Contemporary Levant

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.

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Since 2018, CBRL has offered an annual Best Paper Award for original unpublished research articles.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.

The editorial board of Contemporary Levant includes academics from institutions around the world, with expertise in many aspects of the contemporary Levant region.

Editor in Chief:

Dr Sarah Irving (Staffordshire University) | Email

Book Reviews Editor:

Dr Jumana Bayeh (Macquarie University) | Email

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