Isa Blumi guest editor of special issue on the Gulf and the World

Isa Blumi, professor at the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Stockholm University, is together with Jaafar Alloul the guest editor for a special issue of the journal Middle East Critique. The issue focuses on the Gulf region and its global connections.

The new special issue, Volume 34, Issue 2 (2025), sheds light on the geopolitical tensions and economic power structures that arise in the encounter between regional and international interests. In the introduction, Blumi and Alloul discuss the latest research findings on the increasing global influence of Gulf states and their impact on the rest of the world.

Two former students of Middle Eastern Studies at Stockholm University - Hanna Andersson and Fatemeh Mohammadi - also contribute articles. 

The special issue of Middle East Critique is available online at:
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccri20/34/2

Isa Blumi has also recently participated in an international conference, "Frontiers in the Umma: On the Sunni-Shii Borderlands in the Ottoman Middle East", at the French Institute for Anatolian Studies in Istanbul, where he gave a research presentation titled "From the Balkans to the Gulf: Correcting Blurred Frontiers in the Umma, 1850-1924".

Isa Blumi is Professor of Turkish and Middle East Studies at Stockholm University.