In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Jacob Passel
pp. 6-8
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Securitization as a Tool of Regime Survival: The Deployment of Religious Rhetoric in Bashar al-Asad's Speeches

Rahaf Aldoughli
pp. 9-32
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Fighting for a Monopoly on Governance: How the Asad State "Won" the Syrian War and to What Extent

Philippe Droz-Vincent
pp. 33-54
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China and the Reconstruction of Syria

Guy Burton, Nicholas Lyall, Logan Pauley
pp. 55-75
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Tunisia's Peripheral Cities: Marginalization and Protest Politics in a Democratizing Country

Larbi Sadiki
pp. 77-98
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Building a Proto-State on Quicksand: The Rise and Fall of the Palestinian State-in-Exile in Lebanon

Marina Eleftheriadou
pp. 99-120
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Chronology: September 16–December 31, 2020

pp. 121-155
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How Much Does Oil Shape US Strategic Interests in the Middle East?

Jim Krane
pp. 157-162
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Jews, Muslims and Jerusalem: Disputes and Dialogues by Moshe Ma'oz (review)

Miriam F. Elman
pp. 163-164
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Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming a Chaotic Conflict by Ibrahim Fraihat (review)

Sanam Vakil
pp. 165-166
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Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran by Afshin Marashi (review)

Rudi Matthee
pp. 166-168
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The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the U.S., and Iran's Global Ambitions by Arash Azizi (review)

Ali Alavi
pp. 168-169
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Graveyard of Clerics: Everyday Activism in Saudi Arabia by Pascal Menoret (review)

Sean Foley
pp. 169-171
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New Media and Revolution: Resistance and Dissent in Pre-Uprising Syria by Billie Jeanne Brownlee (review)

Sherwan Hindreen Ali
pp. 171-173
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Tunisian Civil Society: Political Culture and Democratic Function since 2011 by Alexander P. Martin (review)

Pietro Marzo
pp. 173-174
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Nostalgia for the Empire: The Politics of Neo-Ottomanism by M. Hakan Yavuz (review)

Nicholas Danforth
pp. 174-175
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Turkey's Mission Impossible: War and Peace with the Kurds by Cengiz Çandar (review)

Matthew Whiting
pp. 175-177
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Information Warriors: The Battle for Hearts and Minds in the Middle East by Vyvyan Kinross (review)

Piers Robinson
pp. 177-179
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Methodists and Muslims: My Life as an Orientalist by Richard W. Bulliet (review)

John Waterbury
pp. 180-181
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Sovereignty Suspended: Building the So-Called State by Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay (review)

Oliver P. Richmond
pp. 181-185
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Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East by Philip H. Gordon (review)

Mieczysław P. Boduszyński
pp. 185-187
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Houses Built on Sand: Violence, Sectarianism and Revolution in the Middle East by Simon Mabon (review)

Jacob Eriksson
pp. 187-189
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The Clash of Values: Islamic Fundamentalism versus Liberal Nationalism by Mansoor Moaddel (review)

John O. Voll
pp. 189-190
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Recent Publications

Joseph Domingo Cataliotti, Juanita García Uribe, David Gutierrez, Will Mendonsa
pp. 191-192
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