Middle Eastern Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Middle Eastern 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.)
ArticleCitations
The Palestine Labor League: the history of a Palestinian labor union4
Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity,4
Refounding the Kingdom: Saudi Arabia from Islamism and Wahhabism to ‘Moderate’ Islam4
The Palestinian youth of East Jerusalem – between Palestinian and Israeli identity4
The Yemeni Civil War: The Arab Spring, State formation and internal instability4
Schoolgirls- cum -carpet weavers: the role of the market in public girls’ schools in the late Ottoman Empire3
Internal colonization, political geography and security in the Ottoman Eastern Provinces (1895–1899)3
‘An Oriental Gentlewoman’: Princess Nazlı Fazıl’s interview in The Gentlewoman in 18993
Refugees and migrants in Iran: the Iran-Iraq war (1980–88) and the Intifada (1991)3
Education and a sense of security under conditions of sociopolitical uncertainty: the case of the Golan Druze3
The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood3
An evaluation of the catalog of Ottoman newspapers prepared by an Ottoman Jew Abraham Galante3
Hezbollah and Hamas’s main platforms for recruiting and handling of human sources after 20063
Journey in the Grand Sahara of Africa2
Beyond the usual suspects – bringing in Kuwait’s Shiʿi Islamists2
From listing religions to tabulating nationalities: Ottoman identity policies and enumeration practices2
Hereditary succession in the mütevelli office: the case of the Menteşe region (1913–1920)2
MI6’s hidden hand in Syria and the early Cold War in the Middle East 1944–1947: Part I2
Mollā Nasreddin: the making of a modern trickster (1906-1911)2
Are cinema, TV and football recommended for Muslims? The Millî Görüş movement’s view on popular culture2
Between the sacred and the profane: conflicts between football and sharia in Iran2
The Greek population of Ottoman Pontus in the early twentieth century: a comparative demographic analysis2
Examples from Ottoman Tanzimat literature of the representation of women: modernisation and anti-colonial approaches2
Israel and the Gulf monarchies: a new Regional Security Complex or just complex regional security?2
Understanding Turkey’s attitude towards the dispute in Palestine from late 1947 to early 19492
UAE book review2
Revolutionizing the past: representations of the Mamluks in Egyptian school textbooks, 1954–19702
Anatolian Livestock Trade in the Late Ottoman Empire2
‘We have the right to work’: the rise of the ‘national economy’ and reformulating the demands of the women’s movement in the pages of Kadınlar Dünyası in the post Balkan Wars era2
Benefitting from the ambiguity: the issue of the ‘Turkishness’ of the Jewish minority in the first decade of the Turkish Republic2
Prize announcement2
The old elite against the new state: the fall of the Kıbrıslızade family and their struggle with the Committee of Union and Progress2
The making of an alliance: The origins and development of the US–Israeli relationship1
Darwin in the Dar al-Funun: the translation, adaptation, and contestation of evolutionary theory in Qajar Iran (1851–1906): a comprehensive analysis of scientific knowledge transfer and political tran1
Israeli foreign policy: a people shall not dwell alone1
A tribal confederation at the intersection of the Ottoman, Russian and Qajar empires: the Zilan Confederation and the empires (1810–1860)1
The Politics of Melodrama: The Cultural and Political Lives of Ihsan Abdul Koudous and Gamal Abdel Nasser1
Syria 2011–2013: Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem1
After the 1933 revolt, Nestorians’ search for a homeland outside Iraq (1933–1936)1
Nomads in the Middle East1
Cyprus’s relations with Egypt and Israel during the Makarios era: influence of regional disputes, economy, socio-cultural interactions and UN debates1
Cultural nationalism and the spread of a ‘national language’ among Arabophone, Turcophone and Kurdophone Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1840 to c. 18601
On Shaky Ground: Iran between Israel and Pan-Arabism, 1930s–1970s1
The concept of the individual in early republican intellectual discourse: an analysis of Hayat journal (1926–1929)1
The League of Nations and Turkish political refugees in Greece in the early 1930s1
Making of the Unionist bureaucracy: purging the Hamidian cadres, rule of law, and the limits of the Unionist power (1908–1910)1
Critically assessing the contours of relations between the AKP and Islamic movements after the July 15 coup attempt: the Furkan Vakfi case1
The appointment mechanism of the ulema to the Ilmiye posts1
The colonial swamp in Mandatory Palestine: the Na’amien wetlands between local and global British interests in Palestine1
The future of petroleum in Lebanon: energy, politics and economic growth1
The 1980s ‘debt crisis’ in the Middle East and North Africa: framing regional dynamics within the international stage at UNCTAD1
Reassessing the regional political system: the changing role of Israel and Palestine in the strategic narratives of Gulf states expressed in the UN Security Council (2020–2024)1
Raiders of the Hidden Ark: The Story of the Parker Expedition to Jerusalem Raiders of the Hidden Ark: The Story of the Parker Expedition to Jerusalem , by Graham Addison1
Leftism at an Islamic school: indoctrinating the youth at Saida’s Makassed Islamic Secondary1
Cast thy bread’: Israeli biological warfare during the 1948 War1
Gendering the Muslim Brotherhood: the social network of the Muslim Sisters in twentieth-century Egypt1
Israel’s 2005 Disengagement from Gaza: a multilateral move under unilateral façade1
An analytical study of ethnic identity components in the works of contemporary Kurdish painters in Iranian Kurdistan from 1981–20191
Limited trust and its roots: the attitude of French military and political officials toward North African soldiers during the Great War (1914–1918)1
Successful failure: American naval engineers at the Imperial Arsenal in Constantinople 1831–18421
Between parliamentary control and fiscal discipline: the General Budget Act for 1303/1924-25 (1925) on the eve of Pahlavi rule1
National mission or a ‘civilizing mission’? Birthrates, perceptions, and East–West relations in Mandatory Palestine1
The Bedouins in Palestine during the Egyptian occupation 1831–18401
Segregation in Mandatory Jerusalem and economic interests1
Imperialism after decolonization? British relations with Bahrain from the withdrawal East of Suez to the Iranian Revolution1
Iranian communists and the Palestine question (1947–1956)1
New Military Strategies in the Gulf: The Mirage of Autonomy in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar1
Cold War dilemmas and regional interests: the acknowledgment of Egypt’s King, Farouk I, as ‘King of Egypt and Sudan’ by Greece (October 1951–August 1952)1
Asad’s autocratic dynasty in Syria: civil war and the role of regional and global powers1
Cultural Imperialism and the American scramble for antiquities in Mandate Syria: 1920–19391
Noah’s Ark, Nebuchadnezzar’s seed, and the prince of Malabar: the curious and bizarre life of John Joseph Nouri1
A reply by David Tal1
Bureaucrats into merchants: tea, capitalism and the making of the Republican bourgeois1
Re-examining the Foundations of US–Gulf relations1
Nuclear topsy turvy: the security-economics nexus in Turkish-American relations1
Dissenting from the Inevitable? Understanding Omani Approaches to Israel and the Abraham Accords1
A convivial space: the urban khan in Ottoman Istanbul from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries1
Oman book review0
The dynamics of Détente: Greece’s support for Turkey’s accession to the League of Nations, 1930 − 19320
The rise of the Hebronite alliance: Hebronite regionalism between Palestine and Jordan, 1940–19670
Red Star Over the Black Sea: Nâzım Hikmet and His Generation0
Preparation for total war: ‘Military Service Preparation Camps’ in the Turkish education system in the early Republican Era (1926–1946)0
Debates on the legitimacy of family foundations in the shadow of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ottoman centralization policies0
New money in old Tripoli0
The Decline of Empires in South Asia0
Saudi Arabia: A modern history0
Exile practices applied to prostitution in the late Ottoman Empire and the voice of Minoş0
Local government reform in Turkey and its aftermath: the urban transformation of Istanbul between 1984 and 19890
Representing the Coptic community: the Communal Council and the road to the 1911 Coptic Congress0
Playing with ‘the Great Satan’: the football diplomacy behind the 1998 and 2000 Iran–USA matches0
The British Council, English Language Teaching and Britain’s struggle for educational influence in Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar, 1955–690
Being Hajji and/or Sayyah: an anonymous Persian pilgrim between piety and pleasure of the road0
A subject of dispute between the Ottoman Empire and the American Bible Society in the early 1900s: the Bible colportage0
Political vs intellectual? Russia’s late Imperial archaeology and the Russian Cause0
Changing patterns of inclusion into old age protection in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey (1865–2020)0
Passwords in the Ottoman military in the nineteenth century: a political and social analysis0
The Unionist presence in the Asiatic provinces of the Ottoman Empire, 1908–19120
Contingent resistance: the Liberation Movement of Iran-Abroad, Nasser’s Egypt and transnational guerrilla activism0
The Millî Görüş movement’s view on Muslims in the West: Turkish migration to Germany as a case study0
How extremists carved out a moderate position: the resident other in centrist ( wasatiyya ) Islamic discourse since the Arab Spring uprisings0
Practicing Sectarianism: Archival and Ethnographic intervention on Lebanon0
The End of the British Empire in the Middle East, 1952-19710
The Circassian question: liberalism and the pursuit of freedom in the mid-nineteenth century0
Exploring alienation and identity in Iraqi Yazidi literature: a study of Under the Sky of ISIS and The Yazidi Exodus0
Industrial Policy in Turkey: rise, Retreat and Return0
The engineer rebuilding the empire: the contributions of Mr Ritter to the modernization of the Ottoman Empire (1856–1878)0
Freemasonry’s political and diplomatic entanglements in the last phase of Ottoman history: the peculiar case of the Committee of Union and Progress0
The rise and fall of the Turkish cigarette paper industry: the example of merchant Nikolaki Seferoğlu0
Open source intelligence: newspapers and the Ottoman Intelligence Department in the First World War0
Regimes of mobility: borders and state formation in the middle East, 1918–19460
Egypt: how and why a heavily indebted country in the 1980s emerged solvent0
Yitzhak Shamir and the unity of contradictions: between the integrity of the whole Land of Israel and integrity of the Jewish People0
External public debt in Jordan: from crisis to reform0
Spaces of transition: Kantarcılar as a microcosm of urban change in late Ottoman Istanbul0
Audience as a forum for identity: ‘Ottoman’ culture as complementary to Greek and European cultures in Adamantios Korais’s identity0
Kuwait’s ʿAjam merchants: a transnational community (1896–1950)0
Selânikli Tevfik – writer, journalist, translator0
Justice and vilayat in post-revolutionary Iranian Shiʿism0
The Org. Gehlen/BND and German military and civilian experts in the Middle East in the 1950s and 1960s0
The geopolitics of the 1950s and the making of Kuwait’s pan-Arab foreign policy0
In search of a common enemy: Russo-Turkish cooperation and its discontents (1908–1923)0
The Ottoman Government crisis of 10–13 February 1909 and the press reaction0
How the powerful maintained their power: land, violence and identity in fin de siècle Palu0
Revolutionaries on revolutionaries: how Chinese Xinhai revolutionaries and Young Turks viewed each other0
Juhayman al-Otaibi and the interpretation of the first violent Islamic movement in contemporary Saudi Arabia0
Between God and the Party: Fadlallah and the antithetical notion of Hezbollah0
Rethinking Soviet–Iranian relations during the oil nationalization crisis, 1951–19530
Floundering Stability: US Foreign Policy in Egypt0
Social histories of Iran: modernism and marginality in the Middle East0
'Close but no Cigar’: Hamas’s psychological warfare against Israel between 2014 and 20230
False Prophets: British leaders’ fateful fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria0
Correction0
The search for economic and military aid in the shadow of crises: Turkish-American relations during İnönü governments (1961–1965)0
The ‘Lahore shawl’ in Ottoman Turkish literature0
An unknown crossroads: Israel, the Palestinians and the Christians in Lebanon (1968–1970)0
Indian Diaspora in the Persian Gulf States: History, Communities and Bilateral Relations0
Wahhābism: The History of a Militant Islamic Movement,0
The international ‘debt crisis’ of the 1980s in the Middle East and North Africa: a review, an outline0
The emergence of the ‘sovereign debt crisis’ in 1970s MENA economies0
Egypt: a fragile power0
Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, The Arabs, and the Region 1948-20220
A Russian stooge or a Greek puppet? Joachim III’s struggle for autonomy of the Patriarchate of Constantinople (1864-1912)0
Cultural reforms and restructuring Iranian national identity: a case study of the Thought Development Organization and its Public Speech Commission0
Negotiating antiquity in the late Ottoman Empire: foreign researchers, bureaucratic structures and the case of Binbirkilise0
From historical bloc to mediating party: the political and class-consolidation of the Israeli right during the recession of 1966–19670
Gifting books, bribing elites, reaching the masses: Italian fascist propaganda in Turkey, 1923–380
Captive wild animals as visual commodities in the Ottoman Empire: a historical review0
Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı and the literary backdrop of his times0
Buzzing vectors: mosquitoes, swamps, and public health in Istanbul (1875–1925)0
Reconstructing the caliphate or bringing liberal democracy to Turkey? Millî Görüş’s view on liberal democracy before reaching power0
Supporters and opponents: a history of the Muslim Brotherhood’s second prison ordeal, 1954–19640
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar – a man of melancholy0
Identity disputes in occupied Istanbul: was Istanbul to become a Turkish city or remain a Turkish city?0
Traces of fear, ‘tracking, surveillance, reporting’: spies in Late Ottoman Modernisation Literature0
Syria’s debt or the power of the debtor0
Prize announcement0
Revisiting normalization dynamics between the Gulf Cooperation Council and Israel from ‘other’ to ‘regional partner’?0
The battle over the Zionist maritime ethos: ‘Sea Day’ and claims to the Land of Israel’s sea culture0
The ‘villa in the jungle’ nuclear paradigm: Israel’s nuclear narrative and practice in a changing regional security complex0
The Life and World of Francis Rodd, Lord Rennell (1895-1978): Geography, Money and War0
Allies or foes: the interplay between al-Azhar and the Muslim Brotherhood following Egypt’s 2011 uprising (2011–2021)0
The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, A Radical Cosmopolitan0
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps: Defining Iran’s Military Doctrine0
Lebanese Phalangism and fascism: history of a symbolic appropriation0
A persistent opponent in the late Ottoman period: Abdurrezzak Effendi from Baghdad and the Intikad newspaper0
Sharqzadegi, or how Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution became Islamic0
Shibli Shumayyil, Social Darwinism and Zionism0
The effect of nationalist movements on Turkish and Irish children’s literature: swans and epic heroes: ‘Fly like great birds, who have no voice’0
Persian Gulf coups misrepresented0
The 1858 tax reform and the ‘other nomads’ in Ottoman Asia0
Hadera: transnational migrations from Eastern Europe to Ottoman Palestine and the glocal origins of the Zionist-Arab conflict0
Lumbering state, restless society: Egypt in the modern era0
Brazilian foreign policy towards Iran and the UAE (2011–2025)0
Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire0
Liberalization of the sodium nitrate trade in the late Ottoman Empire and the activities of the Ottoman branch of the Chilean nitrate producers company, 1908–19140
Rethinking the salons in nineteenth-century Istanbul houses conceptualised in written media0
Civil society and education in Turkey: the relations between the Society for the Dissemination of Knowledge and Imam Hatip Schools (1951-1976)0
‘The powerful arrows’ – an unknown nineteenth century fatwa against the Nusayri-Alawi sect in Syria0
More Catholic than the Pope: Turkish competition with ‘little Russia’ in Libya, 1953–19570
Social class and political participation in the GCC: the case of Kuwait0
Common values, different interests: early Israeli-Swedish cooperation on development aid to Africa0
Crime, poverty and survival in the Middle East and North Africa: the ‘dangerous classes’ since 18000
The journal of Hayat (life) and the life of a nation: the intellectual landscape and reform in early Republican Turkey0
State-building and settlement in Ottoman Transjordan: the birth of Amman as a frontier city (1878–1908)0
Extension, renewal or resurgence? The anti-constitutional argument of a cleric in 1920s Iran0
A war waiting to happen: How Menachem Begin and his administrations paved the way to the 1982 Lebanon war0
Projective Psychological Warfare (PPW): an analysis of Hamas Hebrew videoclips as part of its propaganda campaign against Israel (2007–2014)0
Utopian imagination in the Zionist movement: the case of ‘Jerusalem Rebuilt’0
Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın – an introduction to his life and works0
‘I have come to seek freedom’: enslavement and escape in the Aden Protectorates, 1937-19490
Lorimer: His Gazetteer and Britain’s Pursuit of Knowledge0
Süreyya Ağaoğlu and the emerging liberal order in early Cold War Turkey0
Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State0
The 1948 turmoil in Sanaa from the viewpoint of two Yemeni Jewish sources0
Visualizing Palestine in Arab postage stamps: 1948-19670
An Ottoman statesman’s early career: the appointment of Mustafa Reşit Bey (Pasha) to the amedi chamber and his role in the Treaty of Kütahya0
Czechoslovak diplomatic dilemmas in regards to the Adolf Eichmann trial0
The Karapapaks and their shifting loyalties on the imperial borderlands during the nineteenth century0
Between empire and nation-state: debating and formulating nationality in post-First World War Turkey, 1918–19220
Medical illustration as a mirror of change: a comparative analysis of two Ottoman anatomy textbooks0
Observations of the first Turkish journalists visiting the People’s Republic of China: the case of Akşam newspaper0
Responding to the Arab Revolt: the Circassian Volunteer Cavalry and the defence of Ottoman Transjordan in the First World War0
The Ottoman Chamber of Commerce, Manchester0
Oil, Nationalism and British Policy in Iran: The End of Informal Empire, 1941–19530
Ottoman diplomacy in Greece: the case of Syros, 1830–19000
Spring 1923: Turkey’s failed constitutional moment0
Rethinking the Turkish socialist left’s perceptions of the US and USSR after the Second World War: an analysis of leftist publications0
Nâzım Hikmet, ‘Night/Doctor Faust’s House’ and biographical criticism0
The East India Company in Persia: trade and cultural exchange in the eighteenth century0
The separatist Alawi petition to the French Prime Minister Léon Blum (1936): reliability, background and aftermath0
International politics in Turkish Islamism during the Cold War, 1947–19640
Mapping the role of intellectuals in Iranian modern and contemporary history0
The National Pact project predicting the security of Anatolia from a Turkish perspective and the intensifying Turkish-British rivalry in Northern Iraq (1920–1926)0
Resilient locusts, ignorant people, modern state and scientific knowledge: a late Ottoman human-animal-state history0
‘He is living Israeli flag’: The Right and the Presidency in Israel under Chaim Weizmann, 1948–19520
‘A tent has fallen from the sky’: the convoluted story of a balloon accident in Ottoman Bosnia in 18030
‘If we take them to the military, where can we deploy them?’ Non-Muslim soldiers during the Turkish War of Independence (1919–1922)0
Fields into houses: local actors, society, and the making of a new urban landscape in Tarlabaşı and Tatavla in late Ottoman Istanbul0
Turkey and the Soviet Union during World War II: Diplomacy, discord and international relations; Turkey’s changing transatlantic relations; Turkey between the United States and Russia: Surfing on the 0
‘A pretty bad reputation’: reflections of ‘the 31 March incident’ on Ottoman Syria, its background, and its immediate consequences0
The formation of the UAE: state-building and Arab nationalism in the Middle East0
Recovering the Ottoman waqf : the reconfiguration of Ottoman-Islamic intellectual culture in twentieth-century Istanbul0
An alternative approach to total economy of the late Ottoman Empire0
Death Tango: Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat, and three fateful days in March0
Critical Jewish heritage and memory in Tehran: funerary spaces, aesthetics, and preservation0
Limits of economic modernization: smuggling versus monopolies in modern Turkey0
Zionism and the Hebrew Bible: from religious holiness to national sanctity0
The construction of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Siirt: minority policies and spatial representation in the Ottoman provinces0
A propaganda and news backwater: the Foreign Office’s information policy in the Persian Gulf, c. 1948–19600
Sculpting the leader and making the nation; Atatürk monuments and statues in the early Republican period0
Salafism in Lebanon: the significance of Fathi Yakan and Al-Jamaʿa Al-Islamiyya0
Contemporary Oman: The Sultan, the People, and the Legacy of Peace0
Algeria’s reforming decade (1988–1998): neoliberalism as a tool for survival0
Patriotism as a sacred duty: the religious construction of homeland in Vatan Yahut Silistre and Memê Alan0
Disputes over pastures in the nineteenth-century Balkans0
An Islamist disadvantage? Revisiting electoral outcomes for Islamists in the Middle East0
The eternal enemy: trends in coverage of Israel in the Egyptian national press during the first decade of President Hosni Mubarak’s rule0
Turkish anti-Americanism: between Europe and the Middle East0
A typological study in the light of British and Ottoman archival documents: Emanuel Falkeisen0
The making of medical governance in Muhammad Ali’s Egypt (1827–1850)0
The rise of Iraqi indebtedness, 1979–20030
Midhat Cemal Kuntay – a man of many parts0
Professionalizing the diplomatic service: financial entitlements in the late Ottoman Empire0
United in opposition, deviating in vision: the diverse response to the Islamic State’s caliphate0
George Franghia (b. 1856): a forgotten farsighted Ottoman engineer’s contribution to the development of the province of Jerusalem during the late Ottoman period0
Socio-musical convergence and interaction in Direklerarası: commercialization of music in late Ottoman Istanbul0
Factors influencing the location of the early Zionist settlements in Ottoman Palestine: 1880–19150
Change of the built environment in Jerusalem during the late Ottoman period (1840–1917)0
The religious foundations of the Iran Civil and Penal Codes (1927–1935)0
UNSCOP and the Arab–Israeli conflict: the road to partition0
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