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Friday, January 06, 2023

Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World 16.3 is out now!

Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World 16.3 is out now!

 

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Aims & Scope

 

The Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of the contemporary Middle East and Arab public sphere. Publishing works in both English and Arabic, the journal engages arts and culture, politics, history and economics as they address real world problems across the modern states and mosaic of cultures connected to the Middle East region. JCI&AW works to provide a platform by conveying prominent and emergent new voices in the field as well as by highlighting the relevance of evolving topics and questions of research in the scholarship of Middle Eastern and Iraq Studies.

 

Issue 16.3

 

Memoriam

 

Gwen Hoover (1950–2022)

TAREQ Y. ISMAEL

 

Editorial

TAREQ Y. ISMAEL

 

Articles

 

Oligarchic transitions within the Tunisian ‘autocratic/authoritarian’ system and the struggle for ‘democratic transformations’

M. MONCEF KHADDAR

 

Fake WMDs all over again? How Dutch newspapers supported western propaganda on an alleged chemical attack in Syria

TABE BERGMAN AND ERIC VAN DE BEEK

 

Breathing new life into an old approach: The looking-east policy of the post-war Iraq

SHIRZAD AZAD

 

Iraqi ties to Yemen’s demise: Complicating the ‘Arab Cold War’ in South Arabia

ISA BLUMI

 

Book Reviews

 

Peace Movements in Islam: History, Religion, and Politics, Juan Cole (ed.) (2022)

ABDUL-WAHAB KAYYALI

 

The Bad Muslim Discount, Syed Masood (2022)

KATHERINE BELLIEL

 

Oil Powers: A History of the U.S.–Saudi Alliance, Victor McFarland (2020)

KEITH BUKOVICH