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Dear All, please consider the call for papers for early career scholars put forth by the Brismes-sponsored e-journal 'New Middle Eastern Studies' (http://www.brismes.ac.uk/nmes/). NMES is a peer-reviewed journal and seeks different types of contributions. Please feel free to forward the call for submissions to any early career scholars you know, as well as consider submitting a contribution yourselves. NMES is looking for journal articles, quick studies, book reviews falling within the broad field of Middle East Studies. Please find out more here: http://www.brismes.ac.uk/nmes/submit-an-article Below you have a list of our 2012 highlights: The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies invites you to view Volume 2 (2012) of New Middle Eastern Studies (NMES), the innovative new e-journal run by BRISMES scholars and graduate students: NEW MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES (NMES) 2012: ?Consuming Revolution: Ethics, Art and Ambivalence in the Arab Spring? Author: Nancy Demerdash Link: http://www.brismes.ac.uk/nmes/archives/970 ?The Iranian Electric Power Industry after the Islamic Revolution: Nuclear Developments and Current Conditions? Author: Denis Volkov Link: http://www.brismes.ac.uk/nmes/archives/820 ?Rethinking neo-Salafism through an Emerging Fiqh of Citizenship: The Changing Status of Minorities in the Discourse of Yusuf al-Qaradawi and the ?School of the Middle Way?? Authors: David H. Warren and Christine Gilmore Link: http://www.brismes.ac.uk/nmes/archives/809 ?The Ideological Framing of the National Outlook Parties in Turkey? Author: Feriha Perekli Link: http://www.brismes.ac.uk/nmes/archives/776 ?The Reagan Administration and the Origins of the War on Terror: Lebanon and Libya as Case Studies? Author: Mattia Toaldo Link: http://www.brismes.ac.uk/nmes/archives/767 Review of The Second Ottoman Empire: Political and Social Transformation in the Early Modern World by Baki Tazcan Reviewer: Abdurrahman Atç?l Link: http://www.brismes.ac.uk/nmes/archives/786 Review of Ottoman Nizamiye Courts: Law and Modernity by Avi Rubin Reviewer: Omar Y. Cheta Link: http://www.brismes.ac.uk/nmes/archives/751 Review of The Middle East in Modern World History by Ernest Tucker Reviewed by Murat Ya?ar http://www.brismes.ac.uk/nmes/archives/1038 FEATURE SET OF REVIEWS ON THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY IN THE MIDDLE EAST: Review of As if Silent and Absent: Bonds of Enslavement in the Islamic Middle East by Ehud Toledano Reviewed by Tobias P. Graf http://www.brismes.ac.uk/nmes/archives/1104 Review of Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Design of Difference by Madeline C. Zilfi Reviewed by Nur Sobers-Khan http://www.brismes.ac.uk/nmes/archives/1099 Review of Esclavages et abolitions en terres d?islam: Tunisie, Arabie Saoudite, Maroc, Mauritanie, Soudan by Roger Botte Reviewed by Marta García Novo http://www.brismes.ac.uk/nmes/archives/1093 Review of Holy War and Human Bondage: Tales of Christian-Muslim Slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean by Robert C. Davis Reviewed by Will Smiley http://www.brismes.ac.uk/nmes/archives/1086 Review of Ransom Slavery along the Ottoman Borders (Early Fifteenth ? Early Eighteenth Centuries) edited by Géza Dávid and Pál Fodor Reviewed by Joshua Michael White http://www.brismes.ac.uk/nmes/archives/1081 Review of Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan and the Ottoman Mediterranean edited by Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno Reviewed by Jennifer Lofkrantz http://www.brismes.ac.uk/nmes/archives/1074 NEW MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES: http://www.brismes.ac.uk/nmes/ Paola Rivetti School of Law and Government Dublin City University Dublin 9, Ireland Tel. +35317006898 Fax +35317007374 http://www.dcu.ie/info/staff_member.php?id_no=4445