Akiner, Shirin, ‘Oriental Borrowings in the Language of the Byelorussian Tatars’, in Slavonic and East European Review, 56.2 (1978), pp. 224–41, doi:10.2307/4207639

Akiner, Shirin, review of Arnold B. McMillin, Die Literatur der Weissrussen. A History of Byelorussian Literature: From Its Origins to the Present Day, in Modern Language Review, 73.3 (1978), pp. 718–20, doi:10.2307/3727386

Akiner, Shirin, review of I. Ševčenko, F. E. Sysyn, Eucharisterion: Essays Presented to Omeljan Pritsak on His Sixtieth Birthday by His Colleagues and Students, in Slavonic and East European Review, 60.2 (1982), pp. 273–74, doi:10.2307/4208497

Akiner, Shirin, ‘Contemporary Byelorussian Literature in Poland (1956-81)’, in Modern Language Review, 78.1 (1983), pp. 113–29, doi:10.2307/3728331

Akiner, Shirin, ‘The Syntax of the Numeral in Byelorussian, Compared with Ukrainian, Russian and Polish’, in Slavonic and East European Review, 61.1 (1983), pp. 55–68, doi:10.2307/4208614

Akiner, Shirin, ‘Byelorussian Studies’, in The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 44: Survey Year 1982, ed. by Glanville Price and David A. Wells, The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 44 (MHRA, 1984), pp. 1252–63, doi:10.2307/20867960

Akiner, Shirin, review of Maksim Bahdanovič, Aleś Harun, Źmitrok Biadula, Vera Rich, The Images Swarm Free: A Bilingual Selection of Poetry, in Slavonic and East European Review, 62.3 (1984), pp. 473–74, doi:10.2307/4208946

Akiner, Shirin, ‘Byelorussian Studies’, in The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 45: Survey Year 1983, ed. by Glanville Price and David A. Wells, The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 45 (MHRA, 1985), pp. 1000–09, doi:10.2307/20868034

Akiner, Shirin, review of Y. Ro'i, The USSR and the Muslim World: Issues in Domestic and Foreign Policy, in Slavonic and East European Review, 63.4 (1985), pp. 630–31, doi:10.2307/4209214

Akiner, Shirin, ‘Byelorussian Studies’, in The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 46: Survey Year 1984, ed. by Glanville Price and David A. Wells, The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 46 (MHRA, 1986), pp. 1075–84, doi:10.2307/20868113

Akiner, Shirin, review of Michael Mandelbaum, Central Asia and the World: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan, in Slavonic and East European Review, 74.3 (1996), pp. 564–65, doi:10.2307/4212206

Akiner, Shirin, review of Edward Allworth, Central Asia: 130 Years of Russian Dominance, A Historical Overview, in Slavonic and East European Review, 74.4 (1996), pp. 746–47, doi:10.2307/4212269

Akiner, Shirin, ‘Language: Survey of the Lexical Influence of Russian on Modern Uzbek (1870-1990)’, in Slavonic and East European Review, 75.1 (1997), pp. 1–35, doi:10.2307/4212304

Akiner, Shirin, review of Yaacov Ro'i, Islam in the Soviet Union: From World War II to Perestroika, in Slavonic and East European Review, 81.1 (2003), pp. 159–61, doi:10.2307/4213658

Akiner, Shirin, review of Wayne Dowler, Classroom and Empire: The Politics of Schooling Russia's Eastern Nationalities, 1860-1917, in Slavonic and East European Review, 82.2 (2004), pp. 361–62, doi:10.2307/4213914

Akiner, Shirin, ‘Literature: Cultural Hybridity in the Religious Literature of the Tatars of North-Eastern Europe’, in Slavonic and East European Review, 95.3 (2017), pp. 401–28, doi:10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.95.3.0401