Contemporary Levant

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.

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Since 2018, CBRL has offered an annual Best Paper Award for original unpublished research articles.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

Editorial board

Copyright

Contemporary Levant current issue:

Contemporary Levant latest articles:

Karèn Sanchez Summerer, Philippe Bourmaud, Séverine Gabry-Thienpont, Marie Levant & Norig Neveu:‘Reconstructing babel’: Christian missions and knowledge production in the Middle East, nineteenth-twentieth century

Sarah Irving: Palestine’s Syriac Orthodox community and the Dead Sea scrolls

Bernard Kronnegger: A schism in the Melkite Church? The conflict surrounding the seminary of Saint Anne during the Mandate period

Contemporary Levant past issues:

	Contemporary Levant vol. 6/1, 2021. Eastern Christianity in Syria and Palestine and European cultural diplomacy (1860-1948) – guest editors Karène Sanchez Summerer and Konstantinos Papastathis	Contemporary Levant vol. 5/2, 2020.
Contemporary Levant vol. 5/1 (2020). Levantine Chronotopes: Prisms for Entangled Histories – guest editors Rana Issa and Einar Wigen	Contemporary Levant vol. 4/2 (2019).	Contemporary Levant vol. 4/1 (2019). The British Mandate in Palestine: New Histories, New Historical Agents and Re-framing Old Paradigms – guest editors Lauren Banko, Roberto Mazza, and Steven Wagner
Contemporary Levant vol. 3/2 (2018)	Contemporary Levant vol. 3/1 (2018). Gendering Everyday Islam – guest editors Claudia Liebelt and Pnina Werbner	Contemporary Levant vol. 2/2 (2017)
Contemporary Levant vol. 2/1 (2017). Ethnography as knowledge in the Arab region – guest editors Samar Kanafani and Zina Sawaf	Contemporary Levant vol. 1/2 (2016).	Contemporary Levant vol. 1/1 (2016). Revisiting the Arab Uprisings: Reflections from Within and Without