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Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity, Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-20
William Hale -
Industrial Policy in Turkey: rise, Retreat and Return Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-10
Ali Baydarol -
Responding to the Arab Revolt: the Circassian Volunteer Cavalry and the defence of Ottoman Transjordan in the First World War Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-07
Muhammed Aslaner -
The Ottoman Chamber of Commerce, Manchester Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-06
Ökkeş Kürşad Karacagil, Aydın Çakmak -
Oil, Nationalism and British Policy in Iran: The End of Informal Empire, 1941–1953 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-04-26
Robert Steele -
A typological study in the light of British and Ottoman archival documents: Emanuel Falkeisen Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-04-25
Cumali Bozpinar -
Lorimer: His Gazetteer and Britain’s Pursuit of Knowledge Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-04-25
Tancred Bradshaw -
Recovering the Ottoman waqf : the reconfiguration of Ottoman-Islamic intellectual culture in twentieth-century Istanbul Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-04-21
Fawaz Abdul Salam -
The eternal enemy: trends in coverage of Israel in the Egyptian national press during the first decade of President Hosni Mubarak’s rule Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-04-11
Ksenia Svetlova, Yehuda U. Blanga -
Between God and the Party: Fadlallah and the antithetical notion of Hezbollah Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-04-09
Elisheva Machlis -
Refounding the Kingdom: Saudi Arabia from Islamism and Wahhabism to ‘Moderate’ Islam Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-04-02
Cole M. Bunzel -
Exploring alienation and identity in Iraqi Yazidi literature: a study of Under the Sky of ISIS and The Yazidi Exodus Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-03-25
Sayf Shems -
Turkish anti-Americanism: between Europe and the Middle East Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-03-19
Tuba Ünlü Bilgiç -
The ‘Lahore shawl’ in Ottoman Turkish literature Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-03-17
Syed Tanvir Wasti -
Israel’s 2005 Disengagement from Gaza: a multilateral move under unilateral façade Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-03-11
Elie Podeh -
Debates on the legitimacy of family foundations in the shadow of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ottoman centralization policies Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-03-07
Necmettin Kızılkaya -
An Ottoman statesman’s early career: the appointment of Mustafa Reşit Bey (Pasha) to the amedi chamber and his role in the Treaty of Kütahya Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-03-04
Serkan Gül -
Revisiting normalization dynamics between the Gulf Cooperation Council and Israel from ‘other’ to ‘regional partner’? Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-03-04
Mustafa Yetim, Tamer Kaşıkcı -
Dissenting from the Inevitable? Understanding Omani Approaches to Israel and the Abraham Accords Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-03-04
James Worrall -
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Israel and the Gulf monarchies: a new Regional Security Complex or just complex regional security? Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-03-04
Clive Jones -
The ‘villa in the jungle’ nuclear paradigm: Israel’s nuclear narrative and practice in a changing regional security complex Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-03-04
Ludovica CastelliThe 'villa in the jungle' metaphor, conventionally associated with Israel's former Defence Minister Ehud Barak, is one of the most referenced metaphors in Israeli political discourse. Its perpetuation has contributed to the fixation of two co-constitutive collective identities: Israel as an exemplary democratic society amidst a violent and backward Arab neighbourhood. This article examines an often-overlooked
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An unknown crossroads: Israel, the Palestinians and the Christians in Lebanon (1968–1970) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-03-03
Yogev Elbaz -
Beyond the usual suspects – bringing in Kuwait’s Shiʿi Islamists Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-03-03
Hamad H. Albloshi, Courtney Freer, Morten Valbjørn -
A propaganda and news backwater: the Foreign Office’s information policy in the Persian Gulf, c. 1948–1960 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-26
Tancred Bradshaw -
The engineer rebuilding the empire: the contributions of Mr Ritter to the modernization of the Ottoman Empire (1856–1878) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-25
Hakan Tan -
Armistice: ‘varied entertainment, spectacular incesaz , etc.’ Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-25
Onur Öner -
Passwords in the Ottoman military in the nineteenth century: a political and social analysis Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-24
Mustafa Mesut Özekmekçi -
Anatolian Livestock Trade in the Late Ottoman Empire Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
Erdal Çiftçi -
‘I have come to seek freedom’: enslavement and escape in the Aden Protectorates, 1937-1949 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-01-30
Benjamin Berman-Gladstone -
Re-examining the Foundations of US–Gulf relations Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-01-30
David B. Roberts -
Retelling Bahrain: identity formation in historical narratives of the government and Shiʿi opposition factions in the 1980s Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-01-27
Ilan Zalayat -
The rise of nationalised, religious education in Turkey from the 1950s to the 1970s Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2025-01-20
Manami Ueno -
Resilient locusts, ignorant people, modern state and scientific knowledge: a late Ottoman human-animal-state history Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-23
Zeynep AkçakayaThis article revisits Ottoman history by exploring the enduring relationship between humans and locusts through an animal-human history approach, emphasizing their ‘companionship’ and combined agen...
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Gifting books, bribing elites, reaching the masses: Italian fascist propaganda in Turkey, 1923–38 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-23
Buğra Can BayçifciThis article explores Fascist Italy’s attempts in the interwar era to influence Turkish perceptions of fascism and Italy. The techniques to be reviewed include interviews by diplomatic personnel, t...
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Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın – an introduction to his life and works Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-07
Syed Tanvir WastiHüseyin Cahit Yalçın (1875 − 1957) was a prominent and prolific writer who, in 1908, was also the first journalist elected to the Ottoman Chamber of Deputies. He was a member of the Committee of Un...
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The role of historical knowledge among contemporary Druze in Lebanon: applying anthropology to preserve intangible cultural heritage Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-30
Chad RadwanThe millennium-long history of the Druze continues to shape members’ sense of ethnoreligious particularism and relations with other groups in Lebanon. Their contemporary heritage narrative and proc...
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Understanding Turkey’s attitude towards the dispute in Palestine from late 1947 to early 1949 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-28
Selim SezerTurkey was among the countries that refused the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine which was put to vote on 29 November 1947, and this was celebrated by many Arab governments. Nevertheless...
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The Arabian Mission and education in Bahrain: ‘encounter’ and ‘resistance’, 1892–1917 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-19
Khaled AlbateniThis article examines the encounters between the Arabian Mission and the people of Bahrain from 1892 to 1917. The Arabian Mission which began as an American missionary project, established a statio...
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The formation of the UAE: state-building and Arab nationalism in the Middle East Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-15
Tancred BradshawPublished in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 6, 2024)
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The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-02
Courtney FreerPublished in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 6, 2024)
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The birth of Ottoman penal biopolitics: motherhood, pregnancy and child-protection in the criminal justice system (1850–1918) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-27
Gizem SivriThis article presents a broad analysis of the Ottoman penal policies concerning the tolerant and clement punitive sanctions for mother offenders during the late Ottoman era. It scrutinizes the pena...
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Changing patterns of inclusion into old age protection in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey (1865–2020) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-23
Kerem Gabriel ÖktemWho is protected by social security? This article explores this question by tracing the chronological sequence of inclusion into old age protection in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. The focus lies ...
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Ottoman diplomacy in Greece: the case of Syros, 1830–1900 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-07
Berke TorunoğluThe island of Syros in the Cyclades almost spontaneously emerged in 1830 as a prominent transit and trade hub for Greece and the Ottoman Empire. The present work is an attempt to conduct a deductiv...
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From an arasta bazaar to a piyasa street: the transformation of Direklerarası in Ottoman Istanbul from the 1720s to the 1920s Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-02
Fatma Tunç Yaşar, Ahmet YaşarThis article examines the transformation of Direklerarası Street, located on Istanbul’s historical Divanyolu, from the 1720s to the 1920s. Originally built in 1729 as an arasta to generate revenue ...
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Extension, renewal or resurgence? The anti-constitutional argument of a cleric in 1920s Iran Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-31
Denis HermannThis article aims to contribute to a better understanding of the complexity and diversity of anti-constitutionalist thought developed by the ulama by synthesizing the arguments of Shaykh Marandi (d...
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An Islamist disadvantage? Revisiting electoral outcomes for Islamists in the Middle East Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-17
Courtney Freer, Naeman MahmoodIn this article, we interrogate the extent to which a so-called Islamist advantage existed prior to the Arab Spring by examining country cases often neglected in the literature on Sunni Islamism. W...
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Civil society and education in Turkey: the relations between the Society for the Dissemination of Knowledge and Imam Hatip Schools (1951-1976) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-09
Kurtuluş ÖztürkImam Hatip schools are among the educational institutions that have had a major impact on the social transformations in Turkey’s recent history. These institutions have played a major role in integ...
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Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-04
Tancred BradshawPublished in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 6, 2024)
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Imperialism after decolonization? British relations with Bahrain from the withdrawal East of Suez to the Iranian Revolution Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-28
Simon C. SmithThere is a growing consensus that the end of empire did not necessarily equate with a severing of imperial ties. Some historians have even argued that there was a shift from formal to informal empi...
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The Life and World of Francis Rodd, Lord Rennell (1895-1978): Geography, Money and War Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-20
Richard HammondPublished in Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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'Close but no Cigar’: Hamas’s psychological warfare against Israel between 2014 and 2023 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-18
Nesya Rubinstein-ShemerThis essay represents the continuation of my research, on the Hamas Organization’s novel methods of psychological warfare against Israel. The previous article, which covered the period between 2007...
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The search for economic and military aid in the shadow of crises: Turkish-American relations during İnönü governments (1961–1965) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-12
Murat KasapsaraçoğluThe leader of Republican People’s Party (RPP), İsmet İnönü, formed three governments between 1961 and 1965. Turkey faced several political, economic, social and military challenges in this period. ...
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UAE book review Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-11
Tancred BradshawPublished in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 5, 2024)
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Cold War dilemmas and regional interests: the acknowledgment of Egypt’s King, Farouk I, as ‘King of Egypt and Sudan’ by Greece (October 1951–August 1952) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-04
Spyridon BouzoukisThe question of Farouk’s title is considered an important part of Anglo-Egyptian rivalry. However, the existing literature neglects the issue’s possible impact on third countries. The purpose of th...
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Gendering the Muslim Brotherhood: the social network of the Muslim Sisters in twentieth-century Egypt Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-04
Noa DavidyanThis article sheds light on the activity and thinking of women belonging to the Muslim Sisters Section within the Muslim Brothers movement (MB) in twentieth-century Egypt. While the MB has received...
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The Fall of Reza Shah: The Abdication, Exile, and Death of Modern Iran’s Founder Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-03
Robert SteelePublished in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 5, 2024)
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Spring 1923: Turkey’s failed constitutional moment Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-24
Ogan YumluThis paper focuses on a specific historical period that preceded the proclamation of the Turkish Republic and tries to re-interpret its meaning for the development of liberal democracy in Turkey. A...
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The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, A Radical Cosmopolitan Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-20
Robert SteelePublished in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 5, 2024)
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Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, The Arabs, and the Region 1948-2022 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-20
Joshua TeitelbaumPublished in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 4, 2024)