中东政治格局演变、安全问题、政治民主化、政治思潮及巴以问题等成为2008年中东政治领域较受关注的问题；经济领域，学者们在能源与安全、可持续发展、经济现代化等问题上着墨较多；中东国际关系，大国与中东关系，尤其是美国、中国对中东的关系依然是热点。此外，系列丛书的出版使伊斯兰文化研究进一步深入；对阿富汗、巴勒斯坦、以色列、伊朗、伊拉克等国别的研究成果相对丰富。
In the middle east politics field，such issues as the evolving of the political structure，safety problem，democratization of politics，trend of politics thought and Israeli-Palestinian conflict are followed closely in 2008. In economy field，scholars concerned on energy and security，sustainable development，economy modernization，etc. At the same time，the relations between great power and middle east，especially the relations of Us-middle east and Sino-middle east，remained the hotspot. In addition，with the publication of the series of Islam civilization，the research on Islam culture went further deep. And country study have reaped rich fruits on Afghan，Palestine，Israel，Iran and Iraq.
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