Welcome to the editorial office of the International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES).
Please visit the journal’s official website at Cambridge University Press. There you will find links to the current volume and back issues, as well as submission and subscription information. Also contact our publisher for permission to reprint or reproduce articles.
About IJMES
IJMES is a peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), “a private, non-profit, non-political learned society that brings together scholars, educators and those interested in the study of the region from all over the world.” MESA membership includes a subscription to IJMES. Next year the journal celebrates 40 years of publication.
According to Cambridge University Press, IJMES has a worldwide circulation of 3,700. See the CUP site for the abstracting and indexing services that list IJMES.
Information for Contributors
Long acknowledged as a journal of record in Middle East studies, IJMES is working on improving editorial consistency for those writing about the region.
We have various guidelines, style sheets, etc. which we offer as works in progress, and we welcome your feedback.
Jaghbub Uni (unicode font)
Submission Guidelines
Transliteration Chart
Word List (common transliterations and more)
Links for Scholars
American Association of Teachers of Arabic
American Association of Teachers of Turkic
American Institute for Maghrib Studies
American Institute of Iranian Studies
Association for Israel Studies
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown University
IJMES at Cambridge University Press
International Society for Iranian Studies
MESA Affiliated Organizations
Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
Turkish Studies Institute
IJMES publishes articles, reviews, and “quick studies” concerning the area encompassing the Arab world, Iran, Turkey, the Caucasus, Afghanistan, Israel, Transoxiana, and Muslim South Asia from the seventh century to the present. Articles on communities or politics in other regions of the world that had or have strong Middle Eastern ties or contexts, or on relations between those regions and the Middle East, will also be considered. Particular attention will be paid to works dealing with history, political science, economics, anthropology, sociology, philology and literature, folklore, religion, law, and philosophy. Because of its interdisciplinary nature, IJMES does not accept technical or highly specialized material, nor does it publish in the areas of administration or training.
About the Editorial Office
The current IJMES editor is Judith Tucker, professor of history and director of the Master of Arts in Arab Studies (MAAS) program at Georgetown University. During her tenure (July 2004-July 2009), the IJMES editorial office resides at Georgetown.
The current assistant editor is MAAS graduate Sylvia Whitman, and the graduate assistant for book reviews is Shady Hakim.
CONTACT US: Sylvia, for anything IJMES related, and Shady, for book-review business. We prefer e-mail (yes, even for manuscript submissions).
Links for Writers
Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University
Paramedic Method (for resuscitating turgid prose)