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Resonance of Resistant Narrative Discourse in Fikria Shahra's Shams AwamFikria Shahra所著的《人民的太阳》中的抵抗性叙事话语共鸣 La resonancia del discurso narrativo de resistencia en Shams Awam de Fikria Shahra Resonance of Resistant Narrative Discourse in Fikria Shahra's Shams AwamFikria Shahra所著的《人民的太阳》中的抵抗性叙事话语共鸣 La resonancia del discurso narrativo de resistencia en Shams Awam de Fikria Shahra

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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2025-12-29 DOI: 10.1111/dome.70015

Abdalwahid Abbas Noman

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Economic Crisis and Electoral Turnout in Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence From Iran's Post-COVID19 Pandemic Era 威权政权的经济危机和选举投票率：来自伊朗后covid - 19大流行时代的证据

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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2025-12-24 DOI: 10.1111/dome.70013

Alireza Raisi

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Variants of Authoritarian Robustness in the Arab Uprisings: An Institutionalist Rentierism Approach 阿拉伯起义中专制力量的变体：一种制度主义的食利派方法

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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2025-11-26 DOI: 10.1111/dome.70012

Martin Beck, Simone Hüser

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Re-Presenting Women in the Qur'an Translated: Sociocultural Re-Contextualization From a Feminist Perspective 《古兰经》翻译中的女性再现：女性主义视角下的社会文化再语境化

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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2025-11-03 DOI: 10.1111/dome.70011

Abdelhamid Elewa

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Liberal Institutionalism in Crisis: Reassessing the Iran-West Nuclear Standoff Amid the 2025 Israel–Iran War 危机中的自由制度主义：在2025年以伊战争中重新评估伊朗与西方的核对峙

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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2025-11-03 DOI: 10.1111/dome.70010

Hafeez Ullah Khan

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Correction to “In Defense of Lebanon: The Special Relationship Between Rashid Karami and Syria (From 1976 Until 1987)” 对“保卫黎巴嫩：拉希德·卡拉米与叙利亚的特殊关系（1976年至1987年）”的更正

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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2025-10-14 DOI: 10.1111/dome.70009

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Saudi Arabia's Commitment and Progress in Achieving Key United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 沙特阿拉伯在实现联合国主要可持续发展目标方面的承诺和进展

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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-24 DOI: 10.1111/dome.70008

Mhamed Biygautane

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Crossing Borders and Connecting Feminists: “Global Iran” and Solidarity Protests in Latin America 跨越国界和连接女权主义者：“全球伊朗”和拉丁美洲的团结抗议

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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-24 DOI: 10.1111/dome.70006

Elmira Louie

{"title":"Crossing Borders and Connecting Feminists: “Global Iran” and Solidarity Protests in Latin America","authors":"Elmira Louie","doi":"10.1111/dome.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dome.70006","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The death of Jina Mahsa Amini on September 16, 2022, at the hands of Iran's Morality Police sparked months of protests, both domestically and internationally. This movement established “global Iran,” an interconnected network of people from diverse ethnic, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds who mobilize across identity-based and geographic fault lines. In this paper, I examine the ways Latin American feminist groups blended with the Jina protests and joined global Iran. From a decolonial and transnational feminist theoretical lens, I argue that this blend connected people in its recognition of a collective struggle that acknowledges intersectional difference. My South–South approach focuses specifically on Mexico and Chile due to their histories of Iranian immigration and gender activism. I analyze the protests in these countries and demonstrate how they generated spaces of plurality. Moreover, I claim that Spanish, Persian, and Kurdish-language songs and chants established a decolonial and transnational feminist praxis of solidarity between diverse communities. While most scholarly discourse on the 2022 protests has analyzed the movement's effects on Iran or on the diaspora, I consider the transnational implications. In doing so, I emphasize the communal, rather than national or individual, element of the movement. Through transnational solidarity may we strive towards a life of freedom.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43254,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Middle East Studies","volume":"34 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145146559","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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More Than a Game: Football and Ethnic Contestation in Contemporary Iran 不仅仅是一场比赛：当代伊朗的足球和民族斗争

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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-15 DOI: 10.1111/dome.70007

Ehsan Kashfi

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Green Startups Led by Young Entrepreneurs in Tunisia: Transforming the Future With Sustainable Innovation 突尼斯青年企业家领导的绿色创业公司：用可持续创新改变未来

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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2025-05-21 DOI: 10.1111/dome.70002

Camila Ponce Lara

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