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Correction Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-14
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Ending slavery in imperial peripheries: Ottoman abolitionist policy in Trablusgarp and Benghazi provinces (1857–1911) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Salma Hargal
When Istanbul prohibited the trade of enslaved Africans in 1857, the Ottoman local authorities expanded efforts to curb human trafficking throughout the imperial realm. These endeavours also includ...
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Visualizing Palestine in Arab postage stamps: 1948-1967 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Michael Sharnoff
From 1948 to 1967, most Arab stamp depictions of Palestine showed its borders as it existed during the British Mandate (1922-1948), from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. These borders con...
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Political vs intellectual? Russia’s late Imperial archaeology and the Russian Cause Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Denis V. Volkov
Drawing on the writings of the founding representatives of late Imperial Russia’s Oriental studies, and documents from Russian archives, this article first traces Professor Nikolay Veselovsky’s (18...
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Afterlives of revolution: everyday counter histories in Southern Oman Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Tancred Bradshaw
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 2, 2024)
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The Greek population of Ottoman Pontus in the early twentieth century: a comparative demographic analysis Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Antonis Klapsis
The main aim of the article is to compare and contrast different sources that pertain to the Greek population of Pontus during the early twentieth century. More precisely, the article investigates ...
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Of hovels and homes: consumption, class, and domestic space in early republican Turkey Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Kyle T. Evered, Emine Ö. Evered
In histories of preventing and treating tuberculosis, many physicians came to prioritize the place and role of the home by the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This was as true in the...
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Oman book review Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Tancred Bradshaw
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Young woman, daughter, mother: female soldiers killed in battle during Israel’s War of Independence (1947–1949) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Sharon Geva
During Israel’s War of Independence (1947–1949), women were a minority in the enlisted forces (10 per cent) and among the victims (9 per cent). Most did not carry weapons, and some were not killed ...
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New Military Strategies in the Gulf: The Mirage of Autonomy in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Athol Yates
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Crime, poverty and survival in the Middle East and North Africa: the ‘dangerous classes’ since 1800 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Robert Steele
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 1, 2024)
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Practicing Sectarianism: Archival and Ethnographic intervention on Lebanon Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Eyal Zisser
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 1, 2024)
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Yitzhak Shamir and the unity of contradictions: between the integrity of the whole Land of Israel and integrity of the Jewish People Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Yitzhak Mualem
The purpose of this research is to investigate how the value of the unity of the homeland (Israel) and the value of the unity of the people (Jewish Nation) in the writings and policy of Yitzhak Sha...
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The appointment mechanism of the ulema to the Ilmiye posts Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-25 Erhan Bektaş
The new, developing bureaucratic procedures in the nineteenth century had wide-ranging influence over the Ottoman ulema in such areas as professionalization, performance evaluations, examinations f...
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Kuwait’s ʿAjam merchants: a transnational community (1896–1950) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Mohammad E. Al-Habib
This article examines the transnational role of the most influential ʿAjam mercantile families (Maʿrafi, Bin Ghalib, and Behbehani) in the economic development of the state of Kuwait from the reign...
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Allies or foes: the interplay between al-Azhar and the Muslim Brotherhood following Egypt’s 2011 uprising (2011–2021) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Limor Lavie
This paper examines the relationship between al-Azhar and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) following the 2011 Egyptianuprising. While the interplay between them in the pre-revolutionary period was mostl...
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The Palestine Commission: the forgotten chapter in United Nations peacemaking and peacekeeping in the Arab-Israeli conflict Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Jonathan Franco
This article examines the peacemaking and peacekeeping efforts of the United Nations (UN) Palestine Commission, which was charged with implementing the General Assembly’s Resolution 181 on the part...
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Kissinger’s wrath: the reassessment of the US-Israel relationship (March 1975) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 David Tal
This article delves into the often-overlooked emotional aspect of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s decision-making during the 1975 Shuttle Diplomacy, focusing on the US-Israel relationship. Whi...
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‘A tent has fallen from the sky’: the convoluted story of a balloon accident in Ottoman Bosnia in 1803 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Fatma Sel Turhan
Based on the story of a balloon accident in the Bihke region of Bosnia in 1803, this article evaluates the balloon technology of the period through the life of Francesco Zambeccari, who was the aer...
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Preparation for total war: ‘Military Service Preparation Camps’ in the Turkish education system in the early Republican Era (1926–1946) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Özlem Gürsoy, Mustafa Gündüz
Since the early nineteenth century, various ideologies have attempted to design education systems with an abundance of military attitudes for the future of the state and society, thereby benefiting...
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An evaluation of the catalog of Ottoman newspapers prepared by an Ottoman Jew Abraham Galante Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Servet Tiken, Özlem Sürücü
In the Ottoman Empire, opposition journalism outside the country presented its first examples during the reign of Abdülaziz. Publishing newspapers outside the country reached its peak during the re...
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Discourses on outdated but still valid currencies in Israel, from the Egyptian withdrawal in 1841 to 2023 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Amos Nadan
When reading texts mentioning past currencies, especially those that were in use in Ottoman and British Palestine and the first decade of the State of Israel, historians often remain puzzled as to ...
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The effect of nationalist movements on Turkish and Irish children’s literature: swans and epic heroes: ‘Fly like great birds, who have no voice’ Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Refika Altıkulaç Demirdağ, Ali Altıkulaç
The establishment of the Turkish and Irish republics took place nearly simultaneously, under the influence of the nationalist movement. This study discusses the cultural foundations of nationalism ...
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‘An Oriental Gentlewoman’: Princess Nazlı Fazıl’s interview in The Gentlewoman in 1899 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Elif Yumru
Abstract This article analyses an interview given by Princess Nazlı Fazıl (1856–1913) on 3 June 1899 to the British journal The Gentlewoman . Examining this rare instance of the representation of an elite Ottoman woman in the British media, this article demonstrates how Princess Nazlı used the foreign press to advance her own interests both abroad and at home. To her elite British readership, she presented
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Are cinema, TV and football recommended for Muslims? The Millî Görüş movement’s view on popular culture Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Uri Rosenberg
Abstract This article charts changes in the views towards popular culture of the most prominent Turkish-Islamist movement that operated in the late twentieth century, the Millî Görüş (‘The National Outlook’), a movement that altered Turkey’s history and brought up its current Islamist leader – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Through a unique and intensive analysis of Millî Görüş texts and documents, the article
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Raiders of the Hidden Ark: The Story of the Parker Expedition to Jerusalem Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Saul Kelly
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 59, No. 6, 2023)
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A Russian stooge or a Greek puppet? Joachim III’s struggle for autonomy of the Patriarchate of Constantinople (1864-1912) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Denis Vovchenko
Abstract Established in 1830, Greece was the first post-Ottoman nation-state. It ambitiously aimed to incorporate all Ottoman provinces populated both by ethnic Greeks and the Slavic-speaking flock of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. In contrast, the Romanovs’ realm was the only Orthodox Great Power of Europe and one of its last dynastic confessional empires. The Russians had long acted on the flattering
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Selânikli Tevfik – writer, journalist, translator Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Syed Tanvir Wasti
Abstract The last four decades of the nineteenth century were a period when, as a result of increased investment in education as well as closer contacts with Europe, Ottoman Turkey and the provinces of the Empire registered a significant growth in the reading public. Newspapers, journals and books began to be published, sold and read in large numbers partly because, in addition to providing news, views
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The rise of the Hebronite alliance: Hebronite regionalism between Palestine and Jordan, 1940–1967 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Harel Chorev Halewa
Abstract From the late British Mandate period until 1967, a cohesive system of social and political arrangements took shape among the people of the Hebron district in the West Bank. This system, referred to here as the Hebronite alliance, was born of a continuous crisis and played a central role in cultivating harmony and co-liability among the people of the district and its expatriates. It promoted
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The Massacre That Never Was: The Myth of Deir Yassin and the Creation of the Palestine Refugee Problem Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Clive Jones
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 59, No. 6, 2023)
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Cultural Imperialism and the American scramble for antiquities in Mandate Syria: 1920–1939 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Charles Sills
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Palestinian youth of East Jerusalem – between Palestinian and Israeli identity Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Shaul Bartal
Abstract Israel’s annexation of East Jerusalem after the 1967 War, created a complicated reality – especially for the residents of East Jerusalem, a population of 70,000 people at the time of the annexation. There are approximately 120,000 Palestinian youth in Jerusalem between the ages of 15–29 who make up approximately 30 per cent of the Arab population living in Jerusalem. Carrying out a trend analysis
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Prize announcement Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-07-11
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 59, No. 5, 2023)
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Asad’s autocratic dynasty in Syria: civil war and the role of regional and global powers Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Eyal Zisser
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 59, No. 5, 2023)
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Cultural reforms and restructuring Iranian national identity: a case study of the Thought Development Organization and its Public Speech Commission Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Mitra Madani
Abstract The fall of the Qajar dynasty and the rise of the Pahlavi government marked the beginning of important changes in Iran. Reza Shah’s reign (1925–1941) is significant in shaping the intellectual foundations of modern Iran because of the state’s efforts to establish a modern government and create a modern society. The idea of one state, one culture, and one nation as a fundamental principle in
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Social histories of Iran: modernism and marginality in the Middle East Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Mattin Biglari
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 59, No. 5, 2023)
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Power and light, profit and loss: the establishment and operation of the Damascus Electricity and Tramway Company, 1903-1914 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Omri Eilat
Abstract This article addresses the shift of power that occurred in Ottoman Damascus as a result of the establishment of its electricity and tramway network that started operating in 1907. The company, which ought to have been public, in the ownership of Ottoman-Syrian investors, ended up being owned by a Belgian consortium. The central argument in the article is that the Damascene elite families rationally
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Captive wild animals as visual commodities in the Ottoman Empire: a historical review Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Deniz Dölek-Sever
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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UNSCOP and the Arab–Israeli conflict: the road to partition Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Matthew Hughes
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 59, No. 5, 2023)
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Benefitting from the ambiguity: the issue of the ‘Turkishness’ of the Jewish minority in the first decade of the Turkish Republic Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Sevil Özçalık Dumanoğulları
Abstract This article attempts to contextualize the situation of the Jewish community recognized as a minority group in the Treaty of Lausanne within a wider framework of Turkish nationalism during the first decade of the Republic. It will claim that the ruling elite of the Republic concurrently defined ‘Turkishness’ on inclusive and exclusive terms. While in theory, Turkish nationalism was a ‘civic’
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How the powerful maintained their power: land, violence and identity in fin de siècle Palu Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 İbrahim Halil Kalkan, Owen Robert Miller
Abstract This article is set in the environs of the Eastern Anatolian town of Palu at the turn of the twentieth century. At the heart of this investigation is a puzzle: how did the local elite manage to maintain their power in the face of first Tanzimat (1839–1876) and then Hamidian centralization (1876–1908)? Based on the study of a range of primary sources, it appears that the local elites were able
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Successful failure: American naval engineers at the Imperial Arsenal in Constantinople 1831–1842 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Ayşegül Avcı
Abstract The esteemed naval engineer Henry Eckford and later his foreman Foster Rhodes served at the Imperial Arsenal between 1831 and 1839. Although their efforts to construct modernized war vessels, improve the technical infrastructure of the Arsenal, and educate Ottoman youth to become future naval engineers were admirable, due to the international and domestic problems that the Ottoman Empire faced
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Bureaucrats into merchants: tea, capitalism and the making of the Republican bourgeois Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Esra Ansel
Abstract This article uses the story of the Albayrak Tea Company and its founder Mustafa Nezih Albayrak as a prism to examine the formation of a class of Muslim merchants in early Republican Turkey. Mustafa Nezih Bey, an Ottoman bureaucrat who ventured into business in the late 1910s, became one of the most prominent tea merchants in the early Republic, paving the way for its mass consumption. Looking
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‘He is living Israeli flag’: The Right and the Presidency in Israel under Chaim Weizmann, 1948–1952 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Shoham Wechsler
The relationship between Chaim Weizmann and Ze’ev Jabotinsky is discussed widely. But research concerning the relationship between Jabotinsky’s successors, especially during Weizmann’s tenure as pr...
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The separatist Alawi petition to the French Prime Minister Léon Blum (1936): reliability, background and aftermath Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Yaron Friedman
Abstract This article focuses on a controversial document that has not yet been studied in depth. It is a petition sent by an Alawi separatist leader from Latakia (Syria) to the newly elected French prime minister in 1936. Its aim was to persuade the French that their decision to grant Syria independence and to incorporate the Alawi district to Syria would be a mistake that could endanger the safety
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A reply by David Tal Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 David Tal
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 59, No. 4, 2023)
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Zionism and the Hebrew Bible: from religious holiness to national sanctity Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Yitzhak Conforti
Abstract The Bible’s central position in the Zionist movement is well-known. Most previous studies on this topic have focused on Israeli society following the establishment of the State of Israel. By contrast, this article focuses on the role of the Hebrew Bible in Jewish nationalism and early Zionist thought from the 1880s to 1948. This article examines the connection between Zionism and the Bible
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Internal colonization, political geography and security in the Ottoman Eastern Provinces (1895–1899) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 İlkay Yılmaz
This article analyzes the re-making of the political geography of the Ottoman eastern provinces between 1895–1899, after the Memorandum of Great Powers in 1895, by examining the relationship betwee...
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Limits of economic modernization: smuggling versus monopolies in modern Turkey Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Murat Metinsoy
Abstract Monopolies constituted one of the main institutions to control the economy from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey. Over time, monopolies’ roles changed from revenue sources for the sultans’ treasuries to assigning foreign debts to debtors, creating a Muslim-Turkish bourgeoisie, structuring property relations by commercializing the economy and finally generating revenues for modernization
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Factors influencing the location of the early Zionist settlements in Ottoman Palestine: 1880–1915 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Gerald David Sack
Most of the first Jewish rural settlements established in Ottoman Palestine in the late nineteenth century have something in common that has not yet been systematically analyzed. This common factor...
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An alternative approach to total economy of the late Ottoman Empire Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Somer Alp Şimşeker, Zeynep Sabancı
The Ottoman Empire until the eve of the First World War gave the impression of an agrarian society with modest manufacturing activities, mainly based on craft-based production. A major difficulty w...
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Süreyya Ağaoğlu and the emerging liberal order in early Cold War Turkey Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Reuben Silverman
This article discusses the life, career, and associations of Süreyya Ağaoğlu, Turkey’s first female lawyer, in the years leading up to Turkey’s watershed 1950 election, in order to understand Turke...
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Syria 2011–2013: Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Eyal Zisser
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 59, No. 4, 2023)
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From listing religions to tabulating nationalities: Ottoman identity policies and enumeration practices Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Fuat Dündar
Two features are attributed to modern state censuses: measurement and classification. Yet the real contribution of the modern census is tabulation, one of the most important and yet ignored part of...
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Foundations of a geopolitical entity - the Gaza Strip 1947–1950 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Arnon Golan
The Gaza Strip is a territory of 365 square kilometres located in the southern coastal plain of Palestine. Distinguished by a long, narrow spatial form and named after its main metropolis, the city...
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Czechoslovak diplomatic dilemmas in regards to the Adolf Eichmann trial Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Eva Taterová
This article aims to analyze the ambiguous diplomatic approach of Czechoslovakia towards the trial with Adolf Eichmann launched in Jerusalem in April 1961. Even though Eichmann was internationally ...
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The 1948 turmoil in Sanaa from the viewpoint of two Yemeni Jewish sources Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Kerstin Hünefeld
This article introduces two Jewish accounts on the 1948 turmoil in Sanaa/Yemen to a non-Hebrew reading audience. Following the problematisation of both accounts – one by Salim Mansura (1916–2007), ...
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The making of an alliance: The origins and development of the US–Israeli relationship Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Tore Petersen
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 59, No. 4, 2023)
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Projective Psychological Warfare (PPW): an analysis of Hamas Hebrew videoclips as part of its propaganda campaign against Israel (2007–2014) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Nesya Rubinstein-Shemer, Netanel Flamer
Hamas invests vast resources in propaganda for a number of diverse audiences, harnessing the communications channels it operates on different media platforms. Over the course of the many years of t...
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Mapping the role of intellectuals in Iranian modern and contemporary history Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Robert Steele
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 59, No. 4, 2023)