Exceptionalism and nationalism in contemporary Iranian thought: a study of Javad Tabatabai’s scholarship

2024-9-12

Disowning the past: an assassination, complex transnational influences, and the generational rift within the Iranian communist movement

2024-9-10

From pharaoh to hero: contested constructions of Mubarak’s image in Egyptian post-uprising collective memory

2024-9-9

Muslim women’s identity in Orhan Pamuk’s <i>Snow</i>

2024-8-28

A question of autonomy: the Islamic-conservative cultural sphere in Turkey

2024-8-27

Islamic reform with or without Ulama? A comparative study between al-Kawakibi and Naini

2024-8-14

The struggle for supremacy in the middle east: Saudi Arabia and Iran <b>The struggle for supremacy in the middle east: Saudi Arabia and Iran</b> , by Simon Mabon, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 268 pp., $29.99 (paperback), ISBN: 9781108461443; $90 (hardback), ISBN: 9781108473361; $29.99 (ebook), ISBN: 9781108582308

2024-8-2

Placing the environment in Middle East studies: beyond the single story

2024-8-1

Street-level governing: negotiating the state in urban Turkey <b>Street-level governing: negotiating the state in urban Turkey</b> , by Elise Massicard, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures, 2022, 344 pp., $32.00 (paperback), ISBN: 9781503631854

2024-8-1

How sanctions work? Iran and the impact of economic warfare <b>How sanctions work? Iran and the impact of economic warfare</b> , by Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and Ali Vaez, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2024, 212 pp., $24.00 (Paperback) ISBN: 9781503637801

2024-7-31

India’s policy towards west Asia: the modi era <b>India’s policy towards west Asia: the modi era</b> , edited by Sujan Chinoy and Prasanta Kumar Pradhan, New Delhi, Pentagon Press LLP, 2024, 183 pp., ₹ 1295 (HB), ISBN: 978-81-968722-2-9

2024-7-31

Capitalism in contemporary Iran. Capital accumulation, state formation and geopolitics <b>Capitalism in contemporary Iran. Capital accumulation, state formation and geopolitics</b> , Kayhan Valadbaygi, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2024, 256 pp., £80.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-5261-6178-9.

2024-7-31

The end of a myth? Turkish-American relations during the National Unity Committee Governments (1960–1961)

2024-7-19

Shi‘a, Tribalism and the Iraqi state: the ethno-religious dimension

2024-7-17

Women’s gifting of their inheritance share to male kin is void: a study of late Ottoman fatwas on social coercion

2024-7-17

Islamic and sectarian or secular and nationalist? New classification of Iraqi Shi’a political actors based on ideological anchorage

2024-7-10

“Intentionality” in radical flank effects: reflections on Al-Nusra Front’s discourse of moderation between 2012–2017

2024-7-5

Arab nationalism and the politics of “othering” in Kuwait: evidence from al-taliʿa

2024-6-19

The life of one chosen by god: a study of the stories of Moses in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Sources <b>The life of one chosen by god: a study of the stories of Moses in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Sources</b> , by Nelena Narinskaya, New Jersey, Georgias Press, 2022, 428 pp., $ 170.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1463239138

2024-6-16

Islamic identity and development after the Ottomans the Arab Middle East <b>Islamic identity and development after the Ottomans the Arab Middle East</b> , by Özay Mehmet, New York, Routledge, 2023, 288 pp., £28.79 (paperback), ISBN: 9781032215693; £100.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781032215679; £28.79 (ebook), ISBN 9781003268994

2024-6-16

Middle eastern television drama: politics, aesthetics, practices <b>Middle eastern television drama: politics, aesthetics, practices</b> editied by Christa Salamandra and Nour Halabi, New York, Routledge, 2023, 190 pp., 12 B/W Illustrations, US$160.00, ISBN: 9781032027814

2024-6-13

Oil money: middle east petrodollars and the transformation of US empire, 1967–1988 <b>Oil money: middle east petrodollars and the transformation of US empire, 1967–1988</b> , by David M, Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2021, 360 pp., $52.95 (hardback), ISBN 9781501715723

2024-6-13

China’s economic and political presence in the Middle East and South Asia <b>China’s economic and political presence in the Middle East and South Asia</b> , by Mehran Haghirian and Luciano Zaccara. Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series, Oxfordshire, UK, Routledge, 2023, 250 pp., $126 (hardback), ISBN: 9781032216041

2024-6-13

‘In the Byzantines’ cage’: a Transjordanian poem about Qadr al-Majali, leader of the 1910 Karak revolt – analysis of a version documented in the Negev

2024-6-4

Manipulating English news reports translated into Arabic: the influence of patronage and socio-narratives

2024-6-3

Disappointment and vision in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings

2024-5-20

Measuring the evolution of Arab States’ perceptions of the Iranian threat: a quantitative text analysis of Arabic-language state media, 2010–20

2024-5-2

Truth and other lies: online foreign image management in Iran during the Rouhani Era

2024-5-2

Ciné-martyrographies. Media techniques of witnessing in Iranian cinema

2024-4-23

Populism at the UN: comparing Netanyahu’s and Abbas’s speeches, 2010–19

2024-4-23

Triumph and despair: in search of Iran’s Islamic Republic <b>Triumph and despair: in search of Iran’s Islamic Republic</b> , by Mehran Kamrava, London, United Kingdom, HURST Publishers, Oct. 2022, 304 pp., £30.00 (Hardback), ISBN 9781787388031

2024-4-23

Freedom for Morocco: a family tale <b>Freedom for Morocco: a family tale</b> , by Osire Glacier, Trenton, Red Sea Press, 2022, 174 pp., $ 21.95 (paperback), ISBN-13: ‎978-1569027875

2024-4-22

Mourning mothers and wars that never end: reading Nasim Marashi’s <i>Haras</i> (Pruning) in the shadow of the Iran-Iraq war

2024-4-22

Righteous Politics: Power and Resilience in Iran <b>Righteous Politics: Power and Resilience in Iran</b> , by Mehran Kamrava, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 396 pp., $34.99 (e-book), ISBN: 9781009362023

2024-4-22

Kindred Voices: a literary history of Medieval Anatolia <b>Kindred Voices: a literary history of Medieval Anatolia</b> , by Michael Pifer, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2021, 320 pp., $45.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780300250398

2024-4-22

Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities: Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics <b>Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities: Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics</b> , by Aroosa Kanwal, New York, Routledge, 2024, xii+182 pp., £104.00 (Hardback), ISBN: 9781032008844

2024-4-18

Muslim reading rooms in the Caucasus: adaptation, emulation, and the cultivation of a reading public

2024-4-4

Populists’ struggle for epistemic hegemony and anti-gender attacks on higher education in authoritarian contexts: the case of Turkey

2024-4-3

Spaces of youth politics and the Arab uprisings: environmental activism and the Algerian Hirak

2024-4-1

Islamic Republic of Iran’s Foreign Policy in the South Caucasus: Opportunities and Constraints <b>Islamic Republic of Iran’s Foreign Policy in the South Caucasus: Opportunities and Constraints</b> , by Shabnam Dadparvar, UK, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, October 2023, 515 pp., £94.99 (hardback), ISBN: 1-5275-4778-7

2024-4-1

Political Islam and democracy in Central Asia, the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan <b>Political Islam and democracy in Central Asia, the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan</b> , by Ajam Kalonov, New York, Routledge, 2023, 164 pp., £104.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9781003394310

2024-3-30

Ethnographic documentary: the sky wept for forty days <b>Ethnographic documentary: the sky wept for forty days</b> , by Sabrina Mervin, available also in French: <i>Le ciel plaura 40 jours</i> . 2022, 62 min, £8

2024-3-26

An introduction to arabic translation: translator training and translation practice <b>An introduction to arabic translation: translator training and translation practice</b> , by Hussein Abdul-Raof, Routledge, 2023, 338 pp., $32.99 (paperback) (pbk), ISBN: 978-1-032-21555-6

2024-3-24

Turkish politics and ‘the people’: mass mobilisation and populism <b>Turkish politics and ‘the people’: mass mobilisation and populism</b> , by Spyros A. Sofos, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, 261pp., $110 (hardback), ISBN 9781399502856

2024-3-21

‘ <i>There is no compulsion in marriage’</i> . Divorce and gendered change in Afghanistan during the Islamic Republic

2024-3-18

Appropriating Hafez’s ghazals for Shiite rites and rituals in the Islamic Republic of Iran

2024-3-14

<i>Da</i> and its mothers of the martyred: meaning and contest in an Iranian war memoir

2024-3-14

Introduction: propagandas, cultural production, and negotiating ideology in Iran

2024-3-14

Television series as propaganda: the populist discourse in <i>Aghazadeh</i>

2024-3-14

The myth of the Basiji: Morteza Avini’s legacy for the propaganda in Iran

2024-3-14