Archives
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Special Issue: Children and Youth Migrants in Middle East and North African History
Vol. 11 No. 2 (2024)This special issue, curated by guest editors Dr. Ella Fratantuono and Dr. Lucia Carminati, seeks to juxtapose varied experiences of and perspectives on young people’s migration in the history of the Middle East and North Africa.
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Special Issue: Vocabularies of Travel and Tourism in the Holy Lands, 1870–1950
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2023)This special issue, curated by guest editors Dr. Sarah Irving, Dr. Karène Sanchez Summerer, and Dr. Sary Zananiri, examines the issue of travel in the broadest possible sense, looking not only at the practices and writings of tourists and travelers which often form the focus of tourism studies of the “Holy Land” but also at travel as a social phenomenon entangled with the society, culture, and economy of Palestine and the wider Levant.
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Special Issue: New Perspectives on Middle East Migrations
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2023)Ten years ago, Mashriq & Mahjar’s first editorial began with a provocation to rethink the “markedly staid notions of space and place” that predominated in Middle East studies. A decade on, migration, borderlands, and refugee studies now represent mainstays ofMENA studies, radically reshaping the field’s contours. This special issue takes stock of these exciting developments and to consider their potential for the larger, interdisciplinary field of MENA studies, but also to begin to clear paths as yet untaken. The included articles offer critical reflection on the core debates and methodologies of MENA migration studies, sketch out new agendas, and open up new avenues for research.
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Special Issue: MENA Migrants and Diasporas in Twenty-First-Century Media
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2022)This special issue, curated by guest editor Dr. Waleed Mahdi, features analyses of MENA migrants and diasporas representations in local, national, or transnational media, both in the Global North and South.
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Special Issue: Middle East Christians in Europe
Vol. 8 No. 1 (2020)This special issue, curated by guest editor Dr. Fiona McCallum Guiney, analyzes the contemporary experiences of Middle Eastern Christian communities in Europe.
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Labors of Need
Vol. 7 No. 2 (2020)This special issue looks at the lifeworlds and everyday lives of migrant workers, their religious and affective dispositions, their place within the political economy of the contemporary Middle East, and the longer histories of movement, connection, and disconnection that have bound together parts of South Asia, South-East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa to the region.
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Special Issue: Food and Middle East Diasporas
Vol. 6 No. 2 (2019)This special issue focuses on how food relates to MENA diasporic identities.
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Special Issue: Contemporary Artists of the Arab Diaspora
Vol. 6 No. 1 (2019)This collection of essays, curated by guest editors Dr. Donna West Brett and Dr. Martine Natat Antle, brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to consider the practice of contemporary artists from the Arab diaspora.
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Special Issue: Migration and Transnational Governance
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2018)This special issue, curated by guest editors Dr. Laurie Brand and Dr. Tamirice Fakhoury, draws on the concept of transnational governance to inquire into the ways diasporas’ and states’ interactions shape conceptions of power, institutions, and policies in the Arab world.
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Special Issue: Arabs in Australia: Local Concerns and Transnational Contexts
Vol. 4 No. 2 (2017)This special issue, curated by guest editors Dr. Jumana Bayeh and Dr. Sahar Amer, explores how cultural practitioners—performance artists, community activists, and writers—explore, enact, and narrate their experiences as Arab-Australians in their own voice and through their own craft. This special issue also includes scholarly works that explore the history of Arabs in Australia and critically analyze literature produced by Arab-Australian authors.
