{"title":"The Contribution of Āstān-e Quds-e Razavī to Iran’s Soft Power Projection","authors":"Ali Akbar","doi":"10.1080/19436149.2024.2312752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19436149.2024.2312752","url":null,"abstract":"This article sheds light on the role of Āstān-e Quds-e Razavī, the Iranian foundation that manages the Imam Reza shrine, in furthering Iran’s soft power. Despite the growing body of work on Iranian...","PeriodicalId":44822,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Critique","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140574270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Threat of (the Lack of) Social Cohesion: Preventing Violent Extremism in Lebanon","authors":"Jan Daniel","doi":"10.1080/19436149.2024.2309447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19436149.2024.2309447","url":null,"abstract":"The article explores Lebanon’s adoption of the Prevention of Violent Extremism (PVE) agenda in the second half of the 2010s and the consequences of the agenda’s focus on weak social cohesion. Emplo...","PeriodicalId":44822,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Critique","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140574339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Practicing wujud: A Constellation of sumud in the Fragmented Palestinian Present","authors":"Tamara Taher","doi":"10.1080/19436149.2024.2330815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19436149.2024.2330815","url":null,"abstract":"The Zionist conception of history and its material project of expansion and land annexation produce a temporality of catastrophe (Nakba) that constantly reiterates violence, dispossession, and disp...","PeriodicalId":44822,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Critique","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140300493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Antisemitism and Zionism: The Internal Operations of the IHRA Definition","authors":"Neve Gordon","doi":"10.1080/19436149.2024.2330821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19436149.2024.2330821","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, I focus on the cultural and political work the IHRA definition of antisemitism carries out to explain why it has been adopted by hundreds of actors. I offer three key reasons to expl...","PeriodicalId":44822,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Critique","volume":"142 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140198752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bare Life and the Production of Docile Sects: The Case of Christian Community in Lebanon","authors":"Abbas Assi","doi":"10.1080/19436149.2024.2321548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19436149.2024.2321548","url":null,"abstract":"In Lebanon, the same political class whose role was instrumental in the economic and financial collapse of the country won the May 2022 parliamentary elections. These results raise questions about ...","PeriodicalId":44822,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Critique","volume":"161 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140201580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indigenous Internationalism Against Imprisoned Indigeneity in Australia and Palestine","authors":"Kim Alley, Lorenzo Veracini","doi":"10.1080/19436149.2024.2321549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19436149.2024.2321549","url":null,"abstract":"Indigenous Australians and Palestinians experience some of the highest rates of incarceration and state violence in the world. In this article’s first section we focus comparatively on administrati...","PeriodicalId":44822,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Critique","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140201566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hydro-Political Relations Between Turkey and Iraq Over the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers: Dyadic Relationships and Structure Matter","authors":"Luay Hussien Aldalooi","doi":"10.1080/19436149.2024.2303575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19436149.2024.2303575","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the hydro-political relationship between Iraq and Turkey by applying the framework of hydro-hegemony. During the Cold War, the Turkish-Iraqi hydro-relationship was influenced...","PeriodicalId":44822,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Critique","volume":"101 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140201650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Visual Narratives of the 1979 Iranian Revolution","authors":"Marouf Cabi","doi":"10.1080/19436149.2024.2309446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19436149.2024.2309446","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes a series of documentaries on the 1979 Iranian Revolution broadcast by Iran International and Manoto television channels. While covering the era of the Pahlavi dynasty, especia...","PeriodicalId":44822,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Critique","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140201474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dark Humor and ‘Humor Talk’ in Algeria’s Hirak","authors":"Elizabeth M. Perego","doi":"10.1080/19436149.2023.2298128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19436149.2023.2298128","url":null,"abstract":"Since February 2019, observers and activists alike have commented on the outpouring of humorous expression that Algeria’s ongoing Hirak (‘movement’) for political change has fostered. The present w...","PeriodicalId":44822,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Critique","volume":"263 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139925612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial Note","authors":"Eric Hooglund","doi":"10.1080/19436149.2024.2309775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19436149.2024.2309775","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Middle East Critique (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":44822,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Critique","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139770819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}