British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

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What is Iran? Domestic politics and international relations in five musical pieces What is Iran? Domestic politics and international relations in five musical p	19
Inaudible screams: intersectional experiences of oppression and violence in the Kurdish Novel	12
What does antisectarianism oppose? Lebanese communists’ debates on sectarianism, 1975–1981	10
Appropriating Hafez’s ghazals for Shiite rites and rituals in the Islamic Republic of Iran	9
An increasingly corrosive expedient? Israel’s evolving relationship with back-channel diplomacy	9
Populists’ struggle for epistemic hegemony and anti-gender attacks on higher education in authoritarian contexts: the case of Turkey	7
Regime trajectories of Tunisia and Turkey: a comparative analysis	6
Intimate conversations ( Munājayāt ) and supplications ( Adʿiya ) in early Islamic literature: Yaḥyā ibn Muʿādh al-Rāzī (d. 258/872) and A	5
Breaking the chains: women’s writing against patriarchy in Saudi narratives	5
In search for a spiritual authority. Shi’i clergy in Iranian post-revolutionary cinema	4
China-Iran strategic partnership and the future of US hegemony in the Persian Gulf Region	4
Politics and poetics of witnessing: Choman Hardi and Nazand Begikhani’s poetry of witness in English	4
Oil money: middle east petrodollars and the transformation of US empire, 1967–1988	4
Buying modernization. Western NGOs and gender politics in Pahlavi Iran	4
We are not them! Self-presentation of North African Muslim soldiers in the German captivity in 1914–1918	4
Loved Egyptian night: the meaning of the Arab spring	4
Violence and representation in the Arab uprisings	4
Palestinian workers of Israel Railways	4
The failure of democracy in Afghanistan	4
Ahmad Qābel and Contemporary Islamic Thought, Rational Shariah in Twenty-First-Century Iran Ahmad Qābel and Contemporary Islamic Thought, Rational Shariah in Twenty-First-Century Iran	3
Television and the Afghan culture wars: brought to you by foreigners, warlords, and activists Television and the Afghan culture wars: brought to you by foreigners, warlords, and activis	3
Syrian female detainees: pathetic or heroic victims?	3
Bedouins, blacks, and the bringers of Islam: the Arabs in late Ottoman encyclopaedic literature, 1876–1928	3
The dynamics of humanitarianism, religion and politics in the Middle East, 1860s-1960s: introductory remarks	3
At the crossroads: A critical discourse analysis of gender and societal norms in Rajaa Alsanea’s ‘ Girls of Riyadh’	2

Disinformation as an authoritarian strategy: the populist playbook in Egypt and Tunisia	2
The evolution of the armed forces of the United Arab Emirates	2
Truth and other lies: online foreign image management in Iran during the Rouhani Era	2
Social Change in Syria: Family, Village and Political Party	2
Diasporic Syrian women writers: stories of resilience and survival	2
Watermelon democracy: Egypt’s turbulent transition	2
Grounded nationalisms: a sociological analysis Grounded nationalisms: a sociological analysis , by Siniša Malešev	2
Gaps and underlying casualties in labour market policy reforms, and targeted local and international assistance programmes in Arab Mediterranean countries	2
Becoming temporarily protected, producing temporarily protecting places: how Syrian refugee women and children co-create place in Istanbul	2
Da and its mothers of the martyred: meaning and contest in an Iranian war memoir	2
Managing religion and religious changes in Iran: a socio-legal analysis	2
Parvin Etesami in the literary and religious context of twentieth-century Iran: a female poet’s challenge to patriarchy	2
Rethinking the critical reception by male critics in Saudi Arabia of Saudi women’s pre-1980 novels	2
Islam and democracy after the Arab Spring Islam and democracy after the Arab Spring , by John L. Esposito, Tamara Sonn, and John O. Voll, Oxford, Oxford University Press	2
Civil wars and international conflicts revisited: insights from the southern theatre of the Syrian uprising, 2011–2017	2
Museums, emotion and memory culture: the politics of the past in Turkey	2
Contested ground: law and legitimacy in Iran’s constitutional revolution	2
Women’s gifting of their inheritance share to male kin is void: a study of late Ottoman fatwas on social coercion	2
Ageing in faraway lands: nostalgic reminiscences and place reproduction in Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Lalami’s The Other Americans	2
An Ottoman mission to Tehran: Mehmed Tahir Münif Paşa’s second ambassadorship to Tehran and the re-making of Perso-Ottoman relations (1876-1897)	2
Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar	1
In pursuit of promotion, a life lost in ottoman petitions: the case of Doctor Ahmed Arif (1900–1910)	1
The legal politics of Islamic bioethics: drunk driving and the reconfiguration of privacy in the modern Gulf	1
Regime continuity and Islamists’ limited opportunities in post-2019 Algeria and Sudan	1
Syria 2011–2013: Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem	1
The end of a myth? Turkish-American relations during the National Unity Committee Governments (1960–1961)	1
China’s rise in the global south	1
Turkey in turmoil: social change and political radicalization during the 1960s	1
Foreign direct investment and authoritarian resilience: Saudi and Emirati investment in Egypt and the role of foreign policy motivations	1
Islamic identity and development after the Ottomans the Arab Middle East	1
Politics and writing in the shadow of the Cold War in I Was a Soviet Spy in Iran	1
The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries; Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary	1
Morocco’s colonial mutation of Arab Jewishness in the 20 th century, the case of Elie Malka	1
Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran	1
A revolution in rhyme: poetic co-option under the Islamic Republic A revolution in rhyme: poetic co-option under the Islamic Republic , by Fatemeh Shams, Oxford, Oxford	1
Introduction: propagandas, cultural production, and negotiating ideology in Iran	1
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: World Bank and Truman-Churchill proposals rejoinder to Mr Gorjestani	1
Leo Africanus : a reflection of Amin Maalouf’s deterritorialized migrant self	1
The Kurds in Erdogan’s Turkey: balancing identity, resistance, and citizenship The Kurds in Erdogan’s Turkey: balancing identity, resistance, and citizenship	1
Iraqi Jewish Immigrants, Palestinian refugees, and intercommunal relations in Tira Transit Camp	1
Tribal Mobilisation Forces in Iraq: Subtleties of Formation and Consequential Power Dynamics	1
Shadow education in the Middle East: private supplementary tutoring and its policy implications	1
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: Iran ’s rejection of the World Bank intervention and the 1953 coup	1
Routledge handbook on contemporary Egypt	1
The stories of rebellious children at the time of the 1979 revolution	1
Disowning the past: an assassination, complex transnational influences, and the generational rift within the Iranian communist movement	1
Ethnographic documentary: the sky wept for forty days Ethnographic documentary: the sky wept for forty days , by Sabrina Mervin, available also in French:	1
States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey	1
Understanding revolutions: opening acts in Tunisia	1
Blasphemy and apostasy in Islam: debates in Shi’a jurisprudence Blasphemy and apostasy in Islam: debates in Shi’a jurisprudence , by M	1

The myth of the Basiji: Morteza Avini’s legacy for the propaganda in Iran	1
Polygyny in Islam: a call for retrospection	1
Caribbean Zion: A creolization perspective on Jewish-Israeli cultures	1
Expecting the best: Palestinian Utopianism and trans-sectarianism in the Mandate period	1
Missionary involvement with the Simele massacre in 1933: the end of American sympathy for the Assyrians	1
Persian petroleum: oil, empire and revolution in late Qajar Iran Persian petroleum: oil, empire and revolution in late Qajar Iran	1
The Israeli policing army – the gray arm of annexation	1
Identity entanglements of descendants of Polish emigrants during the transformation of the multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire into a nation-state	1
A question of autonomy: the Islamic-conservative cultural sphere in Turkey	1
Television series as propaganda: the populist discourse in Aghazadeh	1
Iran’s changing naval strategy in the Persian Gulf: motives and features	1
The modern silk road: trade in Persian opium across Central Asia in the long nineteenth century	1
Street-level governing: negotiating the state in urban Turkey Street-level governing: negotiating the state in urban Turkey , by Elise Massicard, Stanford, CA, Stanford	1
Emotions and narratives of the spirit of Gallipoli: Turkey’s collective identity and status in international relations	0
Forgetting Amir Boktor: the quintessential humanist Arab educator	0
Alliance and sectarian attitudes in the MENA: the case of Arab opinion towards Iran	0
From pharaoh to hero: contested constructions of Mubarak’s image in Egyptian post-uprising collective memory	0
Martyrdom, mysticism and dissent: the poetry of the 1979 Iranian revolution and the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) Martyrdom, mysticism and dissent: the poetry of the 1979	0
Musa al-Sadr and the missing fatwa concerning the ʿAlawi religion	0
The role of the Israeli-Syrian mixed armistice commission in the fate of the Arabs of Krad al-Baqqara and Krad al-Ghaname 1948-1956	0
Hagop Mnts‘uri’s The Second Marriage: Armenian realities in the pre- and post-genocide Ottoman Empire and Turkey	0
Morality and revelation in Islamic thought and beyond: a new problem of evil	0
The (Un)translatability of Qur’anic idiomatic phrasal verbs: a contrastive linguistic study The (Un)translatability of Qur’anic idiomatic phrasal verbs: a	0
1890 cholera epidemic, al-Tur lazaretto, and the Hijaz railroad: early popular support	0
Frequencies of deceit: how global propaganda wars shaped the Middle East	0
Tunisian youth: catalyst for socio-political change and emergence of identity politics in post-Arab Spring Tunisia	0
Polarization & populist backlash in transitioning Tunisia: the role of internet media & media ownership	0
Translation and traditions: Taha Abderrahmane’s intersectional views as a threshold for cultural dialogue	0
The absence, marginalization and culturalization of the presence: representation of the Kurds in Persian post-revolution novels: 1980–2011	0
Muslim women’s identity in Orhan Pamuk’s Snow	0
How sanctions work: Iran and the impact of economic warfare How sanctions work: Iran and the impact of economic warfare , by Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Is	0
Review of Iran’s rise and rivalry with the US in the Middle East	0
Jordanian stamps of Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem: 1967-1989	0
Mourning mothers and wars that never end: reading Nasim Marashi’s Haras (Pruning) in the shadow of the Iran-Iraq war	0
Kindred Voices: a literary history of Medieval Anatolia	0
Syria 2011–2013: revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem	0
Placing the environment in Middle East studies: beyond the single story	0
Political opposition and voter mobilization in an authoritarian state: The case of parliamentary elections in Iran	0
Islamic and sectarian or secular and nationalist? New classification of Iraqi Shi’a political actors based on ideological anchorage	0
Populism at the UN: comparing Netanyahu’s and Abbas’s speeches, 2010–19	0
The desert, poetry and Ibn ʿArabī	0
The Palestinian refugees, Christian humanitarianism, and the remaking of the Melkite church in Jordan	0
The issue of the child’s surname in custody disputes in Turkey: what are the best interests of the child?	0
Authoritarian adaptability: the selective enforcement of the unified sermon in Jordanian mosques	0
The enigma of the number of ʿAlawis in Syria: 11% indeed?	0
The PLO’s political communication arena; Arafat and the struggle for media legitimacy	0
Islamic theology and extraterrestrial life; new frontiers in science and religion	0
“Tunisianness” in contention: state power, religious identity, and cultural diversity in postcolonial Tunisia	0
Islamic studies in European higher education: navigating academic and confessional approaches	0
Metamorphosis of Turkey’s political landscape: unveiling the evolving party system in the aftermath of the presidential system shift and the 2023 elections	0
The rise & decline of the Dargazin’s Sunnis and their role in the events of Afghan’s invasion to Isfahan	0
Regional identity and the sense of political belonging in a disputed land: the Golan Trail as symbolic socio-political initiative	0
The influence of the social contract on the stability of Moroccan society after its Independence	0
The role of protestant missionaries during the Great Arab Revolt in Jerusalem and South Palestine (1936-1939) – towards humanity?	0
‘We don’t want to be governed like this anymore’: protest democracy as an expression of a crisis of governmentality in post-revolution Tunisia	0
Configuring the present for the future: personal narratives of the Arab spring	0
Political economy of budgeting under autocratization	0
Parallel Discursive Fields in Pre-Revolutionary Russia and Iran: The West as a Model or an Anti-Model	0
The politics of mass violence in the Middle East	0
Hedayat’s rebellious child: multicultural rewriting of The Blind Owl in Porochista Khakpour’s Sons and Other Flammable Objects	0
Structural dividers in the Qur’an Structural dividers in the Qur’an , by Marianna Klar, Abingdon, Routledge, 2020, 418 pp., $ 160.00 (	0
Styles of ‘religion’, ‘non-religion’ and ‘spirituality’ in post-revolutionary Iran: the ‘ironic’ impact of ‘Islam’ on people’s ‘religiosity’	0
The compromise of Islamism and democracy in the light of the Tunisian revolution and views of Rachid al-Gannouchi	0
Nationalizing the fig commerce: Aram Hamparzum’s warehouse from the Empire to the Republic	0
Ethnopolitics to geopolitics: the Turkish State and the Kurdish question since 2015	0
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis re-revisited: World Bank and Truman–Churchill proposals	0
Manifestations of exile and diaspora in the poetry of Abdullah al-Baradouni	0
A (female) country doctor in Egypt: the life and times of Nawal Al-Saadawi	0
Publics forums in the Algerian and Lebanese hiraks or autonomy in the making	0
Arabic media and the Ukrainian conflict: discourse and ideology	0
Narratives of forced mobility and displacement in contemporary literature and culture	0
Policy success or policy failure? Narrative analysis of the Islamic parliament of Iran’s debates on the FATF recommendations bill	0
The development of the education system in Qatar: assessing the intended and unintended impacts of privatization policy shifts	0
Allied rivalry over oil concession during World War II occupation of Iran: the Soviet perspective based on Soviet documents	0
Localizing resilience: discursive projections, entrapments and domination	0
‘And never the twain shall meet’? The Western other in the Saudi novel and the contrastive construction of Saudi identity	0
Conflicting German Orientalism: Zionist Arabists and Arab scholars, 1926–1938	0
‘The perspectives of Iranian Feminists and Women Activists on Gender Equality in Iran’	0
Refugee resilience and adaptation in the Middle East (reclaiming agency in the informal economies of Lebanon and Jordan)	0
Damsels in distress: manufacturing ‘Lolitas’ for the West in Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran	0

Power, politics & resistance: secularism and women’s marital rights in Egypt and Iran	0
Triumph and despair: in search of Iran’s Islamic Republic	0
‘Unfinished business’: the unrealized development path of Israeli occupation, the Palestinian refugee issue, and 1948 nation-building	0
The Arabian Mission and the healthcare services in Bahrain 1901–1920	0
Whispers across continents: in search of the Robinsons Whispers across continents: in search of the Robinsons , by Gareth Winro	0
Middle eastern television drama: politics, aesthetics, practices	0
Colouring inside the lines: how youth reproduce restrictive choices of vocational education in Saudi Arabia	0
Shi‘a, Tribalism and the Iraqi state: the ethno-religious dimension	0
The birth of a poetry of political criticism: the transformation that took place in the political verses of the Negev Bedouin at the close of the Ottoman period	0
Creating the Qur’an: a historical-critical study	0
Disempowerment without expropriation: Egypt’s old oligarchy under Sisi	0
Manipulating English news reports translated into Arabic: the influence of patronage and socio-narratives	0
Selling god: Al-Azhar, UAE and transnational transferability of religious capital	0
The Near East Relief and the American Board Commissions for foreign missions. Humanitarian partnership and divorce in the Near East (1918–1929)	0
The blessed handful of light: genesis and message of the Yezidi berat	0
Spaces of youth politics and the Arab uprisings: environmental activism and the Algerian Hirak	0
Joseph Campbell, Shiʿism, and the Karbala Narrative	0
War and peace within the Israeli Right (1970 - 1978): the path of a Hawkish party towards pragmatism	0
A New Diaspora Press: Persian Periodicals in 1950s Israel	0
Correction	0
India’s policy towards west Asia: the modi era India’s policy towards west Asia: the modi era , edited by Sujan Chinoy and Prasanta Kumar Pradhan, New Delhi, Pentagon Pr	0
The political economy of implementing IMF reforms: evidence from Egypt and Tunisia	0
‘ There is no compulsion in marriage’ . Divorce and gendered change in Afghanistan during the Islamic Republic	0
Capitalism in contemporary Iran. Capital accumulation, state formation and geopolitics Capitalism in contemporary Iran. Capital accumulation, state formation and geopolitics	0
The rise and fall of the life of Mostafā Qoli Khān, Farrāshbāshi of Zell-e Soltān (1294-1309 AH/1877-1891 AD)	0
The religious soundscape of Mount Lebanon in the 18th and the first half of the 19th century	0
“Intentionality” in radical flank effects: reflections on Al-Nusra Front’s discourse of moderation between 2012–2017	0
Religious Arabic exclamations in Persian talks-in-interaction: a micro-analytic approach to contexts and senses	0
Understanding the Jihadi Salafi threat in Jordan in 2011-2017	0
Amina Al-Saʿid: a liberal femocrat under state feminism	0
At the Intersections of Populism, Nationalism and Islam: Justice and Development Party and Populist Reconfiguration of Religion in Politics	0
The practice of informal marriages in the Muslim world: a comparative portrait	0
A dream of lies: stories of Bangladeshi maid migrants in the Middle East	0
Hamid Dabashi, The Last Muslim Intellectual, the Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad	0
Arab nationalism and the politics of “othering” in Kuwait: evidence from al-taliʿa	0
From resentment to hatred: the Islamist complex and Iran’s anger-charged foreign policy	0
Everyday life and tactical resistance of the political prisoners: the case of F-type prisons in Turkey	0
Mission impossible: the Italian bombing of Bahrain and the British response	0
Agents of social change: cultural connections between Emirati women and camels	0
Tracing the origins of Sufism in India: the representation of Hinduism and Buddhism by late Ottoman Bektashi intellectuals	0
International Security in a World of Fragile States: Islamic States and Islamist Organisations	0
Is the Arab Spring over? Unpacking perceptions of democracy, elections and regime-types in MENA countries	0
‘Islamization of Knowledge’: a Utopian dream or a viable project? A critique of the views of two prominent Iranian proponents of the ‘Islamization Project’	0
Religious Parties and the Politics of Civil Liberties	0
Christian Arab nationalism between ideology and pragmatism the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Of Antioch Gregorios IV in the First World War	0
“Nasir’s Vietnam”: analysing Egyptian intelligence literature on the Yemen intervention	0
Negotiating gender during times of crisis in the Islamic Republic of Iran: visual propaganda from the Iran–Iraq War to COVID-19	0
A Shiʿi Lebanese reading of Sunni Hadith: progress, inclusivity, and an empowered contestation of narratives	0
Investigating Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation	0
The independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan: the position of Egypt and the coverage in Egyptian online media	0
Al-Lajjun: a social and geographic account of a Palestinian Village during the British Mandate Period	0
Institutional petitions in Morocco: opportunities and challenges of claiming rights in participatory arenas	0
What does it mean to oppose Sectarianism? An ordinary language study among Lebanese across social backgrounds	0
Türkiye-China relations revisited: a neo-Gramscian perspective	0
The Roc’s egg as vanishing mediator in Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from text to film	0
How Islam rules in Iran; theology and theocracy in the Islamic Republic	0
The ‘myth of moderation’ following the Arab Uprisings: polarization in Tunisia and Egypt’s founding elections	0
The evolution of the party model in Turkey: from cadre to cartel parties?	0
The resistance axis and regional order in the Middle East: nomos, space, and normative alternatives	0
Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East: international relations in the interwar period	0
State capacity and termination of terror campaigns: a qualitative evidence from PKK	0
Lost in translation: unravelling the lexical intricacies of trust in Arabic	0
Sephardic longshoremen at the Haifa Port (1933-1936): dynamics of skill-selective labor immigration from Thessaloniki to mandatory Palestine	0
Social classes and political Islam: a comparative ecological approach of post-Arab Spring elections in Northern Africa (2011- 2014)	0
Self-branding and representation in Arab influencers’ bios on Instagram: a corpus linguistic study	0
Revisiting Erdoğan’s century of Turkey: unmasking populism’s political strategies through the Lens of the Canal Istanbul	0
Deliberate polarization as a distractive political strategy in economic downturns: the case of Turkey	0
The Arabic linguistic and cultural impact on African languages: focus on Swahili	0
Crisis between Britain and the United States over the Sinai multinational force	0
Measuring the evolution of Arab States’ perceptions of the Iranian threat: a quantitative text analysis of Arabic-language state media, 2010–20	0
China’s economic and political presence in the Middle East and South Asia	0
‘The Female Rumi’ and Feminine Mysticism: ‘God’s Weaver’ by Parvin Iʿtisami	0
Exploring the metaphors of the body in the novels of Rajaa Alem: special focus on Khātam and Ḥubbā	0
From brotherhood of the revolution to the struggle for power: analysis of the Libyan Civil War in the context of the security dilemma	0
The power of silence: rethinking Iranian Jews’ power relations during the Qajar dynasty	0
Sufi Civilities: religious authority and political change in Afghanistan	0
Islam, science fiction and extraterrestrial life: the culture of astrobiology in the muslim world	0
Contested territory: the spatial dynamics of social media use by LGBTQIA+ influencers and activists in Lebanon	0
“Stalin’s final hope to secure a Soviet foothold in Iran’s government and oil industry, 1943–1953”	0
The attraction of direct action: the making of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the Iranian Kurdish conflict	0
Israel, the United States, Saudi Arabia and the Fahd Plan of 1981: an historic missed opportunity	0
To fight ‘Justly’: Shia Clerics under Safavids and Qajars	0
Freedom for Morocco: a family tale	0
Iran and a French empire of trade, 1700-1808: the other Persian letters	0
Jihad in the City – militant Islam and contentious politics in Tripoli Jihad in the City – militant Islam and contentious politics in Tripoli , by Raphael Lefevre, Cambr	0
When the Israeli Right turned Left: Gahal during the recession (1966–1967)	0
Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE contest over the Arab Spring and the Gulf crisis	0
Ciné-martyrographies. Media techniques of witnessing in Iranian cinema	0
Muslim women’s diasporic identity: a critical discourse analysis of Leila Aboulela’s Minaret (2005)	0
Constitutional choice in emerging democracies: adoption of the 2004 Afghan Constitution	0
An introduction to arabic translation: translator training and translation practice An introduction to arabic translation: translator training and translation practice ,	0
Channelling (in)security: governing movement and ordinary life in ‘imagined geographies’	0
Hope, Messiah and troubles of messianic futures in Iran: exploring martyrdom and politics of hope amongst the Iranian revolutionary youth	0
The struggle for supremacy in the middle east: Saudi Arabia and Iran The struggle for supremacy in the middle east: Saudi Arabia and Iran , by Simon Mabon, New York, NY,	0
Selimiye as a commemorative monument in modern Turkey	0