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	14
Appropriating Hafez’s ghazals for Shiite rites and rituals in the Islamic Republic of Iran	8
What does antisectarianism oppose? Lebanese communists’ debates on sectarianism, 1975–1981	8
Inaudible screams: intersectional experiences of oppression and violence in the Kurdish Novel	8
Regime trajectories of Tunisia and Turkey: a comparative analysis	6
Violence and representation in the Arab uprisings	4
An increasingly corrosive expedient? Israel’s evolving relationship with back-channel diplomacy	4
Populists’ struggle for epistemic hegemony and anti-gender attacks on higher education in authoritarian contexts: the case of Turkey	4
Breaking the chains: women’s writing against patriarchy in Saudi narratives	4
China-Iran strategic partnership and the future of US hegemony in the Persian Gulf Region	3
Politics and poetics of witnessing: Choman Hardi and Nazand Begikhani’s poetry of witness in English	3
In search for a spiritual authority. Shi’i clergy in Iranian post-revolutionary cinema	3
We are not them! Self-presentation of North African Muslim soldiers in the German captivity in 1914–1918	3
Contested ground: law and legitimacy in Iran’s constitutional revolution	2
The evolution of the armed forces of the United Arab Emirates	2
Civil wars and international conflicts revisited: insights from the southern theatre of the Syrian uprising, 2011–2017	2
The failure of democracy in Afghanistan	2
Palestinian workers of Israel Railways	2
Museums, emotion and memory culture: the politics of the past in Turkey	2
At the crossroads: A critical discourse analysis of gender and societal norms in Rajaa Alsanea’s ‘ Girls of Riyadh’	2
Becoming temporarily protected, producing temporarily protecting places: how Syrian refugee women and children co-create place in Istanbul	2
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	2
Bedouins, blacks, and the bringers of Islam: the Arabs in late Ottoman encyclopaedic literature, 1876–1928	2
Loved Egyptian night: the meaning of the Arab spring	2
Buying modernization. Western NGOs and gender politics in Pahlavi Iran	2

Syrian female detainees: pathetic or heroic victims?	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
Da and its mothers of the martyred: meaning and contest in an Iranian war memoir	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
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	2
The west’s war against Islamic state: operation inherent resolve in Syria and Iraq	2
Oil money: middle east petrodollars and the transformation of US empire, 1967–1988	2
The dynamics of humanitarianism, religion and politics in the Middle East, 1860s-1960s: introductory remarks	2
Disinformation as an authoritarian strategy: the populist playbook in Egypt and Tunisia	2
Grounded nationalisms: a sociological analysis Grounded nationalisms: a sociological analysis , by Siniša Malešev	2
Truth and other lies: online foreign image management in Iran during the Rouhani Era	2
Caribbean Zion: A creolization perspective on Jewish-Israeli cultures	1
The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries; Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary	1
Television series as propaganda: the populist discourse in Aghazadeh	1
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: Iran ’s rejection of the World Bank intervention and the 1953 coup	1
Shifting Threats and Strategic Adjustment in Iran’s Foreign Policy: The case of Strait of Hormuz	1
The stories of rebellious children at the time of the 1979 revolution	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
Islamic identity and development after the Ottomans the Arab Middle East	1
Rethinking the critical reception by male critics in Saudi Arabia of Saudi women’s pre-1980 novels	1
Social Change in Syria: Family, Village and Political Party	1
Ageing in faraway lands: nostalgic reminiscences and place reproduction in Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Lalami’s The Other Americans	1
Iranian women & gender in the Iran-Iraq war	1
A question of autonomy: the Islamic-conservative cultural sphere in Turkey	1
The Kurds in Erdogan’s Turkey: balancing identity, resistance, and citizenship The Kurds in Erdogan’s Turkey: balancing identity, resistance, and citizenship	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
The modern silk road: trade in Persian opium across Central Asia in the long nineteenth century	1
Introduction: propagandas, cultural production, and negotiating ideology in Iran	1
The Muslim brotherhood in Syria	1
Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar	1
Iran’s changing naval strategy in the Persian Gulf: motives and features	1
Blasphemy and apostasy in Islam: debates in Shi’a jurisprudence Blasphemy and apostasy in Islam: debates in Shi’a jurisprudence , by M	1
Polygyny in Islam: a call for retrospection	1
Parvin Etesami in the literary and religious context of twentieth-century Iran: a female poet’s challenge to patriarchy	1
Diasporic Syrian women writers: stories of resilience and survival	1
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: World Bank and Truman-Churchill proposals rejoinder to Mr Gorjestani	1
In pursuit of promotion, a life lost in ottoman petitions: the case of Doctor Ahmed Arif (1900–1910)	1
Iraqi Jewish Immigrants, Palestinian refugees, and intercommunal relations in Tira Transit Camp	1
Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran	1
States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey	1
Identity entanglements of descendants of Polish emigrants during the transformation of the multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire into a nation-state	1
The myth of the Basiji: Morteza Avini’s legacy for the propaganda in Iran	1
Turkey in turmoil: social change and political radicalization during the 1960s	1
Leo Africanus : a reflection of Amin Maalouf’s deterritorialized migrant self	1
The legal politics of Islamic bioethics: drunk driving and the reconfiguration of privacy in the modern Gulf	1
Watermelon democracy: Egypt’s turbulent transition	1
Women’s gifting of their inheritance share to male kin is void: a study of late Ottoman fatwas on social coercion	1
Regime continuity and Islamists’ limited opportunities in post-2019 Algeria and Sudan	1
An episode of the revolution: Aleppo university protest movement 2011–2013	1
Politics and writing in the shadow of the Cold War in I Was a Soviet Spy in Iran	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
A New Diaspora Press: Persian Periodicals in 1950s Israel	0
Hamid Dabashi, The Last Muslim Intellectual, the Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad	0
Christian Arab nationalism between ideology and pragmatism the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Of Antioch Gregorios IV in the First World War	0
The Near East Relief and the American Board Commissions for foreign missions. Humanitarian partnership and divorce in the Near East (1918–1929)	0
Al-Lajjun: a social and geographic account of a Palestinian Village during the British Mandate Period	0
Ciné-martyrographies. Media techniques of witnessing in Iranian cinema	0
Conflicting German Orientalism: Zionist Arabists and Arab scholars, 1926–1938	0
Translation and traditions: Taha Abderrahmane’s intersectional views as a threshold for cultural dialogue	0
Revisiting Erdoğan’s century of Turkey: unmasking populism’s political strategies through the Lens of the Canal Istanbul	0
Hope, Messiah and troubles of messianic futures in Iran: exploring martyrdom and politics of hope amongst the Iranian revolutionary youth	0
Social classes and political Islam: a comparative ecological approach of post-Arab Spring elections in Northern Africa (2011- 2014)	0
The Roc’s egg as vanishing mediator in Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from text to film	0
Mourning mothers and wars that never end: reading Nasim Marashi’s Haras (Pruning) in the shadow of the Iran-Iraq war	0
“Stalin’s final hope to secure a Soviet foothold in Iran’s government and oil industry, 1943–1953”	0
The desert, poetry and Ibn ʿArabī	0
China’s rise in the global south	0
Why Arabs hate their leaders’ wives? More than a woman, less than a man	0
The development of the education system in Qatar: assessing the intended and unintended impacts of privatization policy shifts	0
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 Pre	0
How Islam rules in Iran; theology and theocracy in the Islamic Republic	0
Spaces of youth politics and the Arab uprisings: environmental activism and the Algerian Hirak	0
Policy success or policy failure? Narrative analysis of the Islamic parliament of Iran’s debates on the FATF recommendations bill	0
Correction	0
The power of silence: rethinking Iranian Jews’ power relations during the Qajar dynasty	0
Whispers across continents: in search of the Robinsons Whispers across continents: in search of the Robinsons , by Gareth Winro	0
Islamic and sectarian or secular and nationalist? New classification of Iraqi Shi’a political actors based on ideological anchorage	0
The rise and fall of the life of Mostafā Qoli Khān, Farrāshbāshi of Zell-e Soltān (1294-1309 AH/1877-1891 AD)	0
Turkish politics and ‘the people’: mass mobilisation and populism Turkish politics and ‘the people’: mass mobilisation and populism , by Spyros A. Sofos, Edinburgh, Edin	0
Ethnopolitics to geopolitics: the Turkish State and the Kurdish question since 2015	0
China’s economic and political presence in the Middle East and South Asia	0
The Manama riots 1947: Bahraini Jews between Palestine and Gulf labour politics	0
Foreign direct investment and authoritarian resilience: Saudi and Emirati investment in Egypt and the role of foreign policy motivations	0
The rise & decline of the Dargazin’s Sunnis and their role in the events of Afghan’s invasion to Isfahan	0
Challenges in the conceptualization and implementation of normalization: insights from Egyptian–Israeli Relations	0
Amina Al-Saʿid: a liberal femocrat under state feminism	0
Islamic Fundamentalism as a lifestyle? a Sociological Study of Islamic Fundamentalism among Sunni Kurds of Iran	0
Israel, the United States, Saudi Arabia and the Fahd Plan of 1981: an historic missed opportunity	0
Morocco’s colonial mutation of Arab Jewishness in the 20 th century, the case of Elie Malka	0
Religious Arabic exclamations in Persian talks-in-interaction: a micro-analytic approach to contexts and senses	0
Public Administration in the Middle East and North Africa	0
Parallel Discursive Fields in Pre-Revolutionary Russia and Iran: The West as a Model or an Anti-Model	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
The blessed handful of light: genesis and message of the Yezidi berat	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
Damsels in distress: manufacturing ‘Lolitas’ for the West in Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran	0
Women in place: the politics of gender segregation in Iran	0
Soft power, hard power dynamics: the case of Iran in Afghanistan	0
At the Intersections of Populism, Nationalism and Islam: Justice and Development Party and Populist Reconfiguration of Religion in Politics	0
The PLO’s political communication arena; Arafat and the struggle for media legitimacy	0
Agents of social change: cultural connections between Emirati women and camels	0
A (female) country doctor in Egypt: the life and times of Nawal Al-Saadawi	0
The politics of mass violence in the Middle East	0
Oil, Labour and Empire: Abadan in WWII Occupied Iran	0
Understanding the Jihadi Salafi threat in Jordan in 2011-2017	0
The ‘myth of moderation’ following the Arab Uprisings: polarization in Tunisia and Egypt’s founding elections	0
Hagop Mnts‘uri’s The Second Marriage: Armenian realities in the pre- and post-genocide Ottoman Empire and Turkey	0
Investigating Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation	0
Jordanian stamps of Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem: 1967-1989	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
From pharaoh to hero: contested constructions of Mubarak’s image in Egyptian post-uprising collective memory	0
Polarization & populist backlash in transitioning Tunisia: the role of internet media & media ownership	0
‘The perspectives of Iranian Feminists and Women Activists on Gender Equality in Iran’	0
State capacity and termination of terror campaigns: a qualitative evidence from PKK	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
Triumph and despair: in search of Iran’s Islamic Republic	0
Islam, science fiction and extraterrestrial life: the culture of astrobiology in the muslim world	0
Islamic theology and extraterrestrial life; new frontiers in science and religion	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 resistance axis and regional order in the Middle East: nomos, space, and normative alternatives	0
Confronting minorization: colonial missionaries and Ottoman millets in the eyes of a Nineteenth Century Baghdadi Rabbi	0
Creating the Qur’an: a historical-critical study	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
Exploring the metaphors of the body in the novels of Rajaa Alem: special focus on Khātam and Ḥubbā	0
Contemporary Domestic and Foreign Policies of Iran	0
Correction	0
From heaven to earth: the rise of ulema as landowners during the Qajar Persia	0
Classless Politics. Islamist movements, the left, and authoritarian legacies in Egypt Classless Politics. Islamist movements, the left, and authoritarian legacies in Egypt	0

The role of the Syrian business elite in the Syrian conflict: a class narrative	0
Disempowerment without expropriation: Egypt’s old oligarchy under Sisi	0
Arabic media coverage of pandemics: Discourse, strategy and impact	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
Capitalism in contemporary Iran. Capital accumulation, state formation and geopolitics Capitalism in contemporary Iran. Capital accumulation, state formation and geopolitics	0
Disowning the past: an assassination, complex transnational influences, and the generational rift within the Iranian communist movement	0
The issue of the child’s surname in custody disputes in Turkey: what are the best interests of the child?	0
Dynamic Quietism and the Consolidation of the ḥawza ʿilmīyya of Qum during the Pahlavi Era	0
Measuring the evolution of Arab States’ perceptions of the Iranian threat: a quantitative text analysis of Arabic-language state media, 2010–20	0
Negotiating gender during times of crisis in the Islamic Republic of Iran: visual propaganda from the Iran–Iraq War to COVID-19	0
Sufi Civilities: religious authority and political change in Afghanistan	0
The Israeli policing army – the gray arm of annexation	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
Negotiating Lebanon’s urban boundaries and sectarian space: Syrian refugees in Beirut and Tripoli	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
The role of protestant missionaries during the Great Arab Revolt in Jerusalem and South Palestine (1936-1939) – towards humanity?	0
Expecting the best: Palestinian Utopianism and trans-sectarianism in the Mandate period	0
Channelling (in)security: governing movement and ordinary life in ‘imagined geographies’	0
Charity in Saudi Arabia: civil society under authoritarianism	0
Freedom for Morocco: a family tale	0
Violence against health care in Syria: patterns, meanings, implications	0
‘The Female Rumi’ and Feminine Mysticism: ‘God’s Weaver’ by Parvin Iʿtisami	0
Regional identity and the sense of political belonging in a disputed land: the Golan Trail as symbolic socio-political initiative	0
The attraction of direct action: the making of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the Iranian Kurdish conflict	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
Tracing the origins of Sufism in India: the representation of Hinduism and Buddhism by late Ottoman Bektashi intellectuals	0
The independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan: the position of Egypt and the coverage in Egyptian online media	0
Publics forums in the Algerian and Lebanese hiraks or autonomy in the making	0
Tunisian youth: catalyst for socio-political change and emergence of identity politics in post-Arab Spring Tunisia	0
Muslim women’s identity in Orhan Pamuk’s Snow	0
The Arabic linguistic and cultural impact on African languages: focus on Swahili	0
Self-branding and representation in Arab influencers’ bios on Instagram: a corpus linguistic study	0
The Abu Hameds of Mulabbis: an oral history of a Palestinian village depopulated in the Late Ottoman period	0
Iran and a French empire of trade, 1700-1808: the other Persian letters	0
Middle eastern television drama: politics, aesthetics, practices	0
Narratives of forced mobility and displacement in contemporary literature and culture	0
Joseph Campbell, Shiʿism, and the Karbala Narrative	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
Musa al-Sadr and the missing fatwa concerning the ʿAlawi religion	0
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis re-revisited: World Bank and Truman–Churchill proposals	0
A Shiʿi Lebanese reading of Sunni Hadith: progress, inclusivity, and an empowered contestation of narratives	0
Active on the street but apathetic at the ballot box? Explaining youth voter behaviour in Tunisia’s new democracy	0
Crisis between Britain and the United States over the Sinai multinational force	0
Moroccan female religious agents: old practices and new perspectives	0
The ‘Officers Plot’: the German fifth column during the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Iran in the Second World War	0
Shi‘a, Tribalism and the Iraqi state: the ethno-religious dimension	0
David Yellin, Muhammad Kurd ‘Ali and the Great Library of Damascus during the First World War	0
Morality and revelation in Islamic thought and beyond: a new problem of evil	0
Frequencies of deceit: how global propaganda wars shaped the Middle East	0
Türkiye-China relations revisited: a neo-Gramscian perspective	0
“The old rains are gone, so are we”: Kurdish Nomads of Mount Ağrı (Ararat)	0
War and peace within the Israeli Right (1970 - 1978): the path of a Hawkish party towards pragmatism	0
Institutional petitions in Morocco: opportunities and challenges of claiming rights in participatory arenas	0
Refugee resilience and adaptation in the Middle East (reclaiming agency in the informal economies of Lebanon and Jordan)	0
Shadow education in the Middle East: private supplementary tutoring and its policy implications	0
Placing the environment in Middle East studies: beyond the single story	0
The life of one chosen by god: a study of the stories of Moses in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Sources	0
Azerbaijan’s state building power as a reflection of Israel–Iran hostility	0
The absence, marginalization and culturalization of the presence: representation of the Kurds in Persian post-revolution novels: 1980–2011	0
Mass violence in Syria: continuity and change	0
Framing democracy – organisational perspectives on democracy in post-2011 Tunisia	0
Configuring the present for the future: personal narratives of the Arab spring	0
Lost in translation: unravelling the lexical intricacies of trust in Arabic	0
Alliance and sectarian attitudes in the MENA: the case of Arab opinion towards Iran	0
Understanding revolutions: opening acts in Tunisia	0
‘ There is no compulsion in marriage’ . Divorce and gendered change in Afghanistan during the Islamic Republic	0
The political economy of implementing IMF reforms: evidence from Egypt and Tunisia	0
The influence of the social contract on the stability of Moroccan society after its Independence	0
Kindred Voices: a literary history of Medieval Anatolia	0
The religious soundscape of Mount Lebanon in the 18th and the first half of the 19th century	0
British diplomacy and the Iranian revolution, 1978-1981 (security, conflict and cooperation in the contemporary world)	0
Hedayat’s rebellious child: multicultural rewriting of The Blind Owl in Porochista Khakpour’s Sons and Other Flammable Objects	0
Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East: international relations in the interwar period	0
Religious Parties and the Politics of Civil Liberties	0
Arab nationalism and the politics of “othering” in Kuwait: evidence from al-taliʿa	0
Perceptions of the Committee of Union and Progress in the press of the Yishuv, 1909-1914	0
Forgetting Amir Boktor: the quintessential humanist Arab educator	0
Disappointment and vision in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings	0
‘And never the twain shall meet’? The Western other in the Saudi novel and the contrastive construction of Saudi identity	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
The evolution of the party model in Turkey: from cadre to cartel parties?	0
Is the Arab Spring over? Unpacking perceptions of democracy, elections and regime-types in MENA countries	0
Muslim women’s diasporic identity: a critical discourse analysis of Leila Aboulela’s Minaret (2005)	0
Selimiye as a commemorative monument in modern Turkey	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
“Nasir’s Vietnam”: analysing Egyptian intelligence literature on the Yemen intervention	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
Social capital, civic engagement and democratization in Kurdistan	0
Manifestations of exile and diaspora in the poetry of Abdullah al-Baradouni	0
Selling god: Al-Azhar, UAE and transnational transferability of religious capital	0
Political opposition and voter mobilization in an authoritarian state: The case of parliamentary elections in Iran	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