British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
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Ramallah ravers and Haifa hipsters: gender, class, and nation in Palestinian popular culture8
‘We don’t want to be governed like this anymore’: protest democracy as an expression of a crisis of governmentality in post-revolution Tunisia6
Counterinsurgency in Istanbul: provocative counterorganization, violent interpellation and sectarian fears6
At the Intersections of Populism, Nationalism and Islam: Justice and Development Party and Populist Reconfiguration of Religion in Politics6
The empire’s opposition strikes back: popular culture as creative resistance tool under Turkey’s AKP6
Islamism and the rise of Islamic charities in post-revolutionary Tunisia: claiming political Islam through other means?6
Negotiating patriarchal relationships to become economically active: an insight into the agency of Syrian refugee women in Jordan using frameworks of womanism and intersectionality6
The development of the education system in Qatar: assessing the intended and unintended impacts of privatization policy shifts5
The power of nonsense: humour in Egypt’s counter/revolution4
Ideology matters: cultural power in the case of Daesh4
Queer counterpublics and LGBTQ pop-activism in Jordan4
Localizing resilience: discursive projections, entrapments and domination4
Shifting Threats and Strategic Adjustment in Iran’s Foreign Policy: The case of Strait of Hormuz3
Ethnopolitics to geopolitics: the Turkish State and the Kurdish question since 20153
Afghans in Iran: the state and the working of immigration policies3
Oil, Labour and Empire: Abadan in WWII Occupied Iran2
Institutional petitions in Morocco: opportunities and challenges of claiming rights in participatory arenas2
Investigating the cultural signs and ideological representations in Masameer Saudi cartoon: a discursive and semiotic analysis2
‘Just another story that was prepared in advance’ - political distrust, Islamism, and conspiratorial thinking in Arab public opinion on the Islamic State2
Active on the street but apathetic at the ballot box? Explaining youth voter behaviour in Tunisia’s new democracy2
Institutions, feminist mobilizations, and political economy: Debating equal inheritance in Tunisia2
Ingroup, outgroup, or ally? An inquiry on the identity content of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) supporters on social media2
The evolution of the party model in Turkey: from cadre to cartel parties?2
Between political survival and regional power: the justice and development party and Cyprus, 2002–20172
Islamic Fundamentalism as a lifestyle? a Sociological Study of Islamic Fundamentalism among Sunni Kurds of Iran2
Soft power, hard power dynamics: the case of Iran in Afghanistan2
Political thinking performed: popular cultures as arenas of consent and resistance2
An episode of the revolution: Aleppo university protest movement 2011–20132
Constructing new Turkey’s desired worker: the denial of social class in the AKP era2
The practice of informal marriages in the Muslim world: a comparative portrait2
Syrian refugees and other Syrian forced migrants in Jordan: forms of capital approach2
The role of the Syrian business elite in the Syrian conflict: a class narrative2
Israeli Military Education: Historical Overview of a Unique Phenomenon (1941-2004)2
“Muslim Democrats”: the rise of neo-Islamism in Tunisia and Morocco2
Demographic analysis on social perceptions of Hijab in contemporary Iran: dimensions and determinants2
Azerbaijan’s state building power as a reflection of Israel–Iran hostility2
The failure of democracy in Afghanistan2
Legal conflicts among natural resources stakeholders in Iran2
Responding to Climate Change in Jordan: understanding institutional developments, political restrictions and economic opportunities2
The armed struggle of the 1980s in Iranian Kurdistan: a space for survival2
Religious Arabic exclamations in Persian talks-in-interaction: a micro-analytic approach to contexts and senses1
Methods in the madness? Exploring the logics of torture in Syrian counterinsurgency practices1
Regime trajectories of Tunisia and Turkey: a comparative analysis1
To fight ‘Justly’: Shia Clerics under Safavids and Qajars1
Emotions and narratives of the spirit of Gallipoli: Turkey’s collective identity and status in international relations1
Contesting ritual practices in Twelver Shiism: modernism, sectarianism and the politics of self-flagellation ( taṭbīr )1
Polarization & populist backlash in transitioning Tunisia: the role of internet media & media ownership1
Styles of ‘religion’, ‘non-religion’ and ‘spirituality’ in post-revolutionary Iran: the ‘ironic’ impact of ‘Islam’ on people’s ‘religiosity’1
Mass violence in Syria: continuity and change1
Zionism in a white coat: Israel’s geopolitics of medical aid development assistance of health to Africa1
The Abu Hameds of Mulabbis: an oral history of a Palestinian village depopulated in the Late Ottoman period1
The ‘myth of moderation’ following the Arab Uprisings: polarization in Tunisia and Egypt’s founding elections1
‘The Female Rumi’ and Feminine Mysticism: ‘God’s Weaver’ by Parvin Iʿtisami1
New directions in the study of popular culture and politics in the Middle East and North Africa1
The war of the 60 stamps: the battle for public opinion – how the Nakba influenced Jordanian postage stamps1
Deliberate polarization as a distractive political strategy in economic downturns: the case of Turkey1
Power, politics & resistance: secularism and women’s marital rights in Egypt and Iran1
State capacity and termination of terror campaigns: a qualitative evidence from PKK1
Hedayat’s rebellious child: multicultural rewriting of The Blind Owl in Porochista Khakpour’s Sons and Other Flammable Objects1
Egypt ’s new authoritarianism from an institutionalist perspective: formal-informal interactions before and after the Egyptian revolution1
Internet-mediated Islamist semiotics: policing memes and the R4BIA pizza effect1
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 period1
From ‘ yol ’ to diasporic Alevism: migration and religious change among Alevis in Britain1
The Russo-Ottoman struggle over the support of the Muslims of Southern Caucasus in the 1890s1
Baudrillard in Ankara: mainstream media and the production of simulacra in the Turkish public sphere1
Orchestrating Palestinian youth political socialization during the British Mandate (1917-1948): policies and community responses1
The cinema of the young Muslim Brothers: claiming a space in Egyptian pop culture1
Kemerê Duzgi: The Protector of Dersim (pilgrimage, social transformation, and revitalization of the Raa Haqi religion)1
Palestinian rural education during the British mandate: a story of a national struggle and constant resistance1
Negotiating Lebanon’s urban boundaries and sectarian space: Syrian refugees in Beirut and Tripoli1
Ageing in faraway lands: nostalgic reminiscences and place reproduction in Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Lalami’s The Other Americans1
Iran’s foreign policy making: consensus building or power struggle?1
Disempowerment without expropriation: Egypt’s old oligarchy under Sisi1
Configuring the present for the future: personal narratives of the Arab spring1
Diasporic Syrian women writers: stories of resilience and survival1
Becoming temporarily protected, producing temporarily protecting places: how Syrian refugee women and children co-create place in Istanbul1
Musical spirits and poetic tongues: oral traditions in the cultural politics of Kurdish intellectuals (1920s-1940s)1
The resistance axis and regional order in the Middle East: nomos, space, and normative alternatives1
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow: social justice and the rise of dystopian art and literature post-Arab Uprisings1
Iran’s changing naval strategy in the Persian Gulf: motives and features1
Jordanian stamps of Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem: 1967-19891
From brotherhood of the revolution to the struggle for power: analysis of the Libyan Civil War in the context of the security dilemma1
Palestinian workers of Israel Railways1
Violence against health care in Syria: patterns, meanings, implications1
Space, place and consciousness; Explorations on Jewish identity in Amos Oz’s life narrative A Tale of Love and Darkness1
Returning the megaphone to the people: the Theatre of the Oppressed as artivism in the public space for a new critical citizenry in Morocco1
Rethinking the critical reception by male critics in Saudi Arabia of Saudi women’s pre-1980 novels1
Oil money: middle east petrodollars and the transformation of US empire, 1967–19880
Advanced English-Arabic translation: a practical guide, 2nd edition0
An introduction to arabic translation: translator training and translation practice An introduction to arabic translation: translator training and translation practice ,0
The issue of the child’s surname in custody disputes in Turkey: what are the best interests of the child?0
The Sīmurgh in Chach: bird symbolism in the Rawdat al-fariqayn0
Correction0
The attraction of direct action: the making of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the Iranian Kurdish conflict0
Poetry as a communicative vehicle in the jihadi milieu: the case for modern extremist poetry0
Killing the dispensables: massacres perpetrated in the villages of Eastern Aleppo Province in 20130
Tunisian youth as drivers of socio-cultural and political changes: glocality and effacement of cultural memory?0
‘In the Byzantines’ cage’: a Transjordanian poem about Qadr al-Majali, leader of the 1910 Karak revolt – analysis of a version documented in the Negev0
Disappointment and vision in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings0
Confronting minorization: colonial missionaries and Ottoman millets in the eyes of a Nineteenth Century Baghdadi Rabbi0
Hamid Dabashi, The Last Muslim Intellectual, the Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad0
The palm tree and the fist. The use of popular imagery in the Tunisian protest songs of the 1970s-1980s0
The dynamics of humanitarianism, religion and politics in the Middle East, 1860s-1960s: introductory remarks0
Turkish politics and ‘the people’: mass mobilisation and populism Turkish politics and ‘the people’: mass mobilisation and populism , by Spyros A. Sofos, Edinburgh, Edin0
Freedom on the Frontlines: Afghan Women and the Fallacy of Liberation Freedom on the Frontlines: Afghan Women and the Fallacy of Liberation , by Lina Abirafeh, Jefferson0
Mission impossible: the Italian bombing of Bahrain and the British response0
The temptation of graves in Salafi Islam: iconoclasm, destruction and idolatry0
Challenges in the conceptualization and implementation of normalization: insights from Egyptian–Israeli Relations0
Understanding community resilience in Yemen: how parallel institutions meet essential needs in the absence of the state0
Grounded nationalisms: a sociological analysis Grounded nationalisms: a sociological analysis , by Siniša Malešev0
Introduction: propagandas, cultural production, and negotiating ideology in Iran0
Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran0
Faces of Muhammad: Western perceptions of the prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to today Faces of Muhammad: Western perceptions of the prophet of Islam from the Mi0
Ethnographic documentary: the sky wept for forty days Ethnographic documentary: the sky wept for forty days , by Sabrina Mervin, available also in French: 0
The stories of rebellious children at the time of the 1979 revolution0
Ciné-martyrographies. Media techniques of witnessing in Iranian cinema0
Political opposition and voter mobilization in an authoritarian state: The case of parliamentary elections in Iran0
Capitalism in contemporary Iran. Capital accumulation, state formation and geopolitics Capitalism in contemporary Iran. Capital accumulation, state formation and geopolitics 0
International Security in a World of Fragile States: Islamic States and Islamist Organisations0
Populists’ struggle for epistemic hegemony and anti-gender attacks on higher education in authoritarian contexts: the case of Turkey0
Shi‘a, Tribalism and the Iraqi state: the ethno-religious dimension0
Iranian women & gender in the Iran-Iraq war0
The (Un)translatability of Qur’anic idiomatic phrasal verbs: a contrastive linguistic study The (Un)translatability of Qur’anic idiomatic phrasal verbs: a 0
Structural dividers in the Qur’an Structural dividers in the Qur’an , by Marianna Klar, Abingdon, Routledge, 2020, 418 pp., $ 160.00 (0
The Roc’s egg as vanishing mediator in Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from text to film0
Blasphemy and apostasy in Islam: debates in Shi’a jurisprudence Blasphemy and apostasy in Islam: debates in Shi’a jurisprudence , by M0
Narratives of forced mobility and displacement in contemporary literature and culture0
Vicegerency in Islamic Thought and Scripture: Towards a Qur’anic Theory of Human Existential Function Vicegerency in Islamic Thought and Scripture: Towards a Qur’anic Theory of Human Ex0
The Israeli policing army – the gray arm of annexation0
Hagop Mnts‘uri’s The Second Marriage: Armenian realities in the pre- and post-genocide Ottoman Empire and Turkey0
‘The perspectives of Iranian Feminists and Women Activists on Gender Equality in Iran’0
The PLO’s political communication arena; Arafat and the struggle for media legitimacy0
Institutional resilience in Modern Iranian Shiʿism: solidification of the ḥawza ʿilmīya of Qum between 1961 and 19790
Righteous Politics: Power and Resilience in Iran0
Framing democracy – organisational perspectives on democracy in post-2011 Tunisia0
Damsels in distress: manufacturing ‘Lolitas’ for the West in Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran0
The politics of mass violence in the Middle East0
Inaudible screams: intersectional experiences of oppression and violence in the Kurdish Novel0
‘And never the twain shall meet’? The Western other in the Saudi novel and the contrastive construction of Saudi identity0
Selling god: Al-Azhar, UAE and transnational transferability of religious capital0
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
Turkey: the pendulum between military rule and civilian authoritarianism0
What does antisectarianism oppose? Lebanese communists’ debates on sectarianism, 1975–19810
Sinews of war and trade: shipping and capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula0
Television series as propaganda: the populist discourse in Aghazadeh0
From pharaoh to hero: contested constructions of Mubarak’s image in Egyptian post-uprising collective memory0
The rise and fall of the life of Mostafā Qoli Khān, Farrāshbāshi of Zell-e Soltān (1294-1309 AH/1877-1891 AD)0
Hope, Messiah and troubles of messianic futures in Iran: exploring martyrdom and politics of hope amongst the Iranian revolutionary youth0
The west’s war against Islamic state: operation inherent resolve in Syria and Iraq0
China-Iran strategic partnership and the future of US hegemony in the Persian Gulf Region0
Dynamic Quietism and the Consolidation of the ḥawza ʿilmīyya of Qum during the Pahlavi Era0
Responses of the EU and Member States to the Tunisian Revolution: Discourse vs Action0
New order in the Gulf: the rise of the UAE0
Caribbean Zion: A creolization perspective on Jewish-Israeli cultures0
The modern silk road: trade in Persian opium across Central Asia in the long nineteenth century0
Nationalizing the fig commerce: Aram Hamparzum’s warehouse from the Empire to the Republic0
Violence and representation in the Arab uprisings0
Joseph Campbell, Shiʿism, and the Karbala Narrative0
Regime continuity and Islamists’ limited opportunities in post-2019 Algeria and Sudan0
A Shiʿi Lebanese reading of Sunni Hadith: progress, inclusivity, and an empowered contestation of narratives0
Policy success or policy failure? Narrative analysis of the Islamic parliament of Iran’s debates on the FATF recommendations bill0
The rise & decline of the Dargazin’s Sunnis and their role in the events of Afghan’s invasion to Isfahan0
The influence of the social contract on the stability of Moroccan society after its Independence0
What is Iran? Domestic politics and international relations in five musical pieces What is Iran? Domestic politics and international relations in five musical p0
Syrian female detainees: pathetic or heroic victims?0
Alliance and sectarian attitudes in the MENA: the case of Arab opinion towards Iran0
Appropriating Hafez’s ghazals for Shiite rites and rituals in the Islamic Republic of Iran0
Manifestations of exile and diaspora in the poetry of Abdullah al-Baradouni0
The evolution of the armed forces of the United Arab Emirates0
Turkey in turmoil: social change and political radicalization during the 1960s0
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 Press0
David Yellin, Muhammad Kurd ‘Ali and the Great Library of Damascus during the First World War0
Triumph and despair: in search of Iran’s Islamic Republic0
The Muslim brotherhood in Syria0
The independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan: the position of Egypt and the coverage in Egyptian online media0
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 0
Translation and traditions: Taha Abderrahmane’s intersectional views as a threshold for cultural dialogue0
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 Pr0
States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey 0
Iran reframed: anxieties of power in the Islamic Republic0
Social classes and political Islam: a comparative ecological approach of post-Arab Spring elections in Northern Africa (2011- 2014)0
National socialist propaganda in late Reza-Shah Iran: the case of Khaterat-e Hitler by Mohsen Jahansuz0
“The old rains are gone, so are we”: Kurdish Nomads of Mount Ağrı (Ararat)0
HIJAB: three modern Iranian seminarian perspectives HIJAB: three modern Iranian seminarian perspectives , by Lloyd Ridgeon, Lon0
The Kurds in Erdogan’s Turkey: balancing identity, resistance, and citizenship The Kurds in Erdogan’s Turkey: balancing identity, resistance, and citizenship 0
Women in place: the politics of gender segregation in Iran0
Tunisian youth: catalyst for socio-political change and emergence of identity politics in post-Arab Spring Tunisia0
Museums, emotion and memory culture: the politics of the past in Turkey0
The role of ṣulḥ in Sahrawi state-building0
Buying modernization. Western NGOs and gender politics in Pahlavi Iran0
In search for a spiritual authority. Shi’i clergy in Iranian post-revolutionary cinema0
British diplomacy and the Iranian revolution, 1978-1981 (security, conflict and cooperation in the contemporary world)0
There is no compulsion in marriage’ . Divorce and gendered change in Afghanistan during the Islamic Republic0
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
Middle eastern television drama: politics, aesthetics, practices0
Politics and poetics of witnessing: Choman Hardi and Nazand Begikhani’s poetry of witness in English0
A question of autonomy: the Islamic-conservative cultural sphere in Turkey0
Islamic Republic of Iran’s Foreign Policy in the South Caucasus: Opportunities and Constraints Islamic Republic of Iran’s Foreign Policy in the South Caucasus: Opportunities and Constra0
Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East: international relations in the interwar period0
The life of one chosen by god: a study of the stories of Moses in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Sources0
Social capital, civic engagement and democratization in Kurdistan0
The rise and demise of Safavid-Kizilbash millenarianism in Western Asia: an ecosystemic institutionalist explanation0
Diaspora from the Middle East and North Africa: communities, architecture, neighborhoods0
Mernissi’s impact on Islamic feminism: a critique of the religious approach0
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: Iran ’s rejection of the World Bank intervention and the 1953 coup0
Da and its mothers of the martyred: meaning and contest in an Iranian war memoir0
A New Diaspora Press: Persian Periodicals in 1950s Israel0
Review of the book: political economy of iran: development, revolution and political violence0
‘Lakum ‘Adatkum wa-Lana al-Musiqa’ A critical engagement with the politics of identity, resistance and affect in Mashrou` Leila’s Music0
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 activis0
Regional identity and the sense of political belonging in a disputed land: the Golan Trail as symbolic socio-political initiative0
Expecting the best: Palestinian Utopianism and trans-sectarianism in the Mandate period0
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-Is0
The Palestinian refugees, Christian humanitarianism, and the remaking of the Melkite church in Jordan0
Political Islam and democracy in Central Asia, the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan Political Islam and democracy in Central Asia, the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan 0
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 Iran0
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, Cambr0
An increasingly corrosive expedient? Israel’s evolving relationship with back-channel diplomacy0
An introduction to Arabic translation0
Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar 0
Epilogue0
“Revolution of things; the Islamism and Post-Islamism of objects in Tehran” “Revolution of things; the Islamism and Post-Islamism of objects in Tehran” , by Kusha Sefat,0
The myth of the Basiji: Morteza Avini’s legacy for the propaganda in Iran0
Muslim women’s identity in Orhan Pamuk’s Snow0
The Near East Relief and the American Board Commissions for foreign missions. Humanitarian partnership and divorce in the Near East (1918–1929)0
Placing the environment in Middle East studies: beyond the single story0
Missionaries as Humanitarian Mediators after the 1860 troubles in Lebanon0
Muslim reading rooms in the Caucasus: adaptation, emulation, and the cultivation of a reading public0
Street-level governing: negotiating the state in urban Turkey Street-level governing: negotiating the state in urban Turkey , by Elise Massicard, Stanford, CA, Stanford 0
Measuring the evolution of Arab States’ perceptions of the Iranian threat: a quantitative text analysis of Arabic-language state media, 2010–200
Politics and writing in the shadow of the Cold War in I Was a Soviet Spy in Iran0
‘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
Muslim women’s diasporic identity: a critical discourse analysis of Leila Aboulela’s Minaret (2005)0
Iran and a French empire of trade, 1700-1808: the other Persian letters0
Parallel Discursive Fields in Pre-Revolutionary Russia and Iran: The West as a Model or an Anti-Model0
Conflicting German Orientalism: Zionist Arabists and Arab scholars, 1926–19380
Islam, science fiction and extraterrestrial life: the culture of astrobiology in the muslim world0
Beyond the Prophet’s Heirs: Emergent Trajectories of a new Sectarian Polemic in Contemporary Iran0
Religious Parties and the Politics of Civil Liberties0
The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries; Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary0
Politics of hope and populist backlash: kurds in Turkey and Palestinians in Israel0
Understanding the Jihadi Salafi threat in Jordan in 2011-20170
Christian Arab nationalism between ideology and pragmatism the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Of Antioch Gregorios IV in the First World War0
Freedom for Morocco: a family tale0
Civil wars and international conflicts revisited: insights from the southern theatre of the Syrian uprising, 2011–20170
We are not them! Self-presentation of North African Muslim soldiers in the German captivity in 1914–19180
Is the Arab Spring over? Unpacking perceptions of democracy, elections and regime-types in MENA countries0
Methodological approaches in Kurdish studies: theoretical and practical insights from the field0
The ‘Officers Plot’: the German fifth column during the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Iran in the Second World War0
Iraqi Jewish Immigrants, Palestinian refugees, and intercommunal relations in Tira Transit Camp0
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