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About the Contemporary Levant format

Contemporary Levant is a peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis, covering Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies, Middle East Politics and Society, Islamic Studies and History.

PublisherTaylor & Francis
Reference styleAuthor–year (Chicago, T&F)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." Contemporary Levant 12 (3): 45–58.

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Publishes research inJewish and Middle Eastern Studies Middle East Politics and Society Islamic Studies and History Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts Turkey's Politics and Society
ISSN2058-1831
Citation impact (2-yr)0.52
h-index14
i10-index25
Total citations874
Top institutions publishing hereAmerican University of Beirut
Journal websitewww.tandfonline.com
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Papers published in Contemporary Levant per year

19
2016
22
2017
19
2018
19
2019
20
2020
26
2021
22
2022
13
2023
20
2024
14
2025

Citation impact of Contemporary Levant by publication year

241
2016
165
2017
147
2018
79
2019
104
2020
64
2021
30
2022
14
2023
20
2024
1
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Contemporary Levant

Climate migrants as protestors? Dispelling misconceptions about global environmental change in pre-revolutionary Syria

Christiane Fröhlich · 2 Jan 2016

For a growing number of commentators, the Syrian uprising is explained by a prolonged drought period immediately preceding the outbreak of conflict in Syria in 2011. In this narrative, the marginalized ‘climate migrants’ are seen as a decisive factor for the onset of conflict. In this paper the author dispels these assumptions by arguing for…

The collapse of social networks among Syrian refugees in urban Jordan

Matthew Russell Stevens · 2 Jan 2016

Strong social networks have been shown to correlate with improved economic outcomes and emotional wellbeing in urban refugee populations. In the Middle East and North Africa, social networks are based on a wide variety of relational identities that interconnect, suggesting an array of opportunities for community self-support. However, this research shows that Syrian refugees living…

Whose ‘reality’? Discourses and hydropolitics along the Yarmouk River

Hussam Hussein · 3 Jul 2017

This article investigates Jordanian and Syrian hydropolitical discourses around the bilateral relations along the Yarmouk River, with a focus on the decreased flow of the Yarmouk River reaching the Wahda Dam. The article examines the bilateral agreements, the hydropolitical discourses they generate, and the competing solutions they open. By situating the analysis in the broader…

‘The violence we live in’: reading and experiencing violence in the field

Lamia Moghnieh · 2 Jan 2017

Anthropological literature on ethnographic experiences of violence, like Ethnographies under Fire (Nordstrom & Robben, 1995. Fieldwork under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press) and Violence: Ethnographic Encounters (Ghassem-Fachandi, 2009. Violence: Ethnographic Encounters. Oxford: Berg), has mostly approached violence as either a force of destruction and rupture located at the…

Sensory reverberations: rethinking the temporal and experiential boundaries of war ethnography

Muzna Al-Masri · 2 Jan 2017

This article explores the value of attention to sensory experiences in the study of conflict and war, and in particular those of the ethnographer herself when she has previously lived through war and violence. It is at once an invitation for greater sensitivity to auditory and olfactory dimensions in researching violence and a critical questioning…

Contemporary Levant template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Contemporary Levant format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the Contemporary Levant template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official Taylor & Francis format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does Contemporary Levant use?
Contemporary Levant uses Author–year (Chicago, T&F) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." Contemporary Levant 12 (3): 45–58.
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No. DocuGuru generates the interact LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a Taylor & Francis-ready Contemporary Levant document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
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