Journal of the Middle East and AfricaVolume 12 | Volume 11 | Volume 10 | Volume 9 | Volume 8 | Volume 7 | Volume 6 | Volume 5 | Volume 4 | Volume 3 | Volume 2 | Volume 1 Special Issue on Somalia: Exploring Insurgency, Governance and DevelopmentVolume 12, Issue 3 (July - September 2021)Articles A Quick Guide to Somalia in 2026: Business as Usual Between Ransom and Release: Exploring Caringscapes of Ransom Kidnappings by Somali Pirates Al-Shabaab’s Assassinations: Investigating the Uniqueness of Al-Shabaab’s Assassinations via Suicide Bombing Framing Insurgency and the Rebel Proto-State: Al-Shabaab’s Media and Information Operations
Volume 12, Issue 2 (April - June 2021)Articles The British Low-Profile Policy and Its Failure in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1964–1967 The Fascination of the Turkish Left with Palestine: “The Dream of Palestine” The Death of Colonel ʿAdnān al-Mālkī in 1955 and the Intra-Sunni Balance of Power in Syria Better Off Alone: Somaliland, Institutional Legacy, and Prosperity The Implausible Persistence of Pastoralism: Samburu Transhumance from Their Nineteenth-Century Origins Through the Period of Colonial Rule Book Review
Volume 12, Issue 1 (January - March 2021)Articles Transnational Ethnic Channels as Factors of Contagion, Internationalization, and the “Proxyfication” of Internal Conflicts: The Contrasting Cases of Amazighs and Kurds The First Oil Shock? Nixon, Congress, and the 1973 Petroleum Crisis The Death of Colonel ʿAdnān al-Mālkī in 1955 and the Intra-Sunni Balance of Power in Syria Christian (Second-Order) Minorities and the Struggle for the Homeland: The Assyrian Democratic Movement in Iraq and the Nineveh Plains Protection Units Book Review
Volume 11, Issue 4 (October - December 2020)Articles Policy Transfer, External Actors and Policy Conditionality: Public Financial Management Reform in Turkey European Union and Italian Migration Policy and the Probable Destabilization of Southern Libya and Northern Niger Europe, or the “Original West,” Muslims, and Migration: The Peculiar History of France and West Africans with Broader Implications Currency Warfare in the Middle East: Currency Counterfeiting in the 1953 Iranian Coup, the 1990–1991 Gulf War, and Yemen’s Current Civil War Narratives of Electoral Violence: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria Book Review
Volume 11, Issue 3 (July - September 2020)Articles Humanitarian Aid and Counterinsurgency: The Case of the Simba Revolts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1964–1967 Traditional Authority and State Legitimacy: Evidence From Namibia “A Force for Good”: Army-Building After War in Liberia Do Truth and Reconciliation Committees Improve Human Rights? Evidence From Africa Book Reviews Religion and Health Care in East Africa: Lessons from Uganda, Mozambique and Ethiopia, by Robert B. Lloyd, Melissa Haussman, and Patrick James
Volume 11, Issue 2 (April - June 2020)Articles Fraternal Betrayal? The Spanish Army and the Decolonization of Morocco “The Cat’s Paw of Dictatorship”: Police Intelligence and Self-Rule in the Gold Coast, 1948–1952 The Beginnings of Political Islam in Switzerland: Said Ramadan’s Muslim Brotherhood Mosque in Geneva and the Swiss Authorities Book Reviews Lebanon's Jewish Community: Fragments of Lives Arrested, by Franck Salameh Volume 11, Issue 1 (January - March 2020)Articles Emergency Communal Labor and Gender in Central Province During the Mau Mau War in Kenya, 1953–1960 For the People, Against the Elites: Left versus Right-Wing Populism in Greece and Turkey Israel’s Immigration Policies and the Promotion of Genetic Testing: Empiricizing Definitional Criteria, Bolstering State Demographic Security, or Hastening the Messianic Era? Saudi Women Driving Change? Rebranding, Resistance, and the Kingdom of Change Book Review Volume 10, Issue 4 (October – December 2019):ArticlesA Family in Iran: Women Teachers, Minority Integration, and Family Networks in the Jewish Schools of the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Iran, 1900–1950 Decolonizing the BSAC in Nyasaland: Economic and Developmental Implications, 1944–1967 “Female Voices on Ink”: The Sexual Politics of Petitions in Colonial Igboland, 1892–1960 Arab Tribalism and Urban Environments: Alternative Models of Social Organization Book Review Volume 10, Issue 3 (July – September 2019):Articles Engineered “Zuluness”: Language, Education, and Ethnic Identity in South Africa, 1835–1990 Disservice to the Public? The Public Service Commission in Early Independent Kenya Azerbaijani National Identity in Iran, 1921–1946: Roots, Development, and Limits The Domestication of Al-Shabaab Volume 10, Issue 2 (April – June 2019):Articles “Partisan Politics Was Making People Angry”: The Rise and Fall of Political Salafism in Kenya The Portrayal of Jews and Israel in Turkish School Textbooks Granting Security? U.S. Security Assistance Programs and Political Stability in the Greater Middle East and Africa Book Review Special Issue: Focus on Jewish AfricaVolume 10, Issue 1 (January – March 2019):Articles Volume 9, Issue 4 (October – December 2018):Articles Glorification of the Past as a Political Tool: Ottoman history in contemporary Turkish politics Resisting and Redefining State Violence: The gendered politics of transitional justice in Tunisia A Historical Inquiry into Early Kurdish-Israeli Contacts:The antecedents of an alliance Book Review Special Issue: Commemorating the Life and Work of Professor Bernard LewisVolume 9, Issue 3 (July – September 2018):Articles The Orientalism Debate: On recognizing the Otherness of the Other The Dawn of Arab Printing: A view from the fringe Bernard Lewis and the Writing of Real History The Jews of the Medieval Islamic West: Acculturation and its limitations Maimonides against the Mutakallimun: The question of “intellectual admissibility” Concluding Remarks Volume 9, Issue 2 (April – June 2018):Articles Privatized Commemoration, Political Polarization, and the Cult of Atatürk since the Mid-1990s Turnout in Transitional Elections: Who votes in Iraq? What Difference Can It Make? Assessing the impact of gender equality and empowerment in matters of inheritance in Egypt Conventional Secularism and the Humanization of Islam: Theory and practice of religious politics in Iran A Man for Others: The life and times of Lebanese Jesuit Henri Lammens (1862–1937) Volume 9, Issue 1 (January – March 2018):Articles Democratization and Gender Equality in Sub-Saharan Africa Tents, Palaces, and “Imperial Souvenirs”: Mobilizing cultural authority in the French Protectorate of Morocco Anti-Zionism, Jus Cogens, and International Law: The case of the Banjul Charter and Arab Charter Changes in the Domestic-Foreign Policies Relationship in the Saudi Context in the Wake of the Change of the Guard Book Reviews The Soviet-Israeli War 1967–1973: The USSR’s Military Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict, by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez Volume 8, Issue 4 (October – December 2017):Articles “Point Men”: How religious women soldiers may restore Israel’s “Citizens’ Army” Stop the Presses! Media freedom in authoritarian regimes: A case study of Ben Ali’s Tunisia Israel’s Best Spy—or a Master Double Agent? New light from the Soviet angle on the mystery of Ashraf Marwan The Conscription of Egyptian Christian Sailors in Medieval Muslim Naval Warfare: Taking the long view Book Review Volume 8, Issue 3 (July – September 2017):Articles Reconsidering Ethiopia’s ethnic politics in the light of the Addis Ababa Master Plan and anti-governmental protests Pilgrimage to Mecca and “Radical” Islam: New trends from Sub-Saharan Africa Text, Body and Law: Naked Prayer in the Commentaries of the Mukhtaṣar Khalīl Volume 8, Issue 2 (April – June 2017):Articles Cost of ruling: An examination of political business cycle, governmental accountability, and alternation in power in Ghana’s democracy “An agonizing death”: 1980s U.S. policy on Iraqi chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq War The battle over sovereignty: Stamps, post, and the creation of a new Palestinian socio-political order, 1994–2000 Authoritarianism, jihadist ideology, and renewal of the religious discourse in Egypt Volume 8, Issue 1 (January – March 2017):Articles The British and Irish press and the outbreak of war with the Ottoman Empire in 1914 From Christian brother to native: Claiming and rejecting Christianity, commerce, and civilization in early twentieth-century Natal Mad at Tangier: Hygienist discourses, mental disorders, and European competition for hegemony in early twentieth-century Morocco African Judaizing movements and the question of polygamy: Perspectives from Cameroon How far “above the fray”? Jordan and the mechanisms of monarchical advantage in the Arab uprisings Maritime navigation, energy security, and peace dividend: Exploring the historic developments of the Dead Sea conveyance project Book Review Volume 7, Issue 4 (October – December 2016):Articles The Atassis of Homs: The Rise and Decline of One of Syria’s Founding Families From Concessions to Repression: Explaining Regime Survival Strategies in Jordan Turkish Staatsvolk vs. Kurdish Identity: Denial of the Kurds in Turkish School Textbooks Between Europe and Africa: Morocco as a Country of Immigration Lone Wolf Terrorism: The New Form of the Global Jihadist Movement?–Evidence from Afghanistan (1997-2013) Volume 7, Issue 3 (July – September 2016):Articles From Holy War to Technocracy, 1571-1924: The Spanish and Ottoman Empires in the Mediterranean North African Merchant Networks of the Western Mediterranean: New Approaches to the Nineteenth Century Baghdadi Jews and the Foreign Press: Reading between the Lines in the Case of E. Levy Lebanese Jews between Rootedness and Exile: Braving World War II, the Holocaust, and Their Aftermath The Ehden Massacre of 1978 in Lebanon: The Creation of a Resistance Myth Book Review Volume 7, Issue 2 (April – July 2016):Articles The Caliphate’s Gold: The Islamic State’s Monetary Policy and Its Implications IGAD, Sudan, and South Sudan: Achievements and Setbacks of Regional Mediation Sexual exploitation and abuse in UN peacekeeping missions: A case study of MONUC and MONUSCO The African Union’s Diaspora Diplomacy and Policymaking: Operationalizing the Migration-Development Nexus Allāh (God), al-Watan (the Nation), al-Malik (the King), and the Role of Ijtihād in Family Law Reforms of Morocco Together on the Way to the Monastic Church of Mīt Damsīs: Copts and Muslims at the Mūlid of Saint George in Medieval Islamic Egypt and Beyond Book Review Volume 7, Issue 1 (January – March 2016):Articles International prosecutions and atrocities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A case study of the FDLR Contesting method: Discussing the historical-critical approach to the Qur’ān in Lebanon Urban area and hinterland: The case of Abadan (1910–1946) Euro-American foreign policy, the fall of the Qaddafi regime, and the consequences for migration Book Reviews Force and Fanaticism: Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia and Beyond, by Simon Ross Valentine Volume 6, Issue 3/4 (July – December 2015):Articles The Quest for Legitimacy in Post-Revolutionary Egypt: Propaganda and Controlling Narratives The “Jew” as Metaphor for Evil in Arab Public Discourse Dynamic Belonging: Moroccan Jews and the Development of Nationalist Narratives in French Protectorate Morocco Why Deploy to Somalia? Understanding Six African Countries’ Reasons for Sending Soldiers to One of the World’s Most Failed States The Beirut Jewish Community and Early Twentieth-Century Lebanese Nationalism Tribes Today: In Anthropology and in the World Book Reviews Boko Haram: Nigeria’s Islamist Insurgency, by Virginia Comolli Flight Plan Africa: Portuguese Airpower in Counterinsurgency, 1961-1974, by John P. Cann Volume 6, Issue 2 (April – June 2015):Articles Cold War, Hot Summer: Superpower Involvement in the War of Attrition in 1970 Realism or Radicalism: Explaining Authoritarian Rulers’ Strategic Choices Following Military Defeats in the Middle East The Rashid ʿAli al-Kaylani Revolt and Syrian Youth: An Insider’s Account Population and Economic Activities in the Arab Trucial States: A 1901 Accounting Economic Survival and Borderland Rebellion: The Case of the Allied Democratic Forces on the Uganda-Congo Border Book Review British Somaliland: An Administrative History, 1920-1960, by Brock Millman The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order, by Sean McFate Volume 6, Issue 1 (January – March 2015):Articles From West Africa to Mecca and Jerusalem: The Tijāiniyya on the Hajj Routes Ending Ottoman Misrule: British Soldiers, Liberal Imperialism and the First World War in Palestine The Limits of the Sandhurst Connection: The Evolution of Oman’s Foreign and Defense Policy, 1970-1977 Islamists and Women’s Rights: Lessons from Turkey Book Review Volume 5, Issue 3 (September-December 2014):Articles Redefining the Post-Nation-State Emergence Phase in the Middle East in the Light of the “Arab Spring” Haj Amin al-Husseini: Herald of Religious Anti-Judaism in the Contemporary Islamic World The Development of the United States Africa Command and its Role in America’s Africa Policy under George W. Bush and Barack Obama Volume 5, Issue 2 (May-August 2014):Articles Globalization Processes and Christians in the Middle East: A Comparative Analysis Intermediarized Security Governance and the ‘Sultans’ Retort’ The Congo Crisis: A Reexamination (1960-1965) Book Reviews The Flechas: Insurgent Hunting in Eastern Angola, 1965-1974, by John P. Cann The Rise of Turkey: The Twenty-first Century’s First Muslim Power, by Soner Cagaptay Volume 5, Issue 1:Articles Ethiopia’s Hegemony in the Horn of Africa: Internal Tensions and External Challenges Before and After Meles Zenawi An Examination of the Modern Discourse on Maqāid al-Sharī‘a The Battle for Mozambique: The South African Factor Book Reviews State of Failure: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State, by Jonathan Schanzer Volume 4, Issue 3:Articles Piracy and Maritime Security in the Gulf of Guinea: Trends, Concerns, and Propositions Where Have All the Craftsmen Gone? The Internationalization of the Yemeni Economy and the Economic Impact of the Jewish Exodus from Yemen (1949-1951) Djinnati: Dissociation and Possession Trance Disorder in Baluchistan, Iran Book Reviews Volume 4, Issue 2:Articles The Baluchi of East Africa: Dynamics of Assimilation and Integration The Baloch in Islamic Civilization, Western Ethnography, and World History The Balochi Language and Languages in Iranian Balochistan Ethnicity and Healing Rituals in Gwadar, Balochistan, Pakistan Baluchistan: Nature, Ethnicity, and Empire in Iran’s Borderlands Baluchi Experiences under Slavery and the Slave Trade of the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, 1921-1950 Baloch Identities: A Matter of Descent or Mentality? Book Reviews Volume 4, Issue 1:Articles The Genesis of the Modern Eritrean Struggle (1942-1961) How Did Arab Leaders Shape their Post-defeat Domestic Propaganda Campaigns? Insights and Lessons for Today Democracy and Rhetoric in the Arab World Pirates and Dragon Boats: Assessing the Chinese Navy’s East African Deployment Book Reviews Getting Somali Wrong? Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State, by Mary Harper Volume 3, Issue 2:Articles Building Peace and the State in Somaliland: The Factors of Success Responding to the Zimbabwe Crisis: Examining the Role of Preventive Diplomacy in Multi-Track Approaches toward Zimabwe, 2000-2009 Becoming Samburu: The Ethnogenesis of a Pastoral People in Nineteenth-Century Northern Kenya On the Fence: Negotiating Israel’s Security Barrier Book Reviews Volume 3, Issue 1:Articles Tunisia: The Revolution of Dignity Egypt: The Power of Mass Mobilization and the Spirit of Tahrir Square Libya: The Social Origins of Dictatorship and the Challenge for Democracy Morocco: A Reformist Monarchy? Book Reviews Volume 2, Issue 2:Articles State Collapse, Insurgency, and Famine in the Horn of Africa: Legitimacy and the Ongoing Somali Crisis Assessing Iran’s Nuclear Rationality: The ‘Eye of the Beholder’ Problem Politics of Piety: The Basij and Moral Control of Iranian Society Trouble in the Western Sahara Arab and Non-Arab Tribes as State-Like Entities: Informal Alliances and Conflict Patterns in the Historic and Contemporary Middle East Book Reviews Language, Memory, and Identity in the Middle East: The Case for Lebanon, by Franck Salameh Volume 2, Issue 1:Articles The Dangerous ‘Pragmatism’ of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb Moroccan Youth Go Sufi Survey on Moroccan Youth: Perception and Participation in Sufi Orders – Evaluation and Interpretation Addressing Why Africa is Poor The Troubled Waters of Africa: Piracy in the African Littoral Clothes to Kill For: Uniforms and Politics in Ottoman Armies Book Reviews Global Security Watch – Kenya, by Donovan Chau Volume 1, Issue 2:Articles Conflict in Africa The 1943 Woyane Revolt: A Modern Reassessment China and the Global Jihad Network Book Reviews Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East, by Bernard Lewis Trans-Saharan Africa in World History, by Ralph A. Austen Winning the Long War: Retaking the Offensive Against Radical Islam, by Ilan Berman Volume 1, Issue 1:Articles Islamic Law, Muslim-Christian Relations, and the Transition to Democracy in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic The Tyranny of Vested-Interest Sources: Shaping the Record of Soviet Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict, 1967-1973 At the Cross-Roads of Cultures? An Historic and Strategic Examination of Kenya-Somalia Relations The Spanish and Ottoman Empires in the Mediterranean, 1714-1914 The Persian Gulf Theater in World War II Terrorism and Counterterrorism in South Africa Can Money Make Us Friends? Islamist Entrepreneurs and Chances for Democratization in the Muslim World Book Reviews Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle For Palestine, by Jonathan Schanzer The Secret War with Iran: The 30-Year Clandestine Struggle Against the World’s Most Dangerous Terrorist Power, by Ronen Bergman After Genocide: Bringing the Devil to Justice, by Adam Smith |