British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

Policing labour in empire: the modern origins of the Kafala sponsorship system in the Gulf Arab States

The making of a transnational religion: Alevi movement in Germany and the World Alevi union

Unpredictability in US foreign policy and the regional order in the Middle East: reacting vis-à-vis a volatile external security-provider

The burden of Sisyphus: a sociological inventory of the Kurdish question in Turkey

The consequences of the fragmented military in Iraqi Kurdistan

Long-distance nationalism and belonging in the Libyan diaspora (1969–2011)

Little Turkey in Great Britain

Embroidering within boundaries: Afghan women creating a future

Civil and civic death in the new authoritarianisms: punishment of dissidents through juridical destruction, ethical ruin, and necropolitics in Turkey

Persian ‘Rashti jokes’: modern Iran’s palimpsests of gheyrat-based masculinity

Now there is, now there is not: the disappearing silent revolution of AKP as re-entrenchment

The perils of power: before and after the 2013 military coup in Egypt

Contemporary art on the current refugee crisis: the problematic of aesthetics versus ethics

Islam and secularism in post-colonial thought. A cartography of Asadian genealogies

The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the Iran–Iraq war: an unconventional military’s survival

Israel’s citizenship policy since the 1990s—new challenges, (mostly) old solutions

The Syrian refugees—left to their fate

The Alevi question and the limits of citizenship in Turkey

Divergent opposition to sub-Saharan African and Arab migrants in Morocco’s Casablanca Region: prejudice from the pocketbook?

The genesis of the ‘Exceptional’ Republic: the permanency of the political crisis and the constitution of legal emergency power in Turkey

The metamorphosis of social movements into political parties. The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and the Tunisian al-Nahda as cases for a reflection on party institutionalisation theory

Mollā Nasreddin and the creative Cauldron of Transcaucasia

The Johannesburg exile and the death of Reza Shah, 1942-44

Interpersonal metadiscourse in the English translations of the Holy Quran

ISIS genocide against the Yazidis and mass violence in the Middle East

Living a feminist life

The dynamics of exclusionary constitutionalism: Israel as a Jewish and democratic state by Mazen Masri

Local Ambivalence in the Arabistan-Basra Frontier, 1881-1925

A real electoral duel between the P.J.D. and the P.A.M.? Analysing constituency-level competitiveness in the 2016 Moroccan elections

Clients or challengers?: tribal constituents in Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE

Sinan Antoon’s Fihris: an index of two minds seeking one nation

A ‘nation in exile’: the renewed diaspora of Syrian Armenian repatriates

Islamists and the politics of the Arab uprisings: governance, pluralisation and contention

The good, the bad and the ugly: narrating social bonds and boundaries in contemporary Lebanon

The Shi’i clergy and perceived opportunity structures: political activism in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon

From critical to comprehensive dialogue: the effectiveness of the EU’s policy towards Iran (1992-1998)

Colonial education and the shaping of Islamism in Sudan, 1946–1956

Diasporas from the Middle East: Displacement, Transnational Identities and Homeland Politics

Consensus vs. dissensus over the ‘civil state’ model: a key to understanding the diverse outcomes of the Arab Spring in Egypt and Tunisia

Solidarity theologies and the (re)definition of ethnoreligious identities: the case of the Alevis of Turkey and Alawites of Syria

Settling down the crisis: planning and implementation of the immigrant settlements in the Balkans during the Late Ottoman period

Treacherous friends or disenchanted masters? Russian diplomacy and Muhammad ‘Ali (Shah) Qajar, 1911-1912

Jewish immigrants from the Greater Middle East to France and Belgium: ethnic identity and patterns of integration

Revolution without revolutionaries: making sense of the Arab spring

The Lebanese Civil War and post-conflict power sharing: continuation of conflict dynamics in post-conflict environments

Signaling reforms through election results: how a Moroccan opposition party demobilized protests