Middle East Critique

Staging the State: Commemoration, Urban Space and the National Symbolic Order in 1970s Cairo

The Emotional Politics of Representations of Migrant Domestic Work in Lebanon

Haunted Histories: Nasserism and The Promises of the Past

The Oslo People-to-People Program and the Limits of Hegemony

Past Continuous: The Chronopolitics of Representation in Syrian Television Drama

When Syrian ‘Girls’ Meet Turkish ‘Boys’: Mapping Gendered Stories of Mixed Marriages

Social Media Activism in Egyptian Television Drama: Encoding the Counter-Revolution Narrative

Making and Unmaking Memories: The Politics of Time in the Contemporary Middle East

ResurReaction: Competing Visions of Turkey’s (proto) Ottoman Past in Magnificent Century and Resurrection Ertuğrul

Smoke and Mirrors: Rising Israeli ‘Fascism’ or Forgetting the Labour Zionist Past

War Memory, Confessional Imaginaries, and Political Contestation in Postwar Lebanon

Memory Studies in the Middle East: Where Are We Coming From and Where Are We Going?

Democratization beyond Capitalist Time: Temporalities of Transition in the Middle East after the Arab Uprisings

Guest Editors’ Introduction: The Politics in and of Middle Eastern Television Drama

Heterotopias of the Neoliberal Egyptian State in Sonallah Ibrahim’s Narratives

The Graveyard of Empires: Haunting, Amnesia and Afghanistan’s Construction as a Burial Site

Red Death and Black Life: Media, Martyrdom and Shame

Reformism, Economic Liberalization and Popular Mobilization in Iran

A Massacre Foretold: National Excommunication and Al-Gama’a

Visualizing Inequality: The Spatial Politics of Revolution Depicted in Syrian Television Drama

Iraq’s Sources of Emulation: Scholarly Capital and Competition in Contemporary Shiʿism

Long Live the Neo-traditional Kings? The Gulf Cooperation Council and Legitimation of Monarchical Rule in the Arabian Peninsula