Memory work is important for far-right movements and parties but defies systematic scholarly analysis. I theorize that, depending on the electoral aspirations of far-right actors, their memory work involves not only the contestation but also the appropriation of the past, through hybrid memorial strategies, tactics and repertoires. I leverage original evidence from a unique dataset of party events and party archives as well as from in-depth interviews and event observations to demonstrate the mechanics of memory work undertaken by the far right in Cyprus. Using this empirically significant case, I show how the hybridity of the far right's memory work permits it to dispute the memory ownership of other actors (contention) while legitimating its place in memorial politics (convention). I also show that this hybridity is more than a transitory phase towards normalization – it is a strategic choice of far-right actors with growing electoral aspirations.

This article is concerned with interregional trade dynamics between Elam and Mesopotamia in the early to mid-first millennium BC. During the seventh century BC, two great famines in the Neo-Elamite kingdom, of which climatological changes were a major cause, were documented in the textual records. An era of megadrought made grain procurement from the neighboring regions essential to feed the Neo-Elamite lowland population. This article further explores the impact of the two Neo-Elamite famines and “drought of the century” on the commercial and political mechanisms in the Upper Persian Gulf region.

The Iron Age (c. 1300–600 BC) of South-eastern Arabia is characterised by rapid expansion of settlement. Social structures formed over the previous millennia, however, persisted and were reinforced through the development of collective funerary monuments. A recently discovered tomb of Late Bronze to Early Iron Age date at Dibbā al-Bayah in the Sultanate of Oman has yielded a range of artefacts that illuminate the nature and extent of the long-distance contacts of the local community. Seemingly selected not only for their exotic appeal, but also for their apotropaic function, these objects testify to a deep cross-cultural knowledge extending across the wider region during this crucial period in Arabian prehistory.