The MIT Electronic Journal for Middle East Studies (MIT-EJMES) is a new, multi-disciplinary academic journal focusing on the modern Middle East. Founded and run primarily by young scholars, the journal is committed to publishing scholarly writing on the modern Middle East--both interdisciplinary work and work within the traditional boundaries of the social sciences and humanities. Although MIT-EJMES especially encourages submissions from graduate students, all authors may submit articles for consideration.

Unlike traditional journals focusing on the Middle East, MIT-EJMES is published on the internet, at http://web.mit.edu/cis/www/mitejmes/. As an internet journal, we believe MIT-EJMES will be able to take advantage of the benefits of computer communication to reach a wide and diverse audience of Middle East observers and researchers and thus facilitate scholarly communication amongst colleagues and across borders.

The MIT-EJMES editorial board is committed to non-partisanship, and makes publication decisions based solely on the academic merit of submitted articles. We consider clearly-articulated and informed positions to be vital to constructive discussion on the complex and often contentious issues that characterize the modern Middle East, defined as countries of the Arab region and including Iran, Turkey, Israel and the Ottoman Empire. MIT-EJMES is also looking for lively reviews of books and cultural events that are understandable to those outside, as well as inside, academia. In accordance with standard academic practice, articles submitted for publication to MIT-EJMES are subject to a process of blind peer review.