Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East

Editorial Office:
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
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Senior Editors:
Marwa Elshakry, Columbia University
Anupama Rao, Barnard College

Editorial Collective:
Lila Abu-Lughod
Partha Chatterjee
Mamadou Diouf
Siba Grovogui
Timothy Mitchell, Chair
Steven Pierce
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan
Elleni Centime Zeleke

Managing Editor:
Liz Beasley

Founding Editors:
Vasant Kaiwar
Sucheta Mazumdar

Editorial Assistants:
Hengameh Ziai

Contributing Editors:
Kamran Ali
Cemil Aydin
Fred Cooper
Hamid Dabashi
Lara Deeb
James De Lorenzi
Faisal Devji
Beshara Doumani
Khaled Fahmy
Leela Gandhi
Michael Gilsenan
Elizabeth Wolde Giorgis
Mona Harb
Gillian Hart
Engseng Ho
Christophe Jaffrelot
Kajri Jain
Shamil Jeppie
Sudipta Kaviraj
Rashid Khalidi
Vukile Khumalo
Kai Kresse
Tijana Krstic
Ussama Makdisi
Mahmood Mamdani
Karuna Mantena
Chakanetsa Mavhunga
Lisa Mitchell
Yael Navaro-Yashin
Vasuki Nesiah
Christine Philliou
Sheldon Pollock
Susan Slyomovics
Meltem Toksoz
Peter van der Veer
Lisa Wedeen

CSSAAME aims to produce content that is not only thoughtful but also well written and accessible to a multidisciplinary audience. Therefore, clear, well-articulated, jargon-free prose will be highly valued when submissions are evaluated. Because we receive a large number of submissions each year, our response time is generally eight to ten months. CSSAAME has a blind submissions policy. Submit manuscripts as Microsoft Word files online at www.editorialmanager.com/cssaame. Send correspondence to cssaame@dukeupress.edu.
 

Submission Types and Length

As a general guideline, full-length articles are approximately 8,000 to 10,000 words. However, all manuscripts must be no longer than 11,000 words. Due to space restrictions, articles that exceed the word limit will be returned to the author with a request to edit the text and resubmit. Other types of submissions for which word count is not an adequate measure (for instance, photo essays) should be between ten and twenty-five pages.

We encourage the submission of work that incorporates other media, such as images, video, or sound. If you would like to submit such work for consideration, please contact the editorial office directly. For more information on submitting special section proposals, please consult the special section submission guidelines.

Citations

Please note that we do not use author-date style. Submissions are required to have both endnote citations and a bibliography. Provide a shortened citation in the endnotes rather than the full citation, which is included only in the bibliography. For reference, see the style guide below and section 14.19 of The Chicago Manual of Style, seventeenth edition. Authors are encouraged to limit the use of endnotes to acknowledgment of sources and parenthetical or tangential ideas. Self-citation is unnecessary.

Transliteration

In general, a word should be transliterated only if there is no acceptable English equivalent. If no such equivalent is available, authors should follow the ALA-LC romanization tables for the respective language (www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html) when possible. Translated Arabic and Persian text includes no diacritical marks except for ayn and hamza.

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