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The Art of Islam (Hubert Gerzabek)
Mail from Perim Island (Yemen) (II) (Folkert Bruining)
A Visit to the Quarantine Station at Anatoli-Kawak in 1884 (Tobias Zywietz)
The Agony of Quarantine in Smyrna in 1890 (Tobias Zywietz)
Reports from the 1902 Cholera Epidemic in Palestine (Tobias Zywietz)
The WWI Censor Seals of the Ottoman Empire (Philip Longbottom)
Ottoman Censorship Markings of WWI – Part I: Negative Censorship Markings (Hans Paul Soeten)
The Red Crescent Exhibition Constantinople 1917 (Jens Warnecke)
The Earliest Ottoman Reply Coupon from Smyrna 1915 (Hakan Berkil)
Selling the Impossible – Palestine ‘Blues’ 1918: 5 Mils Overprint in Grey Colour? (Tobias Zywietz)
Introduction of the French Transdesert Motor Service Damascus–Baghdad (Rainer Fuchs)
Some Interesting Proofs and Essays of (Trans)Jordan (Avo Kaplanian)
Slogan Marks of the World Refugee Year (Laurence Fisher and Dr. Ofir Winter)
Palestine Rare Destinations: Iceland 1947 (Max Michel Mann)
Jordan’s Postcard for King Hussein’s Fiftieth Birthday 1985 (Dr. David K. Smith)
Market Report: Supplies of Post Office Postal Stationery Wrappers of Middle East Countries 2011–2020 (Dr. John A. Courtis)

Book Reviews
Mohamed Aly Post (Ramadan)
The Bombay–Aden Sea Post Office (Dovey & Bottrill)
Prisoners of War at the Ottoman Front during WWI (Giray)

Reactions, Comments, Queries
RFI: Philatelic Literature in Arabic (Russel Turner, Peter Moorer)
RFI: Pogon Ambulant Post Office – A Rural Postal Service in Ottoman Times? (Folkert Bruining)
RFI: Turkey 1921/1922: Is there a third Adana overprint series? (Willy Pijnenburg)
RFI: Jordan Postage Rates 1920–1967 (Bernd-Dieter Buscke)
New Discovery: Gum-side Printing of the 1923 5p Ay Yıldız (Jens Warnecke)
Jordan: Military Cancel (Arab Legion) “M 30” (1955) (Bernd-Dieter Buscke)
The Hashemite Philatelist – An April Fools’ Joke from 1968 (Khalid Omaira)
The Palestine Post Tariff 2020 – Correction (Thomas Schubert)
RFI: Iraqi Postmarks Research (Rainer Fuchs)
Mysterious Cover from Saudi Arabia to Cairo 1973 (Dr. Uwe Gräbe)
The Dissolution of The Holyland Philatelic Society (HPS) (Tobias Zywietz)
RFI: UAE Postage Rates (Folkert Bruining)
IRCs of Turkey: Greek Occupation of the Island of Lesbos with Mytilene 1912 (Wolfgang Leimstenstoll)
Jerusalem General Post Office: Telephone exchange (T. Zywietz)

Archive
A few Words about the Hand-Stamps of Turkey (Léon Adjemian)
The Postal Hand-Stamps of Turkey before the Existence of Postage Stamps (Léon Adjemian)
Over the Ladder of Tyre A Soldier’s Observations of the Great Famine in Lebanon (Anthony Bluett / T. Zywietz)
Postal and Communications Information in the 1872 Guide-Annuaire d’Égypte (Tobias Zywietz)
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