1
Hojaji's Gaze: Civilizational Aspirations and the Reclamation of Space in Contemporary Iran1
Decentering Egyptian Historiography: Provincializing Geographies, Methodologies, and Sources1
Decolonizing Tribal “Genealogies” in the Middle East and North Africa1
Interest, Usury, and the Transition from “Muslim” to “Islamic” Banks, 1908–19581
Nostalgia of a Frustrated Ottoman Subject: Reading Osman Agha of Timișoara's Memoirs as Self-Narrative1
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
New Arab Maids: Female Domestic Work, “New Arab Women,” and National Memory in British Mandate Palestine – Corrigendum1
When Upper Egypt Spoke: Dramatized Rebellion1
The Absurd Injunction to Not Belong and the Bidūn in Kuwait1
Algorithmic State Violence: Automated Surveillance and Palestinian Dispossession in Hebron's Old City1
Smugglers, Migrants, and Refugees: The Iran–Iraq Border, 1925–19751
The Gravel on Our Beds1
Lost in Paradise: On the “Coloniality” of English Literary Studies in Iran1
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
Between Dependent and Independent: The Contemporary Music Scene in Egypt1
The Economics of Creative Expression1
Local Legitimacy and Tax Policy: Qaids as Part of a Composite State in Colonial Tunisia1
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
Building Spectatorial Solidarity against the “War on Terror” Media-Military Gaze1
Samy Cohen, Doves Among Hawks: Struggles of the Israeli Peace Movements, trans. Natasha Lehrer & Cynthia Schoch (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019). Pp. 229. $65.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780190947901
Sidon against Beirut: Space, Control, and the Limits of Sectarianism within the Jewish Community of Modern Lebanon1
A Case of Multiple Identities: Uncanny Histories of the Arabic Typewriter1
Provincializing America: Race, Neoliberalism, and Sovereignty in the War on Iraq1
The Politics of Tribal Perseverance1
Tribal Priorities1
Maha Nassar, Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World, Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017). P1
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
Combating the Double Erasure: Can a Jew (Kalimi) be an Iranian in the Islamic Republic?1
Robyn Creswell, City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut, Translation/Transnation (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019). Pp. 272. $39.95 cloth. ISBN: 97806911821861
Between Church and State: The Challenges of Reforming the Church Courts and Family Law in the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem1
“IT'S TOO MUCH!”: VICTIMS OF GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE ENCOUNTER THE MOROCCAN STATE1
Graveyard of Clerics: Everyday Activism in Saudi Arabia. Pascal Menoret (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 246. $24.00 paper. ISBN: 9781503612464 – Corrigendum1
“Illegitimate Children”: The Tunisian New Left and the Student Question, 1963–19751
Digital De-Citizenship: The Rise of the Digital Denizen in Bahrain1
Gender, Governance and Islam. Deniz Kandiyoti, Nadje Al-Ali, & Kathryn Spellman Poots (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Pp. 240. $110.00 cloth. ISBN: 97814744554281
Possessed or Insane? Diagnostic Puzzles in Contemporary Egypt1
Chad Elias, Posthumous Images: Contemporary Art and Memory Politics in Post-Civil War Lebanon (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018). Pp. 258. $26.95 paper. ISBN: 97808223476681
The Idea of Islamic Media: The Qur'an and the Decolonization of Mass Communication1
Our Voices Persist1
A Talk That Never Really Happened in Time1
Argentina in the Global Middle East. Lily Pearl Balloffet (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 248. $90.00 cloth. ISBN: 97815036117401
Usurpers of Technology: Train Robbery and Theft in Egypt, 1876–19041
Al-Fann Midan (2 April 2011–9 August 2014), or The Last Graffiti on the Wall of the Revolution1
The Politics of Tribalization in Syria1
Of Fistulas, Sutures, and Silences1
Iran's “Self-Deprecating Modernity”: Toward Decolonizing Collective Self-Critique1
The Other Legacy of Qasim Amin: The View from 19081
Women and Crime: Exploring the Role of Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Constructions of Female Criminality1
“I Have Ambition”: Muhammad Ramadan's Proletarian Masculinities in Postrevolution Egyptian Cinema1
Finding the Middle East of the Insurgent Global South1
I Am Serious!1
Missions, Minorities, and the Motherland: Xenophobic Narratives of an Ottoman Christian “Stab in the Back”1
Making “Tribes” in the Late Ottoman Empire1
Transnational Peoples of Color: Black Power in America and the Middle East1
How Do You Write about the Cultural Scene When You're Inside it?1
As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark Avner Wishnitzer (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 376. £29.99 hardback. ISBN: 97811088321440
The AKP-Era Higher Education Strategies for Establishing Hegemony over Turkish Universities0
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
Slavery and Islam. Jonathan A. C. Brown, (London: One World, 2019). Pp. 430. $40.00 cloth. ISBN: 97817860763590
ʿUthman ibn ʿAffan: Legend or Liability? Heather N. Keaney (London: Oneworld Academic, 2021). Pp. 159. $30.00 cloth. ISBN: 97817860769770
Local Legitimacy and Tax Policy: Qaids as Part of a Composite State in Colonial Tunisia – CORRIGENDUM0
Serial Murder and Honor: Rereading the Story of an Ottoman Murderess0
Situating Tribes in History: Lessons from the Archives and the Social Sciences0
British Imperialism & ‘The Tribal Question’: Desert Administration & Nomadic Societies in the Middle East, 1919–1936. Robert S. G. Fletcher, Oxford Historical Monographs, Oxford: Oxford Univer0
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
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
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
Asyut in Modern Times: The Problem of Invisibility0
A Jar of Shaykhs’ Teeth: Medicine, Politics, and the Fragments of History in Kuwait0
The Past is Never Dead. It's Not Even Past: History and Memory in Iraq Studies0
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
Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature. Lara Harb (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. 298. $99.99 cloth, $29.99 paperback, $80.00 e-book. ISBN: 978110840
The Ethno-Necrocratic State: Mamillah and the Afterlives of Ethnocracy in Israel0
Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria Anneka Lenssen (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020). Pp. 283. $65.00 hardcover. ISBN: 97805203432450
In Transit: Lives and Afterlives in the Suez Canal: An Introduction0
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
Social Histories of Iran: Modernism and Marginality in the Middle East. Stephanie Cronin (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 309. $99.99 cloth, $29.99 paper. ISBN: 97811081202890
On the Heels of 1967: Chahine, Cinema, and Emotional Response(s) to the Defeat0
Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California. Sarah Gualtieri (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019). Pp. 206. $80.00 cloth. ISBN: 97815036061730
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
War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought. Murad Idris, New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 329. $49.95 cloth. ISBN: 97801906580140
Democratic Backsliding and Universities: Between Control and Resilience0
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
A Handbook of Persian Calligraphy and Related Arts. Hamid Reza Ghelichkhani (Leiden: Brill, 2022). Pp. 396. $299.00 hardback. ISBN: 97890042774720
Politics of Vengeance in Iranian Diaspora Communities0
Introduction: Arabic as a South Asian Language0
The Anti-Aryan Moment: Decolonization, Diplomacy, and Race in Late Pahlavi Iran0
Effective Citizenship, Civil Action, and Prospects for Post-Conflict Justice in Yemen0
MES volume 53 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Afterword: Reassessing Arabic in South Asia0
Displaced Scholars as a Contribution to Academic Diversity0
Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey. Ayşe Parla, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019). Pp. 256. $90.00 cloth, $28.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036094330
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
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
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
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
The Emotional Universe of Insecure Scholars in the Early Modern Ottoman Hierarchy of Learning0
Revolution and Its Discontents: Political Thought and Reform in Iran. Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 442. $105.00 cloth. ISBN: 97811084263430
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
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
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“Run naked towards the sun/Raise your barricades/Make your Revolution”: Poetic Revolution and Postcolonial Discourse0
Afshin Matin-Asgari, Both Eastern and Western: An Intellectual History of Iranian Modernity Series Title (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). Pp. 370. $32.99 paper. ISBN: 97811084499770
Threats to Academic Freedom are Global, and So Must Be Its Defense0
Woman, Life, Freedom, and the Question of Multiculturalism in Iranian Studies0
Popular Fiction, Translation and the Nahda in Egypt. Samah Selim (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Pp. 243. $84.99 cloth. ISBN: 97830302036100
The Libyan War and Student Pan-Islamism: The Edinburgh Declaration of 19110
A Case of Multiple Identities: Uncanny Histories of the Arabic Typewriter – ERRATUM0
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: 97815036153420
Crime, Gender, Sexuality: Female Villains in Late Ottoman Crime Fiction0
When and Where Is Iran? Fragments of Ethnographic Work in Iran0
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
Counting Kisses at the Movies: The Screen Kiss and the Cinematic Experience in Egypt0
Anti-Christ in Egypt: Sexual Danger, Race, and Crime in a Narrative of Imperial Crisis0
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
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
Possessed or Insane? Diagnostic Puzzles in Contemporary Egypt – ERRATUM0
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
Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine. Chiara De Cesari , (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019). Pp. 269. $90.00 cloth. ISBN: 97815036005150
Social Housing in the Middle East: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Modernity. Kivanc Kilinç and Mohammad Gharipour, (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2019). Pp. 330. $85.00
Efendilik: Civility, Urbanity, and Homohistoricism in Contentious Istanbul0
Post-Tishreen Online Feminism: Continuity, Rupture, Departure0
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
Ibn Hamdis the Sicilian: Eulogist for a Falling Homeland. William Granara (London: Oneworld Academic, 2021). Pp. 175. $30.00 cloth. ISBN: 978-17860784690
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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
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
In Pursuit of Laicized Urban Administration: The Muhtar System in Istanbul and Ottoman Attitudes toward Non-Muslim Religious Authorities in the Nineteenth Century0
Competing to Protect: Repatriation and Legal Protection of Syrians in Istanbul under Allied Occupation (1918–1923)0
Iran's Troubled Modernity: Debating Ahmad Fardid's Legacy. Ali Mirsepassi, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019). Pp. 371. $125.00 cloth. ISBN: 97811084763930
Reflections on North African History: Abdallah Laroui and his History of the Maghrib0
Between Mezhep and Minority: Twelver Shiʿism in the Turkish Public Sphere0
Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, and Anti-Terrorism Law in the Arab World. Fatemah Alzubairi, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 284. $110.00 cloth. ISBN: 97811084769280
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
The Ottoman “Wild West”: The Balkan Frontier in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Nikolay Antov, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017). Pp. 333. $105.00 cloth. ISBN: 97811071826390
The Partisans of Peace in Lebanon and Syria: How Anti-Nuclear Activism in the 1950s Revitalized the Arab Left0
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: 97811088450450
Palestinian Refugees between the City and the Camp0
Citizenship and Belonging in the Arabian Peninsula0
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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
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
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
Argentina in the Global Middle East. Lily Pearl Balloffet (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 248. $90.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781503611740 – Corrigendum0
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
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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
Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family and Society. Zahra Ayubi, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019). Pp. 368. $35.00 paper. ISBN: 97802311913330
Abbasid Politics and Performative Panegyric: The Poetry of ʿAli ibn Jabala0
Female Culpability for Fornication in Ottoman Law and Everyday Life0
Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony. Jill Jarvis (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021). Pp. 288. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97814780119650
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
Representations of Muslim Women after 9/11 and the Enduring Entanglements of “Writing Against”0
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
Decolonizing Displacement Research: Betweener Autoethnography as a Method of Resistance0
Internal Colonialism in Iran: Gender and Resistance against the Islamic Regime0
Tehrangeles Dreaming: Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California's Iranian Pop Music. Farzaneh Hemmasi (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020). Pp. 264. $26.95 paper. ISBN: 97814780083610
Musical Intimacy, Model Citizenship, and Sufism in the Life of Niyazi Sayın0
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 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
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
Civic Culture and Spatial Politics in Contemporary Iran0
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
The Politics of Memory in Contemporary Baghdad: A Comparative Neighborhood Study0
Mirrored Loss: A Yemeni Woman's Life Story. Gabriele Vom Bruck (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2018). Pp. 289. $49.95 cloth. ISBN: 97801909172890
Dignity in the Time of Precarity0
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
The Form of Remembrance: Prison Writing and the Memory of the Ba‘th in Dreaming of Baghdad and I‘jaam0
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
Beyond the “War on Terror”: Mobilities and Regimes of Inequality; An Epistemological and Ethical Reflection0
Shahrokh Meskoob, In the Alley of the Friend: On the Poetry of Hafez, trans. M. R. Ghanoonparvar (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2018.) Pp. 298. $24.95 paper. ISBN: 97808156361750
Jin, Jiyan, Azadi and the Historical Erasure of Kurds0
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
Rafaela Dancygier, Dilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017). Pp. 264. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 97806911726060
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
Al-Ghazali and his Interpreters: The Case of the Emperor Aurangzeb0
A History of the ʿAlawis: From Medieval Aleppo to the Turkish Republic. Stefan Winter, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016). Pp. 328. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 97806911738940
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
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
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
Migrating Minority: Persecution Politics in Transnational Perspective0
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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
Revolution: Structure and Meaning in World History. Said Amir Arjomand, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 400. $55.00 cloth. ISBN: 97802260268480
Conspiracy in Modern Egyptian Literature. Benjamin Koerber (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018). Pp. 247. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 97814744558310
MES volume 53 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Navigating “Sensitive” States: How Surveillance Practices Affect Research Development between the United States and Iran0
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
Finding Jerusalem: Archaeology between Science and Ideology. Katharina Galor, (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017). Pp. 269. $34.95 paper. ISBN: 97805202952540
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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Nahda-izing India: The Urdu-Hindi Debate and its Arabic Alternative, c. 1860s–19470
Escape from Zanzibar: Refugees, Documents, and the Indian Ocean Shipping Regime0
Privatization and the Changing Landscape of Iranian Theater0
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. Noura Erakat, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019. Pp 352. $22.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036135770
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Political Sociality in the Narrowing of Time: Hibat al-Din al-Shahrastani and the Late Ottoman Najafi Revival0
Seeking Protection and Reconciliation: A Pashtun Legal Custom in Recorded Tribal Histories0
The Multifarious Lives of the Sixth ‘Abbasid Caliph Muhammad al-Amin: Collective Memory Construction, Queer Spaces, and Historical Television Drama in Egypt and Syria0
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Industrialization and Academy in Contemporary Turkey0
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
Eshiretan in Kurdistan0
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