Middle Eastern Studies, Volume 51, Issue 2 (2015)

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Her Majesty's Protected Subjects: The Mishaqa Family in Ottoman Damascus
Erdoğan Keskinkiliç & Ebubekir Ceylan
Pages: 175-194
Published online: 30 Sep 2014
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The Yemeni Civil War: The Final British–Egyptian Imperial Battleground
Asher Orkaby
Pages: 195-207
Published online: 26 Sep 2014
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Regime Consolidation and Female Status in a Fledgling Theocracy: Khomeini's Vilayet-e-Fiqh, 1979–89
Shireen Khan Burki
Pages: 208-223
Published online: 30 Sep 2014
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Guizot's Absence of a Plan for Jerusalem
P.E. Caquet
Pages: 224-237
Published online: 14 Jan 2015
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The Question of Ottoman Ignorance before the Morea Rebellion of 1770: A Challenge to Widely Accepted Belief in the Light of New Ottoman Documents
Birol Gündoğdu
Pages: 238-253
Published online: 29 Sep 2014
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Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Neighbourhoods Visited by Courage, Sleeplessness and Dead Bodies
Sedat Bingöl
Pages: 254-268
Published online: 30 Sep 2014
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The Origins of the Redemption in Occupied Suburbia? The Jewish-American Makings of the West Bank Settlement of Efrat, 1973–87
Sara Yael Hirschhorn
Pages: 269-284
Published online: 10 Nov 2014
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The Exceptional Case of the British Military Bases on Cyprus
Andreas Stergiou
Pages: 285-300
Published online: 29 Sep 2014
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Nasser's Dilemma: Egypt's Relations with the United States and Israel, 1967–69
Yehuda U. Blanga
Pages: 301-326
Published online: 26 Sep 2014
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Fighting the Retreat from Arabia and the Gulf: The Collected Essays and Reviews of J.B. Kelly, Vol.1 by S.B. Kelly (ed.)
London: New English Review Press, 2013. Pp. 355. $21.50 (paperback) ISBN 978-0-9884778-3-4
Tore T. Petersen
Pages: 327-328
Published online: 02 Jun 2014
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Metternich, the Great Powers and the Eastern Question, by Miroslav Sedivy
Pilsen, University of West Bohemia, 2013. Pp. 1033. ISBN 978-80-261-0223-6 (hardback); ISBN 978-80-261-0224-3 (online version)
Keith Wilson
Pages: 329-330
Published online: 26 Sep 2014
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The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey: Political Violence, Fear and Pain, by Ramazan Aras
London and New York, Routledge, 2014. Pp. xi + 208, references, index. £59.52/$91.00 (hardcover) ISBN 978-0-415-82418-7
Ceren Şengül
Pages: 330-332
Published online: 26 Sep 2014
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My Memoirs: Half a Century of the History of Iraq, by Tawfiq al-Suwaydi/Saddam Hussein's Baʿth Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime, by Joseph Sassoon
(Translated from Arabic by Nancy Roberts, introduction by Antony T. Sullivan) Boulder, CO, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013. Pp. xviii + 525, index, 64 photographs. $55 (alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-58826-903-4/Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xxi + 314, index, 11 figures, 6 tables. $22.57 (paper) ISBN 978-0-521-14915-0
Ofra Bengio
Pages: 332-335
Published online: 29 Sep 2014
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Jews and Muslims in the Islamic World, by Bernard Dov Cooperman and Zvi Zohar (eds.) (Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture, XXI)
Bethesda, MD, University Press of Maryland, and Ramat Gan, Dahan Centre of Bar-Ilan University, 2013. Pp. xii + 384. Price not stated (paper) ISBN 978-1-934309-32-2
Jacob M. Landau
Pages: 335-336
Published online: 26 Sep 2014
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Petitioning the Sultan: Protests and Justice in Late Ottoman Palestine by Yuval Ben-Bassat
London, I.B. Tauris. Pp. xvi + 331, £62 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-78076-457-3
Roberto Mazza
Pages: 336-339
Published online: 08 Aug 2014
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The Ottoman–Iranian Borderlands: Making a Boundary 1843–1914
Sabri Ateş New York, Cambridge University Press, 2013, Pp. xv +350, 12 maps, 13 figures, bibliograpy, index. $89.10 (hardback)ISBN 978-1-107-03365-8
Fatmagül Demirel
Pages: 339-341
Published online: 06 Nov 2014
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