''The Middle East Journal'' is a quarterly

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published by the

Middle East Institute The Middle East Institute (MEI) is a non-profit, non-partisan think tank and cultural center in Washington, D.C., founded in 1946. It seeks to "increase knowledge of the Middle East among the United States citizens and promote a better understan ...

( Washington, D.C.). It was established in 1947 and covers research on the modern

Middle East The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabian Peninsula, Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Anatolia, Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Pro ...

, including political, economic, and social developments and historical events in

North Africa North Africa, or Northern Africa is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Mauritania in ...

, the

Caucasus The Caucasus () or Caucasia (), is a region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia. The Caucasus Mountains, including the Greater Caucasus range, have historica ...

, and

Central Asia Central Asia, also known as Middle Asia, is a region of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. It includes the fo ...

. Jacob Passel is the current

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History

The Middle East Institute was founded in 1946 to promote the study of the region in a modern, policy-relevant context. From its outset, one of its priorities was " e editing and publishing of an authoritative journal on Middle Eastern affairs." Accordingly, the first issue of the journal appeared in January 1947.

Current Contributors

Jacob Passel is the current

. The current Book Review Editor is John Calabrese. The Board of Advisory Editors include: * Madawi Al-Rasheed * Omar Ashour * Henri Barkey * Sheila Carapico * Michael Collins Dunn *

Anoush Ehteshami Anoushiravan "Anoush" Ehteshami ( fa, انوشیروان احتشامی) is the Professor and Joint Director of the ESRC Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World at Durham University. Ehteshami is the Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah Chair in ...

* Jean-Pierre Filiu * F. Gregory Gause, III * Michael M. Gunter * Steven Heydemann * J. N. C. Hill * Frederic C. Hof * Marc Lynch * J. E. Peterson * Michael W. S. Ryan * Sabri Sayarı * Samer S. Shehata *

Gareth Stansfield Gareth Robert Vincent Stansfield (born 26 October 1973) is a British academic, currently Professor of Middle East Studies and Al-Qasimi Chair of Arab Gulf Studies at Exeter University. Biography Stansfield was educated at Hulme Grammar School, f ...

Robert Springborg The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

* Gönül Tol * Edward (Ned) Walker * Marvin G. Weinbaum *Paul Salem *Ross Harrison

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Book Review Index,

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/Social & Behavioral Sciences,

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, ProQuest databases,

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, and the

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. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2015

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of 0.605.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Middle East Journal, The Middle Eastern studies in the United States Middle Eastern studies journals Quarterly journals Publications established in 1947 1947 establishments in Washington, D.C. English-language journals