Middle East Centre Booktalk
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Welcome to Middle East Centre Booktalk – the Oxford podcast on new books about the Middle East. These are some of the books written by members of our community, or the books our community are talking about. Tune in to follow author interviews and book chat. Every episode features a different, recently published book and is hosted by a different Oxford academic.
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The Resurrected
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May 29, 2026 |
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Constructing the Achievement State: Cultural Administration in Postrevolutionary Egypt
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May 26, 2026 |
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Yazidis on the Margins of Humanity: Internally Displaced in Iraqi Kurdistan
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May 21, 2026 |
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Out of Gaza: A Tale of Love, Exile, and Friendship
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May 07, 2026 |
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A keynote conversation with Saeb Eigner about Artists of the Middle East - 1900 to Now
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Contemporary Islamist Opposition in Morocco: Resisting Inclusion and Moderation
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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A Modern History of Syria
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Fire in Every Direction
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Order and Region Making in the Middle East
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Kingdom of Football: Saudi Arabia and the Remaking of World Soccer
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Breaking New Ground on the Global Stage: Memoirs of Kuwait’s First Woman Ambassador
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Food and Language: Rhetorical-Cultural Excavations in Arab Heritage / الطعام والكلام: حفريات بلاغية ثقافية في التراث العربي
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Safe Corridor
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Slavery, Abolition and Islam: Debating Freedom in the Islamic Tradition
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars
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May 08, 2025 |
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Understanding Syria through Syrian Voices: Refugees’ Stories of Revolution, War, and the Struggle for Home
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Genocide in Gaza
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Writing Middle Eastern Lives: Biography in Modern Arab History
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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God’s Man in Iraq: The Life and Leadership of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Tahrir, Gaza, and beyond: revolution, liberation, and praxis
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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The challenges of writing Middle East history after 7 October: from Gaza to the climate crisis
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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The Loneliest Revolution: A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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The Damascus Events Book Launch, Oxford
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May 17, 2024 |
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The United Nations and the Question of Palestine
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May 07, 2024 |
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Book Launch - Russia and the GCC 'The Case of Tatarstan's Paradiplomacy'
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Israel's Covert Diplomacy in the Middle East
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Book Launch: Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Algeria: Politics and Society from the Dark Decade to the Hirak
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Book Launch: Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the 20th-Century Middle East
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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All Necessary Measures? The United Nations and International Intervention in Libya
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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The Making of the Modern Middle East
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Making Film in Egypt
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May 18, 2021 |
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Booktalk episode 6: Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition
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Feb 07, 2021 |
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The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads
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Jan 18, 2021 |