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The Middle East Journal Index: 1947-present

 

The Middle East Journal has been published quarterly since 1947 by the Middle East Institute. It provides original and objective research and analysis, as well as source material, on the area from Morocco to Pakistan and including Central Asia. The Journal provides the background necessary for an understanding and appreciation of the region's political and economic development, cultural heritage, ethnic and religious diversity.

The following list includes every article published in the journal since 1947.

TitleAuthorIssuesort iconDateYear
The Iraq War, Turkey, and Renewed Caspian Energy ProspectsPaul A. Williams and Ali Tekin Issue 62.3Summer2008
Resistance, Jihad, and Martyrdom in Contemporary Lebanese Shi‘a DiscourseRola el-Husseini Issue 62.3Summer2008
Updating Yemeni National Unity: Could Lingering Regional Divisions Bring Down the Regime?Stephen Day Issue 62.3Summer2008
The Political and Social Identities of the Palestinian Christian Community in JordanK. Luisa Gandolfo Issue 62.3Summer2008
Iran’s 1953 Coup Revisited: Internal Dynamics versus External IntrigueFariborz MokhtariIssue 62.3Summer2008
Interfaith Dialogue in the Region and BeyondBook Review Article by David Thomas Issue 62.3Summer2008
Russian-Iranian Relations in the Ahmadinejad EraMark KatzIssue 62.2Spring2008
The Unraveling of Iraq: Ethnosectarian Preferences and State Performance in Historical PerspectiveAdeed Dawisha Issue 62.2Spring2008
Occultation in Perpetuum: Shi‘ite Messianism and the Policies of the Islamic RepublicZe’ev Maghen Issue 62.2Spring2008
How Favoritism Affects the Business Climate: Empirical Evidence from JordanMarkus Loewe, Jonas Blume, and Johanna Speer Issue 62.2Spring2008
Militarizing Welfare: Neo-liberalism and Jordanian PolicyAnne Marie Baylouny Issue 62.2Spring2008
Schooling and Curricular Reforms in Arab and Muslim SocietiesBook Review Article by André Elias Mazawi Issue 62.2Spring2008
Iran's New IraqRay TakeyhIssue 62.1Winter2008
A Stable Structure on Shifting Sands: Assessing the Hizbullah-Iran-Syria RelationshipAbbas William SamiiIssue 62.1Winter2008
Libya's Nuclear Turnaround: Perspectives from TripoliMålfrid Braut-HegghammerIssue 62.1Winter2008
The Changing Libyan Economy: Causes and ConsequencesRonald Bruce St JohnIssue 62.1Winter2008
From the Myth of European Union Accession to Disillusion: Implications for Religious and Ethnic Polarization in TurkeyDeniz Gökalp and Seda ÜnsarIssue 62.1Winter2008
Islam in Europe (Book Review Article)Jørgen S. NielsenIssue 62.1Winter2008
Israeli Policy towards the Occupied Palestinian Territories: The Economic Dimension, 1967-2007Arie ArnonIssue 61.4Autumn2007
Lions Tamed? An Inquiry into the Causes of De-Radicalization of Armed Islamist Movements: The Case of the Egyptian Islamic GroupOmar AshourIssue 61.4Autumn2007
Conflict and Cooperation in the Persian Gulf: The Interregional Order and US PolicyHenner FürtigIssue 61.4Autumn2007
Attitudes towards Violence against Women in KuwaitFatima Nazar and Kamiar Kouzekanani Issue 61.4Autumn2007
Between Reality and Secrecy: Israel's Freedom of Navigation through the Straits of Tiran, 1956-1967Eitan BarakIssue 61.4Autumn2007
Civil-Military Relations in Israel (Book Review Essay)Gabriel (Gabi) ShefferIssue 61.4Autumn2007
Arab Intellectuals and the Bush Administration's Campaign for DemocracySami E. BaroudiIssue 61.3Summer2007
What the Axis of Evil Metaphor Did to IranDaniel Heradstveit and G. Matthew BonhamIssue 61.3Summer2007
Hamas in PowerMenachem KleinIssue 61.3Summer2007
Testing the Logic of Unilateral Withdrawal: Lessons from the History of the Labor Zionist MovementNadav ShelefIssue 61.3Summer2007
Islam, Sovereignty, and Democracy: A Turkish ViewHakan YilmazIssue 61.3Summer2007
Palestinian Statehood: Aspirations, Needs, and Viability after Oslo (Book Review)Nigel ParsonsIssue 61.3Summer2007
China, Global Energy, and the Middle EastSteve A. Yetiv and Chunlong LuIssue 61.2Spring2007
The Notion of a "Pre-emptive War:" the Six Day War RevistedErsun N. KurtulusIssue 61.2Spring2007
The High Water Mark of Islamist Politics? The Case of YemeApril LongleyIssue 61.2Spring2007
The Salih Regime and the Need for a Credible OppositionRobert D. Burrowes and Catherine M. KasperIssue 61.2Spring2007
Can Conversative Arab Gulf Monarchies Endure a Fourth War in the Persian Gulf?Joseph A. KechichianIssue 61.2Spring2007
Changes amid Constants and Constants amid Change (Book Review)John Duke AnthonyIssue 61.2Spring2007
The Arab World's Uncomfortable Experience with Globalization (Book Review)Robert LooneyIssue 61.2Spring2007
The View from 1947: The CIA and the Partition of PalestineThomas LippmanIssue 61.1Winter2007
Syria's Relations with Iran: Managing the Dilemmas of AllianceFred LawsonIssue 61.1Winter2007
"Don't Mention the War?" The Politics of Rembrance in Postwar LebanonOren BarakIssue 61.1Winter2007
Israeli Neo-Revisionism and American Neoconservatism: The Unexplored ParallelsIllan Peleg and Paul SchamIssue 61.1Winter2007
The Internal Stakes of the 2005 Elections: The Struggle for Influence in Egypt's National Democratic PartyVirginie CollombierIssue 61.1Winter2007
Why Hizbullah is Winning (Book Review)Augustus Richard NortonIssue 61.1Winter2007
National Security Decision-Making in Israel: Processes, Patholigies, and StrengthsCharles D. FreilichIssue 60.4Autumn2006
Democracy, "Arab Exceptionalism," and Social ScienceIliya HarikIssue 60.4Autumn2006
Between Palestine and Lebanon: Seven Shi'i Villages as a Case Study of Boundaries, Identities, and Conflict in the Middle EastAsher KaufmanIssue 60.4Autumn2006
What Do Egypt's Islamists Want? Moderate Islam and the Rise of Islamic ConstiutionalismBruce K. RutherfordIssue 60.4Autumn2006
Qatar and the World: Branding a Micro-StateJ.E. PetersonIssue 60.4Autumn2006
Deciphering Islamism and Terrorism (Book Review)Jeffrey BaleIssue 60.4Autumn2006
Nuclear Proliferation: The Case of Saudi ArabiaGawdat BahgatIssue 60.3Summer2006
Globalization, International Finance, and Political Islam in the Arab WorldHamed El-Said and Jane HarriaganIssue 60.3Summer2006
Chaos, Globalization, and the Public Sphere: Political Sturggle in the Arab WorldMark LeVineIssue 60.3Summer2006
Israel and the Origins of Iran's Arab OptionTrita ParsiIssue 60.3Summer2006
The Economic Policies of Turkey's AKP GovernmentMarcie J. PattonIssue 60.3Summer2006
Who's Sorry Now? Britain, the United States, and the Politics of the Middle East Status Quo, 1945-1967 (Book Review)Spencer MawbyIssue 60.3Summer2006
Good for the Shah, Banned for the Mullahs: The West and Iran's Quest for Nuclear PowerMustafa KibarogluIssue 60.2Spring2006
Iran's Policy Towards AfghanistanMoshen MilaniIssue 60.2Spring2006
The Struggle over Political Order in Egypt: The 2005 ElectionsYoram MeitalIssue 60.2Spring2006
Stumbling Decidedly into the Six-Day WarRoland PoppIssue 60.2Spring2006
Markets and Fences: Illusions of PeaceGuy Ben-PoratIssue 60.2Spring2006
Blunder Books: Iraq Since Saddam (Book Review)Peter SluglettIssue 60.2Spring2006
Global Jihadism After the Iraq WarThomas HegghammerIssue 60.1Winter2006
The Odd Couple: Ending The Jordanian-Syrian “Cold War”Curtis R. RyanIssue 60.1Winter2006
Khatami’s Legacy: Dashed HopesJahangir AmuzegarIssue 60.1Winter2006
Towards a Representative Military? The Transformation of the Lebanese Officer Corps since 1945Oren BarakIssue 60.1Winter2006
The Political Economy of Lebanon Under Rafiq Hariri: An InterpretationTalal NizameddinIssue 60.1Winter2006
Review Article: In the Shadow of DemocracySteven HeydemannIssue 60.1Winter2006
The Democratic Imperative vs. the Authoritarian Impulse: The Maghrib State Between Transition and TerrorismJohn P. EntelisIssue 59.4Autumn2005
The Continuing Evolution of Iran’s Military DoctrineSteven R. WardIssue 59.4Autumn2005
Negotiating Rights in Iraq: Women and the Personal Status LawNoga EfratiIssue 59.4Autumn2005
Free Trade as a Strategic Instrument in the War on Terror?: The 2004 US-Moroccan Free Trade AgreementGregory W. WhiteIssue 59.4Autumn2005
Myths and Historiography of the 1948 Palestine War Revisited: The Case of LyddaAlon Kadish and Avraham SelaIssue 59.4Autumn2005
The United Arab Emirates: Statehood and Nation-Building in a Traditional SocietyFrauke Heard-BeyIssue 59.3Summer2005
Democratic Development in OmanJeremy Jones and Nicholas RidoutIssue 59.3Summer2005
Women, Islam, and the Moroccan State: The Struggle over the Personal Status LawBruce Maddy-WeitzmanIssue 59.3Summer2005
National Human Rights Institutions in the Middle East Sonia Cardenas and Andrew FlibbertIssue 59.3Summer2005
Women’s Parties in Israel: Their Unrecognized Significance and PotentialEsther HertzogIssue 59.3Summer2005
Clash of Interest Over Northern Iraq Drives Turkish-Israeli Alliance to a CrossroadsMustafa KibarogluIssue 59.2Spring2005
Independence, Cantons or Bantustans: Whither the Palestinian State?Leila FarsakhIssue 59.2Spring2005
Iraq's Chemical Weapons Legacy: What Others Might Learn from SaddamRichard L. RussellIssue 59.2Spring2005
Muslim Americans, Islam and the "War on Terrorism" at Home and Abroad (Review Article)Amaney Jamal / Sunaina MairaIssue 59.2Spring2005
No One Will Scratch My Back: Iranian Security Perceptions in Historical ContextFariborz MokhtariIssue 59.2Spring2005
The Turkey-EU-US Triangle in Perspective: Transformation or Continuity?Ziya Önis / Suhnaz YilmazIssue 59.2Spring2005
An Unexpected Mandate? The April 8, 2004 Algerian Presidential ElectionsRobert ParksIssue 59.1Winter2005
Democratic Attitudes and Practices in Iraq, 1921-1958Adeed DawishaIssue 59.1Winter2005
Ethnicity and Civil Society in Contemporary AfghanistanCarol J. RiphenburgIssue 59.1Winter2005
Mubarak and the Islamists: Why Did the "Honeymoon" End?Hesham Al-AwadiIssue 59.1Winter2005
Syrian Motives for its WMD Programs and What to Do About ThemMurhaf JouejatiIssue 59.1Winter2005
The Famous Forty and Their Companions: North Yemen's First-Generation Modernists and Educational EmigrantsRobert D. BurrowesIssue 59.1Winter2005
The US and the Armenian Genocide (Review Article)Simon PayaslianIssue 59.1Winter2005
A Culture of Poverty or the Poverty of a Culture? Informal Settlements and the Debate Over the . . ."Ninette Fahmy "Issue 58.4Autumn2004
Anti-Semitism and US-Israel Relations: Trouble for Middle East Specialists -and Their Critics (Review Article)Duncan L. ClarkeIssue 58.4Autumn2004
Focus on US Policy: From the Eisenhower Doctrine to the War in Iraq (Review Article)Michael SternerIssue 58.4Autumn2004
For a White Revolution: John F. Kennedy and the Shah of IranApril R. SummittIssue 58.4Autumn2004
Ideology and Pragmatism in Iran's Foreign PolicyR.K. RamazaniIssue 58.4Autumn2004
Re-Legitimizing Anti-Semitism: Not the Time for Silence (Response)Abraham H. FoxmanIssue 58.4Autumn2004
Wanting to Have Their Cake and Their Neighbor's Too: Azerbaijani Attitudes toward Karabakh and Iranian AzerbaijanCameron BrownIssue 58.4Autumn2004
Will New Blood in the Leadership Produce New Blood on the Battlefield? The Impact of Regime Changes . . ."John A. Tures "Issue 58.4Autumn2004
The Second Intifada: The Literature of Testimony (Review Article)Sabah A. SalihIssue 58.3Summer2004
Between Islamists and Liberals: Saudi Arabia's New ""Islamo-Liberal"" ReformistsStéphane LacroixIssue 58.3Summer2004
Dissent in Iranian Elections: Reasons and ImplicationsA. William SamiiIssue 58.3Summer2004
Libya Is Not Iraq: Preemptive Strikes, WMD and DiplomacyRonald Bruce St. JohnIssue 58.3Summer2004
On the Power of Tacit Understanding: Israel, Egypt and Freedom of Passage Through the Suez Canal, 1957-60Eitan BarakIssue 58.3Summer2004
OPEC's Dominance of the Global Oil Market: The Rise of the World's Dependency on OilEuclid RoseIssue 58.3Summer2004
Princes and Parliaments in the Arab WorldMichael HerbIssue 58.3Summer2004
Iran's International Posture After the Fall of BaghdadAnoushiravan EhteshamiIssue 58.2Spring2004
Iraq Considered (Review Article)Judith S. YapheIssue 58.2Spring2004
Military Rule, Islamism and Democracy in PakistanVali NasrIssue 58.2Spring2004
Oman's Diverse Society: Southern OmanJ.E. PetersonIssue 58.2Spring2004
Paying for Peace: The Oslo Process and the Limits of American Foreign AidScott LasenskyIssue 58.2Spring2004
Turkey's Kurdish Conflict: Changing Context and Domestic and Regional ImplicationsMurat SomerIssue 58.2Spring2004
Jordan and the Palestinian Authority: Did Better Fences Make Better Neighbors?Hillel FrischIssue 58.1Winter2004
Jordan: The Death of Normalization with IsraelRussell E. LucasIssue 58.1Winter2004
Oman's Diverse Society: Northern OmanJ.E. PetersonIssue 58.1Winter2004
The "Islam Industry" and Scholarship (Review Article)As'ad AbuKhalilIssue 58.1Winter2004
The Iranian Revolution: An Oral History with Henry Precht, Then State Department Desk OfficerHenry PrechtIssue 58.1Winter2004
The Palestinian-Transjordanian Rift: Economic Might and Political Power in JordanYitzhak ReiterIssue 58.1Winter2004
Knesset Election 2003: Why Likud Regained its Political Domination and Labor Continued to Fade OutGideon Doron / Rebecca Kook / Don PeretzIssue 57.4Autumn2003
Political Parties in Postwar Lebanon: Parties in Search of PartisansFarid el KhazenIssue 57.4Autumn2003
The Levant: New Faces, Old Themes (Review Article)Neil QuilliamIssue 57.4Autumn2003
The Neoliberal Model's Planned Role in Iraq's Economic TransitionRobert LooneyIssue 57.4Autumn2003
The Tunbs and Abu Musa Islands: Britain's PerspectiveRichard A. MobleyIssue 57.4Autumn2003
The United States and Shi'ite Religious Factions in Post-Ba'thist IraqJuan ColeIssue 57.4Autumn2003
European Approaches to Security in the MediterraneanRichard YoungsIssue 57.3Summer2003
The Beginnings of Transjordanian Military Intelligence: A Neglected Aspect of the 1948 WarRonen YitzhakIssue 57.3Summer2003
The Burden of Saudi Arabia (Review Article)Joseph a. KechichianIssue 57.3Summer2003
The Environmental Movement in Iran: Perspectives from Below and AboveKaveh AfrasiabiIssue 57.3Summer2003
The Liberal Impulse in Saudi ArabiaRichard DekmejianIssue 57.3Summer2003
War and Occupation in Iraq: What Went Right? What Could Go Wrong?Judith S. YapheIssue 57.3Summer2003
By Conviction, Not by Infliction: The Internal Debate Over Reforming the Palestinian AuthorityMenachem KleinIssue 57.2Spring2003
Demythologizing the National Security Concept: The Case of TurkeyUmit CizreIssue 57.2Spring2003
Islam in Egyptian Politics: From Activism to Alienation (Review Article)Jon B. AltermanIssue 57.2Spring2003
Jordan's "New Bargain": The Political Economy of Regime SecurityScott GreenwoodIssue 57.2Spring2003
Manning the Barricades: Islam According to Saudi Arabia's School TextsEleanor Abdella DoumatoIssue 57.2Spring2003
The Egyptian Military in Politics: Disengagement or Accommodation?Imad HarbIssue 57.2Spring2003
Fighting Honor Crimes: Evidence of Civil Society in JordanStefanie Eileen NanesIssue 57.1Winter2003
Iran at a CrossroadsRay TakeyhIssue 57.1Winter2003
Pivotal State or Energy Supplicant? Domestic Structure, External Actors, and Turkish Policy in the CaucasusGareth WinrowIssue 57.1Winter2003
Saddam Husayn and Civil-Military Relations in Iraq: The Quest for Legitimacy and PowerAhmed HashimIssue 57.1Winter2003
Socio-Economic Development in Iran through Information and Communications TechnologyLaleh EbrahimianIssue 57.1Winter2003
The Landscape of Factional Politics and Its Future in IranHossein SeifzadehIssue 57.1Winter2003
Algeria's Policy Towards Israel: Pragmatism and RhetoricJacob AbadiIssue 56.4Autumn2002
Arab Views of Soviet Policy in the Era of Glasnost, 1985-1991Yury PolskyIssue 56.4Autumn2002
Explaining the Oslo Backchannel: Norway's Political Past in the Middle EastHilde Henriksen WaageIssue 56.4Autumn2002
The Politics of Incoherence: The United States and the Middle EastJames A. Bill / Rebecca Bill ChavezIssue 56.4Autumn2002
Who Owns the Shebaa Farms? Chronicle of a Territorial DisputeAsher KaufmanIssue 56.4Autumn2002
Anti-Narcotics Responses in JordanPhilip RobinsIssue 56.3Summer2002
Arab Education: Tradition, Growth and ReformWilliam A. RughIssue 56.3Summer2002
Foreign Aid for Promoting Democracy in the Arab WorldSheila CarapicoIssue 56.3Summer2002
Post-Islamist Rumblings in Egypt: The Emergence of the Wasat PartyJoshua A. StacherIssue 56.3Summer2002
The Idea of Fate in Contemporary Arabic Fiction (Review Article)Sabah A. SalihIssue 56.3Summer2002
Transforming the Old: Cairo's New Medieval CityCaroline WilliamsIssue 56.3Summer2002
Cluster-bombs and Sandcastles: Kramer on the Future of Middle East Studies in America (Review Article)Rex BrynenIssue 56.2Spring2002
Dueling for Da'wa: State versus Society on the Saudi InternetJoshua TeitelbaumIssue 56.2Spring2002
Factors Influencing Jordan's Information Revolution: Implications for DemocracyKarla J. CunninghamIssue 56.2Spring2002
Kuwait's Democratic Experiment in its Broader International ContextSteve YetivIssue 56.2Spring2002
The Brain Drain from Iran to the United StatesAkbar E. TorbatIssue 56.2Spring2002
The Politics of Fear: The Rise of the Nationalist Action Party (MHP) in TurkeyM. Hakan YavuzIssue 56.2Spring2002
Ibn Khaldun's Understanding of Civilizations and the Dilemmas of Islam and the West TodayAkbar AhmedIssue 56.1Winter2002
Iraq's Decisions to Go to War, 1980 and 1990F. Gregory Gause, IIIIssue 56.1Winter2002
Turkey's Candidacy for EU MembershipBirol A. YesiladaIssue 56.1Winter2002
Understanding the ChallengeShibley TelhamiIssue 56.1Winter2002
Will Syria Have to Withdraw from Lebanon?Eric V. ThompsonIssue 56.1Winter2002
Secular Law and the Emergence of Unofficial Turkish Islamic LawIhsan YilmazIssue 56.1Winter2002
Saudi-Russian Relations in the Putin EraMark N. KatzIssue 55.4Autumn2001
Armies of Snow and Armies of Sand: The Impact of Soviet Military Doctrine on Arab MilitariesMichael J. Eisenstadt / Kennth M. PollackIssue 55.4Autumn2001
Iran's Guardians Council as an Obstacle to DemocracyA. William SamiiIssue 55.4Autumn2001
The Nature of Succession in the GulfJ.E. PetersonIssue 55.4Autumn2001
The New Asad: Dynamics of Continuity and Change in SyriaNajib GhadbianIssue 55.4Autumn2001
Deepening the Melting Pot: Arab-Americans at the Turn of the CenturyAndrzej Kulczycki / Arun Peter LoboIssue 55.3Summer2001
Globalization and the Internet: Comparing the Middle Eastern and Malaysian ExperiencesToby E. HuffIssue 55.3Summer2001
The Ineffective Role of the US in the US-Israeli-Syrian RelationshipRobert RabilIssue 55.3Summer2001
The Tariqa on a Landcruiser: The Resurgence of Sufism in YemenAlexander KnyshIssue 55.3Summer2001
Towards Autonomy? The Islamist Movement's Quest for Control of Islamic Institutions in IsraelAlisa Rubin PeledIssue 55.3Summer2001
Engendering State-Building: The Women's Movement and Gender-Regime in PalestineAmal JamalIssue 55.2Spring2001
Facing the Market in North AfricaBradford DillmanIssue 55.2Spring2001
How the Gulf War Changed the AAUG's Discourse on Arab Nationalism and Gender PoliticsMervat F. HatemIssue 55.2Spring2001
Palestinian Interest in Homeland InvestmentKate Gillespie / Liesl Riddle / Edward SayreIssue 55.2Spring2001
State-Building in Azerbaijan: The Search for ConsolidationMehran KamravaIssue 55.2Spring2001
The Lebanese War Revisited: The Long Road from Breakup to Reconciliation (Review Article)George Emile IraniIssue 55.2Spring2001
A Practical Line: The Line of Withdrawal from Lebanon and its Potential Applicability to the Golan HeightsFrederic HofIssue 55.1Winter2001
Bourguiba and Bourguibism Revisited: Reflections and InterpretationL. Carl BrownIssue 55.1Winter2001
Re-Thinking the Islamic Republic: A "Conversation" with Ayatollah Hossein 'Ali MontazeriAyatollah Hossein 'Ali Montazeri / Geneive AbdoIssue 55.1Winter2001
Russian Policy Toward the Middle East: The Yeltsin Legacy and the Putin ChallengeRobert O. FreedmanIssue 55.1Winter2001
The Political Mythology of the Battle of KaramehW. Andrew TerrillIssue 55.1Winter2001
Armed Islamist Movements and Political Violence in AlgeriaMohammed M. HafezIssue 54.4Autumn2000
Coming of Emancipatory Age (Review Article)Marilyn BoothIssue 54.4Autumn2000
Saharan Stasis: Status and Future Prospects of the Western Sahara ConflictCharles DunbarIssue 54.4Autumn2000
The Bahraini Three on St. Helena, 1956-61Miriam JoyceIssue 54.4Autumn2000
The End of the Islamist Insurgency in Egypt? Costs and ProspectsFawaz A. GergesIssue 54.4Autumn2000
The Geopolitics of the Caspian BasinBruce KuniholmIssue 54.4Autumn2000
A "Pan-Arab Virtual Think Tank": Enriching the Arab Information EnvironmentMichael C. HudsonIssue 54.3Summer2000