Middle Eastern Literatures (mel)

Middle Eastern Literatures is a forum for the academic study of all Middle Eastern Literatures from Late Antiquity until the present. We publish critical studies and translations of literature and other cultural works encoded in language (such as films, songs, graphic novels, memoirs, etc.). The journal’s linguistic scope is wide and encompasses works composed in, for example, the Persian, Turkish, post-Biblical and modern Hebrew, Kurdish, Urdu, Arabic, and Amazigh languages, as well as the colonial and diasporic languages through which Middle Eastern experiences have been mediated. By bringing diverse texts and disciplines into dialogue we seek to establish new connections across geographies and time periods, to forge theoretical languages, grounded in the region’s epistemologies, and to foster a comparative literature beyond the main reference point of Euroamerica. The journal aims to broaden available networks of communication within and across relevant fields, and establish new ones. We thus seek research that identifies literature and culture of the Middle East not just as subjects of study, but as locations of knowledge with relevance beyond any one academic discipline or field of thought. We aim to foster an active exchange of approaches, perspectives, and knowledge from across languages, and will regularly publish book reviews and bibliographies in support of that effort. We also welcome translations of important literary texts from the above languages, accompanied by a brief introduction, which gives details about the work, its author(s) and translator(s), and any scholarly attention that it has received thus far.

Middle Eastern Literatures (mel) is :-

• International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, to forge theoretical languages, grounded in the region’s epistemologies, to foster a comparative literature, diasporic languages, which Middle Eastern experiences, bringing diverse text , Online or Print , 3-issues-year Journal

• UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN P-ISSN: 1475-262X, E-ISSN: 1475-2638, Established: 1998, Impact Factor: 0.3
• Provides Crossref DOI

• Not indexed in Scopus, WoS, DOAJ, PubMed, UGC CARE