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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
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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 p20
Inaudible screams: intersectional experiences of oppression and violence in the Kurdish Novel10
Regime trajectories of Tunisia and Turkey: a comparative analysis9
An increasingly corrosive expedient? Israel’s evolving relationship with back-channel diplomacy9
Appropriating Hafez’s ghazals for Shiite rites and rituals in the Islamic Republic of Iran9
Populists’ struggle for epistemic hegemony and anti-gender attacks on higher education in authoritarian contexts: the case of Turkey6
Loved Egyptian night: the meaning of the Arab spring5
Intimate conversations ( Munājayāt ) and supplications ( Adʿiya ) in early Islamic literature: Yaḥyā ibn Muʿādh al-Rāzī (d. 258/872) and A5
Buying modernization. Western NGOs and gender politics in Pahlavi Iran5
Breaking the chains: women’s writing against patriarchy in Saudi narratives5
We are not them! Self-presentation of North African Muslim soldiers in the German captivity in 1914–19184
Oil money: middle east petrodollars and the transformation of US empire, 1967–19884
Violence and representation in the Arab uprisings4
China-Iran strategic partnership and the future of US hegemony in the Persian Gulf Region4
Palestinian workers of Israel Railways4
The failure of democracy in Afghanistan4
Politics and poetics of witnessing: Choman Hardi and Nazand Begikhani’s poetry of witness in English4
Bedouins, blacks, and the bringers of Islam: the Arabs in late Ottoman encyclopaedic literature, 1876–19283
Civil wars and international conflicts revisited: insights from the southern theatre of the Syrian uprising, 2011–20173
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 activis3
Gaps and underlying casualties in labour market policy reforms, and targeted local and international assistance programmes in Arab Mediterranean countries3
In search for a spiritual authority. Shi’i clergy in Iranian post-revolutionary cinema3
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 Iran3
Museums, emotion and memory culture: the politics of the past in Turkey2
Disinformation as an authoritarian strategy: the populist playbook in Egypt and Tunisia2
Social Change in Syria: Family, Village and Political Party2
The Medieval Turks: Collected Papers2
Ageing in faraway lands: nostalgic reminiscences and place reproduction in Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Lalami’s The Other Americans2
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 Press2
The evolution of the armed forces of the United Arab Emirates2
Truth and other lies: online foreign image management in Iran during the Rouhani Era2
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
Women’s gifting of their inheritance share to male kin is void: a study of late Ottoman fatwas on social coercion2
Contested ground: law and legitimacy in Iran’s constitutional revolution2
Da and its mothers of the martyred: meaning and contest in an Iranian war memoir2
The dynamics of humanitarianism, religion and politics in the Middle East, 1860s-1960s: introductory remarks2
Becoming temporarily protected, producing temporarily protecting places: how Syrian refugee women and children co-create place in Istanbul2
At the crossroads: A critical discourse analysis of gender and societal norms in Rajaa Alsanea’s ‘ Girls of Riyadh’2
Diasporic Syrian women writers: stories of resilience and survival2
Managing religion and religious changes in Iran: a socio-legal analysis2
Grounded nationalisms: a sociological analysis Grounded nationalisms: a sociological analysis , by Siniša Malešev2
Islamic identity and development after the Ottomans the Arab Middle East1
The legal politics of Islamic bioethics: drunk driving and the reconfiguration of privacy in the modern Gulf1
The myth of the Basiji: Morteza Avini’s legacy for the propaganda in Iran1
The Kurds in Erdogan’s Turkey: balancing identity, resistance, and citizenship The Kurds in Erdogan’s Turkey: balancing identity, resistance, and citizenship 1
Tribal Mobilisation Forces in Iraq: Subtleties of Formation and Consequential Power Dynamics1
Saudi women writers sociopolitical and literary landscapes1
Politics and writing in the shadow of the Cold War in I Was a Soviet Spy in Iran1
Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar 1
States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey 1
The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries; Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary1
Street-level governing: negotiating the state in urban Turkey1
Introduction: propagandas, cultural production, and negotiating ideology in Iran1
Morocco’s colonial mutation of Arab Jewishness in the 20 th century, the case of Elie Malka1
In pursuit of promotion, a life lost in ottoman petitions: the case of Doctor Ahmed Arif (1900–1910)1
Rethinking the critical reception by male critics in Saudi Arabia of Saudi women’s pre-1980 novels1
Television series as propaganda: the populist discourse in Aghazadeh1
Caribbean Zion: A creolization perspective on Jewish-Israeli cultures1
Ethnographic documentary: the sky wept for forty days Ethnographic documentary: the sky wept for forty days , by Sabrina Mervin, available also in French: 1
Routledge handbook on contemporary Egypt1
Understanding revolutions: opening acts in Tunisia1
Identity entanglements of descendants of Polish emigrants during the transformation of the multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire into a nation-state1
Foreign direct investment and authoritarian resilience: Saudi and Emirati investment in Egypt and the role of foreign policy motivations1
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: Iran ’s rejection of the World Bank intervention and the 1953 coup1
Iraqi Jewish Immigrants, Palestinian refugees, and intercommunal relations in Tira Transit Camp1
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
Syria 2011–2013: Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem1
Leo Africanus : a reflection of Amin Maalouf’s deterritorialized migrant self1
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: World Bank and Truman-Churchill proposals rejoinder to Mr Gorjestani1
Watermelon democracy: Egypt’s turbulent transition1
Parvin Etesami in the literary and religious context of twentieth-century Iran: a female poet’s challenge to patriarchy1
Disowning the past: an assassination, complex transnational influences, and the generational rift within the Iranian communist movement1
Deliberate polarization as a distractive political strategy in economic downturns: the case of Turkey1
Persian petroleum: oil, empire and revolution in late Qajar Iran Persian petroleum: oil, empire and revolution in late Qajar Iran 1
A question of autonomy: the Islamic-conservative cultural sphere in Turkey1
The modern silk road: trade in Persian opium across Central Asia in the long nineteenth century1
Expecting the best: Palestinian Utopianism and trans-sectarianism in the Mandate period1
Turkey in turmoil: social change and political radicalization during the 1960s1
Iran’s changing naval strategy in the Persian Gulf: motives and features1
Regime continuity and Islamists’ limited opportunities in post-2019 Algeria and Sudan1
Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran1
Blasphemy and apostasy in Islam: debates in Shi’a jurisprudence Blasphemy and apostasy in Islam: debates in Shi’a jurisprudence , by M1
Nationalizing the fig commerce: Aram Hamparzum’s warehouse from the Empire to the Republic0
Arab nationalism and the politics of “othering” in Kuwait: evidence from al-taliʿa0
Structural dividers in the Qur’an Structural dividers in the Qur’an , by Marianna Klar, Abingdon, Routledge, 2020, 418 pp., $ 160.00 (0
Freedom for Morocco: a family tale0
The power of silence: rethinking Iranian Jews’ power relations during the Qajar dynasty0
The life of one chosen by god: a study of the stories of Moses in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Sources0
The Manama riots 1947: Bahraini Jews between Palestine and Gulf labour politics0
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis re-revisited: World Bank and Truman–Churchill proposals0
Religious Arabic exclamations in Persian talks-in-interaction: a micro-analytic approach to contexts and senses0
Amina Al-Saʿid: a liberal femocrat under state feminism0
Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East: international relations in the interwar period0
The role of protestant missionaries during the Great Arab Revolt in Jerusalem and South Palestine (1936-1939) – towards humanity?0
Arabic media and the Ukrainian conflict: discourse and ideology0
The practice of informal marriages in the Muslim world: a comparative portrait0
Hamid Dabashi, The Last Muslim Intellectual, the Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad0
The evolution of the party model in Turkey: from cadre to cartel parties?0
The compromise of Islamism and democracy in the light of the Tunisian revolution and views of Rachid al-Gannouchi0
Whispers across continents: in search of the Robinsons Whispers across continents: in search of the Robinsons , by Gareth Winro0
Publics forums in the Algerian and Lebanese hiraks or autonomy in the making0
Agents of social change: cultural connections between Emirati women and camels0
Sephardic longshoremen at the Haifa Port (1933-1936): dynamics of skill-selective labor immigration from Thessaloniki to mandatory Palestine0
Political opposition and voter mobilization in an authoritarian state: The case of parliamentary elections in Iran0
China’s economic and political presence in the Middle East and South Asia0
Middle eastern television drama: politics, aesthetics, practices0
“Tunisianness” in contention: state power, religious identity, and cultural diversity in postcolonial Tunisia0
The end of a myth? Turkish-American relations during the National Unity Committee Governments (1960–1961)0
The Roc’s egg as vanishing mediator in Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from text to film0
A (female) country doctor in Egypt: the life and times of Nawal Al-Saadawi0
Musa al-Sadr and the missing fatwa concerning the ʿAlawi religion0
Narratives of forced mobility and displacement in contemporary literature and culture0
Manipulating English news reports translated into Arabic: the influence of patronage and socio-narratives0
Hagop Mnts‘uri’s The Second Marriage: Armenian realities in the pre- and post-genocide Ottoman Empire and Turkey0
Crisis between Britain and the United States over the Sinai multinational force0
The Arabic linguistic and cultural impact on African languages: focus on Swahili0
1890 cholera epidemic, al-Tur lazaretto, and the Hijaz railroad: early popular support0
What does it mean to oppose sectarianism? An ordinary language study among Lebanese across social backgrounds0
Missionary involvement with the Simele massacre in 1933: the end of American sympathy for the Assyrians0
‘And never the twain shall meet’? The Western other in the Saudi novel and the contrastive construction of Saudi identity0
Classless Politics. Islamist movements, the left, and authoritarian legacies in Egypt Classless Politics. Islamist movements, the left, and authoritarian legacies in Egypt 0
Polarization & populist backlash in transitioning Tunisia: the role of internet media & media ownership0
Mourning mothers and wars that never end: reading Nasim Marashi’s Haras (Pruning) in the shadow of the Iran-Iraq war0
Framing democracy – organisational perspectives on democracy in post-2011 Tunisia0
Statelet of survivors: the making of a semi-autonomous region in Northeast Syria0
The resistance axis and regional order in the Middle East: nomos, space, and normative alternatives0
War and peace within the Israeli Right (1970 - 1978): the path of a Hawkish party towards pragmatism0
To fight ‘Justly’: Shia Clerics under Safavids and Qajars0
Iran and a French empire of trade, 1700-1808: the other Persian letters0
Conflicting German Orientalism: Zionist Arabists and Arab scholars, 1926–19380
Emotions and narratives of the spirit of Gallipoli: Turkey’s collective identity and status in international relations0
Lost in translation: unravelling the lexical intricacies of trust in Arabic0
“Stalin’s final hope to secure a Soviet foothold in Iran’s government and oil industry, 1943–1953”0
Policy success or policy failure? Narrative analysis of the Islamic parliament of Iran’s debates on the FATF recommendations bill0
From pharaoh to hero: contested constructions of Mubarak’s image in Egyptian post-uprising collective memory0
From resentment to hatred: the Islamist complex and Iran’s anger-charged foreign policy0
Placing the environment in Middle East studies: beyond the single story0
A dream of lies: stories of Bangladeshi maid migrants in the Middle East0
Authoritarian adaptability: the selective enforcement of the unified sermon in Jordanian mosques0
The desert, poetry and Ibn ʿArabī0
The independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan: the position of Egypt and the coverage in Egyptian online media0
The religious soundscape of Mount Lebanon in the 18th and the first half of the 19th century0
Mission impossible: the Italian bombing of Bahrain and the British response0
There is no compulsion in marriage’ . Divorce and gendered change in Afghanistan during the Islamic Republic0
Religious Parties and the Politics of Civil Liberties0
The (Un)translatability of Qur’anic idiomatic phrasal verbs: a contrastive linguistic study The (Un)translatability of Qur’anic idiomatic phrasal verbs: a 0
Islamic studies in European higher education: navigating academic and confessional approaches0
How Islam rules in Iran; theology and theocracy in the Islamic Republic0
The rise & decline of the Dargazin’s Sunnis and their role in the events of Afghan’s invasion to Isfahan0
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
Jordanian stamps of Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem: 1967-19890
Israel, the United States, Saudi Arabia and the Fahd Plan of 1981: an historic missed opportunity0
Frequencies of deceit: how global propaganda wars shaped the Middle East0
Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE contest over the Arab Spring and the Gulf crisis0
The rise and fall of the life of Mostafā Qoli Khān, Farrāshbāshi of Zell-e Soltān (1294-1309 AH/1877-1891 AD)0
Power, politics & resistance: secularism and women’s marital rights in Egypt and Iran0
Tracing the origins of Sufism in India: the representation of Hinduism and Buddhism by late Ottoman Bektashi intellectuals0
The absence, marginalization and culturalization of the presence: representation of the Kurds in Persian post-revolution novels: 1980–20110
“Nasir’s Vietnam”: analysing Egyptian intelligence literature on the Yemen intervention0
Manifestations of exile and diaspora in the poetry of Abdullah al-Baradouni0
Colouring inside the lines: how youth reproduce restrictive choices of vocational education in Saudi Arabia0
‘Unfinished business’: the unrealized development path of Israeli occupation, the Palestinian refugee issue, and 1948 nation-building0
Negotiating gender during times of crisis in the Islamic Republic of Iran: visual propaganda from the Iran–Iraq War to COVID-190
Ethnopolitics to geopolitics: the Turkish State and the Kurdish question since 20150
A Shiʿi Lebanese reading of Sunni Hadith: progress, inclusivity, and an empowered contestation of narratives0
Shadow education in the Middle East: private supplementary tutoring and its policy implications0
The attraction of direct action: the making of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the Iranian Kurdish conflict0
Self-branding and representation in Arab influencers’ bios on Instagram: a corpus linguistic study0
Correction0
Allied rivalry over oil concession during World War II occupation of Iran: the Soviet perspective based on Soviet documents0
The PLO’s political communication arena; Arafat and the struggle for media legitimacy0
Populism at the UN: comparing Netanyahu’s and Abbas’s speeches, 2010–190
Muslim women’s diasporic identity: a critical discourse analysis of Leila Aboulela’s Minaret (2005)0
The development of the education system in Qatar: assessing the intended and unintended impacts of privatization policy shifts0
Investigating Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation0
The Arabian Mission and the healthcare services in Bahrain 1901–19200
New order in the Gulf: the rise of the UAE0
Soldiers of democracy? Military legacies and the Arab spring0
Morality and revelation in Islamic thought and beyond: a new problem of evil0
Creating the Qur’an: a historical-critical study0
Confronting minorization: colonial missionaries and Ottoman millets in the eyes of a Nineteenth Century Baghdadi Rabbi0
Regional identity and the sense of political belonging in a disputed land: the Golan Trail as symbolic socio-political initiative0
Shi‘a, Tribalism and the Iraqi state: the ethno-religious dimension0
‘We don’t want to be governed like this anymore’: protest democracy as an expression of a crisis of governmentality in post-revolution Tunisia0
Alliance and sectarian attitudes in the MENA: the case of Arab opinion towards Iran0
Social classes and political Islam: a comparative ecological approach of post-Arab Spring elections in Northern Africa (2011- 2014)0
Islamic and sectarian or secular and nationalist? New classification of Iraqi Shi’a political actors based on ideological anchorage0
When the Israeli Right turned Left: Gahal during the recession (1966–1967)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
Hope, Messiah and troubles of messianic futures in Iran: exploring martyrdom and politics of hope amongst the Iranian revolutionary youth0
Disempowerment without expropriation: Egypt’s old oligarchy under Sisi0
The issue of the child’s surname in custody disputes in Turkey: what are the best interests of the child?0
An introduction to arabic translation: translator training and translation practice An introduction to arabic translation: translator training and translation practice ,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
Ciné-martyrographies. Media techniques of witnessing in Iranian cinema0
A New Diaspora Press: Persian Periodicals in 1950s Israel0
Exploring the metaphors of the body in the novels of Rajaa Alem: special focus on Khātam and Ḥubbā0
The Palestinian refugees, Christian humanitarianism, and the remaking of the Melkite church in Jordan0
Repression equals return of the repressed: a discourse analysis of Bakhtiyar Ali’s conquering Darkness0
India’s policy towards west Asia: the modi era0
Contested territory: the spatial dynamics of social media use by LGBTQIA+ influencers and activists in Lebanon0
The ‘myth of moderation’ following the Arab Uprisings: polarization in Tunisia and Egypt’s founding elections0
‘The perspectives of Iranian Feminists and Women Activists on Gender Equality in Iran’0
Sufi Civilities: religious authority and political change in Afghanistan0
Localizing resilience: discursive projections, entrapments and domination0
Configuring the present for the future: personal narratives of the Arab spring0
The influence of the social contract on the stability of Moroccan society after its Independence0
The political economy of implementing IMF reforms: evidence from Egypt and Tunisia0
Constitutional choice in emerging democracies: adoption of the 2004 Afghan Constitution0
Refugee resilience and adaptation in the Middle East (reclaiming agency in the informal economies of Lebanon and Jordan)0
The blessed handful of light: genesis and message of the Yezidi berat0
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
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 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 period0
Institutional petitions in Morocco: opportunities and challenges of claiming rights in participatory arenas0
Everyday life and tactical resistance of the political prisoners: the case of F-type prisons in Turkey0
Muslim women’s identity in Orhan Pamuk’s Snow0
Syria 2011–2013: revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem0
Translation and traditions: Taha Abderrahmane’s intersectional views as a threshold for cultural dialogue0
Selimiye as a commemorative monument in modern Turkey0
The role of the Israeli-Syrian mixed armistice commission in the fate of the Arabs of Krad al-Baqqara and Krad al-Ghaname 1948-19560
Forgetting Amir Boktor: the quintessential humanist Arab educator0
Is the Arab Spring over? Unpacking perceptions of democracy, elections and regime-types in MENA countries0
China’s rise in the global south0
Measuring the evolution of Arab States’ perceptions of the Iranian threat: a quantitative text analysis of Arabic-language state media, 2010–200
The Near East Relief and the American Board Commissions for foreign missions. Humanitarian partnership and divorce in the Near East (1918–1929)0
Christian Arab nationalism between ideology and pragmatism the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Of Antioch Gregorios IV in the First World War0
Al-Lajjun: a social and geographic account of a Palestinian Village during the British Mandate Period0
Damsels in distress: manufacturing ‘Lolitas’ for the West in Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran0
Spaces of youth politics and the Arab uprisings: environmental activism and the Algerian Hirak0
Styles of ‘religion’, ‘non-religion’ and ‘spirituality’ in post-revolutionary Iran: the ‘ironic’ impact of ‘Islam’ on people’s ‘religiosity’0
Islam, science fiction and extraterrestrial life: the culture of astrobiology in the muslim world0
Joseph Campbell, Shiʿism, and the Karbala Narrative0
State capacity and termination of terror campaigns: a qualitative evidence from PKK0
Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities: Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics0
Islamic theology and extraterrestrial life; new frontiers in science and religion0
Triumph and despair: in search of Iran’s Islamic Republic0
The Crusade of 1456 Texts and Documentation in Translation The Crusade of 1456 Texts and Documentation in Translation , Mixson James D, Boston, University of Toronto Pre0
Metamorphosis of Turkey’s political landscape: unveiling the evolving party system in the aftermath of the presidential system shift and the 2023 elections0
Understanding the Jihadi Salafi threat in Jordan in 2011-20170
Türkiye-China relations revisited: a neo-Gramscian perspective0
International Security in a World of Fragile States: Islamic States and Islamist Organisations0
Capitalism in contemporary Iran. Capital accumulation, state formation and geopolitics Capitalism in contemporary Iran. Capital accumulation, state formation and geopolitics 0
Selling god: Al-Azhar, UAE and transnational transferability of religious capital0
Channelling (in)security: governing movement and ordinary life in ‘imagined geographies’0
The politics of mass violence in the Middle East0
Kindred Voices: a literary history of Medieval Anatolia0
Political economy of budgeting under autocratization0
Review of Iran’s rise and rivalry with the US in the Middle East0
Tunisian youth: catalyst for socio-political change and emergence of identity politics in post-Arab Spring Tunisia0
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