Autumn Issue of MEJ is Online

The Autumn issue of The Middle East Journal is now available. The online access is here. (For subscribers wishing to access the electronic edition, instructions are here. You can find information about subscribing here. Non-subscribers can purchase individual articles for a fee.)

The articles (click through to read the abstract) are:

• Yusri Hazran, "The Rise of Politicized Shi'ite Religiosity and the Territorial State in Iraq and Lebanon ."

• Roozbeh Safshekan and Farzan Sabet, "The Ayatollah's Praetorians: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the 2009 Election Crisis."

• Ali Rahigh-Aghsan and Peter Viggo Jakobsen, "The Rise of Iran: How Durable, How Dangerous?"

• Mordechai Nisan, "The Druze in Israel: Questions of Identity, Citizenship, and Patriotism."

• Rami Siklawi, "The Dynamics of Palestinian Political Endurance in Lebanon."

Plus, as always, the Book Reviews, leading with a review of "Exploring and Photographing the Empty Quarter," by Lydia Beyoud, and the Chronology, completing its 64th continuous year.