Competition - Middle Eastern Studies Best Article Award 2009

Since its launch in 1964 Middle Eastern Studies has become required reading for all those with a serious concern in understanding the modern Middle East. Middle Eastern Studies provides the most up-to-date academic research on the history and politics of the Arabic-speaking countries in the Middle East and North Africa as well as on Turkey, Iran and Israel, particularly during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Middle Eastern Studies is delighted to award Avshalom H. Rubin with its prize for the Best Article published in the journal in 2007: 'Abd al-Karim Qasim and the Kurds of Iraq: Centralization, Resistance and Revolt, 1958-63'. The article can be accessed free of charge here

Recent Articles:

UNRWA and Moral Hazard
Fred Gottheil
Volume 42, Number 3 (2006)

Women, Honour and the State: Evidence from Egypt
Beth Baron
Volume 42, Number 1 (2006)

Islam and Islamism
Malcolm Yapp
Volume 40, Number 2 (2004)