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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2026-04-27

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Institutional Arrangements and Procurement Procedures for Post-War Reconstruction in Yemen 也门战后重建的体制安排和采购程序

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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2026-04-10 DOI: 10.1111/dome.70022

Sumaia A. Al-Kohlani, Mohammed Al Kohlani

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Paradiplomacy at Work: The Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Syrian Kurds (2011–2017) 工作中的准外交：库尔德斯坦民主党与叙利亚库尔德人（2011-2017）

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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2026-04-07 DOI: 10.1111/dome.70021

Tamas Dudlak

{"title":"Paradiplomacy at Work: The Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Syrian Kurds (2011–2017)","authors":"Tamas Dudlak","doi":"10.1111/dome.70021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dome.70021","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The article accounts for the paradiplomatic interactions between the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syria and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Iraq and the broader political context that shaped their relations. Paradiplomacy refers to sub-state or semi-independent actors' foreign policy conduct in the international arena. Both parties engaged in international relations independent of their central governments and utilized proto-diplomacy to secure external legitimacy and support, advancing Kurdish interests in line with their quest for independence. The Syrian conflict enabled the rise of a de facto autonomous Kurdish territorial entity in Northern Syria (Rojava), thereby creating a new situation in the Kurdish movement by challenging the KDP's political and cultural leadership on pan-Kurdish issues established in the 2000s. By 2013, the PYD had gained prominence in Rojava, representing a considerably differing ideological and political agenda on the Kurdish question from the KDP. The contest between these actors intensified since the Iraqi Kurdish leadership could not significantly influence the Northern Syrian political sphere. The article illustrates how the KDP and PYD, despite their rivalry, occasionally cooperate against common external threats such as the Islamic State, even as they competed for political and military dominance within the broader Kurdish nationalist movement.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43254,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Middle East Studies","volume":"35 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Shift From Neo-Ottomanism to the Century of Türkiye: Domestic, Regional, and Global Implications 从新奥斯曼主义到<s:1>帝国主义世纪的转变：国内、地区和全球的影响

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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2026-04-07 DOI: 10.1111/dome.70020

Mohammad Hadi Khanmohammadi, Arash Reisinezhad

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Unlikely Companions of Energy Transitions? Opportunities and Challenges of Triangular Cooperation Between the EU, the GCC, and Hydrocarbon-Poor Countries From the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) 能源转型的不可能伴侣？欧盟、海湾合作委员会与中东和北非缺乏碳氢化合物国家三方合作的机遇与挑战

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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2026-04-04 DOI: 10.1111/dome.70019

Benjamin Schuetze, Eckart Woertz

{"title":"Unlikely Companions of Energy Transitions? Opportunities and Challenges of Triangular Cooperation Between the EU, the GCC, and Hydrocarbon-Poor Countries From the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)","authors":"Benjamin Schuetze, Eckart Woertz","doi":"10.1111/dome.70019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dome.70019","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is a pivotal region for attempts at transitioning away from hydrocarbons. With the claimed objective of achieving more equitable and effective development cooperation, US and European policymakers, and most notably the OECD, advocate for shifting away from established North-South bilateral cooperation to North-South-South triangular cooperation (TC). This paper explores the opportunities and challenges of TC in the renewable energy sector between the European Union (EU), the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and select hydrocarbon-poor MENA countries. It argues that EU-GCC-MENA TC may enable the expansion of renewables, but it also risks deepening social, economic, and political imbalances. After analyzing the status of electricity grid interconnection and the production and logistics of green hydrogen, it discusses the political and economic interests of involved actors and the extent to which the implementation of renewable energy megaprojects risks reproducing asymmetric dependencies and authoritarian practices. The article relies on a qualitative multi-methods approach, consisting of interviews, desk research, and interpretive analysis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43254,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Middle East Studies","volume":"35 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The AKP's Perception of Turkish National Role and the Formulation of Turkey's Policy Toward Egypt From 2011 Until 2024 AKP对土耳其国家角色的认识与2011 - 2024年土耳其对埃及政策的制定

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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2026-03-30 DOI: 10.1111/dome.70018

Shaimaa Magued

{"title":"The AKP's Perception of Turkish National Role and the Formulation of Turkey's Policy Toward Egypt From 2011 Until 2024","authors":"Shaimaa Magued","doi":"10.1111/dome.70018","DOIUrl":"10.1111/dome.70018","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In spite of intense developments in Turkish–Egyptian relations since the eruption of the Arab uprisings in 2011, few scholarly writings have examined the abrupt shifts in the AKP's policy toward Egypt from 2011 until 2024. Aiming to fill in this gap, this study argues that shifts in the AKP's policy toward Egypt from alliance to confrontation with the Egyptian regime, followed by a rapprochement starting from 2018, are due to the party's changing perception of Turkish national role. Drawing on the national role theory, this study unveils factors underpinning alterations in the AKP's policy toward Egypt in light of changes in its perception of the Turkish regional role in response to national and regional transformations. It contends that the AKP's perception of Turkey's national role as a role model toward Egypt metamorphosed into an alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood from 2011 until 2013, while President Morsi's ousting from power and the rising secular threat prompted the AKP's adoption of an antagonist role from 2013 until 2024, which gradually turned into a reconciliation starting from 2018 following the ascension of the AKP-MHP electoral coalition to power. This study relies on 30 extensive open-ended and semi-structured in-depth expert interviews conducted by the author with Egyptian and Turkish decision-makers in Cairo, Istanbul, and Ankara, in addition to the content analysis of newsfeeds and Turkish leaders' speeches during the period from 2011 until 2024.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43254,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Middle East Studies","volume":"35 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147669024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Authoritarian Upgrading in Action: Iran's Security Apparatuses After the Women's Life Freedom Movement 行动中的威权升级：妇女生命自由运动后的伊朗安全机构

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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2026-03-03 DOI: 10.1111/dome.70017

Saeid Golkar

{"title":"Authoritarian Upgrading in Action: Iran's Security Apparatuses After the Women's Life Freedom Movement","authors":"Saeid Golkar","doi":"10.1111/dome.70017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dome.70017","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Dictatorships are a living phenomenon, constantly adapting to survive in a hostile environment. Like previous protests, “The Women, Life, Freedom” (WLF) movement was brutally suppressed by the regime's security forces, resulting in the slaughtering of hundreds and injuring thousands of Iranians, mostly youth. Despite the regime's unprecedented brutality, it took months to suppress the protesters and restore the political order. The scope and scale of the protest led the Islamic Republic to enhance its security forces in the middle of the WLF protest. Only 3 months after the death of Mahsa Amini, Iran's law enforcement apparatus went through a massive restructuring; new intelligence organizations were created, and new units were formed. An increase in the budget of the security forces has allowed them to hire additional staff and acquire new repressive technologies. For example, more CCTV cameras were installed nationwide to consolidate control over public spaces. The regime also intensified its transnational repression efforts to silence the Iranian diaspora, who have actively and unprecedentedly protested the Islamic Republic. What lessons did the regime learn from the WLF protests, and how has it prepared for future unrest? This paper argues that the Islamic Republic has upgraded its security forces, created new organizations, and changed its tactics to maintain political order and insulate itself from further uprisings. Incorporating public data, personal interviews, and leaked and hacked information to analyze the changes in Iran's security architecture and its capabilities of political repression after the Women, Life, Freedom Movement, with a focus on Iran's police forces.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":43254,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Middle East Studies","volume":"35 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147562945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Construction of Jewish Women in Mahfouz's Novels 马哈福兹小说中犹太女性的建构

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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2025-12-29 DOI: 10.1111/dome.70014

Ebrahim Mohammed Alwuraafi

{"title":"The Construction of Jewish Women in Mahfouz's Novels","authors":"Ebrahim Mohammed Alwuraafi","doi":"10.1111/dome.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dome.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Prior to 1948, Arab Jews were an integral part of the Arab world and its traditional and cultural fabric and played a critical role in economic and political life. Though their presence in Arabic literature was remarkably limited, their image was relatively positive. However, this changed following the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. There emerged a large corpus of literary works that deal with Jews, but this time the image was mostly negative. The main objective of this article is to explore Mahfouz's portrayal of Jewish women in three of his novels: Khan al-Khalili, Mirrors, and Midaq Alley. The article focuses on the portrayal of Jewish women in a predominantly Muslim society and the social and Islamic bonds imposed on them. It explores how these Jewish characters function in the three texts to disturb, disrupt, or offset the then-prevailing discourses. Though Mahfouz's Jewish female characters can be viewed as stereotypes, the present study will illustrate how Jewish women in these novels act differently, resist classism, and subvert the traditional gender roles. This is significant because it is the first time that Jewish female characters in Mahfouz's work are explored.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43254,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Middle East Studies","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145887803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Minority Perspective: The Israeli–Arab Leadership Position Over the Israeli Peace Agreements With Arab States 少数民族视角：以色列-阿拉伯国家在以色列与阿拉伯国家和平协定问题上的领导地位

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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2025-12-29 DOI: 10.1111/dome.70016

Chen Kertcher, Gadi Hitman

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