Middle Eastern Studies, Volume 54, Issue 1 (2018)

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Exclusion-moderation in the gulf context: tracing the development of pragmatic Islamism in Kuwait
Courtney Freer
Pages: 1-21
Published online: 01 Aug 2017
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Nexus of armed conflicts and migrations to the Gulf: migrations to the GCC from war-torn source countries in Asia, Africa and the Arab neighbourhood
Marko Valenta & Jo Jakobsen
Pages: 22-47
Published online: 24 Aug 2017
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The domestic application of international human rights conventions in Saudi Arabia and the need to ratify conventions on migrant workers
Abdullah M. Almutairi
Pages: 48-67
Published online: 29 Aug 2017
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The renunciation of minority rights and the making of the 1926 civil law: mahzars penned by non-Muslim minorities
Betül Açıkgöz & Erdoğan Keskinkılıç
Pages: 68-93
Published online: 24 Oct 2017
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A project of destruction, peace, or techno-science? Untangling the relationship between the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) and the Kurdish question in Turkey
Arda Bilgen
Pages: 94-113
Published online: 22 Sep 2017
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East sees east: the image of Jews from Islamic countries in the Jewish discourse of interwar Poland
Magdalena Kozłowska
Pages: 114-127
Published online: 05 Oct 2017
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From the land of the rising sun to the nation of the crescent moon: a visit to Turkey by a Japanese training fleet
Safiye Kiranlar & Muhammed Bilal Çelik
Pages: 128-141
Published online: 22 Sep 2017
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Review Article
The First World War and the Middle East: a literature review of recent scholarship
Rob Johnson
Pages: 142-151
Published online: 05 Sep 2017
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Shariʿa: law and modern Muslim ethics, edited by Robert W. Hefner
Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 2016, 299 pp., £53.00/$85.00 (cloth), £23.99/$35.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-253-02252-3
Carool Kersten
Pages: 152-154
Published online: 17 May 2017
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Britain's hegemony in Palestine and the Middle East, 1917–56: changing strategic imperatives, by Michael J. Cohen
London and Portland, OR, Valentine Mitchell, 2017, 330 pp., £50.00/$86.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1910383216
Saul Kelly
Pages: 154-155
Published online: 03 Jul 2017
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Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-genocide Turkey, by Lerna Ekmekçioğlu
Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2016, xvi + 222 pp., £63.00/$85.00 (hard cover); £17.99/$24.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8047-9706-1
Erik Jan Zürcher
Pages: 155-158
Published online: 30 Aug 2017
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The Six-Day War: the breaking of the Middle East, by Guy Laron/The 1973 Yom Kippur War and the reshaping of Israeli civil–military relations, edited by Udi Lebel and Eyal Lewin
New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2017, 356 pp., £20.00 (including endnotes, select bibliography and index, one map, 12 plates), ISBN 978-0-300-22270-8/New York and London, Lexington Books, 2015, 186 pp., £52.95 (index), ISBN 978-1-4985-1371-5
Robert Johnson
Pages: 158-160
Published online: 18 Aug 2017
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Book Review
Book Review
Courtney Freer
Pages: 160-163
Published online: 29 Aug 2017
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Churchill and the Dardanelles, by Christopher Bell
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, 439 pp., £25.00/$34.95(hardback), ISBN 978-0-19-870254-2
Saul Kelly
Pages: 163-165
Published online: 07 Sep 2017
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The 1956 Suez War and the New World Order in the Middle East: Exodus in Reverse, by Yagil Henkin
New York/London/Boulder, Lexington Books, 2015, 264 pp. + Bibliography, Index, No Price, ISBN 978-0-7391-8720-3
Michael J. Cohen
Pages: 166-169
Published online: 05 Oct 2017
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Announcement

Announcement
The Elie and Sylvia Kedourie prize for outstanding article
Page: 170
Published online: 22 Sep 2017
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