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Endgames: Military Response to Protest in Arab Autocracies, by Hicham Bou Nassif. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 304 pages. $99.99 cloth; $34.99 paper. The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Nathan W. Toronto
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Israeli Foreign Policy since the End of the Cold War , by Amnon Aran. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 433 pages. $99.99 cloth. The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Yael Aronoff
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Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads , by David H. Rundell. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2021. 299 pages. $27. The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Sebastian Maisel
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The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan , by Owen BennettJones. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. 408 pages. $28. The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Mohammad Waseem
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The Failed Ba'thification of Iraqi Kurdistan: The Ideological and Organizational Strategies of the Ba'th Party in Northern Iraq, 1968–2003 The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Ruiheng Li
Drawing on internal party documents, this article analyzes the history of Ba'thification efforts in Iraqi Kurdistan. Despite a growing literature on the Ba'th Party's ruling strategy, the often-overlooked Arabization of Kurdish communities constituted a significant ideological component of Ba'thification. From an organizational perspective, the cultivation of internal intelligence networks was used
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Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity , by Manata Hashemi. New York: NYU Press, 2020. 222 pages. $89. The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Mahmood Monshipouri
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The Social Media War in the Middle East The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Daniel Byman
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America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present , by John Ghazvinian. London: Oneworld, 2020. 667 pages. £35. The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Arash Azizi
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The Roots of the Sadrist Movement: Muhammad al-Sadr, Religious Authority, and Sociopolitical Practice The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Harith Hasan
Based on Ba'th Party archival records, interviews, and secondary sources, this article aims to reconstruct and contextualize the story of Muhammad Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, the Shi'i cleric who led a grassroots religious movement in the 1990s that still plays a major role in Iraq. The article argues that the Sadrist movement and its project of social Islamization were a result of Sadr's enlistment of
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Turkey: A Past Against History, by Christine M. Philliou. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021. 294 pages. $85 cloth; $32.95 paper. The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Emine Evered
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The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty, by Ray Takeyh. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. 336 pages. $32.50. The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Hussein Banai
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The Evolution of the Armed Forces of the United Arab Emirates , by Athol Yates. Warwick, UK: Helion & Co. 380 pages. $120. The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Zoltan Barany
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Salafism, Sectarianism, and National Identity in Iraqi Kurdistan The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Pishtiwan Jalal,Ariel I. Ahram
This article examines the history of Salafism within the Kurdistan Region of Iraq using interviews, archives, social media, and an online survey. Despite Salafism and nationalism generally being seen as rival political ideologies, Kurdish Salafis have over the last decade increasingly linked their sectarian struggle to the Kurdish ethno-nationalist cause. Such efforts provide new understandings both
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Escape to Germany in Syrian Television Drama: From Cross-Cultural Gender Constructions to Transnational Tropes of Masculinity and Homeland The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Rebecca Joubin,Sophia Nissler
Looking at programs from the 1960s onward, this article shows the persistence and evolution of the gender imbalance in Syrian television characters' relationships with Germany. Before the 2011 uprising, screenwriters linked women charac ters to Germany as a way to challenge patriarchal standards of sexuality and gendered conceptions of national belonging. As the war has ensued, this trope has vanished
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Syrian Requiem: The Civil War and Its Aftermath, by Itamar Rabinovich and Carmit Valensi. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 255 pages. $29.95. The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Fred H. Lawson
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Islam in Modern Turkey , by Kim Shively. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. 216 pages. $29.95 paper. The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Susan Gunasti
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Water and Conflict in the Middle East, edited by Marcus Dubois King. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 288 pages. $34.95. The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Jeffrey K. Sosland
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ALGERIA: The Algerian War, the Algerian Revolution, by Natalya Vince. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 242 pages. $29.99 paper; $19.99 e-book. The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Diana Wylie
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ISRAEL: Israel in Africa: Security, Migration, Interstate Politics, by Yotam Gidron. London: Zed Books, 2020. 213 pages. $25. The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Michael B. Bishku
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TURKEY: The Kurds in Erdoğan's Turkey: Balancing Identity, Resistance and Citizenship , by William Gourlay. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. 270 pages. $110. The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Michael M. Gunter
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Women's Activism before and after the Arab Spring The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Carolyn Barnett
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The Geopolitics of Afghan-Iranian Relations The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Ali A. Jalali
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EGYPT: Egypt's Housing Crises: The Shaping of Urban Space, by Yahia Shawkat. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2020. 312 pages. $49.95. The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Ashraf M. Salama
Book review of Egypt's Housing Crises: The Shaping of Urban Space by Yahia Shawkat. The American University in Cairo (AUC) Press, ISBN 9789774169571. Approaching a century of crises, housing in Egypt has been, and continues to be, produced and reproduced within a very complex milieu which can be portrayed by an obsession with top-down approaches while encompassing a multitude of intersecting economic
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How Do Liberalized Autocracies Repress Dissent? Evidence from Morocco The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Yasmina Abouzzohour
The Moroccan regime has used repression to successfully contain numerous types of opposition. Although research on its repressive policies is now extensive, impartial scholarly work that systematically examines its rational use of repression remains limited. This article addresses this gap by investigating the causal mechanisms behind the regime's repression of opposition actors between 1956 and 2018
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The Resilience of Populism in Iranian Politics: A Closer Look at the Nexus between Internal and External Factors The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Mahmood Monshipouri,Manochehr Dorraj
This article seeks to demonstrate that the resiliency of populism in Iran cannot be fully explained by internal variables alone. In contrast to many existing approaches, we argue that a combination of internal and external factors have contributed to the longevity and the resilience of Islamic populism in the country. The United States' hostile policies toward Iran — especially under Presidents George
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The Persistence of Orientalism: Anglo- American Historians and Modern Egypt , by Peter Gran. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2020. 232 pages. $70 cloth; $24.95 paper. The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Daniel Martin Varisco
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Military Doctrines in Israel and Iran: A Doctrinal Hybridity The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Amr Yossef
This article comparatively analyzes the origins of the military doctrines in Israel and Iran, which are positioned at the poles of status quo and revisionism in the Middle East. In a conceptual hybridity, both parties stand strategically on the defensive but operationally combine defensive with offensive elements. These combinations are backed by powerful cultural motivations and organizational interests
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Deterrence through Diplomacy: Oman's Dialogue Facilitation Initiatives during the Yemeni Civil War The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Samuel Ramani
In contrast to other states in the Gulf Cooperation Council, Oman has declined to participate in the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen and has opted to facilitate dialogue between the conflict's warring parties. Oman has embraced a strategy of diplomatic deterrence in Yemen, facilitating dialogue to counter the perceived threats that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates pose to its foreign
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MIGRATION AND REFUGEES: Reluctant Reception: Refugees, Migra- tion and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa, by Kelsey P. Norman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 260 pages. $84.99 cloth; $24.99 paper. The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Reva Dhingra
Dhingra reviews Reluctant Reception: Refugees, Migration and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa by Kelsey P. Norman.
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Away from Chaos: The Middle East and the Challenge of the West, by Gilles Kepel. Translated by Henry Randolph. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 366 pages. $35. The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 W. Andrew Terrill
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MILITARY CONFLICTS AND WARS: Quagmire in Civil War, by Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 380 pages. $99.99 cloth; $32.99 paper. The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Laia Balcells
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Iranian Reconstruction, Development, and Aid in Syria The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Eric Lob
This article examines the activities of the Iranian parastatal development organization Construction Jihad in the Syrian Civil War since 2015. Construction Jihad has implemented reconstruction and development projects and delivered social services and humanitarian aid in order to appease segments of the Syrian population and help pro-government forces consolidate territory. This case study sheds light
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MOROCCO: Channeling Moroccanness: Language and the Media of Sociality, by Becky L. Schulthies. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. 240 pages. $32. The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Kristin Gee Hickman
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SYRIA: Surviving the War in Syria: Survival Strategies in a Time of Conflict , by Justin Schon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 249 pages. $39.99 cloth; $32 e-book. The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Lindsay A. Gifford
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SAUDI ARABIA Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia, by Rosie Bsheer. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 379 pages. $30 paper. The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Thomas Demmelhuber
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How Much Does Oil Shape US Strategic Interests in the Middle East? The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Jim Krane
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Review: Jews, Muslims and Jerusalem: Disputes and Dialogues, by Moshe Ma'oz The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Miriam F. Elman
Elman reviews Jews, Muslims and Jerusalem: Disputes and Dialogues by Moshe Ma'oz
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Review: Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East, by Philip H. Gordon The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Mieczysław P. Boduszyński
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Review: Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming a Chaotic Conflict, by Ibrahim Fraihat The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Sanam Vakil
In Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming a Chaotic Conflict, Ibrahim Fraihat explores the often overlooked possibility of rapprochement between the two states, setting out a potential roadmap for conflict resolution. Read as a starting point for a forward-looking dialogue, this book can be transformative of the discourse on relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, writes Hesham Shafick, and should be read
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Tunisia's Peripheral Cities: Marginalization and Protest Politics in a Democratizing Country The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Larbi Sadiki
This article investigates Tunisia's southern "periphery within the periphery," drawing on original interviews to examine marginalization and center-periphery relations in the country since the 2011 revolution. Comparisons are drawn between the informal economy of cross-border smuggling in Ben Guerdane and the jobless youth of Tataouine being left behind as corporate elites and companies become wealthy
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Review: Nostalgia for the Empire: The Politics of Neo-Ottomanism, by M. Hakan Yavuz The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Nicholas Danforth
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Building a Proto-State on Quicksand: The Rise and Fall of the Palestinian State-in-Exile in Lebanon The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Marina Eleftheriadou
In the wake of its relocation to Lebanon, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) transformed from a guerrilla force into a state-builder. This article explores this transition and argues that the creation of the Palestinian protostate in Lebanon was largely guided by the country's civil war–induced state collapse after 1975, which created both opportunities and needs that forced the Palestinian
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Review: Soleimani, the U.S., and Iran's Global Ambitions, by Arash Azizi The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Ali Alavi
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Review: Tunisian Civil Society: Political Culture and Democratic Function since 2011, by Alexander P. Martin The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Pietro Marzo
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How Much Does Oil Shape US Strategic Interests in the Middle East? The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Jim Krane
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Review: Sovereignty Suspended: Building the So-Called State, by Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Oliver P. Richmond
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Fighting for a Monopoly on Governance: How the Asad State "Won" the Syrian War and to What Extent The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Philippe Droz-Vincent
This article argues that the functional continuity of the Syrian state has been a key factor in the "victory" of the regime of Bashar al-Asad in the country's civil war. State continuity has not only meant first maintaining the structure of the military but sustaining the bureaucracy and preserving its reach within society. While elements of the opposition have been able to create state-like structures
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Review: New Media and Revolution: Resistance and Dissent in Pre-Uprising Syria, by Billie Jeanne Brownlee The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Sherwan Hindreen Ali
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Review: The Clash of Values: Islamic Fundamentalism versus Liberal Nationalism, by Mansoor Moaddel The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 John O. Voll
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Review: Methodists and Muslims: My Life as an Orientalist, by Richard W. Bulliet The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 John Waterbury
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Review: Houses Built on Sand: Violence, Sectarianism and Revolution in the Middle East, by Simon Mabon The Middle East Journal (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Jacob Eriksson