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We work to encourage and promote interest in Middle East Studies and to raise awareness of the region and how it is connected to other parts of the world, including the UK.

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Featured Research

Political Naturalisation: Conscripting Transit Citizens in the United Arab Emirates (Mira Al Hussein)

Since its formation, the United Arab Emirates has sought to construct a cohesive sense of national identity among its citizens, centred on a system of...

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More Catholic than the Pope: Turkish competition with ‘little Russia’ in Libya, 1953–1957 (Ömer Aslan)

Drawing extensively on declassified American, Turkish, and British archives, this study explores the Turco-Egyptian rivalry in Libya and its place in the...

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Book Review: Stitching the Intifada: Embroidery and Resistance in Palestine (Enji Matar)

Providing a review of one of the most recent books about Palestinian embroidery (tatreez), Enji Matar analyzes Rachel Dedman’s book titled Stitching...

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Rolling the dice: Capitalism, trafficking and speculation across the Western Mediterranean (José Ciro Martínez)

This paper ruminates alongside two hashish traffickers whose lives span the Strait of Gibraltar in light of their simultaneous critique and embrace of...

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Database of Expertise

The Database of Expertise in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies provides a publicly available list of MENA experts with their research and areas of expertise.

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