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‘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
Kobi Peled
Published online: 04 Jun 2024
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Manipulating English news reports translated into Arabic: the influence of patronage and socio-narratives
Abdelhamid Elewa
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Disappointment and vision in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings
Navid Hassanzadeh
Published online: 20 May 2024
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Measuring the evolution of Arab States’ perceptions of the Iranian threat: a quantitative text analysis of Arabic-language state media, 2010–20
Dai Yamao & Kota Suechika
Published online: 02 May 2024
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Populism at the UN: comparing Netanyahu’s and Abbas’s speeches, 2010–19
José Javier Olivas Osuna & Guy Burton
Published online: 23 Apr 2024
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Triumph and despair: in search of Iran’s Islamic Republic
by Mehran Kamrava, London, United Kingdom, HURST Publishers, Oct. 2022, 304 pp., £30.00 (Hardback), ISBN 9781787388031
Shabnam Dadparvar
Published online: 23 Apr 2024
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Freedom for Morocco: a family tale
by Osire Glacier, Trenton, Red Sea Press, 2022, 174 pp., $ 21.95 (paperback), ISBN-13: ‎978-1569027875
Maâti Monjib
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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Righteous Politics: Power and Resilience in Iran
by Mehran Kamrava, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 396 pp., $34.99 (e-book), ISBN: 9781009362023
Clemens Chay
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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Kindred Voices: a literary history of Medieval Anatolia
by Michael Pifer, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2021, 320 pp., $45.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780300250398
Hülya Taflı Düzgün
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities: Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics
by Aroosa Kanwal, New York, Routledge, 2024, xii+182 pp., £104.00 (Hardback), ISBN: 9781032008844
Ramadhan Jabal Primadana
Published online: 18 Apr 2024
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Muslim reading rooms in the Caucasus: adaptation, emulation, and the cultivation of a reading public
Kelsey Rice
Published online: 04 Apr 2024
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Populists’ struggle for epistemic hegemony and anti-gender attacks on higher education in authoritarian contexts: the case of Turkey
Didem Unal
Published online: 03 Apr 2024
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Islamic Republic of Iran’s Foreign Policy in the South Caucasus: Opportunities and Constraints
by Shabnam Dadparvar, UK, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, October 2023, 515 pp., £94.99 (hardback), ISBN: 1-5275-4778-7
Vali Kaleji
Published online: 01 Apr 2024
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Spaces of youth politics and the Arab uprisings: environmental activism and the Algerian Hirak
Jessica Ayesha Northey
Published online: 01 Apr 2024
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Political Islam and democracy in Central Asia, the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan
by Ajam Kalonov, New York, Routledge, 2023, 164 pp., £104.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9781003394310
Dewi Sinta
Published online: 30 Mar 2024
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Ethnographic documentary: the sky wept for forty days
by Sabrina Mervin, available also in French: Le ciel plaura 40 jours. 2022, 62 min, £8
Ingvild Flaskerud
Published online: 26 Mar 2024
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An introduction to arabic translation: translator training and translation practice
by Hussein Abdul-Raof, Routledge, 2023, 338 pp., $32.99 (paperback) (pbk), ISBN: 978-1-032-21555-6
Aidillah Suja & Ahmad Fadhel Syakir Hidayat
Published online: 24 Mar 2024
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Turkish politics and ‘the people’: mass mobilisation and populism
by Spyros A. Sofos, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, 261pp., $110 (hardback), ISBN 9781399502856
Bilge Azgın
Published online: 21 Mar 2024
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‘There is no compulsion in marriage’. Divorce and gendered change in Afghanistan during the Islamic Republic
Torunn Wimpelmann & Masooma Saadat
Published online: 18 Mar 2024
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David Yellin, Muhammad Kurd ‘Ali and the Great Library of Damascus during the First World War
Omri Eilat
Published online: 05 Mar 2024
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Nationalizing the fig commerce: Aram Hamparzum’s warehouse from the Empire to the Republic
Umit Eser
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Muslim women’s diasporic identity: a critical discourse analysis of Leila Aboulela’s Minaret (2005)
Morve Roshan K.Yasser Abdullah Al Tamimi
Published online: 28 Feb 2024
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Translation and traditions: Taha Abderrahmane’s intersectional views as a threshold for cultural dialogue
Abdellah El Boubekri
Published online: 28 Feb 2024
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The independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan: the position of Egypt and the coverage in Egyptian online media
Mushegh Ghahriyan
Published online: 28 Feb 2024
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An Inclusion demoderation hypothesis: the revolutionary socialists in a democratic transition
Talal Alkhadher
Published online: 27 Feb 2024
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“The old rains are gone, so are we”: Kurdish Nomads of Mount Ağrı (Ararat)
Mehmet Ali Sevgi & Adem Yulu
Published online: 19 Feb 2024
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Expecting the best: Palestinian Utopianism and trans-sectarianism in the Mandate period
Eli Osheroff
Published online: 12 Feb 2024
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Channelling (in)security: governing movement and ordinary life in ‘imagined geographies’
Hannah Owens
Published online: 06 Feb 2024
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Becoming temporarily protected, producing temporarily protecting places: how Syrian refugee women and children co-create place in Istanbul
Gülkizilca Yurur
Published online: 05 Feb 2024
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Al-Lajjun: a Social and geographic account of a Palestinian Village during the British Mandate Period
Roy Marom, Yotam Tepper & Matthew J. Adams
Published online: 03 Jan 2024
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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)
Somayeh Bakhtiari
Published online: 27 Dec 2023
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Challenges in the conceptualization and implementation of normalization: insights from Egyptian–Israeli Relations
Meirav Mishali-Ram & Rami Ginat
Published online: 13 Dec 2023
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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
Yoram Fried
Published online: 30 Nov 2023
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Confronting minorization: colonial missionaries and Ottoman millets in the eyes of a Nineteenth Century Baghdadi Rabbi
Avi-ram Tzoreff
Published online: 15 Nov 2023
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The compromise of Islamism and democracy in the light of the Tunisian revolution and views of Rachid al-Gannouchi
Anna Zasuń
Published online: 12 Nov 2023
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Responding to Climate Change in Jordan: understanding institutional developments, political restrictions and economic opportunities
Imad El-Anis & Marianna Poberezhskaya
Published online: 07 Nov 2023
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Understanding community resilience in Yemen: how parallel institutions meet essential needs in the absence of the state
Manuel Almeida, Raiman Al-Hamdani & Austin J. Knuppe
Published online: 03 Nov 2023
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Vicegerency in Islamic Thought and Scripture: Towards a Qur’anic Theory of Human Existential Function
by Chauki Lazhar, London, Routledge, 2023, 284 pp., £90.00 (hardback) £35.09 eBook, ISBN: 9781032372211, eBook ISBN: 9781003335948
Putri Nurjayana Muin & Nurmawan
Published online: 20 Oct 2023
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The Crusade of 1456 Texts and Documentation in Translation
Mixson James D, Boston, University of Toronto Press, 2022, 324 pp., $94.53 (hardback), ISBN: 978-148750 5769
Hülya Taflı Düzgün & Haydar Akçadağ
Published online: 18 Oct 2023
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Ahmad Qābel and Contemporary Islamic Thought, Rational Shariah in Twenty-First-Century Iran
by Lloyd Ridgeon, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 288 pp., £86 (hardback), ISBN 978-1009322225
S. Yaser Mirdamadi
Published online: 04 Oct 2023
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“Revolution of things; the Islamism and Post-Islamism of objects in Tehran”
by Kusha Sefat, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, May 23 2023, 184 pp., $29.95 (paperback)
Ehssan Hanif
Published online: 04 Oct 2023
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Classless Politics. Islamist movements, the left, and authoritarian legacies in Egypt
by Hesham Sallam, New York, United States of America, Columbia University Press, 2022, ix-xviii+454 pp., $35 .00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-231-203258
Francesco Cavatorta
Published online: 04 Oct 2023
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Alliance and sectarian attitudes in the MENA: the case of Arab opinion towards Iran
Alireza Raisi
Published online: 30 Sep 2023
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Deliberate polarization as a distractive political strategy in economic downturns: the case of Turkey
Adam Szymański & Ahmet Furkan Cihangiroğlu
Published online: 31 Aug 2023
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Institutional resilience in Modern Iranian Shiʿism: solidification of the ḥawza ʿilmīya of Qum between 1961 and 1979
Mohammad Mesbahi
Published online: 29 Aug 2023
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Iraqi Jewish Immigrants, Palestinian refugees, and intercommunal relations in Tira Transit Camp
Moshe Naor
Published online: 27 Aug 2023
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Jordanian stamps of Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem: 1967-1989
Michael Sharnoff
Published online: 24 Aug 2023
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Missionary involvement with the Simele massacre in 1933: the end of American sympathy for the Assyrians
Tijmen C. Baarda
Published online: 17 Aug 2023
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Styles of ‘religion’, ‘non-religion’ and ‘spirituality’ in post-revolutionary Iran: the ‘ironic’ impact of ‘Islam’ on people’s ‘religiosity’
Hossein Godazgar & Hossein Mirzaei
Published online: 09 Aug 2023
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Missionaries as Humanitarian Mediators after the 1860 troubles in Lebanon
Chantal Verdeil
Published online: 08 Aug 2023
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