CyberOrient
Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East

ISSN 1804-3194

What to Submit

Submissions are welcome from scholars in any discipline. Text style follows the AAA Style Guide. Submissions in languages other than English will be considered.

CyberOrient publishes peer-reviewed articles (5000-8000 words) and book reviews (750+ words).

For articles, please format your submission as follows:

• Cover page with your name, affiliation, address, article title
• Second page with article title, abstract (150-200 words) and three or four key words. Do not put your name on this page or on the pages of the following text.
• Article with references at the end, following the AAA format.

Book reviews will be reviewed by the editor. You may suggest book which you would like to review.

How to Submit

Please submit all materials electronically as attachments. Text should be in Word format, double spaced, in Times font at 12 point. Please do not submit in PDF format. Photographs and illustrations should be submitted in jpg or gif format with minimum 72 DPI. Send your submission to the editor-in-chief, at Daniel.M.Varisco@hofstra.edu and to the managing editor, at Vit.Sisler@ff.cuni.cz. You should receive confirmation of your submission by email within a few days. 

Peer-review Process

Submitted manuscripts are subjected to initial checks to assess their suitability for review (e.g. completeness). After that, the manuscript proceeds to the reviewers. The double-blind peer review is applied, which means that the reviewers of the paper will not get to know the identity of the author(s), and the author(s) will not get to know the identity of the reviewer. The reviewers comment on the quality of the work, as well as on its originality and its importance. The turn-around time for the peer review process is a maximum of two months.

The author is responsible for obtaining written permission to use photographs and illustrations not in the public domain. All illustrations should indicate the source and should have captions. Copyright will be held by the American Anthropological Association (AAA).

Call for Papers
Vol. 7, Iss. 2, 2013
Submission deadline: 31 May 2013

Special Issue: “Orchestrating Hip-hop Culture Online: Within and Beyond the Middle East”
Guest Editor: Anders Ackfeldt

Aim

Hip-hop culture, which started in New York more than thirty years ago, has become a matter of global concern. The growth of the Internet has facilitated its spread across the globe from the US to Tokyo, and from Johannesburg to Nuuk.

This special issue of CyberOrient seeks critical examinations of the impact, functions and dynamics of Middle Eastern and/or Islamic themed hip-hop in cyberspace, within and beyond the Middle East. Submissions regarding visual aspects are welcomed – examples include breakdance, album cover art and graffiti. Papers dealing with the junction of geopolitics and Middle Eastern/Islamic themed hip-hop culture are also encouraged.Submissions are welcome from scholars in any discipline.

Submission

Articles should be submitted directly to Anders Ackfeldt (anders.ackfeldt@cme.lu.se) and Vit Sisler (vit.sisler@ff.cuni.cz ). Submissions should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words long and follow the AAA Style Guide. The special issue will be published online with free access in autumn 2013.

Call for Papers
Vol. 8, Iss. 1, 2014
Submission deadline: 1 October 2013

Special Issue: “Arab Women in a Changing Region: Revolutionizing the Political, Social, and Communication Landscapes”
Guest Editor: Sahar Khamis

Aim

On the second anniversary of the “Arab Spring”, many challenges present themselves in transitioning countries, protests still continue in some countries, while new governments are being formed in others. Arguably, throughout these last two years, and before, Arab women played a critical and vital role in paving the way for the eruption of the “Arab Spring” movements: mobilizing their fellow citizens to take part in the revolts, documenting the unfolding events with their own cameras and cell phones, both as citizen journalists and professional reporters, and shaping public opinion about ongoing issues, changes, and challenges, through the extensive use of digital media, such as Twitter, Facebook, and blogs.

This is a call for papers, across disciplines, aiming for critical and evidence-based evaluations of the multiple roles played by Arab women in this changing region, both as senders and receivers of mediated messages, through the use of different types of media before, during, and beyond the Arab Spring, including both new, social media, as well as other media outlets, such as satellite television channels and the press. First-person and ethnographic accounts are welcomed, but CyberOrient accepts contributions from any field of study and using any methodological orientation.

Articles should be submitted directly to Sahar Khamis (skhamis@umd.edu) and Vit Sisler (vit.sisler@ff.cuni.cz). The submitted article should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words (including references). It should follow the AAA Style Guide in referencing and citations. The accepted articles will be published online with free access in early spring, 2014.