Contemporary Levant

Publishing research from studies in the Levant, focusing on current
and emerging issues, contemporary politics, society, culture and diasporas.

Contemporary Levant is an international, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishing papers on the contemporary politics, society and culture of the Levant region and its diasporas and neighbouring countries.

Topics covered by the journal span from anthropology, sociology, politics, religion and theology to cultural studies, modern history, social geography, media, film studies and literature.

Established in 2016, Contemporary Levant is published twice a year.

Contemporary Levant can be accessed online at Taylor & Francis.

For back issues, email subscriptions(at)tandf.co.uk, with the subject Individual Price Request and quoting the name of the journal and the issue numbers in the body of the email.

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• Article submissions

Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the Editor in Chief, Dr Sarah Irving, to discuss potential submissions.

Enquiries from early career scholars and those seeking to publish in English for the first time are welcome.

Authors who wish to submit an article for consideration to the editorial board should follow the instructions available online.

Prospective authors are advised to consult our Publication Ethics Statement prior to submission.

• Subscribing to Contemporary Levant

• Contemporary Levant Prize for Best Article

Since 2018, CBRL has offered an annual Best Paper Award for original unpublished research articles. The award recognises excellent research and scholarship that engages with current and emerging issues in the Levant and advances our understanding of the region.

A committee from CBRL and the editorial board of Contemporary Levant will select the best article from submissions; the winning paper are published in the next issue of Contemporary Levant.

Recent winners:

Lynn Meskell & Christina Luke (2021) Developing Petra: UNESCO, the World Bank, and America in the desert. Contemporary Levant 6(2), 126-140.

Anne Irfan (2020) Petitioning for Palestine: refugee appeals to international authorities. Contemporary Levant 5(2), 79-96.

Shatha Abu-Khafajah & Riham Miqdadi (2019) Prejudice, military intelligence, and neoliberalism: examining the local within archaeology and heritage practices in Jordan. Contemporary Levant 4(2), 92-106.

Ann-Christin Wagner (2018) Remapping the Holy Land from the margins: how a Jordanian Evangelical church juggles the ‘local’ and the ‘global’ in the Syrian refugee response. Contemporary Levant 3(2), 95-109.