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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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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: 978150361465913
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A Tale of a “Gypsy” Couple: Contested Ottoman Identity, Property Rights and the State10
Introduction: Arabic as a South Asian Language9
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: 97813995258248
Israel, Annexation, and Sovereignty: Within the Green Line and Across It6
Recovering Palestinian Lives: Qudsiyya Khurshid from Mandate Palestine to Postwar Pennsylvania5
Fighting the Minor Evils: Slavery and the Diverse Lives of Abolitionism in the Ottoman Empire5
Migrating Minority: Persecution Politics in Transnational Perspective5
“The Field of Endless Intrigue”: The Contest for North Iranian Oil, 1916–19475
A Case of Multiple Identities: Uncanny Histories of the Arabic Typewriter4
Toward an Exceptional Qurʾanic Generation: How Dar al-Wahy al-Sharif Schools Shape Islam, Identity, and Power in Northwest Syria4
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 – CORRIGENDUM4
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: 9781504
Internal Colonialism in Iran: Gender and Resistance against the Islamic Regime4
Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea Andrea Wright (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024). Pp. 312. $28.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036394233
Decolonizing Displacement Research: Betweener Autoethnography as a Method of Resistance3
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Ben Ali’s Tunisia: Power and Contention in an Authoritarian Regime. Anne Wolf (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2023). Pp. 272. $110.00 cloth. ISBN: 97801928685033
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Ottoman Shipping in the Indian Ocean, circa 1650–19003
Afterword: Reassessing Arabic in South Asia3
Navigating “Sensitive” States: How Surveillance Practices Affect Research Development between the United States and Iran2
The Banality of Disruption: Diagnosing Order2
My Egypt Archive. Alan Mikhail (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022). Pp. 184. $26.00 cloth, $20.00 paper. ISBN 97803002609912
Reading across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism. Aria Fani (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2024). Pp. 264. $55.00 paper. ISBN: 97814773288112
A Case of Multiple Identities: Uncanny Histories of the Arabic Typewriter – ERRATUM2
Religion, War and Israel’s Secular Millennials: Being Reasonable? Stacey Gutkowski (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2020). Pp. 296. $130.00 cloth. ISBN 97815261399932
The House of Baha’u’llah and the Struggle for Religious Visibility in Mandatory Iraq1
Unsettled Grounds: Earthquakes between Metaphor and Materiality in Tahir Wattar’s al-Zilzal (1974)1
Managing Uncertain Times in Turkey: Refugee Healthcare Research during a Global Pandemic1
Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany Esra Özyürek (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023). Pp. 266. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036355621
The Growth of Arabic Biographical Writing in South Asia from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century1
Gnawa Mirror: Race, Music, and the “Imperialism of Categories”1
Confessionalism, Centralism, Armenians, and Ottoman Imperial Governance in the 18th and 19th Centuries1
The Multiple Registers of Arabic in the Daudi Bohra Daʿwa and South Asian Public Life, c. 1880–19201
Introduction: Activism, Scholarship, and Shaping History1
Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean Edited by Margaret S. Graves and Alex Dika Seggerman (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022). Pp. 285. $75.00 cloth, $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97802531
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. ISBN1
Algorithmic State Violence: Automated Surveillance and Palestinian Dispossession in Hebron's Old City – CORRIGENDUM1
A Response to Aaron Jakes's Review of The Persistence of Orientalism: Anglo-American Historian and Modern Egypt1
Masculinity in Contention: Performance, Language, and Gender in the Lebanese Army during the Civil War1
Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire. Candace Lukasik (New York: New York University Press, 2025). Pp. 294. $89.00 cloth, $32.00 paper. ISBN: 97814798332211
Hidden Liberalism: Burdened Visions of Progress in Modern Iran Hussein Banai (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 230. $99.99 cloth, $44.99 paper. ISBN: 97811088175091
Writing in Arabic in Gujarat and the Hijaz: Some Reflections from the Early Modern Period1
Garden of Egypt: Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyum. Brendan Haug (Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan University Press, 2024). Pp. 290. $75.00 hardcover. ISBN 97804721335291
Missions, Minorities, and the Motherland: Xenophobic Narratives of an Ottoman Christian “Stab in the Back”1
“Filling in the Blanks”: Jaffa's Oranges, an English Suit, and the Rememorying of Palestinian History1
The Legacy of Dr. Mohammad Mosaddeq1
Voices from the Frontline: Nostalgia in Arabic Poetry of the Umayyad-Era Islamic Conquests1
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: 97802268230581
The Greeks and the Making of Modern Egypt Alexander Kitroeff (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2019). Pp. 256. £39.95 cloth. ISBN: 97897741685811
Revolutionary Engineers: Learning, Politics, and Activism at Aryamehr University of Technology. Sepehr Vakil, Mahdi Ganjavi, and Mina Khanlarzadeh (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2025). Pp. 236. $50 paper.1
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: In Search of the Missing Armenians of Turkish/Ottoman Art Historiography with a Decolonizing Eye1
The Politics of Stardom, Entertainment and Industry: New Studies in Egyptian Cinema History1
“The Trees POV”: Refugee Landscapes in Postrevolutionary Tunisian Cinema1
States of Cultivation: Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean. Elizabeth R. Williams (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023). Pp. 446. $75.00 hardcover. IS1
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: 97814773245471
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon Maya Mikdashi (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022). Pp 288. $28.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036315571
Boom Cairo: Egypt in Disaster, 17871
Enabling Oblivion: Global Activism and the Erasure of Middle Eastern Christians1
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(Mis)translating the Life Stories of the “Heroes of the Year 2022: Women of Iran”1
Women and the Islamic Republic: How Gendered Citizenship Conditions the Iranian State. Shirin Saeidi (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024). Pp. 232. $39.99 paper. ISBN: 97810090265741
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: 978311071
Colonizing Mars in the Arabian Desert1
Revolution in Syria: Identity, Networks, and Repression Kevin Mazur (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 306. $99.99 cloth, $34.99 paper. ISBN: 97811088241701
Fighting the Invasion from the Suez Canal: Coastal Environmentalism and Locating the Lionfish in Lebanon1
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When the Revolutions Aligned: Soviet Documentary Films of the Aswan High Dam1
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An “Artist of the People”: The Life and Legacy of Shaykh Imam1
The 200-Million Student Classroom: Teaching Islamicate History, One Video Game at a Time?1
Arabic Exile Literature in Europe: Defamiliarizing Forced Migration Johanna Sellman (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022). Pp. 280. $110.00 hardback. ISBN: 97813995001281
Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship after State Violence Brahim El Guabli (New York: Fordham University Press, 2023). Pp. 288. $35.00 paper. ISBN: 97815315014570
Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism. Samuel Hodgkin (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024). Pp. 310. £85.00 cloth. ISBN: 97810094116390
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
The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Syria, 1915–1918 Khatchig Mouradian (Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2021). Pp. 262. $24.95 paperback. ISBN: 978161180
The Past is Never Dead. It's Not Even Past: History and Memory in Iraq Studies0
Local Legitimacy and Tax Policy: Qaids as Part of a Composite State in Colonial Tunisia – CORRIGENDUM0
Hitching a Ride: Cholera, the Canal, and Quarantine0
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
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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
Navigating the Dynamics of Private Security in Turkey: Reflections from a Field in Flux0
Life As a Soap Opera: Imaginaries of Romance and Social Prestige among Young Brides in Turkey0
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
Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East. Adam Mestyan (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023). Pp. 352. $39.95 hardcover. ISBN 97806911909760
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
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
Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran Seema Golestaneh (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023). Pp. 256. $99.95 cloth, $25.95 paper. ISBN 97814780195340
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
Global Reflections on Mohammad Mosaddeq0
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
To the Nation, Belong the Archives: The Search for Manuscripts and Archival Documents in Postcolonial Morocco0
Sacralizing the Nation: The Adoption of Takfīr in Mandate Palestine, 1929–350
The Poetics of Spiritual Instruction: Farid al-Din ʿAttar and Persian Sufi Didacticism. Austin O’Malley (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Pp. 304. $125.00 hardcover, $24.95 paper. ISBN: 90
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
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
Looking at Suez Canal Infrastructures: Water, Plants, and the Urban Drainage, Sewage, and Bathroom Systems0
Shariʿa and Governance in Ottoman Egypt: The Waqf Controversy in the Mid-Sixteenth Century0
Hijra from the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: Middle East Routes of Muslim Displacement0
Television and Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists Wazhmah Osman (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2020). Pp. 288. $110.00 cloth, $28.00 paper. ISBN: 970
Change Visible from a Distance: Digital Analysis of theFetvas of OttomanŞeyhülislams in the Early Modern Era0
We'll Play till We Die: Journeys across a Decade of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World Mark LeVine (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022). Pp. 352. $29.95 cloth. ISBN: 97805203507620
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
Erasure at Home, Erasure in the World: Armenian History in Turkey (and Beyond) and Non-Discourses on Modern Political Conflict0
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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
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
Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920–1950 Kirsten L. Scheid (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2023). Pp. 374. $85.00 cloth, $35.00 paper. ISBN: 97802530642330
Latin American and Arab Literature: Transcontinental Exchanges Tahia Abdel Nasser (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022). Pp. 224. $103.05 hardcover. ISBN: 97813995071270
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
Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology. William Carruthers (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022). Pp. 336. $62.95 cloth. ISBN: 97815017664420
Novel Palestine: Nation through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah Nora E. H. Parr (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023). Pp. 232. $34.95 paper. ISBN 9780520394650 – ERRATUM0
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
Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman Alice Wilson (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023). Pp. 336. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036357840
Unearthing Rabiʿa's Grave: Placemaking, Shrines, and Contested Traditions in Balkh, Afghanistan0
Politics of Vengeance in Iranian Diaspora Communities0
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The Development of the “Beloved’s Male Camel Section” in Pre-Umayyad and Umayyad Arabic Poetry0
Oil and the US Decision to Overthrow Mosaddeq0
Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of Resistance. Louis Brehony (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2023). Pp. 340. $59.95 cloth. ISBN: 97816490330480
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
L'Algérie des oulémas: Une histoire de l'Algérie contemporaine (1931-1991) Charlotte Courreye (Paris: Editions de la Sorbonne, 2020). Pp. 536. €43.00 paper. ISBN: 97910351053340
“Why Is America Interested in Islam in Turkey?”: Fieldwork and Problems of Gaining Trust in a Low-Trust Society0
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
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
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
Counting Kisses at the Movies: The Screen Kiss and the Cinematic Experience in Egypt0
Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East. Arang Keshavarzian. Worlding the Middle East (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024). Pp. 324. $120.00 cloth, $30.00 pa0
Arab Constitutionalism: The Coming Revolution. Zaid Al-Ali (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 331. $35.99 paperback, $130.00 hardback. ISBN: 97811084297020
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
Negotiating Modernity: Music, Class, and Egyptian Influence in Beirut during the French Mandate0
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: 97814773263120
An Unhappy Happy Port: Fin-de-siècle Port Said and Its Connections and Disconnections of Water and Iron0
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
Radio Tehran and the 19 August 1953 Coup: A New Perspective0
A Man for All Seasons: Mosaddeq's Image and Legacy in Contemporary Iran0
States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan José Ciro Martínez (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022). Pp. 368. $30.00 paperback. ISBN: 97815036313280
Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics before Modernity Marion Holmes Katz (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022). Pp. 320. $140.00 cloth, $35.00 paper. ISBN: 97802312068910
Ambivalence to Things Armenian in Middle Eastern Studies and the War on Artsakh in 20200
Introduction: Thinking Ecocritical and Indigenous Terrains0
Disentangling the “War on Terror”: Present Pasts and Possible Futures0
Algorithmic State Violence: Automated Surveillance and Palestinian Dispossession in Hebron's Old City0
Palestinian Football and the Struggle for Identity0
Provincializing America: Race, Neoliberalism, and Sovereignty in the War on Iraq0
Egypt's Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics Carl Rommel (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2021). Pp. 294. $55.00 hardcover. ISBN: 97814773231750
Uneasy Neighbors: The Making of Sectarian Difference and Alevi Precarity in Urban Turkey0
Mukaddesatçılık: A Cold War Ideology of Muslim Turkish Ressentiment0
Pious Peripheries: Runaway Women in Post-Taliban Afghanistan Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021). Pp. 256. $26.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036147100
Refracted: Mohammad Mosaddeq and Iranian National Identity0
Of Echoes and Utterances: A Brief Sketch of Arabic Hauntings in Hindi Cinema and Song0
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
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
Erotic Encounters: Beauty and Conversion in the Ottoman Frontier0
A Tale of Three Brothers: Ezra, Meʾir, and Hayyawi Sawdaʾi and the History of an Iraqi Jewish Cinema Business0
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The “One Carceral State”: Mass Incarceration and Carceral Citizenship in Palestine/Israel0
What’s Sex Got to Do with It? Traffic and Protection in Lebanon’s Civil War0
Becoming a Muhacir : Writings and Narratives of Displacement in the Late Ottoman Empire0
The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability Anna Ziajka Stanton (New York: Fordham University Press, 2023). Pp. 240. $32.00 paper. ISBN: 97815315032220
Al-Ghazali and his Interpreters: The Case of the Emperor Aurangzeb0
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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
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Possessed or Insane? Diagnostic Puzzles in Contemporary Egypt – ERRATUM0
Beyond the “War on Terror”: Mobilities and Regimes of Inequality; An Epistemological and Ethical Reflection0
Untangling Jews from Zionism: On the Power and Limits of Jewish Support for Palestinians in Oren Kroll-Zeldin’s Unsettled and Geoffrey Levin’s Our Palestine Question - Our Palestine Qu0
Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt Andrew Simon (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022). Pp. 304. $90.00 cloth, $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036314410
German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus. Marc David Baer (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020). Pp. 312. $95.00 cloth, $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97802311967100
Revolution and Counterrevolution in Egypt0
The Horse Carriage: A Class Motif in Egyptian Popular Music0
The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry. Farshad Sonboldel (New York: Bloomsbury, 2024). Pp. 255. $108.00 hardback. ISBN: 97987651035930
Changing Capitalist Structures and Settler-Colonial Land Purchases in Northern Palestine, 1897–19220
M’addib s and Migrant Laborers: Migration from Ottoman Trablus al-Gharb to Djerba, Tunisia in the Early 20th Century0
Writing Histories of Capital in the Shadow of War0
The Partisans of Peace in Lebanon and Syria: How Anti-Nuclear Activism in the 1950s Revitalized the Arab Left0
Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History. Thomas Barfield (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023). Pp. 384. $35.00 hardcover. ISBN: 97806911816390
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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
Watermelon Democracy: Egypt's Turbulent Transition. Joshua Stacher (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2020). Pp. 257. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 97808156368780
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
“A Nation in Turmoil, A Field in Crisis: The Upshots of Woman, Life, Freedom”0
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
Crude Knowledge: Petro-Periodicals and Resource Sovereignty0
Degrees of Dignity: Arab Higher Education in the Global Era Elizabeth Buckner (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022). Pp. 264. $40.95 paper. ISBN: 97814875289590
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
Seeking Protection and Reconciliation: A Pashtun Legal Custom in Recorded Tribal Histories0
Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul Deniz Yonucu (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022). Pp. 222. $145.00 cloth, $32.95 paper. ISBN: 97815017621610
Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire. Lâle Can (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 272. $85.00 cloth, $25.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036101700
The AKP-Era Higher Education Strategies for Establishing Hegemony over Turkish Universities0
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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
Assyrians in Modern Iraq: Negotiating Political and Cultural Space Alda Benjamen (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 258. $99.99 hardback. ISBN: 9781088387950
The Birth of a University Music Genre in Iran's Woman, Life, Freedom Uprising0
Suppressing Dissent: Shrinking Civic Space, Transnational Repression and Palestine-Israel . Zaha Hassan & H.A. Hellyer, editors ( London: Oneworld Publications, 2024). Pp. 326. $45.00 paper. ISBN:0
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
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
State and Religion in Iraq: The Sufi Insurgency of the Former Baʿth Regime in Historical Context0
The Libyan War and Student Pan-Islamism: The Edinburgh Declaration of 19110
The Existential Threat of Academic Bias: The Institutionalization of Anti-Assyrian Rhetoric0
Escape from Zanzibar: Refugees, Documents, and the Indian Ocean Shipping Regime0
Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State Dawn Chatty (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021). Pp. 289. $19.95 paper. ISBN: 97801975777760
Revolutionary Politics of the Normal0
Prophetic Piety, Mysticism, and Authority in Premodern Arabic Devotional Literature: al-Jazuli's Dala'il al-Khayrat (15th Century)0
The Children of Wadi Salib and the 1959 Moroccan Jewish Protest in Haifa0
From Dictatorship Syndrome to False Truths: The Political Evolution of Alaa al-Aswany0
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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
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
A Nation in Turmoil, A Field in Crisis: The Upshots of Woman, Life, Freedom – ERRATUM0
War on the Desert: The Militarization of the Sinai and its Greater Syrian Sacrificial Frontier during World War I – CORRIGENDUM0
Ottomans in the Caucasian Highlands: Recruitment of the Circassians and the Ottoman Mission in Anapa, 1812–18280
The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus: Art, Faith and Empire in Early Islam. Alain George (London: Gingko, 2021). Pp. 264, 150 color plates. $85.00 cloth. ISBN: 97819099424550
The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination Rebecca Ruth Gould. Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Pp. 3120
Combating the Double Erasure: Can a Jew (Kalimi) be an Iranian in the Islamic Republic?0
The Rise of Modern Despotism in Iran: The Shah, the Opposition, and the US, 1953–1968 Ali Rahnema (London: Oneworld Academic, 2021). Pp. 528. $45.00 hardback. ISBN: 97808615414230
Reorienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry. Levi Thompson (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023). Pp. 231. $99.99 hardcover. ISBN: 97810091644740
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
Making Music in Iran from the Fifteenth to the Early Twentieth Century. Amir Hosein Pourjavady (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024). Pp. 400. $120.00 hardcover, $44.95 paperback. ISBN 97813990
Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023). Pp. 272. $30.00 paper0
What's in a Name? To Call or Not To Call the Revolutionary Guards a Terrorist Organization0
An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem before and After 1948. Sonja Mejcher-Atassi (New York: Columbia University Press, 2024). Pp. 376. $38.00 paperback. ISBN: 97802312147590
The Archives of Saddam Hussein's Baʿth Party and the Politics of Remembering and Forgetting the Baʿthist Era in Iraq0
Out of the Native Pigeonhole: Westernness, Knowledge Production, and Symbolic Capital0
Political Sociality in the Narrowing of Time: Hibat al-Din al-Shahrastani and the Late Ottoman Najafi Revival0
Nutrition Science, Palestinian Food, and Jewish Settlers’ Acclimatization: The Work of Moshe Wilbushewich0
Of Kings and Clowns: Leadership in Contemporary Egyptian Theatre since 1967. Tiran Manucharyan ( London: Routledge, 2024). Pp. 288. $144.00 hardback, $43.99 ebook. ISBN: 97810323609280
The Logic of Cooperation in Autocracies: Political Opposition in the Third Yemeni Republic. Jens Heibach (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2024). Pp. 312. $95.00 hardcover, $39.95 paper. ISBN:0
Rise of the Wage Containment State: The Supreme Labor Council and Minimum Wage Politics in Iran0
Russian Media Correspondents in Syria: War Stories in an Oriental Fantasyland0
Woman, Life, Freedom, and the Question of Multiculturalism in Iranian Studies0
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
ʿUthman ibn ʿAffan: Legend or Liability? Heather N. Keaney (London: Oneworld Academic, 2021). Pp. 159. $30.00 cloth. ISBN: 97817860769770
How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey. Caterina Scaramelli (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2021). Pp. 240. $110.00 cloth, $28.00 paper. ISBN 97815036154030
MES volume 55 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
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
Isfahan: Architecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran. Farshid Emami (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024). Pp. 276. $112.95 hardcover. ISBN 97802710955230
The Future is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria. Sara Rahnama (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023). Pp. 252. $51.95 cloth, $34.95 paper. ISBN: 97815017813460
Experimental Visions of Modern Morocco: Expertise, Popularization, and Everyday Technologies in the Work of ʿAbd al-Salam al-Diyuri0
The Best of Hard Times: Palestinian Refugee Masculinities in Lebanon. Gustabo Barbosa (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2022). Pp. 360. $80.00 hardcover, $39.95 paper. ISBN: 97808156372330
Nahda-izing India: The Urdu-Hindi Debate and its Arabic Alternative, c. 1860s–19470
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Zoroastrians in Early Islamic History: Accommodation and Memory. Andrew D. Magnusson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022). Pp. 214. $82.33 hardcover. ISBN 97814744895220
The Portrait of an Alla Franca Shaykh: Sufism, Modernity, and Class in Turkey0
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
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