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Ethnographic documentary: the sky wept for forty days British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Ingvild Flaskerud
Published in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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An introduction to arabic translation: translator training and translation practice British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 Aidillah Suja, Ahmad Fadhel Syakir Hidayat
Published in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Turkish politics and ‘the people’: mass mobilisation and populism British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Bilge Azgın
Published in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘There is no compulsion in marriage’. Divorce and gendered change in Afghanistan during the Islamic Republic British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Torunn Wimpelmann, Masooma Saadat
With the Taliban takeover in August 2021, many both outside and inside Afghanistan voiced concern that the conditions of Afghan women would return to those of the 1990s, when the group was last in ...
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David Yellin, Muhammad Kurd ‘Ali and the Great Library of Damascus during the First World War British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Omri Eilat
This article tells the story of an ambitious attempt to establish a general orientalist library in Damascus during the First World War. The entrepreneur of this project was David Yellin, a Jewish i...
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Nationalizing the fig commerce: Aram Hamparzum’s warehouse from the Empire to the Republic British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Umit Eser
Eastern Mediterranean port cities constituted an important scene in the nationalization policies that went hand in hand with ethnic violence and chronic corruption at the dawn of the twentieth cent...
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Muslim women’s diasporic identity: a critical discourse analysis of Leila Aboulela’s Minaret (2005) British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Morve Roshan K., Yasser Abdullah Al Tamimi
Due to different unpropitious circumstances, immigration is globally on the rise. A Muslim Sudanese woman’s diasporic experience can be best perceived through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of...
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Translation and traditions: Taha Abderrahmane’s intersectional views as a threshold for cultural dialogue British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Abdellah El Boubekri
Translation Studies, like other disciplines within humanities and social sciences, is marked by a certain scholarly dominance of Eurocentric episteme and Western philosophical tradition. The signif...
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The independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan: the position of Egypt and the coverage in Egyptian online media British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Mushegh Ghahriyan
On 25 September 2017, the Kurdistan Regional Government held an independence referendum, which the government of Iraq and the international community rejected. Ample research is dedicated to variou...
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“The old rains are gone, so are we”: Kurdish Nomads of Mount Ağrı (Ararat) British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Mehmet Ali Sevgi, Adem Yulu
Mount Ararat, located on Turkey’s eastern border, has been the home of Kurdish nomads for centuries. They pass the winter months in their villages built around the mountain and in the city centre; ...
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Expecting the best: Palestinian Utopianism and trans-sectarianism in the Mandate period British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Eli Osheroff
This essay reconstructs Palestinian utopian discourse from the British mandate period, by focusing on understudied political manifestos and fiction, authored by members of the Palestinian Arab elit...
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Channelling (in)security: governing movement and ordinary life in ‘imagined geographies’ British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Hannah Owens
This article is led by a specific ethnographic encounter on a public bus from Amman towards Zaatari village in northern Jordan. I use this moment on a bus as an entry point from which to examine ho...
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Becoming temporarily protected, producing temporarily protecting places: how Syrian refugee women and children co-create place in Istanbul British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Gülkizilca Yurur
The paper examines the usefulness of the Deleuzian concepts of smooth space and stratified space while capturing the experiences of refugee women and children as non-citizens under the temporary pr...
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Public Administration in the Middle East and North Africa British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Mhamed Biygautane, Stewart Clegg
Published in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 51, No. 1, 2024)
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Parvin Etesami in the literary and religious context of twentieth-century Iran: a female poet’s challenge to patriarchy British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Behnam M. Fomeshi
Published in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 51, No. 1, 2024)
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Social Change in Syria: Family, Village and Political Party British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Nerouz Satik
Published in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 51, No. 1, 2024)
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Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Muhammad Asad Latif
Published in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 51, No. 1, 2024)
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Al-Lajjun: a Social and geographic account of a Palestinian Village during the British Mandate Period British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Roy Marom, Yotam Tepper, Matthew J. Adams
This paper provides a social and geographic account of al-Lajjun (Jenin Sub-district), a prominent Palestinian village during the British Mandate period (1918–1948). It portrays a countryside in re...
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The rise and fall of the life of Mostafā Qoli Khān, Farrāshbāshi of Zell-e Soltān (1294-1309 AH/1877-1891 AD) British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Somayeh Bakhtiari
Mostafā Qoli Khān was a lesser-known Qajar statesman who served in the court of Masʽoud Mirzā Zell-e Soltān, the most potent Qajar prince. On behalf of Zell-e Soltān, he was appointed to posts such...
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Challenges in the conceptualization and implementation of normalization: insights from Egyptian–Israeli Relations British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Meirav Mishali-Ram, Rami Ginat
On 26 March Egypt and Israel signed a peace treaty after years of bloody conflict – a major milestone in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The countries agreed to Normalize relations yet ea...
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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 British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Yoram Fried
The 1949 Israeli-Syrian armistice agreement stipulated the establishment of a mixed armistice commission [MAC] to oversee the implementation of the terms of the agreement. One of the outcomes of th...
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Confronting minorization: colonial missionaries and Ottoman millets in the eyes of a Nineteenth Century Baghdadi Rabbi British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Avi-ram Tzoreff
Following the Tanzimat reforms in 1839 the Ottoman Mashriq crystallized as a contact zone where different understandings of the reforms, citizenship, and collective identifications evaluated. While...
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The compromise of Islamism and democracy in the light of the Tunisian revolution and views of Rachid al-Gannouchi British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Anna Zasuń
The Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia in 2010 and 2011 catalysed changes in many Arab countries, referred to as the Arab Spring. The Tunisian events of this period led to the flourishing of Islamist te...
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Responding to Climate Change in Jordan: understanding institutional developments, political restrictions and economic opportunities British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Imad El-Anis, Marianna Poberezhskaya
Jordan is one of the world’s most resource-poor, arid and freshwater-stressed countries with climate change aggravating these challenges further. We argue that due to Jordan’s climate change vulner...
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Understanding community resilience in Yemen: how parallel institutions meet essential needs in the absence of the state British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Manuel Almeida, Raiman Al-Hamdani, Austin J. Knuppe
How do Yemeni communities build and sustain resilience in wartime when state institutions are weak or absent? Based on original research across 14 communities in Yemen, this paper compares internat...
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Vicegerency in Islamic Thought and Scripture: Towards a Qur’anic Theory of Human Existential Function British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Putri Nurjayana Muin, Nurmawan
Published in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Crusade of 1456 Texts and Documentation in Translation British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Hülya Taflı Düzgün, Haydar Akçadağ
Published in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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“Revolution of things; the Islamism and Post-Islamism of objects in Tehran” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Ehssan Hanif
Published in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Ahmad Qābel and Contemporary Islamic Thought, Rational Shariah in Twenty-First-Century Iran British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 S. Yaser Mirdamadi
Published in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Classless Politics. Islamist movements, the left, and authoritarian legacies in Egypt British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Francesco Cavatorta
Published in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Alliance and sectarian attitudes in the MENA: the case of Arab opinion towards Iran British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Alireza Raisi
Despite a growing body of analyses on sectarian tensions in the MENA, few have examined the impact of sectarian attitudes on public opinion towards the regional powers. Drawing from a statistical a...
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Deliberate polarization as a distractive political strategy in economic downturns: the case of Turkey British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Adam Szymański, Ahmet Furkan Cihangiroğlu
ABSTRACT This paper aims at finding out whether declining economic indicators have a relationship with the deliberate polarization of society by the AK Parti governments in Turkey. It hypothesizes that the intensification of polarization in the country is a result of deliberate actions of the incumbents to distract the attention of society from economic problems so as to expose other exploitable issues
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Institutional resilience in Modern Iranian Shiʿism: solidification of the ḥawza ʿilmīya of Qum between 1961 and 1979 British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Mohammad Mesbahi
ABSTRACT The modern history of the intellectual resilience within the ḥawza ʿilmīya of Qum and its contribution to the downfall of the Pahlavi regime in 1979 is of particular importance. Following the death of Ayatollah Borujerdi (1875–1961), the ḥawza ʿilmīya of Qum was led by Ayatollahs Golpaygani (1899–1993), Shariʿatmadari (1906–1986), and Marʿashi Najafi (1887–1990), offering informally structured
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Iraqi Jewish Immigrants, Palestinian refugees, and intercommunal relations in Tira Transit Camp British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Moshe Naor
ABSTRACT This article discusses the relations between different Jewish migrant communities during the early 1950s in the Tira transit camp (Ma’abara) that was established on the land of the Arab village of Al-Tira near Haifa. The Tira camp was divided into two parts. While the population of the north camp was dominated mainly by Jewish migrants from Romania, the south camp was home mainly to Jewish
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Jordanian stamps of Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem: 1967-1989 British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Michael Sharnoff
ABSTRACT Jordanian postage stamp depictions of the Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem demonstrate how the Hashemite regime aims to bolster its legitimacy, balance relations with the PLO and Israel, affirm domestic and international sympathy and support to administer the Muslim holy places, and convey the kingdom’s close attachment to the Palestinian issue. These depictions aim to create the additional
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Missionary involvement with the Simele massacre in 1933: the end of American sympathy for the Assyrians British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Tijmen C. Baarda
ABSTRACT The Simele massacre of 1933 in Iraq, in which over 600 Assyrian Christians lost their lives, is an important part of Assyrian national history and is one of the few well-known events in twentieth-century Iraqi history where Christians are involved. While there was a general outcry in Western Europe and the United States against the Iraqi government following the massacre, the American missionaries
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Styles of ‘religion’, ‘non-religion’ and ‘spirituality’ in post-revolutionary Iran: the ‘ironic’ impact of ‘Islam’ on people’s ‘religiosity’ British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Hossein Godazgar, Hossein Mirzaei
ABSTRACT By changing the definition of ‘religion’, the Iranian Revolution of 1979 has posed serious challenges not only to Iran’s role in the Middle East and its relations with the ‘West’, but also to many social theories, such as differentiation, modernization and secularization. Indeed, there is no shortage of work on how post-revolutionary Iran has ‘Islamized’ its constitution and institutions.
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Missionaries as Humanitarian Mediators after the 1860 troubles in Lebanon British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Chantal Verdeil
ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to examine how the 1860 Crisis in Mount Lebanon and Damascus crisis shaped discourses and practices of humanitarianism among the missions and affected their relations with both local and foreign state actors. Catholic missionaries were witnesses and victims but also in the long run beneficiaries of the events of 1860. They were themselves involved in the distribution
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The dynamics of humanitarianism, religion and politics in the Middle East, 1860s-1960s: introductory remarks British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-07-23 Esther Möller, Johannes Paulmann
Published in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Palestinian refugees, Christian humanitarianism, and the remaking of the Melkite church in Jordan British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Norig Neveu
ABSTRACT The arrival of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Jordan after 1948 and 1967 represented a major challenge for the young state, international institutions and humanitarian organizations, both faith-based or secular. In this context, the Melkite Church developed its assistance activities, particularly health and vocational education, to respond to this humanitarian crisis and the needs of
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Witness Reporting as Resistance and Recovery–The Swedish Missionary Alma Johansson and the 1915 Armenian Genocide British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Maria Småberg
ABSTRACT Western missionaries became important eyewitnesses of the 1915 Armenian genocide, and many reported on the events. This article analyses witness reporting from a biographical and gendered perspective, taking into account the significance of studying local activism and transnational networks in a humanitarian setting. Taking the witness accounts of the Swedish missionary Alma Johansson as an
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Advanced English-Arabic translation: a practical guide, 2nd edition British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Mohammed Al-Batineh
Published in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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New order in the Gulf: the rise of the UAE British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Nesibe Hicret Battaloglu
Published in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries; Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Fatemeh Takht Keshian
Published in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Violence and representation in the Arab uprisings British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Jessica Northey, Sa’ad Halawani
Published in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The role of protestant missionaries during the Great Arab Revolt in Jerusalem and South Palestine (1936-1939) – towards humanity? British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Karène Sanchez Summerer, Inger Marie Okkenhaug
ABSTRACT During the Arab Revolt against the British authorities in Palestine from 1936 to 1939, missionaries responded by organizing aid to relieve Arab local suffering, transforming their educational and medical mission to provide immediate relief. This article questions the image of missionaries as producers of expertise, both from a welfare and political activity point of view, in a place—the ‘Holy
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Syria 2011–2013: revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Rahaf Aldoughli
Published in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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‘The perspectives of Iranian Feminists and Women Activists on Gender Equality in Iran’ British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Pardis Asadi Zeidabadi, Nadia Aghtaie
ABSTRACT This paper explores the perspectives of Iranian women involved in women’s activism and policymaking in Iran on gender equality and gender justice. The study draws on 47 in-depth semi-structured interviews through an explanatory approach. Participants in this study included women’s activists, whose points of reference is the Islamic teaching, as well as those women activists who consider women’s
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The Near East Relief and the American Board Commissions for foreign missions. Humanitarian partnership and divorce in the Near East (1918–1929) British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Davide Rodogno
ABSTRACT The active involvement of missionaries was an essential element in the history of Near East Relief (NER), the largest private and American humanitarian association in the Middle East from 1915 to 1930. Most of these missionaries were associated with the American Board Commission for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). They often spoke local languages and may have been living in the Ottoman Empire for
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Polarization & populist backlash in transitioning Tunisia: the role of internet media & media ownership British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Andrew Bennett
ABSTRACT Since it’s revolution, Tunisia’s road to democracy has been turbulent—with apathy, polarization, and politically motivated violence stifling its transition. While much has been made of internet media’s role during Tunisia’s revolution, far fewer studies have examined its continuing effects throughout the country’s ongoing democratic transition. This study draws on original interviews conducted
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The Russo-Ottoman struggle over the support of the Muslims of Southern Caucasus in the 1890s British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Soli Shahvar
ABSTRACT The Russo-Ottoman conflict spread over centuries of wars and campaigns between wars. This article delves into one of those campaigns, which took place in the Southern Caucasus in the 1890s. In that decade, the Muslim population of that region found themselves being courted by both the Ottoman and Russian empires, each pursuing its own interests against the other. This struggle was set in the
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Regime trajectories of Tunisia and Turkey: a comparative analysis British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Pelin Ayan Musil, Salim Çevik
ABSTRACT Both Turkey and Tunisia have attracted significant attention regarding their democratization and religious politics. While Turkey was considered a successful case of blending Islam and democracy in the decade of 2000s, it plunged into autocratization in the following decade. Tunisia became the only Arab spring country to go through democratic transition between 2011 and 2015 but 6 years later
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Exploring the metaphors of the body in the novels of Rajaa Alem: special focus on Khātam and Ḥubbā British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Ibrahim Abdulrahman Alfraih, Hessa Almufarih
ABSTRACT The relationship between language and the body is significant; it is charged with complexities pertaining to the language’s functions in reinscribing cultural discourses and its role in the discursive construction, transformation, and reproduction of the body. This study aims to examine the body in the novels entitled Khātam and Ḥubbā written by the Saudi female writer Rajaa Alem. The analysis
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Hamid Dabashi, The Last Muslim Intellectual, the Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Homa Katouzian
ABSTRACT Jalal Al-e Ahmad was a leading Iranian writer and critic, best known for his long essay, Gharbzadegi or Weststruckness, which many critics controversially regard as a harbinger of the Islamic revolution. There is no doubt that, willy-nilly, what was believed to be his rejection of western civilization was posthumously very influential in shaping public opinion. Dabashi’s largely uncritical
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The practice of informal marriages in the Muslim world: a comparative portrait British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Janet Afary, Roger Friedland
ABSTRACT Informal marriages have been on the rise in recent years in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia (MENASA) region. These unions are different from formal marriages in a number of ways. There are also many factors contributing to the growing popularity of such unions. Both men and women are delaying marriage; rates of formal marriage are declining; and rates of divorce are increasing
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A New Diaspora Press: Persian Periodicals in 1950s Israel British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Daniel Amir
ABSTRACT Iranian Jews produced roughly 15 periodicals during the twentieth century, on which some initial work has been undertaken. These periodicals, newspapers, and pamphlets gave a voice to the community and served to foster the consolidation of political subjectivity and syncretic national ideologies within the public sphere. With that, scholarship still lacks any significant exploration of the
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International Security in a World of Fragile States: Islamic States and Islamist Organisations British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Ankit
Published in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Iran and a French empire of trade, 1700-1808: the other Persian letters British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Mehdi Mousavi
Published in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The religious soundscape of Mount Lebanon in the 18th and the first half of the 19th century British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Alex Rodriguez Suarez
ABSTRACT This article looks at the use of church bells by the Christian communities of Mount Lebanon in the 18th and the first half of the 19th century. The region was part of the Ottoman Empire, where bell ringing for religious purposes was forbidden. Instead, Christians usually employed a wooden instrument – the semantron – to call the faithful to mass. However, numerous accounts attest that during
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Creating the Qur’an: a historical-critical study British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.972) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Muhammad Misbah
Published in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)