Middle Eastern Studies, Volume 53, Issue 6 (2017)

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Centenary of the Balfour Declaration
Michael J. Cohen
Pages: 865-878
Published online: 17 Aug 2017
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The border as bridge: an Israeli perspective on the Mandelbaum Gate in divided Jerusalem (1948–1967)
Kobi Cohen-Hattab
Pages: 879-898
Published online: 04 May 2017
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Turkey's approach towards Israel in the 1950s: not merely following US policy
Ekavi Athanassopoulou
Pages: 899-914
Published online: 25 Apr 2017
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Half-heartedly: Menachem Begin and the establishment of the Likud Party
Amir Goldstein
Pages: 915-933
Published online: 14 Jul 2017
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From ‘Star Wars’ to ‘Iron Dome’: US support of Israel's Missile Defense systems
Arnon Gutfeld
Pages: 934-948
Published online: 21 Jul 2017
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The Kurdish image in statist historiography: the case of Simko
Kamal Soleimani
Pages: 949-965
Published online: 22 Jun 2017
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The career of Ozdemir: a Turkish bid for northern Iraq, 1921–1923
Othman Ali
Pages: 966-985
Published online: 08 Jun 2017
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‘A matter of political expediency’: Iran, Britain, South Africa and the settlement of Reza Shah's estate
Shaul Bakhash
Pages: 986-995
Published online: 11 Jul 2017
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The Egyptian Muslim Brothers’ ideal state model: a religious state – out; a civil state – in
Limor Lavie
Pages: 996-1012
Published online: 21 Jul 2017
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Democracy in Lebanon: Political Parties and the Struggle for Power since Syrian Withdrawal, by Abbas Assi/Spheres of Intervention: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Collapse of Lebanon, 1967–1976, by James R. Stocker
London, I. B. Tauris, 2016, 246 pp., $99.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-7845-3093-8/Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2016, 284 pp., $45.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-5017-0077-4
Eyal Zisser
Pages: 1013-1020
Published online: 28 Feb 2017
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The Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon, the double tragedy of refugees and impacted host communities, by Robert G. Rabild\Creating consent in Ba'thist Syria: women and welfare in a totalitarian state, by Esther Meininghaus
Lanham, Lexington Books, 2016, 125 pp., $110.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-4985-3512-0\London, I.B. Tauris, 2016, 385 pp., $75.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978 1 78,453 115 7
Eyal Zisser
Pages: 1020-1026
Published online: 29 May 2017
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Muslim Democratic Parties in the Middle East: Economy and Politics of Islamist Moderation, by A. Kadir Yildirim/Circuits of Faith: Migration, Education, and the Wahhabi Mission, by Michael Farquhar/Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life, by Farah al-Nakib
Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press, 2016, $85.00 (cloth), $35.00 (paperback), $34.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-253-02309-4/Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2017, $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-9835-8/Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2016, $85 (cloth), $24.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8047-9852-5
Courtney Freer
Pages: 1027-1034
Published online: 08 Jun 2017
First Page PreviewforMuslim Democratic Parties in the Middle East: Economy and Politics of Islamist Moderation, by A. Kadir Yildirim/Circuits of Faith: Migration, Education, and the Wahhabi Mission, by Michael Farquhar/Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life, by Farah al-Nakib | Full Text | PDF (170.8 KB)
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Participant reference in three Balochi dialects: male and female narrations of folktales and biographical tales, by Maryam Nourzaei
Uppsala, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2017, 715 pp. plus audio files, $125.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-91-554-9808-5
Babak Rezvani
Pages: 1035-1036
Published online: 31 Jul 2017
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