Middle Eastern Studies

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
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Russian foreign policy and geopolitics in the Post-Soviet space and the Middle East: Tajikistan, Georgia, Ukraine and Syria20
The journal İnkılâp and the appeal of antisemitism in interwar Turkey6
A people that shall dwell alone; is that so? Israel and the minorities alliance4
Israel, Turkey, and the Turkish Jewish community in light of Operation Protective Edge4
From guests of the Imam to unwanted foreigners: the politics of South Asian pilgrimage to Iran in the twentieth century4
Terrorism and migration: on the mass emigration of Iraqi Jews, 1950–19513
Jewish state, Muslim cemeteries: the fate of Muslim graveyards in the State of Israel, 1948–19673
‘The school is the link between the Jewish community and the surrounding milieu’: education and the Jews of Iran from the mid-1940s to the late 1960s3
Decoding the crisis of the legitimate circle of coalition building in Israel: a critical analysis of the puzzling election trio of 2019–203
Turkey in the UN Security Council during the Cold War: elections, voting motivations and alliance commitments3
Religionization of politics in Iran: Shi’i seminaries as the bastion of resistance2
The 1980s ‘debt crisis’ in the Middle East and North Africa: framing regional dynamics within the international stage at UNCTAD2
External public debt in Jordan: from crisis to reform2
The mystery of intra-alliance intelligence: Turkey’s covert operations in the Cyprus conflict2
The roots and the consequences of the 1979 Iranian revolution: A Kurdish perspective2
A negotiation of power during the age of reforms in the Ottoman Empire: notables, tribes and state in Muş (1820-1840)2
Missed opportunity? Jordan’s [insufficient] economic dividends from the peace treaty with Israel2
Stateless ‘bidoon’ in Kuwait: a crisis of political alienation2
The place of Italy in Turkish foreign policy in the 1930s2
Israeli emigration policies in the Gaza Strip: crafting demography and forming control in the aftermath of the 1967 War2
The establishment of Natzrat Illit: setting the foundations for the Israeli settlements project2
Kurdish insurgency in Rojhelat: from Rasan to the Oslo negotiations2
‘Son of Arabia, son of Nazareth, and my son’: Herut’s stand on the imposition of the Military Government 1948-19662
Playing the Turkish card: British policy and Cyprus in the 1950s2
Rethinking narratives on Islam in North Cyprus: a new perspective2
From ‘people’s education’ to people’s entertainment: the changing role of cinema in Turkey’s People’s Houses (1932–1950)2
Rural or urban? Planning Bedouin settlements2
From development towns to ‘Mizrahi enclaves’ – was it Mapai's intentional policy?2
From Iranian Shi’ization to colonization in Syria to establish Shiʿi territorial contiguity1
The international ‘debt crisis’ of the 1980s in the Middle East and North Africa: a review, an outline1
Death Tango: Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat, and three fateful days in March1
The Tudeh Party of Iran and the land reform initiatives of the Pahlavi state, 1958–19641
Iran and imperial nationalism in 19191
Contextualizing the ideology of the Turkish national resistance movement1
The rise of Iraqi indebtedness, 1979–20031
Special issue: ‘Britain, Turkey and NATO, 1945–1960’1
Motivational factors of Turkish foreign terrorist fighters in ISIS1
The East India Company in Persia: trade and cultural exchange in the eighteenth century1
Islamism, radicalism, and popular sovereignty1
Projective Psychological Warfare (PPW): an analysis of Hamas Hebrew videoclips as part of its propaganda campaign against Israel (2007–2014)1
The deal of the century? The attempted sale of the Western Wall by Cemal Pasha in 19161
The transformation of Britain-Turkey-United States relations at the advent of the Cold War (1945–1952)1
Negotiating empire in the Middle East: Ottomans and Arab Nomads in the modern era, 1840-19141
Rethinking Syrian nationalism: national identity and state in Syria, from the ‘struggle for Syria’ to the Syrian civil war1
Forging a force: rulers, professional expatriates, and the creation of Abu Dhabi’s Police1
Who are we? and Who are they? The construction of Turkish national identity in textbooks within the context of the Turkish War of Independence1
The evil genius of Iranian constitutionalism? ‘Bloody Shapshal’ at the Qajar court1
Turkey’s post-colonial predicament and the perils of its Western-centric foreign policy (1955–1959)1
The politics of male circumcision in the late Ottoman Empire1
Narratives of nationalism in culture and heritage production of the Arabian Peninsula: bringing the state back in1
Introduction: alcohol production and consumption in the modern Middle East1
CENTO: the forgotten alliance in the Middle East (1959-1979)1
Ethnic stereotyping and the significant other: re-imagining the Kurd in early Turkish political cartoons1
From jihad to resistance: the evolution of Hamas’s discourse in the framework of mobilization1
Bureaucrats into merchants: tea, capitalism and the making of the Republican bourgeois1
Hezbollah and Hamas’s main platforms for recruiting and handling of human sources after 20061
American Arabists in the Cold War Middle East, 1946–75: From Orientalism to Professionalism1
Survival of the Kuwaiti statelet: Najd’s expansion and the question of British protection1
A tepid alliance: Britain and Turkey in the post-war and early cold war years1
Introduction1
Coup-proofing and political violence: the case of Iraq1
The separatist Alawi petition to the French Prime Minister Léon Blum (1936): reliability, background and aftermath1
The emergence of the ‘sovereign debt crisis’ in 1970s MENA economies1
‘Peaceful civil jihad’ – Saudi Arabia’s Islamic civil rights movement and its concept of jihad1
Imperial resilience: The Great War’s end, Ottoman longevity, and incidental nations1
Examining age structure and estimating mortality rates in Ottoman Bursa using mid-nineteenth-century population registers1
Social liberation within the Islamic-political movements: the reform project of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its impact on the Ahl-i-Hadith movement in Pakistan1
Romania and the Palestine Liberation Organization, 1972–19741
Corporatism without party: the state, war, and industrial labor in the Islamic Republic of Iran1
Challenging the accepted understanding of the executive branch of the UAE’s Federal Government1
Czechoslovakia and the ‘Cyprus issue’ in the years 1960–1974: secret arms deals, espionage, and the Cold War in the Middle East1
Did as-Saʿidiyya really revolt? An ethnographic investigation1
Technopolitics, development and the colonial-postcolonial nexus: revisiting settlements development aid from Israel to Africa1
The Druze settlement on Mount Carmel: Daliyat al-Karmil as a case study – Archaeological, historical and geographical evidence1
The US and the Israeli raid on the Iraqi Osiraq nuclear reactor1
Kedourie, nationalism, Islamism, and the umma1
Domestic and external considerations in the struggle over regency in early Qajar Iran: The princely rivalry between ʿAbbas Mirza and Muhammad-ʿAli Mirza1
Cultural nationalism and the spread of a ‘national language’ among Arabophone, Turcophone and Kurdophone Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1840 to c. 18601
25 years of Jordan-Israel peace-making: from ‘warm peace’ to ‘cold peace’?1
The Palestine Labor League: the history of a Palestinian labor union1
The neglected sheikhdom at the frontier of empires and cultures: an introduction to al-Zubayr1
Alid loyalty or Shiʿite tendency: a comparative approach to the Alevi Buyruk texts1
States of drunkenness: bar-life in Istanbul between empire, occupation, and republic, 1918–19231
Kurdish cross-border trade between Syria and Turkey: the socio-political trajectories of Syrian Kurds1
The duality of ‘official’ and ‘local’ in modern Iran: historical and intellectual foundations1
Preparation for total war: ‘Military Service Preparation Camps’ in the Turkish education system in the early Republican Era (1926–1946)0
Outskirts of empire: studies in British power projection0
How the powerful maintained their power: land, violence and identity in fin de siècle Palu0
Sylvia Kedourie 1925–20160
Kuwait and Al-Sabah: Tribal politics and power in an oil state0
The Org. Gehlen/BND and German military and civilian experts in the Middle East in the 1950s and 1960s0
Iran’s experiment with parliamentary governance: the second majles, 1909-19110
Critically assessing the contours of relations between the AKP and Islamic movements after the July 15 coup attempt: the Furkan Vakfi case0
Captive wild animals as visual commodities in the Ottoman Empire: a historical review0
An evaluation of the catalog of Ottoman newspapers prepared by an Ottoman Jew Abraham Galante0
Peace in the name of Allah: Egypt’s quest to attain Islamic legitimacy for its treaty with Israel0
Security forces and the end of empire in the Trucial States, 1960–19710
Chehabism revisited: the consequences of reform in Lebanon0
Prize announcement0
The ideal Muslim woman in the Saudi novel: idealism, counter-idealism, realism0
İbnülemin Mahmud Kemal İnal – the epitome of late Ottoman culture0
Was there room for Christian Turks in early Republican Turkey? Debates on the migration and Turkishness of the Gagauz0
A subject of dispute between the Ottoman Empire and the American Bible Society in the early 1900s: the Bible colportage0
Schoolgirls- cum -carpet weavers: the role of the market in public girls’ schools in the late Ottoman Empire0
Between empire and nation-state: debating and formulating nationality in post-First World War Turkey, 1918–19220
Life after the harem: Female palace slaves, patronage, and the imperial ottoman court0
The Circassians of Turkey: War, Violence and Nationalism from the Ottomans to Atatürk0
The 1858 tax reform and the ‘other nomads’ in Ottoman Asia0
Diplomacy under the nuclear shadow: Kennedy, Nasser, and Dimona0
The role of Ottoman ulema in peaceful conflict resolution0
Allies or foes: the interplay between al-Azhar and the Muslim Brotherhood following Egypt’s 2011 uprising (2011–2021)0
Arab Nationalist Constitutions of 1958 in the Context of the Cold War: the cases of the Egyptian-Syrian United Arab Republic, the Iraqi-Jordanian Arab Union, and the Republic of Iraq0
A tribal confederation at the intersection of the Ottoman, Russian and Qajar empires: the Zilan Confederation and the empires (1810–1860)0
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and MI6’s Covert Action Against France in North Africa, 1945–19480
The League of Nations and Turkish political refugees in Greece in the early 1930s0
US-Syria relations in the shadow of Cold War and détente0
The development gap between the cities of Jaffa and Tel Aviv and its effect on the weakening of Jaffa in the time of the Mandate0
Internal colonization, political geography and security in the Ottoman Eastern Provinces (1895–1899)0
Stereotypes and demonization in contemporary Palestinian literature in Jordan: Israel and the Israelis in the works of Samia ʿAtʿut0
‘A pretty bad reputation’: reflections of ‘the 31 March incident’ on Ottoman Syria, its background, and its immediate consequences0
Sharqzadegi, or how Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution became Islamic0
UNSCOP and the Arab–Israeli conflict: the road to partition0
Radical virtues: practices of the body among Iranian revolutionaries of the 1960s and 1970s0
An alternative approach to total economy of the late Ottoman Empire0
Bibliography of Sylvia G. Haim0
Cast thy bread’: Israeli biological warfare during the 1948 War0
Pragmatic coexistence: local responses to the state intrusion in Dersim during the early Republican period of Turkey (1938–1950)0
United States relations with China and Iran toward the Asian century0
The sterilization and disinfection machines: sanitation and public health in the late Ottoman Empire0
Winemaking between the claims of the local and the international in late Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine (1860s–1948)0
The 1948 turmoil in Sanaa from the viewpoint of two Yemeni Jewish sources0
A Russian stooge or a Greek puppet? Joachim III’s struggle for autonomy of the Patriarchate of Constantinople (1864-1912)0
Anxiety and imagery in Attilâ Ilhan’s poetry0
Egypt: how and why a heavily indebted country in the 1980s emerged solvent0
Intellectual struggles of Kurdish ulema in a post-colonial world: the case of Mullah Ali Zile0
Ottoman Rums and the Venizelos – Constantine conflict after the Armistice of Mudros: the election of Meletios Metaxakis as patriarch0
Where faith meets modernity: cemevi and local Alevi politics0
The appointment mechanism of the ulema to the Ilmiye posts0
From reconciliation to confrontation: Menachem Begin and the Kibbutz Movement 1968–19810
The British Mandate in Palestine: a centenary volume, 1920–20200
The role of the Bedouin in the Great Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936–19390
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
The Abyssinian slave trade to Iran and the Rokeby case 18770
Benefitting from the ambiguity: the issue of the ‘Turkishness’ of the Jewish minority in the first decade of the Turkish Republic0
The orphan, the donor and the photograph: humanitarianism and photography in post-First World War Jerusalem0
Yitzhak Shamir and the unity of contradictions: between the integrity of the whole Land of Israel and integrity of the Jewish People0
Cultural reforms and restructuring Iranian national identity: a case study of the Thought Development Organization and its Public Speech Commission0
The language policy of the Caliphate State0
Between the sacred and the profane: conflicts between football and sharia in Iran0
Justice and vilayat in post-revolutionary Iranian Shiʿism0
Education and a sense of security under conditions of sociopolitical uncertainty: the case of the Golan Druze0
The Decline of Empires in South Asia0
Iranian literature after the Islamic revolution: production and circulation in Iran and the world, by Laetitia Nanquette (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021), 301 + xiii pp., £80.00 (hardback0
Foreign policy as nation making: Turkey and Egypt in the Cold War0
Bringing democracy into Iran: a Russian project for the separation of Azerbaijan0
Power and light, profit and loss: the establishment and operation of the Damascus Electricity and Tramway Company, 1903-19140
Timber smuggling and forestry politics in late nineteenth-century Western Taurus0
‘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 era0
The Unionist presence in the Asiatic provinces of the Ottoman Empire, 1908–19120
Refugees and migrants in Iran: the Iran-Iraq war (1980–88) and the Intifada (1991)0
Mollā Nasreddin: the making of a modern trickster (1906-1911)0
Qutb’s hakimiyyah through the lens of Arendtian authority0
Responses to the abolitions of the Ottoman Sultanate and Caliphate in the Arabic and Hebrew press of Palestine, 1922–19240
Jerusalem 1948–1952 as a ‘no man’s land’: the Israeli policy in Jerusalem as an arena of the Cold War0
The Ottoman Empire and the emergence of its ‘Irish Question’0
The Tudeh Party of Iran and the peasant question, 1941–530
Building the capital: thoughts, plans, and practice in the process of making West Jerusalem the capital city of the State of Israel, 1948–19670
Supporters and opponents: a history of the Muslim Brotherhood’s second prison ordeal, 1954–19640
Algeria’s reforming decade (1988–1998): neoliberalism as a tool for survival0
Anthropologists, Topographers, Diplomats, and Spies: Royal Air Force Intelligence Officers in South Arabia 1954–19590
Discourses on outdated but still valid currencies in Israel, from the Egyptian withdrawal in 1841 to 20230
Israeli foreign policy: a people shall not dwell alone0
Exodus too: the story of an ordinary Egyptian Jewish family in extraordinary times0
Alcohol consumption, economic resource and League of Nations pressures in French Syria and Lebanon (1923–1946)0
Freemasonry’s political and diplomatic entanglements in the last phase of Ottoman history: the peculiar case of the Committee of Union and Progress0
Captain Gill’s walking stick0
Limited trust and its roots: the attitude of French military and political officials toward North African soldiers during the Great War (1914–1918)0
Playing with ‘the Great Satan’: the football diplomacy behind the 1998 and 2000 Iran–USA matches0
Imperialism after empire? Britain and Qatar in the aftermath of the withdrawal from East of Suez0
Kadriye Hüseyin: a forgotten female intellectual and a representation of Ottoman consciousness in early twentieth century Egypt0
‘A man on a watchtower’: Malleson and the British military mission to Turkistan, 1918–200
Powering empire: how coal made the Middle East and sparked global carbonization0
Asad’s autocratic dynasty in Syria: civil war and the role of regional and global powers0
From indifference to independence: Turkey’s shifting Cyprus policy in the 1950s0
An ‘Islamist’ intellectual in the late Ottoman Empire: Ali Suavi0
British foreign policy and military strategy: the contradictions of declining imperial power and the Baghdad Pact, 1947-550
Fraternal enemies: Israel and the Gulf monarchies0
Foundations of a geopolitical entity - the Gaza Strip 1947–19500
Nomads in the Middle East0
From listing religions to tabulating nationalities: Ottoman identity policies and enumeration practices0
Stephen Pericles Ladas and the 1923 Greco-Turkish Exchange of Populations: the making and unmaking of a narrative0
George Franghia (b. 1856): a forgotten farsighted Ottoman engineer’s contribution to the development of the province of Jerusalem during the late Ottoman period0
Practicing Sectarianism: Archival and Ethnographic intervention on Lebanon Practicing Sectarianism: Archival and Ethnographic intervention on Lebanon , by Lara Deeb, Tso0
Factors influencing the location of the early Zionist settlements in Ottoman Palestine: 1880–19150
Between parliamentary control and fiscal discipline: the General Budget Act for 1303/1924-25 (1925) on the eve of Pahlavi rule0
Turkey: between democracy and authoritarianism0
The Gulf Cooperation Council and counter-terror cooperation in the post-9/11 era: a regional organization in comparative perspective0
Understanding social change: demographic analyses of musicians in late Ottoman Istanbul0
Prize announcement0
New money in old Tripoli0
The making of an alliance: The origins and development of the US–Israeli relationship0
Breaking the news: a case study on nineteenth century journalism and Selim Faris0
‘An Oriental Gentlewoman’: Princess Nazlı Fazıl’s interview in The Gentlewoman in 18990
Are cinema, TV and football recommended for Muslims? The Millî Görüş movement’s view on popular culture0
Successful failure: American naval engineers at the Imperial Arsenal in Constantinople 1831–18420
A convivial space: the urban khan in Ottoman Istanbul from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries0
Lebanese Phalangism and fascism: history of a symbolic appropriation0
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 Addison0
Limits of economic modernization: smuggling versus monopolies in modern Turkey0
International politics in Turkish Islamism during the Cold War, 1947–19640
A war waiting to happen: How Menachem Begin and his administrations paved the way to the 1982 Lebanon war0
The colonial swamp in Mandatory Palestine: the Na’amien wetlands between local and global British interests in Palestine0
Egypt: a fragile power0
Juhayman al-Otaibi and the interpretation of the first violent Islamic movement in contemporary Saudi Arabia0
The rise of the Hebronite alliance: Hebronite regionalism between Palestine and Jordan, 1940–19670
Peace with Israel; Jordan’s profit and loss account0
False Prophets: British leaders’ fateful fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria0
Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment: a global and historical comparison0
Unwritten treaty: the historical background to Jordanian–Israeli relations, 1921–19510
Away from chaos: the Middle East and the challenge to the West0
Süreyya Ağaoğlu and the emerging liberal order in early Cold War Turkey0
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
Czechoslovak diplomatic dilemmas in regards to the Adolf Eichmann trial0
Public attitudes on peace with Israel in Jordanian politics0
Nostalgia and style: the life and works of Abdülhak Şinâsî Hisar0
Syria 2011–2013: Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem0
To break the feudal bonds: the Soviets, Reza Khan, and the Iranian left, 1921-250
The Palestinian youth of East Jerusalem – between Palestinian and Israeli identity0
The future of petroleum in Lebanon: energy, politics and economic growth0
‘The eye of the beholder’: Öcalan’s reading of Turkish political history0
Stranded in geopolitics: the question of Turkish Armenians in Soviet-Turkish relations0
Making of the Unionist bureaucracy: purging the Hamidian cadres, rule of law, and the limits of the Unionist power (1908–1910)0
‘He is living Israeli flag’: The Right and the Presidency in Israel under Chaim Weizmann, 1948–19520
Echoes across the iron curtain: the letters of Münevver Andaç to Nâzım Hikmet0
The British Council, English Language Teaching and Britain’s struggle for educational influence in Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar, 1955–690
Beşir Fuad’s Voltaire: liberating the individual0
Same reasons, different outcomes: Qatar’s policy on Israel up to 19960
A Modern Contagion: Imperialism and Public Health in Iran’s Age of Cholera,0
Family life in the ottoman mediterranean: a social history0
The Jewish past and the ‘birth’ of the Israeli nation state: the case of Ben-Gurion’s Independence Day speeches0
From pearls to oil: how the oil industry came to the United Arab Emirates Oil Men, Territorial Ambitions and Political Agents: from pearls to oil in the Trucial States of the Gulf Oil Men, Territorial0
Lumbering state, restless society: Egypt in the modern era0
The making of a mixed municipality in Israel: the case of Acre0
Correction0
Turkish Intelligence and the Cold War: the Turkish Secret Service, the US and the UK0
The Israeli Arameans: a people-in-progress0
‘A tent has fallen from the sky’: the convoluted story of a balloon accident in Ottoman Bosnia in 18030
The end of the pax Britannica in the Persian Gulf, 1968-19710
The evolution of the armed forces of the United Arab Emirates by Athol Yates (Warwick: Helion & Company Limited, 2020). pp. xv + 380. £35 (hardback). ISBN 9781912866007.0
Representing the Coptic community: the Communal Council and the road to the 1911 Coptic Congress0
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