Middle East Critique is a peer reviewed Middle East studies journal published by Routledge

Routledge

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 for Hamline University

Hamline University

-Red Wing location :Hamline was named in honor of Leonidas Lent Hamline, a bishop of the Methodist Church whose interest in the frontier led him to donate $25,000 toward the building of an institution of higher learning in what was then the territory of Minnesota. Today, a statue of Bishop Hamline...

. It was published as Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies by Carfax Publishing until 2009. It has also been known as Journal of Critical Studies of the Middle East.

It has been classified as a "A*" journal by the Australian Research Council

Australian Research Council

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 for its Excellence in Research for Australia

Excellence in Research for Australia

Excellence in Research for Australia is a research management initiative of the Australian Rudd Government being developed by the Australian Research Council .It replaces the Research Quality Framework that was developed by the Howard Government....

initiative, placing it in the top 5% of journals in the "Humanities and Creative Arts" cluster.