British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

Article	Citations
Inaudible screams: intersectional experiences of oppression and violence in the Kurdish Novel	29
Appropriating Hafez’s ghazals for Shiite rites and rituals in the Islamic Republic of Iran	14
Regime trajectories of Tunisia and Turkey: a comparative analysis	14
Examining the AKP’s military intervention and civil reconstruction policy in northwestern Syria from 2015 until 2024 through the lens of the Narrative Policy Framework	13
Embedded diaspora diplomacy and inward-facing mobilization: mapping the Yemeni diaspora in Türkiye	10
Breaking the chains: women’s writing against patriarchy in Saudi narratives	9
Intimate conversations ( Munājayāt ) and supplications ( Adʿiya ) in early Islamic literature: Yaḥyā ibn M	7
Buying modernization. Western NGOs and gender politics in Pahlavi Iran	6
An increasingly corrosive expedient? Israel’s evolving relationship with back-channel diplomacy	6
Populists’ struggle for epistemic hegemony and anti-gender attacks on higher education in authoritarian contexts: the case of Turkey	6
Loved Egyptian night: the meaning of the Arab spring	5
We are not them! Self-presentation of North African Muslim soldiers in the German captivity in 1914–1918	5
Palestinian workers of Israel Railways	5
Drawing conclusions: Egyptian cartoon responses to Rabin’s assassination	4
Oil money: middle east petrodollars and the transformation of US empire, 1967–1988	4
Violence and representation in the Arab uprisings	4
Between revolution and tradition: Hassan Nasrallah’s rhetorical evolution and transnational alliances, 1982–2024	4
China-Iran strategic partnership and the future of US hegemony in the Persian Gulf Region	4
The failure of democracy in Afghanistan	4
Gaps and underlying casualties in labour market policy reforms, and targeted local and international assistance programmes in Arab Mediterranean countries	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
At the crossroads: A critical discourse analysis of gender and societal norms in Rajaa Alsanea’s ‘ Girls of Riyadh’	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
Da and its mothers of the martyred: meaning and contest in an Iranian war memoir	3

The power of the gift and the spirit of the tribe: how to win elections in Jordan	3
Ahmad Qābel and Contemporary Islamic Thought, Rational Shariah in Twenty-First-Century Iran	3
Between tradition and progress: portraying nurses on Muslim countries postage stamps	3
Becoming temporarily protected, producing temporarily protecting places: how Syrian refugee women and children co-create place in Istanbul	3
Struggle for alliance: Russia and Iran in the era of war in Ukraine	2
Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin and Returning to Haifa : a contrapuntal analysis of adaptation	2
An hour of justice: elite trans-confessionalism in the Shihabi Emirate of Mount Lebanon, 1697–1861	2
The legal politics of Islamic bioethics: drunk driving and the reconfiguration of privacy in the modern Gulf	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
Diasporic Syrian women writers: stories of resilience and survival	2
The Medieval Turks: Collected Papers	2
Review: Christianity and the Qur’an: the rise of Islam in Christian Arabia	2
Truth and other lies: online foreign image management in Iran during the Rouhani Era	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
Complicit: Britain’s role in the destruction of Gaza	2
Regime continuity and Islamists’ limited opportunities in post-2019 Algeria and Sudan	2
Islamic contract law	2
Disinformation as an authoritarian strategy: the populist playbook in Egypt and Tunisia	2
Contested ground: law and legitimacy in Iran’s constitutional revolution	2
The impact of language fragmentation on Kurdish literature: a case study of diasporic Kurdish women novelists writing in English	2
Islamic identity and development after the Ottomans the Arab Middle East	2
Leo Africanus : a reflection of Amin Maalouf’s deterritorialized migrant self	2
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	2
Women’s gifting of their inheritance share to male kin is void: a study of late Ottoman fatwas on social coercion	2
Social Change in Syria: Family, Village and Political Party	2
The sea symbolism and the Palestinians’ traumatic memories of departure, displacement and death	1
The modern silk road: trade in Persian opium across Central Asia in the long nineteenth century	1
Politics and writing in the shadow of the Cold War in I Was a Soviet Spy in Iran	1
Syria 2011–2013: revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem	1
Manipulating English news reports translated into Arabic: the influence of patronage and socio-narratives	1
Spaces of youth politics and the Arab uprisings: environmental activism and the Algerian Hirak	1
China’s rise in the global south	1
Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran	1
Disowning the past: an assassination, complex transnational influences, and the generational rift within the Iranian communist movement	1
Identity entanglements of descendants of Polish emigrants during the transformation of the multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire into a nation-state	1
The end of a myth? Turkish-American relations during the National Unity Committee Governments (1960–1961)	1
The myth of the Basiji: Morteza Avini’s legacy for the propaganda in Iran	1
Westophobia and the clash of civilizations rhetoric: a critical discourse analysis of misrepresented Western quotations in Arabic Islamic scholarship	1
The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries; Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary	1
Syria 2011–2013: Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem	1
Caribbean Zion: A creolization perspective on Jewish-Israeli cultures	1
Morocco’s colonial mutation of Arab Jewishness in the 20 th century, the case of Elie Malka	1
Expecting the best: Palestinian Utopianism and trans-sectarianism in the Mandate period	1
Sephardic longshoremen at the Haifa Port (1933-1936): dynamics of skill-selective labor immigration from Thessaloniki to mandatory Palestine	1
Deliberate polarization as a distractive political strategy in economic downturns: the case of Turkey	1
Populism at the UN: comparing Netanyahu’s and Abbas’s speeches, 2010–19	1
Missionary involvement with the Simele massacre in 1933: the end of American sympathy for the Assyrians	1
Iraqi Jewish Immigrants, Palestinian refugees, and intercommunal relations in Tira Transit Camp	1
A question of autonomy: the Islamic-conservative cultural sphere in Turkey	1

Ethnographic documentary: the sky wept for forty days	1
Introduction: propagandas, cultural production, and negotiating ideology in Iran	1
Understanding revolutions: opening acts in Tunisia	1
In pursuit of promotion, a life lost in ottoman petitions: the case of Doctor Ahmed Arif (1900–1910)	1
Why anti-LGBTQIA+ law is supported in Iraq? An evidence from conjoint analysis	1
Visualizing ideology: a visual grammar analysis of sociocultural and gender representations in the Saudi film Mandoob (Night Courier)	1
Women of Komala, gender and revolution in Iranian Kurdistan	1
Saudi women writers sociopolitical and literary landscapes	1
Propagating the Young Turk Revolution to Izmir Armenians: Doctor Nazım and Enver Bey in Izmir	1
Slavery in the early Mughal world: the life and thoughts of Jawhar Aftabachi (1520s–1580s)	1
Narrating the story of subalterns in the third space: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige and Lawrence Abu Hamdan	1
Shadow education in the Middle East: private supplementary tutoring and its policy implications	1
Foreign direct investment and authoritarian resilience: Saudi and Emirati investment in Egypt and the role of foreign policy motivations	1
Israel as a ‘Democracy of Masters’: on the politics of an exclusive Jewish homeland	1
Hidden Arab water: transfer of Palestinians and Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1948 and after	1
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: Iran ’s rejection of the World Bank intervention and the 1953 coup	1
Television series as propaganda: the populist discourse in Aghazadeh	1
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: World Bank and Truman-Churchill proposals rejoinder to Mr Gorjestani	1
Street-level governing: negotiating the state in urban Turkey	1
The rise and decline of Iran’s Forward Defense Strategy	0
Selimiye as a commemorative monument in modern Turkey	0
Unintended affinities: the Ottoman struggle to define religio-cultural boundaries against the Qizilbash Safavids, ca. 1510s–1550s	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
The independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan: the position of Egypt and the coverage in Egyptian online media	0
Kindred Voices: a literary history of Medieval Anatolia	0
Arabic and the Nation-State law in Israel: when legal liminality foreshadows political downgrade	0
Muslim women’s diasporic identity: a critical discourse analysis of Leila Aboulela’s Minaret (2005)	0
The life of one chosen by god: a study of the stories of Moses in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Sources	0
The Near East Relief and the American Board Commissions for foreign missions. Humanitarian partnership and divorce in the Near East (1918–1929)	0
Not all five phases of the polity are necessary in Ibn Khaldun’s political thought	0
How Islam rules in Iran; theology and theocracy in the Islamic Republic	0
The desert, poetry and Ibn ʿArabī	0
Feminism of the Besieged : the case of the Tal’at movement	0
Measuring the evolution of Arab States’ perceptions of the Iranian threat: a quantitative text analysis of Arabic-language state media, 2010–20	0
Refugee resilience and adaptation in the Middle East (reclaiming agency in the informal economies of Lebanon and Jordan)	0
The influence of the social contract on the stability of Moroccan society after its Independence	0
New order in the Gulf: the rise of the UAE	0
Alienation, gender, and transnational lives: an ethnographic study of undocumented Afghan women in Istanbul	0
‘The perspectives of Iranian Feminists and Women Activists on Gender Equality in Iran’	0
Visible religion: exploring Christian narrative and identity in the architectural decoration of Mardin houses	0
“Tunisianness” in contention: state power, religious identity, and cultural diversity in postcolonial Tunisia	0
Challenges in the conceptualization and implementation of normalization: insights from Egyptian–Israeli Relations	0
Arab nationalism and the politics of “othering” in Kuwait: evidence from al-taliʿa	0
The Crusade of 1456 Texts and Documentation in Translation	0
Religious Parties and the Politics of Civil Liberties	0
Framing democracy – organisational perspectives on democracy in post-2011 Tunisia	0
Negotiating modernity: Islamic legal reform and national identity in Morocco a theoretical inquiry with reflections on digital transformation	0
“Stalin’s final hope to secure a Soviet foothold in Iran’s government and oil industry, 1943–1953”	0
The practice of informal marriages in the Muslim world: a comparative portrait	0
The Labor of Hope. Meritocracy and precarity in Egypt	0
Gli arabi e la Sardegna. Un’introduzione	0
The role of protestant missionaries during the Great Arab Revolt in Jerusalem and South Palestine (1936-1939) – towards humanity?	0
Correction	0
The rise & decline of the Dargazin’s Sunnis and their role in the events of Afghan’s invasion to Isfahan	0
Muslim women’s identity in Orhan Pamuk’s Snow	0
Wars of Ambition: the United States, Iran, and the Struggle for the Middle East	0
Tracing the origins of Sufism in India: the representation of Hinduism and Buddhism by late Ottoman Bektashi intellectuals	0
The Yemenite Jews under Ottoman rule (1872–1914): relations, networks, and migration	0
“Nasir’s Vietnam”: analysing Egyptian intelligence literature on the Yemen intervention	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 enigma of the number of ʿAlawis in Syria: 11% indeed?	0
R. Moses Edrehi: a Moroccan Jew’s gaze upon his native land from 1830s London	0
Capitalism in contemporary Iran. Capital accumulation, state formation and geopolitics Capitalism in contemporary Iran. Capital accumulation, state formation and geopolitics	0
Channelling (in)security: governing movement and ordinary life in ‘imagined geographies’	0
The use of foreign languages in Saudi television advertisements	0
Joseph Campbell, Shiʿism, and the Karbala Narrative	0
Selling god: Al-Azhar, UAE and transnational transferability of religious capital	0
1890 cholera epidemic, al-Tur lazaretto, and the Hijaz railroad: early popular support	0
Jordanian stamps of Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem: 1967-1989	0
Jordan: politics in an accidental crucible	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
An introduction to arabic translation: translator training and translation practice An introduction to arabic translation: translator training and translation practice ,	0
China’s economic and political presence in the Middle East and South Asia	0
Lost in translation: unravelling the lexical intricacies of trust in Arabic	0
Imagining Palestine in Iranian Stamps: 1980–1987	0
Performing post-tariqa Sufism: making sacred space with Mevlevi and Rifai Zikir in Turkey	0
The Palestinian refugees, Christian humanitarianism, and the remaking of the Melkite church in Jordan	0
What does it mean to oppose sectarianism? An ordinary language study among Lebanese across social backgrounds	0
The absence, marginalization and culturalization of the presence: representation of the Kurds in Persian post-revolution novels: 1980–2011	0

Chinese, Kurds, Iranians and the Silk Road: a historical perspective	0
Arabic media coverage of pandemics: Discourse, strategy and impact	0
Self-branding and representation in Arab influencers’ bios on Instagram: a corpus linguistic study	0
Rethinking the contemporary art of Iran	0
Frequencies of deceit: how global propaganda wars shaped the Middle East	0
Islamic and sectarian or secular and nationalist? New classification of Iraqi Shi’a political actors based on ideological anchorage	0
Political Islam and democracy in Central Asia, the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan	0
Polarization & populist backlash in transitioning Tunisia: the role of internet media & media ownership	0
From pharaoh to hero: contested constructions of Mubarak’s image in Egyptian post-uprising collective memory	0
Triumph and despair: in search of Iran’s Islamic Republic	0
Hamid Dabashi, The Last Muslim Intellectual, the Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad	0
David Yellin, Muhammad Kurd ‘Ali and the Great Library of Damascus during the First World War	0
Azeri Turkish narratives in twentieth-century Iran: resisting monolingualism	0
Crisis between Britain and the United States over the Sinai multinational force	0
Professional politics and competitive authoritarianism: the cases of 2023 Presidential and 2024 local elections in Turkey	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
The religious soundscape of Mount Lebanon in the 18th and the first half of the 19th century	0
Fundamentalism in Iranian Kurdistan and its others: a critical discourse analysis	0
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History	0
Styles of ‘religion’, ‘non-religion’ and ‘spirituality’ in post-revolutionary Iran: the ‘ironic’ impact of ‘Islam’ on people’s ‘religiosity’	0
“Intentionality” in radical flank effects: reflections on Al-Nusra Front’s discourse of moderation between 2012–2017	0
Classless Politics. Islamist movements, the left, and authoritarian legacies in Egypt	0
After the Ottomans: genocide’s long shadow and Armenian resilience	0
A Shiʿi Lebanese reading of Sunni Hadith: progress, inclusivity, and an empowered contestation of narratives	0
Manifestations of exile and diaspora in the poetry of Abdullah al-Baradouni	0
Engaging rational philosophy and religious authoritarianism: an exploration of Youssef Chahine’s film Destiny	0
Review of Iran’s rise and rivalry with the US in the Middle East	0
Iran and a French empire of trade, 1700-1808: the other Persian letters	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
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
Egypt ’s new authoritarianism from an institutionalist perspective: formal-informal interactions before and after the Egyptian revolution	0
Narratives of the Sino-Middle Eastern futures: in the eye of the beholder	0
Statelet of survivors: the making of a semi-autonomous region in Northeast Syria	0
The blessed handful of light: genesis and message of the Yezidi berat	0
Digital authoritarianism in the middle east: deception, disinformation and social media	0
The Arabic linguistic and cultural impact on African languages: focus on Swahili	0
A dream of lies: stories of Bangladeshi maid migrants in the Middle East	0
Musa al-Sadr and the missing fatwa concerning the ʿAlawi religion	0
To fight ‘Justly’: Shia Clerics under Safavids and Qajars	0
The resistance axis and regional order in the Middle East: nomos, space, and normative alternatives	0
Russian geonarratives and Arab media: multipolarity, Eurasianism and constructed ‘non-Wests’	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
International Security in a World of Fragile States: Islamic States and Islamist Organisations	0
Türkiye-China relations revisited: a neo-Gramscian perspective	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 New Diaspora Press: Persian Periodicals in 1950s Israel	0
Nationalizing the fig commerce: Aram Hamparzum’s warehouse from the Empire to the Republic	0
Islamic studies in European higher education: navigating academic and confessional approaches	0
Virtual visions of the Middle Kingdom: Arab YouTube trends and transformations regarding China	0
Authoritarian adaptability: the selective enforcement of the unified sermon in Jordanian mosques	0
Political opposition and voter mobilization in an authoritarian state: The case of parliamentary elections in Iran	0
From resentment to hatred: the Islamist complex and Iran’s anger-charged foreign policy	0
Gender discrimination and reproduction of patriarchy within the family in Saudi fiction	0
Arabic media and the Ukrainian conflict: discourse and ideology	0
Iran’s grand strategy: a political history	0
Negotiating Lebanon’s urban boundaries and sectarian space: Syrian refugees in Beirut and Tripoli	0
Unmaking mother, wife, and chaste woman: subverted femininities in Theodosia Sophroniades’ narratives	0
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis re-revisited: World Bank and Truman–Churchill proposals	0
Exploring the metaphors of the body in the novels of Rajaa Alem: special focus on Khātam and Ḥubbā	0
Power, politics & resistance: secularism and women’s marital rights in Egypt and Iran	0
Achilles tendon of local fiscal governance: city councils and participatory budgeting with chances and uneasinesses for Türkiye	0
‘Unfinished business’: the unrealized development path of Israeli occupation, the Palestinian refugee issue, and 1948 nation-building	0
Middle eastern television drama: politics, aesthetics, practices	0
Amina Al-Saʿid: a liberal femocrat under state feminism	0
The Kizilbash/Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics and Community	0
The Manama riots 1947: Bahraini Jews between Palestine and Gulf labour politics	0
When the Israeli Right turned Left: Gahal during the recession (1966–1967)	0
The symbol and ideological connotations in the theatre of Raja Alem: Al-Mawt al-Akhiir li-l-Mumaththil ( the actor’s last death	0
Colouring inside the lines: how youth reproduce restrictive choices of vocational education in Saudi Arabia	0
Repression equals return of the repressed: a discourse analysis of Bakhtiyar Ali’s conquering Darkness	0
Revisiting Erdoğan’s century of Turkey: unmasking populism’s political strategies through the Lens of the Canal Istanbul	0
‘ There is no compulsion in marriage’ . Divorce and gendered change in Afghanistan during the Islamic Republic	0
Authority without territory: the institutionalization of religious transnationalism in the Shia clerical establishment	0
Islam, science fiction and extraterrestrial life: the culture of astrobiology in the muslim world	0
Sufi Civilities: religious authority and political change in Afghanistan	0
Placing the environment in Middle East studies: beyond the single story	0
Freedom for Morocco: a family tale	0
Narratives of forced mobility and displacement in contemporary literature and culture	0
Witness Reporting as Resistance and Recovery–The Swedish Missionary Alma Johansson and the 1915 Armenian Genocide	0
Constitutional choice in emerging democracies: adoption of the 2004 Afghan Constitution	0
India’s policy towards west Asia: the modi era	0
Forgetting Amir Boktor: the quintessential humanist Arab educator	0
When democracy died: the Middle East’s enduring peace of Lausanne	0
An Inclusion demoderation hypothesis: the revolutionary socialists in a democratic transition	0
The compromise of Islamism and democracy in the light of the Tunisian revolution and views of Rachid al-Gannouchi	0
Alliance and sectarian attitudes in the MENA: the case of Arab opinion towards Iran	0
Everyday life and tactical resistance of the political prisoners: the case of F-type prisons in Turkey	0
Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities: Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics	0
Investigating Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation	0
Ciné-martyrographies. Media techniques of witnessing in Iranian cinema	0
Allied rivalry over oil concession during World War II occupation of Iran: the Soviet perspective based on Soviet documents	0
(Un)rooted elsewhere: Palestinians and the making of a diaspora in the Arab Gulf	0
Shi‘a, Tribalism and the Iraqi state: the ethno-religious dimension	0
Political economy of budgeting under autocratization	0
Contested territory: the spatial dynamics of social media use by LGBTQIA+ influencers and activists in Lebanon	0