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Ahmad Shokr, "Harvests of Liberation: Cotton, Capitalism, and the End of Empire in Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Aug 10, 2025 |
Nezar AlSayyad and Heba Safey Eldeen, "Cinematic Cairo: Egyptian Urban Modernity from Reel to Real" (American U in Cairo Press, 2022)
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Aug 07, 2025 |
Jan Dost, "Safe Corridor" (DarArab, 2025)
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Aug 04, 2025 |
Isabel Toral and Beatrice Gruendler, "An Unruly Classic: Kalīla and Dimna and Its Syriac, Arabic, and Early Persian Versions" (Brill, 2024)
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Aug 03, 2025 |
William Marx, "Libraries of the Mind" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Aug 03, 2025 |
Murad Idris, "War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jul 30, 2025 |
Bulent Gokay and Lily Hamourtziadou, "Human Costs of War: 21st Century Human (In)Security from 2003 Iraq to 2022 Ukraine" (Routledge, 2024)
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Jul 28, 2025 |
Ünver Rüstem, "Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Jul 27, 2025 |
Ilana Rosen, "Israeli Documentary Poetry: Coming of Age with the State" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
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Jul 24, 2025 |
Linda Quiquivix, "Palestine 1492: A Report Back" (Wild Ox Books, 2024)
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Jul 23, 2025 |
Ory Amitay, "Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth and History" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Jul 22, 2025 |
Marc Herman, "After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World" (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
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Jul 21, 2025 |
M’hamed Oualdi, "A Slave between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Jul 20, 2025 |
Lily Hamourtziadou, "Body Count: The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths in Iraq" (Bristol UP, 2021)
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Jul 16, 2025 |
Alissa Walter, "Contested City: Citizen Advocacy and Survival in Modern Baghdad" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Jul 16, 2025 |
Charles Glass, "Syria: Civil War to Holy War?" (OR Books, 2024)
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Jul 14, 2025 |
Yardena Schwartz, "Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict" (Union Square, 2024)
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Jul 11, 2025 |
Siri Schwabe, "Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Jul 09, 2025 |
Fadi Zaghmout, "The Man of Middling Height" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
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Jul 08, 2025 |
Pamela Karimi, "Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran" (Leuven UP, 2024)
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Jul 04, 2025 |
Michael Cook, "A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Jul 02, 2025 |
Sam Dalrymple, "Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia" (HarperCollins UK, 2025)
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Jul 02, 2025 |
Shayna M. Silverstein, "Fraught Balance: The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria" (Wesleyan UP, 2024)
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Jun 27, 2025 |
Nubar Hovsepian, "Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual" (AUC Press, 2025)
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Jun 26, 2025 |
Vali Nasr, "Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Jun 25, 2025 |
Nicole Watts, "Republic of Dreams: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Jun 24, 2025 |
Yasmine Motawy, "Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society" (AUC Press, 2025)
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Jun 20, 2025 |
Laura Frances Goffman, "Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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Jun 19, 2025 |
Chinese in Qatar
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Jun 18, 2025 |
Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab, "Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Jun 11, 2025 |
Sabrin Hasbun, "Crossing: A Love Story Between Italy and Palestine" (Footnote Press, 2025)
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Jun 06, 2025 |
Dave Margoshes, "A Simple Carpenter" (Radiant Press, 2024)
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Jun 06, 2025 |
Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, "The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Jun 03, 2025 |
Zohra Saed and Sahar Muradi, "One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature" (U Arkansas Press, 2010)
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May 31, 2025 |
Jonas Elbousty and Roger Allen, "Reading Mohamed Choukri's Narratives: Hunger in Eden" (Routledge, 2024)
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May 30, 2025 |
Chris Aslan, "Unravelling the Silk Road: Travels and Textiles in Central Asia" (Icon Books, 2024)
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May 29, 2025 |
Toine van Teeffelen, "The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine: A Memoir" (Wipf and Stock, 2024)
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May 23, 2025 |
Derek J. Penslar, "Zionism: An Emotional State" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
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May 21, 2025 |
Timothy A. Lee, "The Syriac Peshiṭta Bible: The New Testament" (Gorgias Press, 2023)
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May 19, 2025 |
Todd Reisz, "Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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May 18, 2025 |
David Kraemer, "Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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May 17, 2025 |
Marc Shapiro, "Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook" (Littman Library, 2025)
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May 14, 2025 |
Daniel Behar, "Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
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May 14, 2025 |
Brendan Haug, "Garden of Egypt: Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyūm" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
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May 06, 2025 |
Simon Mayall, "The House of War: The Struggle Between Christendom and the Caliphate" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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May 03, 2025 |
The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History
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Apr 13, 2025 |
Orit Rozin, "Emotions of Conflict, Israel 1949-1967" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Apr 07, 2025 |
Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard, "Spanish National Identity, Colonial Power, and the Portrayal of Muslims and Jews During the Rif War (1909-27)" (Boydell & Brewer, 2021)
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Apr 06, 2025 |
Sinem Arcak Casale, "Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Apr 01, 2025 |
Letizia Osti, "History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2024)
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Mar 31, 2025 |
Yaron Ayalon, "Ottoman Jewry: Leadership, Charity, and Literacy" (Brill, 2024)
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Mar 30, 2025 |
Marc Owen Jones, "Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media" (Hurst/Oxford UP, 2021)
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Mar 29, 2025 |
Palestinian Futurism with Leila Abdelrazaq
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Mar 28, 2025 |
"Imprisoning a Revolution: Writings from Egypt's Incarcerated" (U California Press, 2025)
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Mar 26, 2025 |
Sureshkumar Muthukumaran, "The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean" (U California Press, 2023)
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Mar 23, 2025 |
Ahmed M. Abozaid, "Counterterrorism Strategies in Egypt: Permanent Exceptions in the War on Terror" (Routledge, 2021)
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Mar 22, 2025 |
Daniela Richterova, "Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
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Mar 18, 2025 |
Sumerian History with Marc Van De Mieroop
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Mar 15, 2025 |
Catalin-Stefan Popa, "The Making of Syriac Jerusalem" (Routledge, 2023)
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Mar 14, 2025 |
Andrea Wright, "Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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Mar 14, 2025 |
Selena Wisnom, "The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Mar 13, 2025 |
Tahrir Hamdi, "Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Mar 12, 2025 |
On Barak, "Heat, a History: Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet" (U California Press, 2024)
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Mar 10, 2025 |
Kirsten L. Scheid, "Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920–1950" (Indiana UP, 2022)
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Mar 09, 2025 |
Margaret Peacock, "Frequencies of Deceit: How Global Propaganda Wars Shaped the Middle East" (U California Press, 2025)
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Mar 08, 2025 |
Ibn Butlan, "The Doctors' Dinner Party: A Satirical Novella " (NYU Press, 2023)
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Mar 08, 2025 |
Nir Arielli, "The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Mar 07, 2025 |
Violent Majorities 2.3: Long-Distance Ethnonationalism Roundup (LA, AS)
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Mar 06, 2025 |
Noam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Mar 01, 2025 |
Matthew Hughes, "Britain's Pacification of Palestine" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Feb 28, 2025 |
Daniel Silverman, "Seeing Is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Feb 28, 2025 |
Yuval Ben-Bassat and Johann Büssow, "Late Ottoman Gaza: An Eastern Mediterranean Hub in Transformation" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Feb 26, 2025 |
Florence Martin, "Farida Benlyazid and Moroccan Cinema" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
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Feb 25, 2025 |
Blanche Bendahan, "Mazaltob: A Novel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
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Feb 24, 2025 |
Malka Z. Simkovich, "Letters from Home: The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity" (Eisenbrauns, 2024)
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Feb 23, 2025 |
Amit Levy, "A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
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Feb 21, 2025 |
Peter Wien, "Arab Nationalism: The Politics of History and Culture in the Modern Middle East" (Routledge, 2017)
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Feb 19, 2025 |
Emine Ö Evered, "Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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Feb 19, 2025 |
Marcel Elias, "English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Feb 16, 2025 |
Erik Freas, "Palestine's Christians and the Nationalist Cause: The Late Ottoman and Mandatory Periods" (Routledge, 2024)
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Feb 16, 2025 |
David Graves, "New Realism in Contemporary Israeli Painting" (Austin Macauley, 2023)
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Feb 11, 2025 |
Parisa Vaziri, "Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran's Cinematic Archive" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
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Feb 09, 2025 |
William Gallois, "Qayrawan: The Amuletic City" (Penn State UP, 2024)
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Feb 07, 2025 |
Violent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS)
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Feb 06, 2025 |
Cyrus Ali Zargar, "The Ethics of Karbala: Myths, Modernity, and Virtues of Nobility" (Routledge, 2024)
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Feb 03, 2025 |
Elio Zarmati, "Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming of Age as a Jew of the Nile" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025)
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Feb 03, 2025 |
Christopher Burnham, "Sir Ronald Storrs: Personality and Policy in Mandate Palestine, 1917-1926" (Routledge, 2024)
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Jan 24, 2025 |
The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century
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Jan 15, 2025 |
David G. Hunter et al., "Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity: Authors, Texts, and Ideas" (Brill, 2024)
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Jan 08, 2025 |
Olga Borovaya, "The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel: Ottoman Jews at the Dawn of the Tanzimat Era" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
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Jan 05, 2025 |
The Hyphen Unites: Avi Shlaim on Arab-Jewish Life
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Jan 03, 2025 |
Robert D. Miller II, "Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021)
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Dec 31, 2024 |
Franck Salameh, "Lebanon’s Jewish Community: Fragments of Lives Arrested" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
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Dec 27, 2024 |
Anne K. Bang, "Zanzibari Muslim Moderns: Islamic Paths to Progress in the Interwar Period" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Dec 18, 2024 |
Yaacov Yadgar, "To Be a Jewish State: Zionism as the New Judaism" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Dec 16, 2024 |
Azad Essa, "Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel" (Pluto Press, 2023)
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Dec 13, 2024 |
Samuel Hodgkin, "Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Dec 12, 2024 |
Wendy Pearlman, "The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora" (Liveright, 2024)
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Dec 10, 2024 |
Persistent Pastoralism: Monuments and Settlements in the Archaeology of Dhofar
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Dec 07, 2024 |
Yochai Ataria, "Not in Our Brain: Consciousness, Body, World" (Magnes Press, 2019)
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Dec 04, 2024 |
Ibn al-Muqaffaʿs "Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice"
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Dec 02, 2024 |
Middle East on the Brink: Escalation, Diplomacy, and the Search for Stability
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Nov 24, 2024 |
Phillip Lieberman, "The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East: Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Nov 23, 2024 |
Allen James Fromherz, "The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present" (U California Press, 2024)
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Nov 21, 2024 |
Masha Kirasirova, "The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Nov 19, 2024 |
Scott J. Weiner, "Kinship, State Formation and Governance in the Arab Gulf States" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
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Nov 13, 2024 |
Lisa Nielson, "Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World: A Social History" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Nov 12, 2024 |
Amín Pérez, "Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle" (Polity Press, 2023)
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Nov 09, 2024 |
Parker Palmer on the Israel-Gaza War
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Nov 09, 2024 |
Roni Henig, "On Revival: Hebrew Literature Between Life and Death" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Nov 07, 2024 |
Doyle D. Calhoun, "The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Nov 06, 2024 |
The Failed Concepts That Brought Israel to October 7
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Nov 05, 2024 |
Avi Shlaim, "Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew" (Oneworld, 2024)
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Nov 03, 2024 |
Toni Alimi, "Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Oct 28, 2024 |
Arash Azizi, "What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom" (Oneworld, 2024)
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Oct 23, 2024 |
Emrah Yildiz, "Zainab's Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others Across Borders" (U California Press, 2024)
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Oct 22, 2024 |
Eran Ortal, "Battle Before the War: The Inside Story of the IDF's Transformation" (Dado Center, 2023)
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Oct 20, 2024 |
E. L. Gaston, "Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Oct 19, 2024 |
Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller, "Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture" (Saqi Books, 2024)
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Oct 18, 2024 |
Joseph John Viscomi, "Migration at the End of Empire: Time and the Politics of Departure Between Italy and Egypt" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Oct 18, 2024 |
Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, "Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad Ibn Qasim Al-Hajari Between Europe and North Africa" (U California Press, 2023)
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Oct 16, 2024 |
Simcha Gross, "Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Oct 15, 2024 |
Fazil Moradi, "Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
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Oct 06, 2024 |
Christopher Paul Clohessy, "Half of My Heart: The Narratives of Zaynab, Daughter of Alî" (Gorgias Press, 2020)
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Oct 06, 2024 |
Faisal Devji, "Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea" (Harvard UP, 2013)
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Oct 04, 2024 |
Julia Caterina Hartley, "Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France" (Bloomsbury. 2023)
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Oct 02, 2024 |
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Search for Identity in a Post-2013 Context
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Oct 02, 2024 |
Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, "Desert Ascetics of Egypt" (ARC Humanities Press, 2020)
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Sep 30, 2024 |
Samuel J. Hirst, "Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Sep 28, 2024 |
Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza, "Women, Households, and the Hereafter in the Qur'an: A Patronage of Piety" (Oxford UP/Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2023)
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Sep 26, 2024 |
Steve Tibble, "Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Sep 24, 2024 |
Hannan Hever, "Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War: Essays on Philology and Responsibility" (Brill, 2019)
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Sep 22, 2024 |
Seth J. Frantzman, "The October 7 War: Israel's Battle for Security in Gaza" (Wicked Son, 2024)
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Sep 18, 2024 |
Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold, "Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
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Sep 15, 2024 |
Aviad Moreno, "Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas: Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community" (Indiana UP, 2024)
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Sep 14, 2024 |
Ehaab D. Abdou, "Education, Civics, and Citizenship in Egypt: Towards More Inclusive Curricular Representations and Teaching" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
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Sep 14, 2024 |
Paul J. Kosmin, "Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire" (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Sep 07, 2024 |
Terrence G. Peterson, "Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Sep 07, 2024 |
Oren Kroll-Zeldin, "Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Sep 06, 2024 |
Dr. Alexandre Caeiro on the Politics of Islamic Law and Institutions in Qatar
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Sep 04, 2024 |
Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" (Doubleday, 2019)
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Sep 02, 2024 |
Laura Robson and Arie Dubnov, "Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separatism" (Stanford UP, 2019)
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Aug 29, 2024 |
Granada Dialogues, Part 2: On Ghosts, Nationalism, and Liberation
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Aug 28, 2024 |
Notes from the Field: A Personal View of the War on Gaza
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Aug 28, 2024 |
Michelle Tusan, "The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Aug 27, 2024 |
Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Aug 26, 2024 |
Anders Persson, "EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967-2019" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
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Aug 24, 2024 |
Rachel Kousser, "Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great" (Mariner Books, 2024)
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Aug 22, 2024 |
Granada Dialogues, Part 1: On 1492, Orientalism and Race
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Aug 21, 2024 |
Farshid Emami, "Isfahan: Architecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran" (Penn State UP, 2024)
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Aug 17, 2024 |
Abbey Stockstill, "Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib" (Penn State UP, 2024)
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Aug 16, 2024 |
Nancy E. Berg and Naomi B. Sokoloff, "Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making" (SUNY Press, 2020)
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Aug 12, 2024 |
Kenneth Atkinson, "A History of the Hasmonean State: Josephus and Beyond" (T&T Clark, 2019)
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Aug 07, 2024 |
The Politics of Translation
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Aug 07, 2024 |
Yoram Meital, "Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Aug 04, 2024 |
Iman Mersal, "Traces of Enayat" (Transit Books, 2023)
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Aug 03, 2024 |
Rachel M. Scott, "Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Aug 03, 2024 |
Shaul Magid on the Jewish Radicalism of Meir Kahane (JP, Eugene Sheppard)
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Aug 01, 2024 |
Bilge Yesil, "Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
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Jul 28, 2024 |
Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, "The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973: The USSR's Military Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict" (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Jul 28, 2024 |
Austin Knuppe, "Surviving the Islamic State: Contention, Cooperation, and Neutrality in Wartime Iraq" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Jul 26, 2024 |
World History and the Islamicate
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Jul 24, 2024 |
Arang Keshavarzian, "Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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Jul 21, 2024 |
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Jul 20, 2024 |
Özge Çelikaslan, "Archiving the Commons: Looking Through the Lens of bak.ma" (DPR Barcelona, 2024)
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Jul 19, 2024 |
Fida Jiryis, "Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family's Story of Home" (Hurst, 2022)
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Jul 18, 2024 |
Jonathan Marc Gribetz, "Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Jul 15, 2024 |
Zana Gulmohamad, "The Making of Foreign Policy in Iraq: Political Factions and the Ruling Elite" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Jul 13, 2024 |
Olga Gershenson, "New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
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Jul 13, 2024 |
Maya Wind, "Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom" (Verso, 2024)
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Jul 12, 2024 |
Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jul 12, 2024 |
Rachel Z. Feldman, "Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age: Jews, Noahides, and the Third Temple Imaginary" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
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Jul 09, 2024 |
Robert E. Jones, "Priesthood, Cult, and Temple in the Aramaic Scrolls from Qumran: Analyzing a Pre-Hasmonean Jewish Literary Tradition" (Brill, 2023)
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Jul 08, 2024 |
Samuel Dolbee, "Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jul 03, 2024 |
Travis B. Williams et al., "The Dead Sea Scrolls in Ancient Media Culture" (Brill, 2023)
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Jul 01, 2024 |
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, "An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Jun 29, 2024 |
Peter Hill, "Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East" (Oneworld Academic, 2024)
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Jun 26, 2024 |
Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī and Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh, "The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century" (NYU Press, 2019/22)
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Jun 26, 2024 |
Edward A. Alpers and Thomas F. McDow, "A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History: Ten Design Principles" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Jun 25, 2024 |
Anat Kidron and Shuli Linder Yarkony, "The Jewish Community of Acre in Mandatory Palestine: The Story of a Forgotten Community" (de Gruyter, 2024)
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Jun 18, 2024 |
Tahera Qutbuddin, trans., "Nahj al-Balāghah: The Wisdom and Eloquence of ʿAlī" (Brill, 2024)
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Jun 17, 2024 |
Andrew M. Gardner, "The Fragmentary City: Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the Urban Landscape of Doha, Qatar" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Jun 15, 2024 |
Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds
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Jun 11, 2024 |
Peter Bergamin, "The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology” (I. B. Tauris, 2019)
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Jun 10, 2024 |
Ibrahim Fraihat, "Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming a Chaotic Conflict" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
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Jun 09, 2024 |
Eugene Rogan, "The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World" (Basic Book, 2024)
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Jun 08, 2024 |
Gizem Zencirci, "The Muslim Social: Neoliberalism, Charity, and Poverty in Turkey" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
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Jun 07, 2024 |
Asaf Elia-Shalev, "Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth" (U California Press, 2024)
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Jun 07, 2024 |
Wendy Pearlman, "The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora" (Liveright, 2024)
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Jun 05, 2024 |
Naosuke Mukoyama, "Fueling Sovereignty: Colonial Oil and the Creation of Unlikely States" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Jun 05, 2024 |
Thomas Sparr, "German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighbourhood in the Holy City" (Haus Publishers, 2021)
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Jun 04, 2024 |
Sa’ed Atshan, "Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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May 29, 2024 |
Vartan Matiossian, "The Politics of Naming the Armenian Genocide: Language, History and 'Medz Yeghern'" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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May 28, 2024 |
Seyed Ali Alavi, "Iran and Palestine: Past, Present, and Future" (Routledge, 2019)
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May 27, 2024 |
Arjen F. Bakker, "The Secret of Time: Reconfiguring Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls" (Brill, 2023)
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May 23, 2024 |
Assaf Tamari, "God as Patient: The Medical Discourse of Lurianic Kabbalah" (Magnes Press, 2023)
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May 20, 2024 |
Sari Nusseibeh, "Avicenna's Al-Shifā': Oriental Philosophy" (Routledge, 2018)
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May 16, 2024 |
Lisa Bhungalia, "Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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May 15, 2024 |
José Ciro Martínez, "States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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May 15, 2024 |
What does Biden’s temporary suspension of offensive arms transfers mean for US-Israeli relations?
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May 13, 2024 |
Yasmine Ramadan, "Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
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May 12, 2024 |
Görkem Akgöz, "In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey" (Brill, 2023)
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May 12, 2024 |
Hala Auji et al., "The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)
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May 10, 2024 |
David Tal, "The Making of an Alliance: The Origins and Development of the US-Israel Relationship" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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May 08, 2024 |
Sami Hermez with Sireen Sawalha, "My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine" (Redwood Press, 2024)
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May 07, 2024 |
Salar Mameni, "Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2023)
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May 05, 2024 |
Zahra Ayubi, "Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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May 04, 2024 |
Nadine A. Sinno, "A War of Colors: Graffiti and Street Art in Postwar Beirut" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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May 02, 2024 |
Harry Pettit, "The Labor of Hope:: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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May 02, 2024 |
The Rhetoric of Crisis in Israel-Palestine: A Discussion with Amos Goldberg
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May 01, 2024 |
Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil, "The Gulf Migrant Archives in Kerala: Reading Borders and Belonging" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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May 01, 2024 |
Maha AbdelMegeed, "Literary Optics: Staging the Collective in the Nahda" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
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Apr 28, 2024 |
Tarek El-Ariss, "Water on Fire: A Memoir of War" (Other Press, 2024)
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Apr 24, 2024 |
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, "Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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Apr 23, 2024 |
M. A. R. Habib and Bruce B. Lawrence, "The Qur'an: A Verse Translation" (Liveright, 2024)
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Apr 23, 2024 |
Nora E. H. Parr, "Novel Palestine: Nation Through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah" (U California Press, 2023)
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Apr 23, 2024 |
On the History and Evolution of Zionism
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Apr 22, 2024 |
Huda J. Fakhreddine, "The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
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Apr 20, 2024 |
Ahmed M. Abozaid, "Undesired Revolution: The Arab Uprising in Egypt--A Three Level Analysis" (Brill, 2023)
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Apr 20, 2024 |
Ihsan Abdel Kouddous, "A Nose and Three Eyes" (Hoopoe, 2024)
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Apr 14, 2024 |
Jae Hee Han, "Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Apr 13, 2024 |
Cristiana Strava, "Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Apr 12, 2024 |
Robert D. Kaplan, "The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China" (Random House, 2023)
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Apr 11, 2024 |
Catholic in Palestine (with Fr Firas Abedrabbo)
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Apr 11, 2024 |
Emily Drumsta, "Ways of Seeking: The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation" (U California Press, 2024)
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Apr 09, 2024 |
Sumita Pahwa, "Politics as Worship: Righteous Activism and the Egyptian Muslim Brothers" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
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Apr 08, 2024 |
Eric Calderwood, "On Earth Or in Poems: The Many Lives of Al-Andalus" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Apr 08, 2024 |
Esra Mirze Santesso, "Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
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Apr 07, 2024 |
Annika Schmeding, "Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Apr 07, 2024 |
Loren D. Lybarger, "Palestinian Chicago: Identity in Exile" (U California Press, 2020)
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Apr 03, 2024 |
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, "Merits of the Plague" (Penguin, 2023)
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Apr 02, 2024 |
Alessandro Columbu, "Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short Story: Modernity, Authoritarianism and Gender" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)
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Mar 29, 2024 |
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, "Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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Mar 26, 2024 |
Anita R. Gohdes, "Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Mar 26, 2024 |
Rana AlMutawa, "Everyday Life in the Spectacular City: Making Home in Dubai" (U California Press, 2024)
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Mar 26, 2024 |
Laura Menin, "Quest for Love in Central Morocco: Young Women and the Dynamics of Intimate Lives" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
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Mar 23, 2024 |
Eileen Kane et al., "Russian-Arab Worlds: A Documentary History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Mar 20, 2024 |
Jörg Matthias Determann and Shoaib Ahmed Malik, "Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life: New Frontiers in Science and Religion" (I. B. Tauris, 2024)
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Mar 19, 2024 |
Yaacov Nir, "Establishment and History of the Cyprus Detention Camps for Jewish Refugees (1946-1949)" (Cambridge Scholars, 2024)
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Mar 19, 2024 |
Stephanie Chasin, "British Jews and Imperial Service: Nationalism, Pan-Islamism and Zionism in Mandate Palestine and Colonial India" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)
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Mar 17, 2024 |
Julie Kalman, "The Kings of Algiers: How Two Jewish Families Shaped the Mediterranean World During the Napoleonic Wars and Beyond" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Mar 14, 2024 |
Sofia Rehman, "Gendering the Hadith Tradition: Recentering the Authority of Aisha, Mother of the Believers" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Mar 12, 2024 |
Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013:: An Anthropological Approach
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Mar 12, 2024 |
On America’s Blind Spot Towards the Palestinians
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Mar 09, 2024 |
Alexander Christie-Miller, "To the City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
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Mar 08, 2024 |
Jonathan A. C. Brown, "Slavery and Islam" (Oneworld Academic, 2019)
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Feb 21, 2024 |
Daphna Sharfman, "Jerusalem in the Second World War" (Routledge, 2024)
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Feb 18, 2024 |
Adam Bursi, "Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
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Feb 17, 2024 |
The Future of Afghanistan: A Discussion with Kate Clark
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Feb 17, 2024 |
Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell, "Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region" (Pluto Press, 2023)
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Feb 16, 2024 |
Sarah El-Kazaz, "Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Feb 15, 2024 |
Jewish War Ethics, Ancient to Contemporary: A Conversation with Rabbi Shlomo Brody
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Feb 14, 2024 |
Amira Mittermaier, "Giving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times" (U California Press, 2019)
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Feb 12, 2024 |
Alp Yenen and Erik-Jan Zürcher, "A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments" (Leiden UP, 2023)
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Feb 05, 2024 |
Refqa Abu-Remaileh, "Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Feb 04, 2024 |
Bedross Der Matossian, "The Armenian Social Democrat Hnchakian Party: Politics, Ideology and Transnational History" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Feb 03, 2024 |
Adrian Goldsworthy, "Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry" (Basic Books, 2023)
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Jan 25, 2024 |
Nicholas Morton, "The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jan 22, 2024 |
Yitzhak Teutsch, "The Cyprus Detention Camps: The Essential Research Guide" (Cambridge Scholars, 2019)
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Jan 18, 2024 |
What Can We Learn From A Pottery Shard? Uncovering the Ancient Past Through Biblical Archeology with Professor Aren Maeir
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Jan 17, 2024 |
Geoffrey Levin, "Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jan 16, 2024 |
Karen C. Pinto, "Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
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Jan 16, 2024 |
Uri Kaufman, "Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
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Jan 15, 2024 |
Matthew Levitt, "Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad" (Yale UP, 2008)
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Jan 14, 2024 |
Rishad Choudhury, "Hajj Across Empires: Pilgrimage and Political Culture After the Mughals, 1739-1857" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jan 14, 2024 |
Jacob L. Wright, "Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and Its Origins" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jan 13, 2024 |
Judith Surkis, "Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Jan 12, 2024 |
Con Coughlin, "Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny" (Picador, 2023)
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Jan 12, 2024 |
Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, "Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History" (Routledge, 2020)
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Jan 09, 2024 |
Sara Rahnama, "The Future Is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Jan 07, 2024 |
120 A Roundup Conversation About Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism
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Jan 04, 2024 |
Adam Mestyan, "Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Jan 01, 2024 |
Ilkay Yilmaz, "Ottoman Passports: Security and Geographic Mobility, 1876-1908" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
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Dec 24, 2023 |
Devrim Adam Yavuz, "Democracy and Capitalism in Turkey: The State, Power, and Big Business" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Dec 23, 2023 |
Laila Shereen Sakr, "Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Dec 18, 2023 |
Randall Hansen, "War, Work, and Want: How the OPEC Oil Crisis Caused Mass Migration and Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Dec 16, 2023 |
Mario Baghos, "From the Ancient Near East to Christian Byzantium: Kings, Symbols, and Cities" (Cambridge Scholars, 2021)
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Dec 16, 2023 |
Troels Burchall Henningsen, "Western Intervention and Informal Politics: Simulated Statebuilding and Failed Reforms" (Routledge, 2021)
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Dec 15, 2023 |
Violent Majorities: Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism. Episode 2
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Dec 14, 2023 |
Louis-Alexandre Berg, "Governing Security After War: The Politics of Institutional Change in the Security Sector" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Dec 14, 2023 |
Abdul Galil Shaif, "South Yemen: Gateway to the World?" (Authorhouse UK, 2022)
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Dec 12, 2023 |
Yan Slobodkin, "The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Dec 11, 2023 |
Xavier Luffin, "Another Look at Congolese History: Arabic and Swahili Documents in the Belgian Archives" (Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, 2020)
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Dec 09, 2023 |
Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah et al., "Life & Legacy: A Window into Jewish Life Across the Islamic World" (U Groningen Press, 2023)
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Dec 08, 2023 |
Gregory J. Goalwin, "Borders of Belief: Religious Nationalism and the Formation of Identity in Ireland and Turkey" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
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Dec 07, 2023 |
Ibrahim Fraihat and Isak Svensson, "Conflict Mediation in the Arab World" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
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Dec 05, 2023 |
Nur Sobers-Khan et al., "Beyond Colonial Rupture: Print Culture and the Emergence of Muslim Modernity in Nineteenth-Century South Asia" (2023)
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Dec 04, 2023 |
Robert B. Rakove, "Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Dec 03, 2023 |
Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation
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Dec 02, 2023 |
Jackie Lubeck, "To The Good People of Gaza: Theatre for Young People by Jackie Lubeck and Theatre Day Productions" (Methuen Drama, 2022)
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Dec 02, 2023 |
Charlotte Al-Khalili, "Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time and Subjectivity (UCL Press, 2023)
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Nov 28, 2023 |
Dan Senor and Saul Singer, "The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
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Nov 26, 2023 |
Nader Kadhem, "Africanism: Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
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Nov 25, 2023 |
Israel, Hamas, and American Jews in a Time of War
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Nov 22, 2023 |
Jarmo T. Kotilaine, "Sustainable Prosperity in the Arab Gulf: From Miracle to Method" (Routledge, 2023)
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Nov 22, 2023 |
Providence and Power: Rabbi Meir Soloveichik on Jewish Statesmanship from King David to David Ben Gurion
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Nov 21, 2023 |
Marika Sosnowski, "Redefining Ceasefires: Wartime Order and Statebuilding in Syria" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Nov 21, 2023 |
Elizabeth M. Perego, "Humor and Power in Algeria, 1920 to 2021" (Indiana UP, 2023)
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Nov 20, 2023 |
Richard S. Ascough, "Early Christ Groups and Greco-Roman Associations: Organizational Models and Social Practices" (Cascade Books, 2022)
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Nov 16, 2023 |
Bahriye Kemal, "Writing Cyprus: Postcolonial and Partitioned Literatures of Place and Space" (Routledge, 2021)
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Nov 16, 2023 |
Shay Rabineau, "Walking the Land: A History of Israeli Hiking Trails" (Indiana UP, 2023)
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Nov 12, 2023 |
Steven Simon, "Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East" (Penguin, 2023)
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Nov 11, 2023 |
Akram Benjamin, "Cotton, Finance and Business Networks in a Globalised World: The Case of Egypt During the First half of the Twentieth Century" (2019)
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Nov 08, 2023 |
Hamas, Iran and Israel: The Perils of Overreaction
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Nov 06, 2023 |
David Alan Parnell, "Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Nov 04, 2023 |
Toby Matthiesen, "The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Nov 02, 2023 |
Paschalis Kitromilides, "Insular Destinies: Perspectives on the History and Politics of Modern Cyprus" (Routledge, 2021)
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Nov 01, 2023 |
On Wars: A Discussion with Michael Mann
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Oct 31, 2023 |
James White, "Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century: Migrant Poets between Arabia, Iran and India" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Oct 29, 2023 |
Youcef L. Soufi, "The Rise of Critical Islam: 10th-13th Century Legal Debate" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Oct 27, 2023 |
Nick Riemer, "Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine: Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
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Oct 27, 2023 |
Itamar Rabinovich, "Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, the Arabs and the Region" (Brookings Institution Press, 2023)
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Oct 25, 2023 |
The Israeli Defense Force (IDF)'s Ethical Code
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Oct 24, 2023 |
Özge Yaka, "Fighting for the River: Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles" (U California Press, 2023)
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Oct 23, 2023 |
Noa Shaindlinger, "Displacement and Erasure in Palestine: The Politics of Hope" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
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Oct 22, 2023 |
Melissa Weininger, "Beyond the Land: Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
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Oct 21, 2023 |
The Unquiet Legacy of Jewish Radical Meir Kahane
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Oct 19, 2023 |
Anna Ziajka Stanton, "The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability" (Fordham UP, 2023)
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Oct 18, 2023 |
The Gaza War in Military-Historical Perspective
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Oct 16, 2023 |
Jonathan Downs, "Discovery at Rosetta: Revealing Ancient Egypt" (American University in Cairo Press, 2020)
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Oct 15, 2023 |
Valentina Marcella, "Laughing Matters: Graphic Satire Reckoning with the 1980 Coup in Turkey" (Istituto per l’Oriente C. A. Nallino, 2022)
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Oct 12, 2023 |
Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik, "Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Oct 11, 2023 |
Rhoda Kanaaneh, "The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America" (U Texas Press, 2023)
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Oct 10, 2023 |
Gültan Kışanak, "The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics: Women Politicians Write from Prison" (Pluto Press, 2022)
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Oct 10, 2023 |
Benoît Challand, "Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Oct 09, 2023 |
Seth L. Sanders, "From Adapa to Enoch: Scribal Culture and Religious Vision in Judea and Babylonia" (Mohr Siebeck, 2017)
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Oct 06, 2023 |
Zeynep K. Korkman, "Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Oct 05, 2023 |
Katrin Nahidi, "The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran: Modernism, Exhibitions, and Art Production" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Oct 04, 2023 |
Michelle Karnes, "Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Sep 30, 2023 |
Seema Alavi, "Sovereigns of the Sea: Omani Ambition in the Age of Empire" (India Allen Lane, 2023)
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Sep 28, 2023 |
Brian Ulrich, "The Medieval Persian Gulf" (ARC Humanities Press, 2023)
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Sep 27, 2023 |
Timur Warner Hammond, "Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul" (U California Press, 2023)
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Sep 27, 2023 |
Elyse Semerdjian, "Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Sep 20, 2023 |
Kevin Funk, "Rooted Globalism: Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries" (Indiana UP, 2022)
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Sep 20, 2023 |
Tylor Brand, "Famine Worlds: Life at the Edge of Suffering in Lebanon's Great War" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Sep 20, 2023 |
Vincent Lemire, "In the Shadow of the Wall: The Life and Death of Jerusalem's Maghrebi Quarter, 1187-1967" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Sep 19, 2023 |
Anthony Gad Bigio, "A Sephardi Turkish Patriot: Gad Franco in the Turmoil of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic" (Hamilton Books, 2023)
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Sep 17, 2023 |
Peter Adamson, "Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Sep 17, 2023 |
Pallavi Narayan, "Pamuk's Istanbul: The Self and the City" (Routledge, 2022)
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Sep 15, 2023 |
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, "Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther: Achaemenid Court Culture in the Hebrew Bible" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)
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Sep 14, 2023 |
Alma Rachel Heckman, "The Sultan's Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Sep 13, 2023 |
A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
Guillemette Crouzet, "Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
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Sep 12, 2023 |
Peter Good, "The East India Company in Persia: Trade and Cultural Exchange in the Eighteenth Century" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Sep 10, 2023 |
Muḥsin Jāsim Mūsawī, "The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Sep 10, 2023 |
Salar Abdoh, "Out of Mesopotamia" (Akashic Books, 2020)
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Sep 03, 2023 |
Davide Rodogno, "Night on Earth: A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918–1930" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Sep 02, 2023 |
Marion Holmes Katz, "Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Sep 01, 2023 |
Hamid Keshmirshekan, "The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
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Aug 30, 2023 |
Hans-Lukas Kieser, "When Democracy Died: The Middle East's Enduring Peace of Lausanne" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Aug 28, 2023 |
Alice Wilson, "Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Aug 26, 2023 |
Ari Finkelstein, "The Specter of the Jews: Emperor Julian and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity in Syrian Antioch" (U California Press, 2018)
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Aug 26, 2023 |
Lucia Carminati. "Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859-1906" (U California Press, 2023)
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Aug 24, 2023 |
Christopher Harrison, "Genocidal Conscription: Drafting Victims and Perpetrators Under the Guise of War" (Lexington Books, 2023)
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Aug 15, 2023 |
Simon Mills, "A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship Between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1760" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Aug 13, 2023 |
Karen E. Rignall, "An Elusive Common: Land, Politics, and Agrarian Rurality in a Moroccan Oasis" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Aug 12, 2023 |
Zahi Zalloua, "Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Aug 11, 2023 |
Yoni Furas, "Educating Palestine: Teaching and Learning History Under the Mandate" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Aug 07, 2023 |
Melis Hafez, "Inventing Laziness: The Culture of Productivity in Late Ottoman Society" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Aug 04, 2023 |
Rudi Matthee, "Angels Tapping at the Wine-Shop's Door: A History of Alcohol in the Islamic World" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Aug 03, 2023 |
Yonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Jul 29, 2023 |
Melissa Gatter, "Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency" (American University in Cairo Press, 2023)
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Jul 28, 2023 |
Andrew Quilty, "August in Kabul: America's Last Days in Afghanistan" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Jul 24, 2023 |
Lea Taragin-Zeller, "The State of Desire: Religion and Reproductive Politics in the Promised Land" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Jul 24, 2023 |
Oyman Başaran, "Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey" (U Texas Press, 2023)
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Jul 23, 2023 |
Ilkim Büke Okyar, "Arabs in Turkish Political Cartoons, 1876-1950: National Self and Non-National Other" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
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Jul 22, 2023 |
Amir Sedaghat, "Translating Rumi Into the West: A Linguistic Conundrum and Beyond" (Routledge, 2023)
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Jul 21, 2023 |
Robert Hillenbrand, "The Great Mongol Shahnameh" (Hali Publications et al., 2022)
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Jul 20, 2023 |
Alan Mikhail, "My Egypt Archive" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jul 14, 2023 |
Joseph Sassoon, "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire" (Pantheon, 2022)
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Jul 12, 2023 |
Leslie Turnberg, "Mandate: The Palestine Crucible, 1919-1939" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2021)
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Jul 12, 2023 |
Hassan S. Khalilieh, "Islamic Law of the Sea: Freedom of Navigation and Passage Rights in Islamic Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Jul 12, 2023 |
Liana Saif et al., "Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice" (Brill, 2020)
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Jul 10, 2023 |
Daniel Boyarin, "The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jul 07, 2023 |
Lia Brozgal and Rebecca Glasberg, eds., "A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Collection of Stories Curated by Lela Sebbar" (U California Press, 2023)
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Jul 04, 2023 |
Chris Wickham, "The Donkey and the Boat: Reinterpreting the Mediterranean Economy, 950-1180" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jul 03, 2023 |
Samuel Helfont, "Iraq Against the World: Saddam, America, and the Post-Cold War Order" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 30, 2023 |
Afghanistan-Pakistan Relations: A Clash of Identities?
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Jun 30, 2023 |
Kaya Sahin, "Peerless Among Princes: The Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 29, 2023 |
David E. Kelly, "First Fights in Fallujah: Marines During Operation Vigilant Resolve, in Iraq, April 2004" (Casemate, 2023)
|
Jun 28, 2023 |
David Wenham, "Jesus in Context: Making Sense of the Historical Figure" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
|
Jun 27, 2023 |
Mongol Nomadism, Mongol Identity, and the Fall of the Mongol Empire
|
Jun 25, 2023 |
Anne Irfan, "Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System" (Columbia UP, 2023)
|
Jun 24, 2023 |
Orit Avishai, "Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel" (NYU Press, 2023)
|
Jun 18, 2023 |
Gabriel Schwake, "Dwelling on the Green Line" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
|
Jun 17, 2023 |
Nora Barakat, "Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire" (Stanford UP, 2023)
|
Jun 16, 2023 |
Marielle Risse, "Houseways in Southern Oman" (Routledge, 2022)
|
Jun 15, 2023 |
Nicholas W. S. Smith, "Colonial Chaos in the Southern Red Sea" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
|
Jun 12, 2023 |
Rumi, "Gold" (New York Review of Books, 2022)
|
Jun 10, 2023 |
Tessa Farmer, "Well Connected: Everyday Water Practices in Cairo" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
|
Jun 08, 2023 |
Hiking Trails, Sustainable Tourism, and Bedouin Heritage
|
Jun 07, 2023 |
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, "Nur Baba: A Sufi Novel of Late Ottoman Istanbul" (Routledge, 2023)
|
Jun 06, 2023 |
Nora Barakat, "Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire" (Stanford UP, 2023)
|
Jun 06, 2023 |
Monika Raesch, "Abbas Kiarostami: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
|
Jun 04, 2023 |
James H. Meyer, "Red Star over the Black Sea: Nazim Hikmet and His Generation" (Oxford UP, 2023)
|
Jun 03, 2023 |
Hilary Frances Aked, "Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity" (Verso, 2023)
|
May 30, 2023 |
Anne Gerritsen and Burton Cleetus, "Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
|
May 29, 2023 |
Martyrs in Mosul: A Conversation on Christian Persecution with Father Benedict Kiely
|
May 28, 2023 |
Max Weiss, "Revolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Ba'thist Syria" (Stanford UP, 2022)
|
May 28, 2023 |
Jessica M. Marglin, "The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship Across the Modern Mediterranean" (Princeton UP, 2022)
|
May 27, 2023 |
Burkhard Schnepel and Julia Verne, "Cargoes in Motion: Materiality and Connectivity across the Indian Ocean" (Ohio UP, 2022)
|
May 27, 2023 |
Aomar Boum, "Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2023)
|
May 26, 2023 |
Daniel Martin Varisco, "Seasonal Knowledge and the Almanac Tradition in the Arab Gulf" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
|
May 23, 2023 |
Natalie Koch, "Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia" (Verso, 2023)
|
May 22, 2023 |
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, "A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War" (Knopf, 2023)
|
May 22, 2023 |
Philip Gooding, "Droughts, Floods, and Global Climatic Anomalies in the Indian Ocean World" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
|
May 22, 2023 |
Mark LeVine, "We'll Play Till We Die: Journeys Across a Decade of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World" (U California Press, 2022)
|
May 19, 2023 |
Algeria and France: Grievances and the Effects of Decolonialism
|
May 18, 2023 |
Daniel Gordis, "Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams?" (Ecco Press, 2023)
|
May 17, 2023 |
Claudia Liebelt, "Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
|
May 14, 2023 |
Oded Zinger, "Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
|
May 11, 2023 |
Hosam A. Ibrahim Elzembely and Emad El-Din Aysha, "Arab and Muslim Science Fiction" (McFarland, 2022)
|
May 10, 2023 |
Laetitia Nanquette, "Iranian Literature After the Islamic Revolution: Production and Circulation in Iran and the World" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
|
May 06, 2023 |
Gönül Tol, "Erdoğan's War: A Strongman's Struggle at Home and in Syria" (Oxford UP, 2023)
|
May 05, 2023 |
Brahim El Guabli, "Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence" (Fordham UP, 2023)
|
Apr 30, 2023 |
Teena U. Purohit, "Sunni Chauvinism and the Roots of Muslim Modernism" (Princeton UP, 2023)
|
Apr 28, 2023 |
Awad Halabi, "Palestinian Rituals of Identity: The Prophet Moses Festival in Jerusalem, 1850-1948" (U Texas Press, 2023)
|
Apr 23, 2023 |
Imprisoned in Iran: A Conversation with Wang Xiyue
|
Apr 22, 2023 |
Barak S. Cohen, "For Out of Babylonia Shall Come Torah and the Word of the Lord from Nehar Peqod" (Brill, 2017)
|
Apr 21, 2023 |
Barak S. Cohen, "The Legal Methodology of Late Nehardean Sages in Sasanian Babylonia" (Brill, 2011)
|
Apr 20, 2023 |
Alexander Jabbari, "The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
|
Apr 16, 2023 |
The Future of Antisemitism: A Discussion with Dave Rich
|
Apr 15, 2023 |
Chas Smith, "Reports from Hell" (Rare Bird Books, 2020)
|
Apr 13, 2023 |
Jennifer Lynn Kelly, "Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine" (Duke UP, 2023)
|
Apr 09, 2023 |
Amahl Bishara, "Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression" (Stanford UP, 2022)
|
Apr 09, 2023 |
Jonathan A. C. Brown, "Islam and Blackness" (Oneworld Academic, 2022)
|
Apr 07, 2023 |
Eric Alterman, "We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel" (Basic Book, 2022)
|
Mar 30, 2023 |
Sara Koplik, "A Political and Economic History of the Jews of Afghanistan" (Brill, 2015)
|
Mar 30, 2023 |
Jill Jarvis, "Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony" (Duke UP, 2021)
|
Mar 26, 2023 |
Jacob Norris, "The Lives and Deaths of Jubrail Dabdoub: Or, How the Bethlehemites Discovered Amerka" (Stanford UP, 2023)
|
Mar 25, 2023 |
Mejdulene Bernard Shomali, "Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives" (Duke UP, 2023)
|
Mar 17, 2023 |
Aaron Rock-Singer, "In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East" (U California Press, 2022)
|
Mar 17, 2023 |
Hilary Falb Kalisman, "Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2022)
|
Mar 15, 2023 |
Mohamed Tonsy, "You Must Believe in Spring" (Hajar Press, 2022)
|
Mar 14, 2023 |
Joseph W. Peterson, "Sacred Rivals: Catholic Missions and the Making of Islam in Nineteenth-Century France and Algeria" (Oxford UP, 2022)
|
Mar 14, 2023 |
Ali Mozaffari and Nigel Westbrook, "Development, Architecture, and the Formation of Heritage in Late Twentieth-Century Iran" (Manchester UP, 2020)
|
Mar 08, 2023 |
The Future of the Silk Road: A Discussion with Tim Winters
|
Mar 07, 2023 |
William Carruthers, "Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology" (Cornell UP, 2022)
|
Mar 05, 2023 |
Shivan Mahendrarajah, "A History of Herat: From Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
|
Mar 05, 2023 |
Seema Golestaneh, "Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran" (Duke UP, 2022)
|
Mar 03, 2023 |
Melvyn P. Leffler, "Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq" (Oxford UP, 2023)
|
Feb 28, 2023 |
Sabri Ciftci et al., "Beyond Piety and Politics: Religion, Social Relations, and Public Preferences in the Middle East and North Africa" (Indiana UP, 2022)
|
Feb 27, 2023 |
Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt: A Conversation with Andrew Simon
|
Feb 27, 2023 |
Amanda Podany, "Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East" (Oxford UP, 2022)
|
Feb 25, 2023 |
Sarah M. Zaides, "Tevye's Ottoman Daughter: Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews at the End of Empire" (Libra Kitap, 2022)
|
Feb 24, 2023 |
Digging for Answers: The Archaeology of Jerusalem and the Politics of Archaeology
|
Feb 23, 2023 |
Oren Kessler, "Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
|
Feb 21, 2023 |
John D. Hosler, "Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace" (Yale UP, 2022)
|
Feb 16, 2023 |
Daniel Lasker, "Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism" (Littman Library, 2022)
|
Feb 14, 2023 |
Jessica Barnes, "Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt" (Duke UP, 2022)
|
Feb 10, 2023 |
Gabriel Glickman, "US-Egypt Diplomacy Under Johnson: Nasser, Komer, and the Limits of Personal Diplomacy" (Bloombury, 2021)
|
Feb 05, 2023 |
Gyan Prakash and Jeremy Adelman, "Inventing the Third World: In Search of Freedom for the Postwar Global South" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
|
Feb 05, 2023 |
M. M. Silver, "The History of Galilee, 1538-1949" (Lexington Books, 2022)
|
Feb 04, 2023 |
Spencer D. Segalla, "Empire and Catastrophe: Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
|
Feb 04, 2023 |
Discordia Revisited: The Concordia Netanyahu Riot of 2002
|
Feb 01, 2023 |
Meir M. Bar-Asher, "Jews and the Qur'an" (Princeton UP, 2022)
|
Feb 01, 2023 |
Yonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)
|
Feb 01, 2023 |
Greg Brew, "Petroleum and Progress in Iran: Oil, Development, and the Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
|
Jan 31, 2023 |
The Mesopotamian Connection: Comparing the Bible to Other Literature of the Ancient Near East
|
Jan 30, 2023 |
George Anton Kiraz, "Water the Willow Tree: Memoirs of a Bethlehem Boyhood" (Gorgias Press, 2022)
|
Jan 29, 2023 |
Mitri Raheb, "The Politics of Persecution: Middle Eastern Christians in an Age of Empire" (Baylor UP, 2021)
|
Jan 29, 2023 |
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, "Beautiful, Gruesome, and True: Artists at Work in the Face of War" (Columbia Global Reports, 2022)
|
Jan 29, 2023 |
David S. Painter and Gregory Brew, "The Struggle for Iran: Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951-1954" (UNC Press, 2023)
|
Jan 28, 2023 |
Kobi Peled, "Words Like Daggers: The Political Poetry of the Negev Bedouin" (Brill, 2022)
|
Jan 27, 2023 |
Mostafa Minawi, "Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire" (Stanford UP, 2022)
|
Jan 23, 2023 |
Contextualizing the Iranian Protests: The Role of Women in Leading the Change
|
Jan 23, 2023 |
Youshaa Patel, "The Muslim Difference: Defining the Line Between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present" (Yale UP, 2023)
|
Jan 20, 2023 |
Dalal Abo El Seoud, "Fish, Milk, Tamarind: A Book of Egyptian Arabic Food Expressions" (American U in Cairo Press, 2022)
|
Jan 18, 2023 |
Marlene Schäfers, "Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
|
Jan 16, 2023 |
Elia Meghnagi, "Escape from Benghazi: Diary of an Imposter" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2022)
|
Jan 15, 2023 |
Aaron Berman, "America's Arab Nationalists: From the Ottoman Revolution to the Rise of Hitler" (Routledge, 2022)
|
Jan 13, 2023 |
Wout J. van Bekkum, "The Religious Poetry of El'azar Ben Ya'aqov Ha-Bavli (Baghdad, 13th C.)" (Brill, 2022)
|
Jan 12, 2023 |
Roma in the Medieval Islamic World
|
Jan 08, 2023 |
Bordering the Bedouin
|
Jan 07, 2023 |
Peter Hudis, "Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades" (Pluto Press, 2015)
|
Jan 07, 2023 |
Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Mediterranean
|
Jan 06, 2023 |
The Bedouin and the Formation of Iraq's National Borders
|
Jan 05, 2023 |
Rock Art in the Nomadic Landscape of the Black Desert
|
Jan 04, 2023 |
The Future of Iranian Resistance: A Discussion with Azadeh Moaveni
|
Jan 04, 2023 |
The 'Queens of the Arabs' during the Neo-Assyrian Period
|
Jan 03, 2023 |
Iraqi Bedouin and Intangible Cultural Heritage
|
Jan 02, 2023 |
Nomads in the Bible
|
Dec 31, 2022 |
Samsi, Queen of the Arabs
|
Dec 30, 2022 |
The Ancient Arabs
|
Dec 29, 2022 |
Eren Duzgun, "Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations: Revisiting Turkish Modernity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
|
Dec 28, 2022 |
Ron Kronish, "Profiles in Peace: Voices of Peacebuilders in the Midst of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" (2022)
|
Dec 27, 2022 |
Ruth Tsoffar, "Life in Citations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture" (Routledge, 2019)
|
Dec 25, 2022 |
Andreas Guidi, "Generations of Empire: Youth from Ottoman to Italian Rule in the Mediterranean" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
|
Dec 22, 2022 |
Pamela Karimi, "Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice" (Stanford UP, 2022)
|
Dec 22, 2022 |
Geoff Harkness, "Changing Qatar: Culture, Citizenship, and Rapid Modernization" (NYU Press, 2020)
|
Dec 21, 2022 |
Muhammet Koçak, "Turkey-Russia Relations in the Twenty-First Century: Cooperation and Competition Amid Systemic Turbulence" (Lexington, 2022)
|
Dec 19, 2022 |
Munira Khayyat, "A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon" (U California Press, 2022)
|
Dec 18, 2022 |
Amal Sachedina, "Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern: The Politics of Time in the Sultanate of Oman" (Cornell UP, 2021)
|
Dec 17, 2022 |
Jamil Jan Kochai, "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories" (Viking, 2022)
|
Dec 08, 2022 |
Frederic C. Hof, "Reaching for the Heights: The Inside Story of a Secret Attempt to Reach a Syrian-Israeli Peace" (USIP, 2022)
|
Dec 08, 2022 |
On "1001 Nights"
|
Dec 06, 2022 |
Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, "Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934-1950" (Stanford UP, 2022)
|
Dec 06, 2022 |
Nicholas Morton, "The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East" (Basic Books, 2022)
|
Dec 05, 2022 |
Gabriel Polley, "Palestine in the Victorian Age: Colonial Encounters in the Holy Land" (I. B. Tauris, 2022)
|
Dec 05, 2022 |
Protests in Iran: Maybe not the Tocqueville Paradox
|
Dec 05, 2022 |
Nadim Bawalsa, "Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return Before 1948" (Stanford UP, 2022)
|
Dec 04, 2022 |
Shaul Bartal and Nesya Rubinstein-Shemer, "Hamas and Ideology: Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qara?awi on the Jews, Zionism and Israel" (Routledge, 2017)
|
Dec 04, 2022 |
Edmund Hayes, "Agents of the Hidden Imam: Forging Twelver Shi‘ism, 850-950 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
|
Dec 03, 2022 |
Burleigh Hendrickson, "Decolonizing 1968: Transnational Student Activism in Tunis, Paris, and Dakar" (Cornell UP, 2022)
|
Dec 03, 2022 |
Yahia Shawkat, "Egypt's Housing Crisis: The Shaping of Urban Space" (American U in Cairo Press, 2020)
|
Dec 02, 2022 |
Jillian Schwedler, "Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent" (Stanford UP, 2022)
|
Nov 30, 2022 |
Fida Jiryis, "The Cage" (Pardes, 2022)
|
Nov 24, 2022 |
Travis Zadeh, "Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos" (Harvard UP, 2023)
|
Nov 24, 2022 |
Beatrice Forbes Manz, "Nomads in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
|
Nov 21, 2022 |
Alda Benjamen, "Assyrians in Modern Iraq: Negotiating Political and Cultural Space" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
|
Nov 21, 2022 |
Eric Vanden Eykel, "The Magi: Who They Were, How They've Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate" (Fortress Press, 2022)
|
Nov 21, 2022 |
Eric Tagliocozzo, "In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama" (Princeton UP, 2022)
|
Nov 17, 2022 |
Ahmad Al-Jallad, "The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia: A Reconstruction Based on the Safaitic Inscriptions" (Brill, 2022)
|
Nov 17, 2022 |
Mark D. Calder, "Bethlehem's Syriac Christians: Self, Nation and Church in Dialogue and Practice" (Gorgias Press, 2017)
|
Nov 16, 2022 |
Nile Green, "The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London" (Princeton UP, 2015)
|
Nov 14, 2022 |
Francesca Stavrakopoulou, "God: An Anatomy" (Knopf, 2022)
|
Nov 14, 2022 |
Jan Selby et al., "Divided Environments: An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
|
Nov 11, 2022 |
John Darnell and Colleen Darnell, "Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
|
Nov 11, 2022 |
On Edward Said's "Orientalism"
|
Nov 08, 2022 |
Peter Adamson, "Don't Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy" (U Notre Dame Press, 2022)
|
Nov 04, 2022 |
Alan Verskin, "A Vision of Yemen: The Travels of a European Orientalist and His Native Guide--a Translation of Hayyim Habshush's Travelogue" (Stanford UP, 2019)
|
Oct 31, 2022 |
Ágúst Magnússon, "Kierkegaard and Eastern Orthodox Thought: A Comparative Philosophical Analysis" (Gorgias Press, 2019)
|
Oct 28, 2022 |
Sanaa Alimia, "Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
|
Oct 28, 2022 |
Jamie Allinson, "The Age of Counter-Revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
|
Oct 27, 2022 |
Michael Francis Laffan, "Under Empire: Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World, 1775–1945" (Columbia UP, 2022)
|
Oct 24, 2022 |
Yohanan Friedmann, "Messianic Ideas and Movements in Sunni Islam" (Oneworld Academic, 2022)
|
Oct 22, 2022 |
Thomas E. Burman et al., "The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650-1650" (U California Press, 2022)
|
Oct 21, 2022 |
Agha Bayramov, "Constructive Competition in the Caspian Sea Region" (Routledge, 2022)
|
Oct 20, 2022 |
Faleeha Hassan, "War and Me" (Amazon Crossing, 2022)
|
Oct 20, 2022 |
Mona El-Ghobashy, "Bread and Freedom: Egypt's Revolutionary Situation" (Stanford UP, 2021)
|
Oct 18, 2022 |
Deniz Yonucu, "Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul" (Cornell UP, 2022)
|
Oct 13, 2022 |
Salim Tamari et al., "Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine" (U California Press, 2022)
|
Oct 13, 2022 |
Eran Kaplan, "Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
|
Oct 11, 2022 |
The Future of the Taliban: A Discussion with Ahmed Rashid
|
Oct 11, 2022 |
René Provost, "Rebel Courts: The Administration of Justice by Armed Insurgents" (Oxford UP, 2021)
|
Oct 06, 2022 |
Emily Jane O'Dell, "The Gift of Rumi: Experiencing the Wisdom of the Sufi Master" (St. Martin's Essentials, 2022)
|
Oct 05, 2022 |
Elise Massicard, "Street-Level Governing: Negotiating the State in Urban Turkey" (Stanford UP, 2022)
|
Oct 04, 2022 |
On Abd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī's "Indications of Inimitability"
|
Oct 04, 2022 |
Erin A. Snider, "Marketing Democracy: The Political Economy of Democracy Aid in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP. 2022)
|
Oct 03, 2022 |
Bob Brier, "Tutankhamun and the Tomb That Changed the World" (Oxford UP, 2022)
|
Oct 03, 2022 |
Reeva Spector Simon, "The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa: The Impact of World War II" (Routledge, 2019)
|
Sep 28, 2022 |
Andreas Hackl, "The Invisible Palestinians: The Hidden Struggle for Inclusion in Jewish Tel Aviv" (Indiana UP, 2022)
|
Sep 27, 2022 |
Peter Adamson, "Philosophy in the Islamic World: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 3" (Oxford UP, 2019)
|
Sep 23, 2022 |
Dario Miccoli, "A Sephardi Sea: Jewish Memories Across the Modern Mediterranean" (Indiana UP, 2022)
|
Sep 22, 2022 |
Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi, "Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine" (Routledge, 2021)
|
Sep 19, 2022 |
Sara Ronis, "Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia" (U California Press, 2022)
|
Sep 19, 2022 |
Corinne E. Blackmer, "Queering Anti-Zionism: Academic Freedom, LGBTQ Intellectuals, and Israel/Palestine Campus Activism" (Wayne State UP, 2022)
|
Sep 19, 2022 |
Kimberley Czajkowski and Benedikt Eckhardt, "Herod in History: Nicolaus of Damascus and the Augustan Context" (Oxford UP, 2021)
|
Sep 12, 2022 |
Jonathan Wyrtzen, "Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East" (Columbia UP, 2022)
|
Sep 09, 2022 |
L. L. Wynn and Angel M. Foster, "Sex in the Middle East and North Africa" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
|
Sep 08, 2022 |
Tilde Rosmer, "The Islamic Movement in Israel" (U Texas Press, 2022)
|
Sep 07, 2022 |
Dylan Baun, "Winning Lebanon: Youth Politics, Populism, and the Production of Sectarian Violence, 1920–1958" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
|
Sep 02, 2022 |
Matthew Teller, "Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City" (Other Press, 2022)
|
Sep 01, 2022 |
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour, "Minority Of One: The Unchaining of an Arab Mind" (2020)
|
Aug 30, 2022 |
Shaul Adar, "On the Border: The Rise and Decline of the Most Political Club in the World" (Pitch Publishing, 2022)
|
Aug 29, 2022 |
Greg Woolf, "The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
|
Aug 29, 2022 |
Kareem Rabie, "Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank" (Duke UP, 2021)
|
Aug 26, 2022 |
Philip Hollander, "From Schlemiel to Sabra: Zionist Masculinity and Palestinian Hebrew Literature" (Indiana UP, 2019)
|
Aug 25, 2022 |
“Returned to Zero”: The Case for Reparations to Civilians in Yemen
|
Aug 24, 2022 |
Yael Halevi-Wise, "The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua" (Penn State UP, 2020)
|
Aug 24, 2022 |
Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza, "An Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries (vol. 2): On Women" (Oxford UP, 2022)
|
Aug 19, 2022 |
Hussein Banai, "Hidden Liberalism: Burdened Visions of Progress in Modern Iran" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
|
Aug 18, 2022 |
On T. E. Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
|
Aug 17, 2022 |
Sevgi Adak, "Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: State, Society and Gender in the Early Republic" (I. B. Tauris, 2022)
|
Aug 12, 2022 |
Helen Pfeifer, "Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands" (Princeton UP, 2022)
|
Aug 11, 2022 |
Letters from Herzl: Settler Colonialism at work in Palestine
|
Aug 09, 2022 |
Kim Haines-Eitzen, "Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks—and What It Can Teach Us" (Princeton UP, 2022)
|
Aug 08, 2022 |
Jason A. Staples, "The Idea of 'Israel' in Second Temple Judaism: A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
|
Aug 08, 2022 |
Maya Mikdashi, "Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon" (Stanford UP, 2022)
|
Aug 05, 2022 |
Emma Ashford, "Oil, the State, and War: The Foreign Policies of Petrostates" (Georgetown UP, 2022)
|
Aug 05, 2022 |
Yaniv Voller, "Second-Generation Liberation Wars" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
|
Aug 03, 2022 |
Bedross Der Matossian, "The Horrors of Adana: Revolution and Violence in the Early Twentieth Century" (Stanford UP, 2022)
|
Aug 02, 2022 |
Amy E. Grubb and Elisabeth Hope Murray, "British Responses to Genocide: The British Foreign Office and Humanitarianism in the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1923" (Routledge, 2022)
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Aug 02, 2022 |
Vanda Wilcox, "The Italian Empire and the Great War" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Aug 01, 2022 |
Ghassan Hage, "The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Jul 29, 2022 |
Hanan Hammad, "Unknown Past: Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Jul 27, 2022 |
Ali Mirsepassi, "The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, a Radical Cosmopolitan" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Jul 27, 2022 |
Robert W. Tomlinson, "The Influence of Foreign Wars on U.S. Domestic Military Policy: The Case of the Yom Kippur War" (Lexington, 2022)
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Jul 27, 2022 |
John Waterbury, "Missions Impossible: Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab World" (American U in Cairo Press, 2020)
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Jul 27, 2022 |
The Future of Al Qaeda: A Discussion with Nelly Lahoud
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Jul 26, 2022 |
The Kushnameh: The Persian Epic of Kush the Tusked
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Jul 21, 2022 |
Anne-Linda Amira Augustin, "South Yemen's Independence Struggle: Generations of Resistance" (American University in Cairo Press, 2021)
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Jul 18, 2022 |
Eray Çayli, "Victims of Commemoration: The Architecture and Violence of Confronting the Past in Turkey" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
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Jul 15, 2022 |
Matt Reingold, "Reenvisioning Israel Through Political Cartoons: Visual Discourses During the 2018-2021 Electoral Crisis" (Lexington, 2022)
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Jul 11, 2022 |
Shivan Mahendrarajah, "The Sufi Saint of Jam: History, Religion and Politics of a Sunni Shrine in Shi'i Iran" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jul 08, 2022 |
Vered Noam, "Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans: Second Temple Legends and Their Reception in Josephus and Rabbinic Literature" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Jul 06, 2022 |
Yussef El Guindi, "In a Clear Concise Arabic Tongue" (Broadway Play Publishing, 2021)
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Jul 06, 2022 |
The Future of Erdogan: A Discussion with Dimitar Bechev
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Jul 05, 2022 |
Shaul Adar, "On the Border: The Rise and Decline of the Most Political Club in the World" (Pitch Publishing, 2022)
|
Jul 05, 2022 |
Christopher Silver, "Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Jul 04, 2022 |
Yehudah Mirsky, "Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution" (Yale UP, 2014)
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Jul 04, 2022 |
Annie Tracy Samuel, "The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jul 01, 2022 |
Carla Power, "Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism" (One World, 2021)
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Jun 30, 2022 |
The Human Tragedy in Yemen
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Jun 29, 2022 |
Seán William Gannon, "The Irish Imperial Service: Policing Palestine and Administering the Empire, 1922–1966" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
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Jun 28, 2022 |
Matthew Teller, "Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City" (Other Press/Profile Books, 2022)
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Jun 24, 2022 |
Peter Oborne, "The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
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Jun 23, 2022 |
Karène Sanchez Summerer and Sary Zananiri, "European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948: Between Contention and Connection" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
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Jun 22, 2022 |
Joseph A. Boone, "The Homoerotics of Orientalism" (Columbia UP, 2014)
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Jun 22, 2022 |
Lori A. Allen, "A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Jun 20, 2022 |
Sarah Irving et al., "'The House of the Priest': A Palestinian Life (1885-1954)" (Brill, 2022)
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Jun 17, 2022 |
Andrew Simon, "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Jun 16, 2022 |
Matt King, "Dynasties Intertwined: The Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Jun 10, 2022 |
Lily Pearl Balloffet, "Argentina in the Global Middle East" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Jun 09, 2022 |
Guy MacLean Rogers, "For the Freedom of Zion: The Great Revolt of Jews against Romans, 66-74 CE" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Jun 08, 2022 |
Chris Gratien, "The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Jun 03, 2022 |
Matthew Mark Silver, "Zionism and the Melting Pot: Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
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Jun 03, 2022 |
Jeffrey Herf, "Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jun 02, 2022 |
Mohammed Ayoob and Danielle N. Lussier, "The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion and Politics in Muslim Societies," Second Edition (U Michigan Press, 2020)
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Jun 02, 2022 |
Andrew Leon Hanna, "25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jun 01, 2022 |
Christopher Harker, "Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine" (Duke UP, 2020)
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May 31, 2022 |
Randa Khair Abbas and Deborah Court, "The Israeli Druze Community in Transition: Between Tradition and Modernity" (Cambridge Scholars, 2021)
|
May 30, 2022 |
Katherine Pangonis, "Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
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May 30, 2022 |
Ehud Olmert, "Searching for Peace: A Memoir of Israel" (Brookings Institution, 2022) Part 2 of 2
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May 27, 2022 |
Jonathan Fulton, "Routledge Handbook on China–Middle East Relations" (Routledge, 2021)
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May 27, 2022 |
Amanda Phillips, "Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles Between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean" (U California Press, 2021)
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May 27, 2022 |
Peter Mandaville, "Wahhabism and the World: Understanding Saudi Arabia's Global Influence on Islam" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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May 25, 2022 |
Heba Gowayed, "Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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May 18, 2022 |
Maria Chiara Rioli, "A Liminal Church: Refugees, Conversions and the Latin Diocese of Jerusalem, 1946–1956" (Brill, 2020)
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May 13, 2022 |
Mahmood Kooria, "Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi'i Texts Across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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May 12, 2022 |
Louis Fishman, "Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era, 1908-1914: Claiming the Homeland" (Edinburgh UP. 2021)
|
May 10, 2022 |
Ehud Olmert, "Searching for Peace: A Memoir of Israel" (Brookings Institution, 2022)
|
May 05, 2022 |
Christine Leuenberger and Izhak Schnell, "The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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May 04, 2022 |
Moshe Shokeid, "Can Academics Change the World?: An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus" (Berghahn, 2020)
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May 03, 2022 |
Ramadan Violence: A Conversation with Ambassador Dore Gold
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Apr 27, 2022 |
Faisal H. Husain, "Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 22, 2022 |
George Warner, "The Words of the Imams: Al-Shaykh Al-Saduq and the Development of Twelver Shi'i Hadith Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
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Apr 18, 2022 |
Jeffrey Saks and Shalom Carmy, "Agnon’s Tales of the Land of Israel" (Pickwick Publications, 2021)
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Apr 14, 2022 |
Anthony Shaw and Giora Goodman, "Hollywood and Israel: A History" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Apr 08, 2022 |
Pamela Kyle Crossley, "Hammer and Anvil: Nomad Rulers at the Forge of the Modern World" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
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Apr 06, 2022 |
Paul Stephenson, "New Rome: The Empire in the East" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Apr 06, 2022 |
Scott Kugle, "Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys Across the Indian Ocean" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Apr 01, 2022 |
On Israel, Palestine, and Christian Zionism
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Mar 29, 2022 |
Jørgen Jensehaugen, "Arab-Israeli Diplomacy Under Carter: The US, Israel and the Palestinians" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Mar 29, 2022 |
Andrew Lawler, "Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City" (Doubleday, 2021)
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Mar 28, 2022 |
K. S. Batmanghelichi, "Revolutionary Bodies: Technologies of Gender, Sex, and Self in Contemporary Iran" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Mar 25, 2022 |
Jeremy Friedman, "Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Mar 24, 2022 |
The Samaritans: A Biblical People
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Mar 23, 2022 |
David H. Warren, "Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis" (Routledge, 2021)
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Mar 21, 2022 |
Natasha Iskander, "Does Skill Make Us Human?: Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Mar 21, 2022 |
Natasha Iskander, "Does Skill Make Us Human?: Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Mar 21, 2022 |
Sandy Gall, "Afghan Napoleon: The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud" (Haus Publishing, 2021)
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Mar 17, 2022 |
Peter Mandaville, "Islam and Politics" (Routledge, 2020)
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Mar 11, 2022 |
Asef Bayat, "Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring" (Harvard UP, 2021)
|
Mar 11, 2022 |
Sarah-Neel Smith, "Metrics of Modernity: Art and Development in Postwar Turkey" (U California Press, 2022)
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Mar 08, 2022 |
Gardner Thompson, "Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel" (Saqi, 2020)
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Mar 02, 2022 |
Nebil Husayn, "Opposing the Imam: The Legacy of the Nawasib in Islamic Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Feb 28, 2022 |
Anneka Lenssen, "Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria" (U California Press, 2020)
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Feb 28, 2022 |
Usaama Al-Azami, "Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama Between Democracy and Autocracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
|
Feb 23, 2022 |
Andrea Wright, "Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Feb 23, 2022 |
Manata Hashemi, "Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity" (NYU Press, 2020)
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Feb 22, 2022 |
Marc David Baer, "The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs" (Basic Books, 2021)
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Feb 17, 2022 |
Mona Kareem, "Mapping Exile," The Common magazine (Fall 2021)
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Feb 11, 2022 |
Katherine Harvey, "A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Saudi Struggle for Iraq" (Oxford UP, 2022)
|
Feb 08, 2022 |
Susan Gilson Miller, "Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2021)
|
Feb 03, 2022 |
Omar Ashour, "How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
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Jan 31, 2022 |
Jason Pack, "Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jan 25, 2022 |
Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, "Quagmire in Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Jan 19, 2022 |
David Leupold, "Embattled Dreamlands: The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish Memory" (Routledge, 2020)
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Jan 18, 2022 |
Noor Naga, “Who Writes the Arabian Gulf?” The Common magazine (Fall, 2021)
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Jan 14, 2022 |
Timothy Brennan, "Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said" (FSG, 2021)
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Jan 13, 2022 |
Gil Z. Hochberg, "Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future" (Duke UP, 2021)
|
Jan 12, 2022 |
Kyle J. Anderson, "The Egyptian Labor Corps: Race, Space, and Place in the First World War" (U Texas Press, 2021)
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Jan 12, 2022 |
Gideon Sapir and Daniel Statman, "State and Religion in Israel: A Philosophical-Legal Inquiry" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
|
Jan 11, 2022 |
Jonathan Schanzer, "Gaza Conflict 2021" (Foundation for Defense of Democracies, 2021)
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Jan 05, 2022 |
D. Fairchild Ruggles, "Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar Al-Durr" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jan 05, 2022 |
Aro Velmet, "Pasteur's Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Dec 31, 2021 |
From Linear A to Linear B: Suggestive Continuity
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Dec 29, 2021 |
Ian Almond, "World Literature Decentered: Beyond the 'West' Through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal" (Routledge, 2021)
|
Dec 27, 2021 |
E. Natalie Rothman, "The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Dec 24, 2021 |
Hatim El-Hibri, "Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure" (Duke UP, 2021)
|
Dec 24, 2021 |
Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh, "Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
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Dec 20, 2021 |
Sa'ed Atshan and Katharina Galor, "The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians" (Duke UP, 2020)
|
Dec 17, 2021 |
Jocelyn Hendrickson, "Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa" (Harvard UP, 2020)
|
Dec 17, 2021 |
Yossi Alpher, "Death Tango: Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat, and Three Fateful Days in March" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
|
Dec 17, 2021 |
Avner Wishnitzer, "As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
|
Dec 16, 2021 |
Hassan Abbas, "The Prophet's Heir: The Life of Ali ibn Abi Talib" (Yale UP, 2021)
|
Dec 15, 2021 |
Craig Jones, "The War Lawyers: The United States, Israel, and Juridical Warfare" (Oxford UP, 2020)
|
Dec 14, 2021 |
Jarmo T. Kotilaine, "Trials of Resilience: How Covid-19 Is Driving Economic Change in the Arab Gulf" (Gilgamesh, 2021)
|
Dec 13, 2021 |
James Shires, "The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East" (Hurst, 2021)
|
Dec 09, 2021 |
Pouya Alimagham, "Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
|
Dec 09, 2021 |
Till F. Paasche and James Derrick Sidaway, "Transecting Securityscapes: Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
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Dec 02, 2021 |
Bahia Shehab and Haytham Nawar, "A History of Arab Graphic Design" (AU of Cairo Press, 2020)
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Nov 26, 2021 |
Christopher Coker, "The Rise of the Civilizational State" (Polity Press, 2019)
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Nov 23, 2021 |
Beatrice Gruendler, "The Rise of the Arabic Book" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Nov 22, 2021 |
Rose Wellman, "Feeding Iran: Shi`i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic" (U California Press, 2021)
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Nov 22, 2021 |
Anders Persson, "EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967-2019" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
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Nov 18, 2021 |
David Barak-Gorodetsky, "Judah Magnes: The Prophetic Politics of a Religious Binationalist" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Nov 18, 2021 |
Amy Aisen Kallander, "Tunisia's Modern Woman: Nation-Building and State Feminism in the Global 1960s" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Nov 18, 2021 |
Ümit Kurt, "The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province" (Harvard UP, 2021)
|
Nov 17, 2021 |
Mark Mazower, "The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe" (Penguin, 2021)
|
Nov 16, 2021 |
Yair Wallach, "A City in Fragments: Urban Texts in Modern Jerusalem" (Stanford UP, 2020)
|
Nov 15, 2021 |
Andrew Farrand, "The Algerian Dream: Youth and the Quest for Dignity" (New Degree Press, 2021)
|
Nov 15, 2021 |
Conchita Anorve-Tschirgi and Ehsan Abushadi, "The Architecture of Ramses Wissa Wassef" (AU of Cairo Press, 2019)
|
Nov 11, 2021 |
Sima Shakhsari, "Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan" (Duke UP, 2020)
|
Nov 10, 2021 |
Justin K. Stearns, "Revealed Sciences: The Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Nov 05, 2021 |
Simon O'Meara, "The Ka'ba Orientations: Readings in Islam's Ancient House" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
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Nov 05, 2021 |
Aubrey L. Glazer, "Mystical Vertigo: Contemporary Kabbalistic Hebrew Poetry Dancing Over the Divide" (Academic Studies Press, 2013)
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Nov 03, 2021 |
Nada Moumtaz, "God’s Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State" (U California Press, 2021)
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Nov 02, 2021 |
Raphael Cormack, "Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring 20s" (Norton, 2021)
|
Nov 02, 2021 |
Dilek Kurban, "Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey's Kurdish Conflict" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
|
Oct 28, 2021 |
Susan Mokhberi, "The Persian Mirror: French Reflections of the Safavid Empire in Early Modern France" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Oct 28, 2021 |
Carl Rommel, "Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics" (U Texas Press, 2021)
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Oct 27, 2021 |
Andrea E. Duffy, "Nomad's Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
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Oct 25, 2021 |
Jay Rubenstein, “Apocalypse Then: The First Crusade” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Oct 22, 2021 |
Leonidas Mylonakis, "Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean: Maritime Marauders in the Greek and Ottoman Aegean" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
|
Oct 20, 2021 |
Rebecca L. Stein, "Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Oct 20, 2021 |
Dov Zakheim, "The Prince and the Emperors: The Life and Times of Rabbi Judah the Prince" (Maggid, 2021)
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Oct 15, 2021 |
Harrison Guthorn, "Capital Development: Mandate Era Amman and the Construction of the Hashemite State (1921-1946)" (Gingko Library, 2021)
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Oct 13, 2021 |
Mikhael Manekin, "The Dawn of Redemption: Ethics and Tradition in a Time of Power" (Evrit, 2021)
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Oct 13, 2021 |
Ozan Ozavci, "Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Oct 12, 2021 |
Richard J. A. McGregor, "Islam and the Devotional Object" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Oct 08, 2021 |
Henning Trüper, "Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Oct 06, 2021 |
Mirjam Lücking, "Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims" (SAPP, 2021)
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Oct 04, 2021 |
Shay Hazkani, "Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Sep 29, 2021 |
Nada Moumtaz, "God's Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State" (U California Press, 2021)
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Sep 27, 2021 |
Muhammad Umar Faruque, "Sculpting the Self: Islam, Selfhood, and Human Flourishing" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
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Sep 24, 2021 |
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, "Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture" (U Washington Press, 2021)
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Sep 23, 2021 |
Kristin Swenson, "A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible" (Oxford UP, 2021)
|
Sep 21, 2021 |
Rachel Rojanski, "Yiddish in Israel: A History" (Indiana UP, 2020)
|
Sep 20, 2021 |
Emmanuel Navon, "The Star and the Scepter: A Diplomatic History of Israel" (Jewish Publication Society, 2020)
|
Sep 16, 2021 |
Shlomit Naim Naor, "The Things We Are Not Talking About" (2020)
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Sep 13, 2021 |
Ori Yehudai, "Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
|
Sep 09, 2021 |
Edmund Richardson, "Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City Beneath the Mountains" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
|
Sep 09, 2021 |
Nile Green, “Religious Entrepreneurs?” (Open Agenda, 2021)
|
Aug 31, 2021 |
Simonetta Calderini, "Women as Imams: Classical Islamic Sources and Modern Debates on Leading Prayer" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
|
Aug 31, 2021 |
Lev Luis Grinberg, "Mo(ve)ments of Resistance: Politics, Economy and Society in Israel/Palestine, 1931-2013" (Academics Studies Press, 2014)
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Aug 31, 2021 |
Aaron Y. Zelin, "Your Sons Are at Your Service: Tunisia's Missionaries of Jihad" (Columbia UP, 2020)
|
Aug 27, 2021 |
David J. Goldberg, “Rabbi With A Cause: Israel and Identity” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Aug 27, 2021 |
Antonio Panaino: What is Zoroastrianism?
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Aug 25, 2021 |
Naphtaly Shem-Tov, "Israeli Theatre: Mizrahi Jews and Self-Representation" (Routledge, 2021)
|
Aug 25, 2021 |
Gökten Dogangün, "Gender Politics in Turkey and Russia: From State Feminism to Authoritarian Rule" (I. B. Tauris, 2019)
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Aug 23, 2021 |
Beverly A. Tsacoyianis, "Disturbing Spirits: Mental Illness, Trauma, and Treatment in Modern Syria and Lebanon" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)
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Aug 19, 2021 |
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, "ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters Along the Silk Roads" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
|
Aug 16, 2021 |
Nivi Manchanda, "Imagining Afghanistan: The History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
|
Aug 13, 2021 |
Soner Çaǧaptay, "A Sultan in Autumn: Erdogan Faces Turkey's Uncontainable Forces" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
|
Aug 12, 2021 |
Mark Farha, "Lebanon: The Rise and Fall of a Secular State under Siege" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
|
Aug 11, 2021 |
Mika Ahuvia, "On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture" (U California Press, 2021)
|
Aug 09, 2021 |
Angela Williams, "Hip Hop Harem: Women, Rap and Representation in the Middle East" (Peter Lang, 2020)
|
Aug 06, 2021 |
Heather N. Keaney, "'Uthman ibn 'Affan" (Oneworld Academic, 2020)
|
Aug 06, 2021 |
James E. Lindsay and Suleiman Mourad, "Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology" (Hackett, 2021)
|
Aug 04, 2021 |
Deanna Ferree Womack, "Protestants, Gender and the Arab Renaissance in Late Ottoman Syria" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
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Jul 29, 2021 |
Ryan J. Lynch, "Arab Conquests and Early Islamic Historiography: The Futuh Al-Buldan of Al-Baladhuri" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
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Jul 28, 2021 |
Anna Bigelow et al., "Islam Through Objects" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Jul 16, 2021 |
Cynthia J. Becker, "Blackness in Morocco: Gnawa Identity Through Music and Visual Culture" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
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Jul 16, 2021 |
David Arnovitz, "Samuel: The Making of the Monarchy, Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel" (Koren Publishers, 2021)
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Jul 14, 2021 |
Ayse Parla, "Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey" (Stanford UP, 2019)
|
Jul 07, 2021 |
Katherine Pangonis, "Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule" (Hachette, 2021)
|
Jul 01, 2021 |
Caroline Seymour-Jorn, "Creating Spaces of Hope: Young Artists and the New Imagination in Egypt" (AU in Cairo Press, 2021)
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Jun 30, 2021 |
Marie Favereau, "The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Jun 29, 2021 |
Matthew S. Gordon, "Ahmad ibn Tulun: Governor of Abbasid Egypt, 868–884" (Oneworld Academic, 2021)
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Jun 25, 2021 |
Richard Antaramian, "Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire: Armenians and the Politics of Reform in the Ottoman Empire" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Jun 24, 2021 |
Samuli Schielke, "Migrant Dreams: Egyptian Workers in the Gulf States" (AU in Cairo Press, 2020)
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Jun 22, 2021 |
ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī, "A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years" (NYU Press, 2021)
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Jun 21, 2021 |
Xenia Svetlova, "On Heels in the Middle East" (Pardes Publishing, 2020)
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Jun 16, 2021 |
Donna Stein, "The Empress and I: How an Ancient Empire Collected, Rejected and Rediscovered Modern Art" (Skira, 2021)
|
Jun 09, 2021 |
Sertaç Sehlikoglu, "Working Out Desire: Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul" (Syracuse UP, 2020)
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Jun 08, 2021 |
Samy Ayoub, "Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Hanafi Jurisprudence" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jun 04, 2021 |
Kevin M. Jones, "The Dangers of Poetry: Culture, Politics, and Revolution in Iraq" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Jun 02, 2021 |
Mikiya Koyagi, "Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Jun 01, 2021 |
Michael Sorkin and Deen Sharp, "Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope" ( American University in Cairo Press, 2021)
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May 28, 2021 |
Devi Mays, "Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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May 26, 2021 |
Heba Y. Amin, "The General's Stork" (Sternberg Press, 2020)
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May 25, 2021 |
Cary Nelson, "Not in Kansas Anymore: Academic Freedom in Palestinian Universities" (AEN, 2021)
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May 25, 2021 |
Teach-In on Sheikh Jarrah and Israel-Palestine
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May 24, 2021 |
Caterina Scaramelli, "How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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May 24, 2021 |
Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi, "The Translator of Desires: Poems" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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May 21, 2021 |
Mehr Afshan Farooqi, "Ghalib: a Wilderness at My Doorstep: A Critical Biography" (Allen Lane, 2021)
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May 20, 2021 |
Leon R. Kass, "Founding God’s Nation: Reading Exodus" (Yale UP, 2021)
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May 17, 2021 |
Jenny White, "Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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May 13, 2021 |
Robert D. Miller II, "Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021)
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May 13, 2021 |
Christine M. Philliou, "Turkey: A Past Against History" (U California Press, 2021)
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May 12, 2021 |
Hannah Barker, "That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
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May 12, 2021 |
Wazhmah Osman, "Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Local Activists" (U of Illinois Press, 2020)
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May 12, 2021 |
Eleni Kefala, "The Conquered: Byzantium and America on the Cusp of Modernity" (Dumbarton Oaks, 2021)
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May 10, 2021 |
Shibli Numani, "Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue" (Syracuse UP, 2019)
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May 07, 2021 |
Ora Szekely, et al., "Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars" (Georgetown UP, 2019)
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May 07, 2021 |
J. Andrew Bush, "Between Muslims: Religious Difference in Iraqi Kurdistan" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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May 07, 2021 |
I. M. Fuerst and B. M. Wheeler, "Words of Experience: Translating Islam with Carl W. Ernst" (Equinox, 2020)
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May 07, 2021 |
Jörg Matthias Determann, "Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World" (I. B. Tauris, 2020)
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May 05, 2021 |
Evren Savci, "Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam" (Duke UP, 2021)
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May 03, 2021 |
Ziad Elmarsafy, "Esoteric Islam in Modern French Thought: Massignon, Corbin, Jambet" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Apr 30, 2021 |
Elise K. Burton, "Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Apr 29, 2021 |
Richard Hammond, "Strangling the Axis: The Fight for Control of the Mediterranean during the Second World War" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Apr 27, 2021 |
Massoud Hayoun, "When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History" (New Press, 2019)
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Apr 21, 2021 |
Junaid Quadri, "Transformations of Tradition: Islamic Law in Colonial Modernity" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 09, 2021 |
Nicola Pratt, "Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon" (U California Press, 2020)
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Apr 07, 2021 |
Helen Zughaib and Elia Zughaib, "Stories My Father Told Me: Memories of a Childhood in Syria and Lebanon" (Cune Press, 2020)
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Apr 07, 2021 |
Smriti Srinivas et al., "Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds" (Routledge, 2020)
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Apr 02, 2021 |
Richard C. Jankowsky, "Ambient Sufism: Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Apr 02, 2021 |
Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, "The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics, and Community" (Edinburgh UP)
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Mar 30, 2021 |
Mohammad Salama, "Islam and the Culture of Modern Egypt: From the Monarchy to the Republic" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Mar 26, 2021 |
Mayte Green-Mercado, "Visions of Deliverance: Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Mar 26, 2021 |
Aaron Tugendhaft, "The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Mar 25, 2021 |
Brendan McNamara, "The Reception of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Britain: East Comes West" (Brill, 2020)
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Mar 25, 2021 |
Hoda El Shakry, "The Literary Qur'an: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb" (Fordham UP, 2019)
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Mar 24, 2021 |
Elizabeth Thompson, "How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020)
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Mar 23, 2021 |
Aaron G. Jakes, "Egypt's Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Mar 23, 2021 |
Hawraa Al Hassan, "Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba'thist State" (U Edinburgh Press, 2020)
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Mar 22, 2021 |
Laura Robson, "The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Mar 22, 2021 |
Oya Dursun-Özkanca, "Turkey–West Relations: The Politics of Intra-alliance Opposition" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Mar 22, 2021 |
Jason Thompson, "Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology" (AU of Cairo, 2018)
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Mar 19, 2021 |
Nevin Reda and Yasmin Amin, "Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice: Processes of Canonization Subversion and Change" (McGill Queens UP, 2020)
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Mar 19, 2021 |
Joshua Cole, "Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Mar 17, 2021 |
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, "Terror Epidemics: Islamophobia and the Disease Poetics of Empire" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Feb 26, 2021 |
Celene Ibrahim, "Women and Gender in the Qur'an" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Feb 19, 2021 |
Dina Danon, "The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Feb 18, 2021 |
Augustin Jomier, "Islam, réforme et colonisation: une histoire de l'ibadisme en Algérie (1882-1962)" (Sorbonne, 2020)
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Feb 17, 2021 |
Nathaniel Greenberg, "How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring: The Politics of Narrative in Egypt and Tunisia" (Edinburgh UP, 2019)
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Feb 12, 2021 |
Łukasz Stanek, "Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Feb 11, 2021 |
An Intercultural Friendship in the Context of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
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Feb 10, 2021 |
Khatchig Mouradian, "The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918" (MSU Press, 2020)
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Feb 09, 2021 |
Sara Salem, "Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Feb 09, 2021 |
N. Darshan-Leitner and S. M. Katz, "Harpoon: Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism's Money Masters" (Hachette, 2017)
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Feb 08, 2021 |
Amit Bein, "Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East: International Relations in the Interwar Period" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Feb 08, 2021 |
Michael Christo Low, "Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Jan 28, 2021 |
Catherine E. Herrold, "Delta Democracy: Pathways to Incremental Civic Revolution in Egypt and Beyond" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jan 25, 2021 |
James Pickett, "Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia" (Cornell UP, 2020)
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Jan 21, 2021 |
Becky L. Schulthies, "Channeling Moroccanness: Language and the Media of Sociality" (Fordham UP, 2020)
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Jan 20, 2021 |
Alexs Thompson, "I'll Go: War, Religion, and Coming Home, from Cairo to Kansas City" (2020)
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Jan 20, 2021 |
Bruce B. Lawrence, "The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader: Islam Beyond Borders" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Jan 15, 2021 |
H. M. E. Tagma and P. E. Lenze, "Understanding and Explaining the Iranian Nuclear 'Crisis'" (Lexington Books, 2020)
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Jan 15, 2021 |
Haggai Ram, "Intoxicating Zion: A Social History of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Jan 13, 2021 |
Lisa Wedeen, "Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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Jan 11, 2021 |
Steven Serels, "The Impoverishment of the African Red Sea Littoral, 1640–1945" (Palgrave, 2018)
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Jan 11, 2021 |
Niloofar Haeri, "Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer and Poetry in Iran" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Jan 08, 2021 |
Zeynep Kaya, "Mapping Kurdistan: Territory, Self-Determination and Nationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Jan 07, 2021 |
Jeremy Pressman, "The Sword is Not Enough: Arabs, Israelis, and the Limits of Military Force" (Manchester UP, 2020)
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Jan 07, 2021 |
Marina Rustow, "The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Jan 05, 2021 |
Adina Hoffman, "Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City" (FSG, 2017)
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Jan 04, 2021 |
Sean Anthony, "Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam" (U California Press, 2020)
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Dec 31, 2020 |
Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, "Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History" (Routledge, 2020)
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Dec 31, 2020 |
Justine Howe, "The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender" (Routledge, 2020)
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Dec 24, 2020 |
Salih Can Açıksöz, "Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey" (U California Press, 2019)
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Dec 22, 2020 |
Beatrice Nicolini, "Land and Maritime Empires in the Indian Ocean" (Educatt, 2017)
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Dec 21, 2020 |
Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages: A Discussion with Roland Betancourt
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Dec 15, 2020 |
Nazita Lajevardi, "Outsiders at Home: The Politics of American Islamophobia" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Dec 14, 2020 |
Anne K. Bang, "Islamic Sufi Networks in the Western Indian Ocean (c.1880-1940): Ripples of Reform" (Brill, 2014)
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Dec 03, 2020 |
Diana Darke, "Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe" (Hurst, 2020)
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Dec 03, 2020 |
David Rundell, "Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads" (I. B. Tauris, 2020)
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Nov 25, 2020 |
J. E. Peterson, "The Emergence of the Gulf States: Studies in Modern History" (Bloomsbury, 2016)
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Nov 23, 2020 |
Antonia Bosanquet, "Minding their Place: Space and Religious Hierarchy in Ibn al-Qayyim’s Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma" (Brill, 2020)
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Nov 20, 2020 |
A. Kanna et al., "Beyond Exception: New Interpretations of the Arabian Peninsula" (Cornell UP, 2020)
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Nov 18, 2020 |
Christopher J. Lee, "Making a World After Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives" (Ohio UP, 2019)
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Nov 17, 2020 |
Jerome Slater, "Mythologies Without End: The US, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Nov 17, 2020 |
Michael Muhammad Knight, "Muhammad's Body: Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Nov 12, 2020 |
Ken Tully and Chad Leahy, "Jerusalem Afflicted: Quaresmius, Spain, and the Idea of a 17th-century Crusade" (Routledge, 2019)
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Nov 11, 2020 |
Pedro Machado, "Pearls, People, and Power: Pearling and Indian Ocean Worlds" (Ohio UP, 2020)
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Nov 09, 2020 |
Jon Hoover, "Ibn Taymiyya" (Oneworld, 2020)
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Nov 09, 2020 |
Zainab Saleh, "Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Nov 06, 2020 |
John Tolan, "Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Nov 06, 2020 |
Walker Robins, "Between Dixie and Zion: Southern Baptists and Palestine before Israel" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
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Nov 05, 2020 |
Michael Q. Morton, "Masters of the Pearl: A History of Qatar" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
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Nov 03, 2020 |
Danielle Haque, “Interrogating Secularism: Race and Religion in Arab Transnational Art and Literature” (Syracuse UP, 2019)
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Oct 30, 2020 |
Eve M. Troutt Powell, "Tell This in my Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire" (Stanford UP, 2013)
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Oct 29, 2020 |
Dónal Hassett, "Mobilizing Memory: The Great War and the Language of Politics in Colonial Algeria, 1918-1939" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Oct 27, 2020 |
Andrea Chiovenda, "Crafting Masculine Selves: Culture, War, and Psychodynamics in Afghanistan" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Oct 27, 2020 |
Noel Malcolm, "Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Oct 22, 2020 |
Alan Chong, "Critical Reflections on China’s Belt and Road Initiative" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
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Oct 16, 2020 |
Wilson Chacko Jacob, "For God or Empire: Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World" (Stanford UP, 2019)
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Oct 15, 2020 |
Farzaneh Hemmasi, "Tehrangeles Dreaming: Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California's Iranian Pop Music" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Oct 12, 2020 |
Alexis Wick, "The Red Sea In Search of Lost Space" (U California Press, 2016)
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Oct 12, 2020 |
Matthew S. Hopper, "Slaves of One Master: Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age of Empire” (Yale UP, 2015)
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Oct 08, 2020 |
Sophie Richter-Devroe, "Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
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Oct 05, 2020 |
Ziad Fahmy, "Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Sep 28, 2020 |
Lorenz M. Lüthi, "Cold Wars: Asia, the Middle East, Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Sep 25, 2020 |
François-Xavier Fauvelle, "The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages" (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Sep 25, 2020 |
Victor McFarland, "Oil Powers: A History of the US-Saudi Alliance" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Sep 17, 2020 |
Majid Daneshgar, "Studying the Qur’an in the Muslim Academy" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Sep 15, 2020 |
Jonathan Lee, "Afghanistan: A History from 1260 to the Present" (Reaktion Books, 2019)
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Sep 14, 2020 |
Jacob Mundy, "Libya" (Polity Press, 2018)
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Sep 07, 2020 |
James Zogby, "The Tumultuous Decade: Arab Public Opinion and the Upheavals of 2010-2019" (Steuben Press, 2020)
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Sep 04, 2020 |
Behnaz A. Mirzai, "A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800-1929" (U Texas Press, 2017)
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Sep 03, 2020 |
Adam Hanieh, "Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Sep 01, 2020 |
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of the Mediterranean" (Little Brown, 2020)
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Aug 31, 2020 |
Richard van Leeuwen, "The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction" (Brill, 2018)
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Aug 31, 2020 |
Nathalie Peutz, "Islands of Heritage Conservation and Transformation in Yemen" (Stanford UP, 2018)
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Aug 31, 2020 |
M. R. Jackson Bonner, "The Last Empire of Iran" (Gorgias Press, 2020)
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Aug 26, 2020 |
A. Meleagrou-Hitchens, "Incitement: Anwar al-Awlaki’s Western Jihad" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Aug 25, 2020 |
David Bressoud, "Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Aug 24, 2020 |
Zachary Valentine Wright, "Realizing Islam: The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the 18th-Century Muslim World" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Aug 21, 2020 |
Waleed Mahdi, "Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation" (Syracuse UP, 2020)
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Aug 20, 2020 |
Nancy Um, "Shipped but Not Sold: Material Culture and the Social Protocols of Trade during Yemen’s Age of Coffee" (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
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Aug 20, 2020 |
Jered Rubin, "Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Aug 19, 2020 |
Will Smiley, "From Slaves to Prisoners of War: The Ottoman Empire, Russia, and International Law" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Aug 18, 2020 |
Ghassan Moussawi, "Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut" (Temple UP, 2020)
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Aug 17, 2020 |
S. Daulatzai and J. Rana, “With Stones in Our Hands: Reflections on Racism, Muslims and US Empire” (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
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Aug 14, 2020 |
Ulrike Freitag, "A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Aug 10, 2020 |
Alyssa Gabbay, "Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam" (I.B. Tauris, 2020)
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Aug 07, 2020 |
Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf, "The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace" (All Point Books, 2020)
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Aug 06, 2020 |
Nathan Spannaus, "Preserving Islamic Tradition: Abu Nasr Qursawi and the Beginnings of Modern Reformism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Aug 05, 2020 |
Gaurav Desai, "Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination" (Columbia UP, 2013)
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Aug 03, 2020 |
Asma Barlas, "Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an" (U Texas Press, 2019)
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Aug 03, 2020 |
Paula Fredriksen, "When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation" (Yale UP, 2018)
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Jul 31, 2020 |
Danyel Reiche and Tamir Sorek, "Sport, Politics, and Society in the Middle East" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jul 29, 2020 |
Shahla Haeri, "The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession, Authority and Gender" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Jul 24, 2020 |
Edward Alpers, "The Indian Ocean in World History" (Oxford UP, 2014)
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Jul 22, 2020 |
Sigurd Neubauer, "The Gulf Region and Israel: Old Struggles, New Alliances" (Kodesh Press, 2020)
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Jul 21, 2020 |
L. L. Wynn, "Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt: Navigating the Margins of Respectability" (U Texas Press, 2018)
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Jul 17, 2020 |
Scott Levi, "The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th-Century Central Asia" (U Pittsburgh, 2020)
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Jul 15, 2020 |
Nasser Rahmaninejad, "A Man of the Theatre: Survival as an Artist in Iran" (New Village Press, 2020)
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Jul 14, 2020 |
Pernilla Myrne, "Female Sexuality in the Early Medieval Islamic World: Gender and Sex in Arabic Literature" (IB Taurus, 2020)
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Jul 10, 2020 |
Hafsa Lodi, "Modesty: A Fashion Paradox" (Neem Tree Press, 2020)
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Jul 09, 2020 |
Greg Burris, "The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media, and the Radical Imagination" (Temple UP, 2019)
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Jul 03, 2020 |
Ahmed El-Shamsy, "Rediscovering the Islamic Classics" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Jul 03, 2020 |
Lara Harb, "Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Jun 12, 2020 |
Fadi A. Bardawil, "Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Jun 11, 2020 |
Begüm Adalet, "Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey" (Stanford UP, 2018)
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Jun 08, 2020 |
Gabriel Said Reynolds, "Allah: God in the Qur’an" (Yale UP, 2020)
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Jun 05, 2020 |
James C. Scott, "Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States" (Yale UP, 2017)
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Jun 04, 2020 |
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
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Jun 02, 2020 |
Dana El Kurd, "Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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May 25, 2020 |
Yaacov Yadgar, "Israel’s Jewish Identity Crisis: State and Politics in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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May 21, 2020 |
Sarah M. A. Gualtieri, "Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California" (Stanford UP, 2019)
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May 20, 2020 |
Derek Penslar, "Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader" (Yale UP, 2020)
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May 19, 2020 |
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Apr 28, 2020 |
Eric Dursteler, "In the Sultan’s Realm: Two Venetian Reports on the Early Modern Ottoman Empire" (CRRS, 2018)
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Apr 23, 2020 |
Christiane Gruber, “The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images" (Indiana UP, 2019)
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Apr 17, 2020 |
Max Blumenthal, "The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump" (Verso, 2019)
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Apr 13, 2020 |
Shadaab Rahemtullah, "Qur'an of the Oppressed: Liberation Theology and Gender Justice in Islam" (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Apr 10, 2020 |
Christopher Houston, "Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup D’Etat, and Memory in Turkey" (U California Press, 2020)
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Apr 09, 2020 |
Arthur Asseraf, "Electric News in Colonial Algeria" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Apr 03, 2020 |
Jatin Dua, "Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean" (U California Press, 2019)
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Apr 01, 2020 |
Michael Fischbach, "The Movement and the Middle East: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Divided the American Left" (Stanford UP, 2019)
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Mar 30, 2020 |
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Mar 30, 2020 |
Adrian J. Boas, "The Crusader World" (Routledge, 2015)
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Mar 25, 2020 |
Ahmet T. Kuru, "Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Mar 25, 2020 |
Carl W. Ernst, “Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Martyr” (Northwestern UP, 2018)
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Mar 13, 2020 |
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, "Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Mar 09, 2020 |
Salman Sayyid, "Recalling the Caliphate: Decolonization and World Order" (Hurst, 2014)
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Mar 06, 2020 |
Jeffrey James Byrne, "Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order" (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Mar 04, 2020 |
Darryl Li, "The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Mar 04, 2020 |
Intractable Syria: What Does and Does Not Lead to an Unmanageable Crisis
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Feb 26, 2020 |
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Feb 25, 2020 |
Sohaira Siddiqui, "Law and Politics Under the Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwayni" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Feb 21, 2020 |
Murad Idris, "War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Feb 21, 2020 |
Yaakov Katz, "Shadow Strike: Inside Israel’s Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power" (St. Martin's Press, 2019)
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Feb 19, 2020 |
Nicholas Blincoe, "More Noble Than War: A Soccer History of Israel-Palestine" (Bold Type Books, 2019)
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Feb 19, 2020 |
Todd Shepard, "Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
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Feb 18, 2020 |
Julian Bolleter, "Desert Paradises: Surveying the Landscapes of Dubai’s Urban Model" (Routledge, 2019)
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Feb 17, 2020 |
Ayelet Hoffman Libson, "Law and Self-Knowledge in the Talmud" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Feb 12, 2020 |
Using Discretion in Response to Political Crises: A Lesson for Diplomats
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Feb 12, 2020 |
Jonathan A. C. Brown, "Slavery and Islam" (Oneworld Academic, 2019)
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Feb 07, 2020 |
Misguided Bias: How Revisionism May Have Distorted the History of Arabic Literature
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Feb 05, 2020 |
Alex Dika Seggerman, "Modernism on the Nile: Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Feb 04, 2020 |
Penny Sinanoglou, "Partitioning Palestine: British Policymaking at the End of Empire" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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Feb 03, 2020 |
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
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Jan 30, 2020 |
Benjamin Balint, "Jerusalem: City of the Book" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Jan 15, 2020 |
Arbella Bet-Shlimon, "City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk" (Stanford UP, 2019)
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Jan 14, 2020 |
Narges Bajoghli, "Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic" (Stanford UP, 2019)
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Jan 13, 2020 |
Leor Halevi, "Modern Things on Trial: Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865-1935" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Jan 07, 2020 |
Barbara Spackman, "Accidental Orientalists: Modern Italian Travelers in Ottoman Lands" (Liverpool UP, 2017)
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Jan 06, 2020 |
Joyce Dalsheim, "Israel Has a Jewish Problem: Self Determination as Self Elimination" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jan 02, 2020 |
Stephanie Malia Hom, "Empire's Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy's Crisis of Migration and Detention" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Dec 31, 2019 |
Seyed Ali Alavi, "Iran and Palestine: Past, Present, and Future" (Routledge, 2019)
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Dec 24, 2019 |
K. B. Berzock, "Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Dec 23, 2019 |
Martin Nguyen, "Modern Muslim Theology: Engaging God and the World with Faith and Imagination" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018)
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Dec 18, 2019 |
Narges Bajoghli, "Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic" (Stanford UP, 2019)
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Dec 17, 2019 |
Zahra Ali, "Women and Gender in Iraq: Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Dec 16, 2019 |
Michael Krona and Rosemary Pennington, "The Media World of ISIS" (Indiana UP, 2019)
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Dec 13, 2019 |
Lyn Julius, "Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018)
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Dec 09, 2019 |
Maziyar Ghiabi, "Drug Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Dec 09, 2019 |
Afshin Matin-Asgari, "Both Eastern and Western: An Intellectual History of Iranian Modernity" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Dec 09, 2019 |
Lior Sternfeld, "Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran" (Stanford UP, 2019)
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Dec 03, 2019 |
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
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Dec 03, 2019 |
Christine D. Baker, "Medieval Islamic Sectarianism" (Amsterdam UP, 2019)
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Nov 29, 2019 |
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, "In a Pure Muslim Land: Shi’ism between Pakistan and the Middle East" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Nov 26, 2019 |
Najam Haider, "The Rebel and the Imam in Early Islam" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Nov 06, 2019 |
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
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Nov 03, 2019 |
Bruce Rydel, "Beirut 1958: How America's Wars in the Middle East Began" (Brookings, 2019)
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Nov 01, 2019 |
Dan Jones, "Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands" (Viking, 2019)
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Oct 29, 2019 |
Michael Mandelbaum, "The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Oct 24, 2019 |
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
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Oct 24, 2019 |
Joanna Lillis, "Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan" (I. B. Tauris, 2018)
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Oct 23, 2019 |
Mohammed Dajani Daoudi, "Teaching Empathy and Reconciliation In Midst Of Conflict" (Wasatia Press, 2016)
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Oct 22, 2019 |
Jennifer L. Derr, "The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2019)
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Oct 10, 2019 |
Ussama Makdisi, "Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World" (U California Press, 2019)
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Oct 09, 2019 |
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, "Revolution and Its Discontents: Political Thought and Reform in Iran" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Oct 08, 2019 |
Perin Gürel, "The Limits of Westernization: A Cultural History of America in Turkey" (Columbia UP, 2017)
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Oct 06, 2019 |
Humphrey Davies and Lesley Lababidi, "A Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo" (AU in Cairo Press, 2018)
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Sep 25, 2019 |
Matthew Hughes, "Britain's Pacification of Palestine" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Sep 24, 2019 |
Kfir Cohen Lustig, "Makers of Worlds, Readers of Signs: Israeli and Palestinian Literature of the Global Contemporary" (Verso, 2019)
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Sep 24, 2019 |
Zahra Ayubi, "Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Sep 20, 2019 |
Seth J. Frantzman, "After Isis: America, Iran and the Struggle for the Middle East" (Gefen, 2019)
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Sep 20, 2019 |
Charlie Laderman, "Sharing the Burden: The Armenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention, and Anglo-American Visions of Global Order" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Sep 18, 2019 |
Elizabeth S. Kassab, "Enlightenment on the Eve of Revolution: The Egyptian and Syrian Debates" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Sep 04, 2019 |
M. David Litwa, "How the Gospels Became History: Jesus and Mediterranean Myths" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Aug 19, 2019 |
David Gaunt, "Let Them Not Return" (Berghahn Books, 2017)
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Aug 13, 2019 |
Michael Lower, "The Tunis Crusade of 1270: A Mediterranean History" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Aug 12, 2019 |
Sean Foley, "Changing Saudi Arabia: Art, Culture and Society in the Kingdom" (Lynne Rienner, 2019)
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Aug 08, 2019 |
Robert Haug, "The Eastern Frontier: Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia" (I. B. Tauris, 2019)
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Aug 08, 2019 |
Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" (Doubleday, 2019)
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Jul 31, 2019 |
David Stenner, "Globalizing Morocco: Transnational Activism and the Postcolonial State" (Stanford UP, 2019)
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Jul 29, 2019 |
Emrah Şahin, "Faithful Encounters: Authorities and American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire" (McGill-Queens UP, 2018)
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Jul 25, 2019 |
Erik Sjöberg, "The Making of the Greek Genocide: Contested Memories of the Ottoman Greek Catastrophe" (Berghahn Books, 2018)
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Jul 01, 2019 |
Jeremy F. Walton, "Muslim Civil Society and the Politics of Religious Freedom in Turkey" (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Jun 28, 2019 |
Botakoz Kassymbekova, "Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
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Jun 26, 2019 |
Stacy Fahrenthold, "Between the Ottomans and the Entente: The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jun 19, 2019 |
Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace" (Harper, 2018)
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Jun 13, 2019 |
Vahram Ter-Matevosyan, "Turkey, Kemalism and the Soviet Union: Problems of Modernization, Ideology and Interpretation" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
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Jun 13, 2019 |
Amira Mittermaier, "Giving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times" (U California Press, 2019)
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Jun 11, 2019 |
Aaron Rock-Singer, "Practicing Islam in Egypt: Print Media and Islamic Revival" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Jun 07, 2019 |
Jennifer Dixon, "Dark Pasts: Changing the State’s Story in Turkey and Japan" (Cornell UP, 2018)
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Jun 06, 2019 |
Daniel Hershenzon, "The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean" (U Penn Press, 2018)
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Jun 05, 2019 |
Mimi Hanaoka, "Authority and Identity in Medieval Islamic Historiography: Persian Histories from the Periphery" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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May 31, 2019 |
Gökçe Günel, "Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi" (Duke UP, 2019)
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May 24, 2019 |
Scott S. Reese, “Imperial Muslims: Islam, Community and Authority in the Indian Ocean, 1839-1937” (Edinburgh UP, 2017)
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May 15, 2019 |
Andreas Krieg, "Divided Gulf: The Anatomy of a Crisis" (Palgrave, 2019)
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May 13, 2019 |
Houri Berberian, "Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian and Ottoman Worlds" (U California Press, 2019)
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May 07, 2019 |
Wendy Pearlman and Boaz Atzili, "Triadic Coercion: Israel’s Targeting of States That Host Nonstate Actors" (Columbia UP, 2018)
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Apr 29, 2019 |
Ariel I. Ahram, "Break all the Borders: Separatism and the Resshaping of the Middle East" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Apr 22, 2019 |
Dilip Hiro, "Cold War in the Islamic World: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Struggle for Supremacy" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Apr 16, 2019 |
Craig Benjamin, "Empires of Ancient Eurasia: The First Silk Roads Era, 100 BCE-250 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Apr 12, 2019 |
Paul J. Kosmin, "Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire" (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Mar 21, 2019 |
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
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Mar 19, 2019 |
Oded Nir, "Signatures of Struggle: The Figuration of Collectivity in Israeli Fiction" (SUNY Press, 2018)
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Feb 22, 2019 |
Jessica Trisko Darden, Alexis Henshaw, and Ora Szekley, "Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars" (Georgetown UP, 2019)
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Feb 11, 2019 |
Ahmad Atif Ahmad, "Pitfalls of Scholarship: Lessons from Islamic Studies" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
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Feb 07, 2019 |
Aimée Israel-Pelletier, "On the Mediterranean and the Nile: The Jews of Egypt" (Indiana UP, 2017)
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Jan 28, 2019 |
Philip Zelikow and Ernest May, "Suez Deconstructed: An Interactive Study in Crisis, War, and Peacemaking" (Brookings Institution, 2018)
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Jan 25, 2019 |
Elizabeth A. Fraser, "Mediterranean Encounters: Artists Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774–1839" (Penn State UP, 2017)
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Jan 23, 2019 |
Jamal Elias, "Alef is for Allah: Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies" (U California Press, 2018)
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Jan 23, 2019 |
Jonathan Fulton, "China's Relations with the Gulf Monarchies" (Routledge, 2018)
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Jan 17, 2019 |
Omid Safi, “Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition” (Yale UP, 2018)
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Jan 09, 2019 |
Angelos Chaniotis, "Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian" (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Jan 08, 2019 |
Denis Provencher, "Queer Maghrebi French: Language, Temporalities, Transfiliations" (Liverpool UP, 2017)
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Jan 04, 2019 |
Michael Fischbach, "Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color" (Stanford UP, 2018)
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Jan 04, 2019 |
Suzanne Schneider, "Mandatory Separation: Religion, Education, and Mass Politics in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2018)
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Dec 31, 2018 |
Jonathan Fulton and Li-Chen Sim, "External Powers and the Gulf Monarchies" (Routledge, 2018)
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Dec 28, 2018 |
Till Mostowlansky, "Azan on the Moon: Entangling Modernity Along Tajikistan’s Pamir Highway" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2017)
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Dec 26, 2018 |
Alessandro Arduino and Xue Gong, "Securing the Belt and Road" (Red Globe Press, 2018)
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Dec 20, 2018 |
Harry O. Maier, "New Testament Christianity in the Roman World" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Dec 20, 2018 |
Seth Anziska, "Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo" (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Dec 17, 2018 |
Hüseyin Yılmaz, "Caliphate Redefined: The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Dec 07, 2018 |
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
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Dec 06, 2018 |
Alireza Doostdar, "The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny" (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Dec 05, 2018 |
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, "The Politics of Common Sense: State, Society and Culture in Pakistan" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Nov 29, 2018 |
Sumantra Bose, "Secular States, Religious Politics, India, Turkey and the Future of Secularism" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Nov 28, 2018 |
J.R. Osborn, “Letters of Light: Arabic Script in Calligraphy, Print, and Digital Design” (Harvard UP, 2017)
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Nov 12, 2018 |
Edward J. Watts, “Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny” (Basic Books, 2018)
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Nov 05, 2018 |
Daniel Stolz, “The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Nov 05, 2018 |
Miranda Kaufmann, “Black Tudors: The Untold Story” (Oneworld, 2017)
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Nov 02, 2018 |
M. L. Rozenblit and J. Karp, “World War I and the Jews: Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and America” (Berghahn, 2017)
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Oct 30, 2018 |
Patricia Lorcin and Todd Shepard, “French Mediterraneans: Transnational and Imperial Histories” (U Nebraska Press, 2016)
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Oct 24, 2018 |
Smadar Lavie, “Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture (Revised Edition)” (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
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Oct 23, 2018 |
Rachel Harris, “Warriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema” (Wayne State UP, 2017)
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Oct 10, 2018 |
Thomas Schmidinger, “Rojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria’s Kurds” (Pluto Press, 2018)
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Oct 05, 2018 |
Samuel Helfont, “Compulsion in Religion: Saddam Hussein, Islam and the Roots of Insurgencies in Iraq” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Oct 01, 2018 |
Tala Jarjour, “Sense and Sadness: Syriac Chant in Aleppo” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Sep 28, 2018 |
James M. Dorsey, “China and the Middle East: Venturing into the Maelstrom” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
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Sep 27, 2018 |
Robert D. Miller II, “Covenant and Grace in the Old Testament: Assyrian Propaganda and Israelite Faith” (Gorgias Press, 2012)
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Sep 26, 2018 |
Ellen R. Wald, “Saudi Inc.: The Arabian Kingdom’s Pursuit of Power and Profit” (Pegasus Books, 2018)
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Sep 17, 2018 |
Joseph Ben Prestel, “Emotional Cities: Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo, 1860-1910” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Sep 12, 2018 |
Courtney Freer, “Rentier Islamism: The Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gulf Monarchies” (OUP, 2018)
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Sep 11, 2018 |
Peter Heather, “Rome Resurgent: War and Empire in the Age of Justinian” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Sep 10, 2018 |
Lev Weitz, “Between Christ and Caliph: Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
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Sep 04, 2018 |
Madiha Afzal, “Pakistan Under Siege: Extremism, Society, and the State” (Brookings, 2018)
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Aug 31, 2018 |
Cyrus Ali Zargar, “The Polished Mirror: Storytelling and the Pursuit of Virtue in Islamic Philosophy and Sufism” (Oneworld, 2017)
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Aug 22, 2018 |
Ahmad Dallal, “Islam without Europe: Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Islamic Thought” (UNC Press, 2018)
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Aug 21, 2018 |
Gary Fields, “Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror” (U California Press, 2017)
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Aug 16, 2018 |
Stephen Tankel, “With Us and Against Us: How America’s Partners Help and Hinder the War on Terror” (Columbia UP, 2018)
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Aug 10, 2018 |
Duane W. Roller, “Cleopatra’s Daughter: And Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Aug 10, 2018 |
Eve Krakowski, “Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Women’s Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture” (Princeton UP, 2017)
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Aug 09, 2018 |
Eran Kaplan, “Beyond Post-Zionism” (SUNY Press, 2015)
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Jul 25, 2018 |
Ata Anzali, “‘Mysticism’ in Iran: The Safavid Roots of a Modern Concept” (U South Carolina Press, 2017)
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Jul 20, 2018 |
Jamie Stern-Weiner, “Moment of Truth: Tackling Israel-Palestine’s Toughest Questions” (OR Books, 2018)
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Jul 19, 2018 |
Guy Laron, “The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East” (Yale UP, 2017)
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Jul 16, 2018 |
Alexander Bevilacqua, “The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment” (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Jul 16, 2018 |
Laura Robson, “States of Separation: Transfer, Partition, and the Making of the Modern Middle East” (U California Press, 2017)
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Jul 12, 2018 |
Frank L. Holt, “The Treasures of Alexander the Great: How One Man’s Wealth Shaped the World” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Jul 11, 2018 |
Zoltan Pall, “Salafism in Lebanon: Local and Transnational Movements” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Jul 06, 2018 |
Elias Muhanna, “The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition” (Princeton UP, 2017)
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Jul 02, 2018 |
Mehrzad Boroujerdi and Kourosh Rahimkhani, “Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook” (Syracuse UP, 2017)
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Jun 28, 2018 |
Hans-Lukas Kieser, “Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide” (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Jun 19, 2018 |
Guy Burton, “Rising Powers and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1947” (Lexington Books, 2018)
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Jun 18, 2018 |
Samuel England, “Medieval Empires and the Cultures of Competition: Literary Duels at Islamic and Christian Courts” (Edinburgh UP, 2017)
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Jun 13, 2018 |
Hala Auji, “Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut” (Brill, 2016)
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Jun 05, 2018 |
Yoav Di-Capua, “No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre and Decolonization” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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May 31, 2018 |
Alden Young, “Transforming Sudan: Decolonization, Economic Development, and State Formation” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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May 29, 2018 |
Ethan L. Menchinger, “The First of the Modern Ottomans: The Intellectual History of Ahmed Vasif” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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May 22, 2018 |
Toufoul Abou-Hodeib, “A Taste for Home: The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut” (Stanford UP, 2017)
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May 15, 2018 |
Jörg Matthias Determann, “Space Science and the Arab World: Astronauts, Observatories, and Nationalism in the Middle East” (I. B. Tauris, 2018)
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May 11, 2018 |
Omina El Shakry, “The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt” (Princeton UP, 2017)
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May 01, 2018 |
Michael Brenner, “In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea” (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Apr 30, 2018 |
Nadia Yaqub and Rula Quawas, “Bad Girls of the Arab World” (U Texas Press, 2017)
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Apr 16, 2018 |
Mehammed Mack, “Sexagon: Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture” (Fordham UP, 2017)
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Mar 29, 2018 |
Hoda Yousef, “Composing Egypt: Reading, Writing, and the Emergence of a Modern Nation, 1870-1930” (Stanford UP,
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Mar 20, 2018 |
Alexander Orwin, “Redefining the Muslim Community: Ethnicity, Religion, and Politics in the Thought of Alfarabi” (U Penn Press, 2017)
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Mar 19, 2018 |
Didem Havlioglu, “Mihri Hatun: Performance, Gender-Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History” (Syracuse UP, 2017)
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Mar 13, 2018 |
Ian Black, “Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017)
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Mar 02, 2018 |
Maha Nassar, “Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World” (Stanford UP, 2017)
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Mar 01, 2018 |
Sara Hirschhorn, “City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement” (Harvard UP, 2017)
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Feb 20, 2018 |
Stephen Sheehi, “The Arab Imago: A Social History of Indigenous Photography 1860-1910” (Princeton UP, 2016)
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Feb 15, 2018 |
Alexander Knysh, “Sufism: A New History” (Princeton UP, 2017)
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Feb 01, 2018 |
Claire Eldridge, “From Empire to Exile” (Manchester UP, 2016)
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Jan 26, 2018 |
Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp, “Muslim Women in French Cinema: Voices of Maghrebi Migrants in France” (Liverpool UP, 2016)
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Jan 18, 2018 |
Ella Shohat, “On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements” (Pluto Press, 2017)
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Jan 16, 2018 |
Adam Mestyan, “Arab Patriotism: The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt” (Princeton UP, 2017)
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Jan 15, 2018 |
miriam cooke, “Dancing in Damascus: Creativity, Resilience, and the Syrian Revolution” (Routledge, 2017)
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Jan 02, 2018 |
Elizabeth Bucar, “Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress” (Harvard UP, 2017)
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Dec 25, 2017 |
Reza Zia-Ebrahimi, “The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism: Race and the Politics of Dislocation” (Columbia UP, 2016)
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Dec 20, 2017 |
Kevan Harris, “A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran” (U. Cal Press, 2017)
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Dec 11, 2017 |
Marie Grace Brown, “Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan” (Stanford UP, 2017)
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Dec 04, 2017 |
Sophia Rose Arjana, “Pilgrimage in Islam: Traditional and Modern Practices” (Oneworld Publications, 2017)
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Nov 27, 2017 |
Neda Maghbouleh, “The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race” (Stanford UP, 2017)
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Nov 20, 2017 |
Karen Ross, “Youth Encounter Programs in Israel: Pedagogy, Identity and Social Change” (Syracuse UP, 2017)
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Nov 18, 2017 |
Reina Lewis, “Muslim Fashion: Contemporary Style Cultures” (Duke UP, 2015)
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Nov 15, 2017 |
George Kiraz on Gorgias Press (NBn, 2017)
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Nov 02, 2017 |
Mya Guranieri Jaradat, “The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel’s New Others” (U. Chicago/Pluto Press, 2017)
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Oct 19, 2017 |
Adam Gaiser, “Shurat Legends, Ibadi Identities: Martyrdom, Asceticism and the Making of an Early Islamic Community” (U. South Carolina Press, 2016)
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Oct 18, 2017 |
Bruce B. Lawrence, “The Koran in English: A Biography” (Princeton UP, 2017)
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Oct 16, 2017 |
Yakov M. Rabkin, “What Is Modern Israel?” (U. Chicago/Pluto Press, 2016)
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Oct 04, 2017 |
Cyrus Schayegh, “The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World” (Harvard UP, 2017)
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Oct 02, 2017 |
Andrea L. Stanton, “This is Jerusalem Calling: State Radio in Mandate Palestine” (U of Texas Press, 2013)
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Sep 14, 2017 |
Asher Orkaby, “Beyond the Arab Cold War: The International History of the Yemen Civil War, 1962-68” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Sep 05, 2017 |
Faegheh Shirazi, “Brand Islam: The Marketing and Commodification of Piety” (U. Texas Press, 2016)
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Sep 05, 2017 |
Wendy Pearlman, “We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria” (Custom House, 2017)
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Aug 30, 2017 |
Betty S. Anderson, “A History of the Middle East: Rulers, Rebels, and Rogues (Stanford UP, 2016)
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Aug 16, 2017 |
Michael Allan, “In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt” (Princeton UP, 2016)
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Aug 14, 2017 |
Zachary Lockman, “Field Notes: The Making of Middle Eastern Studies in the United States” (Stanford UP, 2016)
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Jul 24, 2017 |
Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, “The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973: The USSR’s Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Jul 19, 2017 |
Nader Hashimi and Danny Postel, eds. “Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Jul 16, 2017 |
Blake Atwood, “Reform Cinema in Iran: Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic” (Columbia UP, 2016)
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Jun 26, 2017 |
Erik Love, “Islamophobia and Racism in America” (NYU Press, 2017)
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Jun 26, 2017 |
Brad Gooch, “Rumi’s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love” (Harper, 2017)
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Jun 08, 2017 |
Rajan Gurukkal, “Rethinking Classical Indo-Roman Trade: Political Economy of Eastern Mediterranean Exchange Relations” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Jun 08, 2017 |
Nir Baram, “A Land Without Borders: My Journey Around East Jerusalem and the West Bank” (Text Publishing Company, 2017)
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May 30, 2017 |
Lewis Glinert, “The Story of Hebrew” (Princeton UP, 2017)
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Apr 11, 2017 |
Joseph Lumbard, “The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary” (HarperOne, 2015)
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Mar 24, 2017 |
Brian T. Edwards, “After the American Century: The Ends of U.S. Culture in the Middle East” (Columbia UP, 2016)
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Mar 06, 2017 |
Nathan Hofer, “The Popularisation of Sufism in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt, 1173-1325” (Edinburgh UP, 2015)
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Jan 27, 2017 |
“Best New Books in Political Science 2016: International Politics Edition”
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Dec 29, 2016 |
Jack M. Sasson, “From the Mari Archives: An Anthology of Old Babylonian Letters” (Eisenbrauns, 2015)
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Dec 29, 2016 |
Sharon Rotbard, “White City, Black City: Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa” (MIT Press, 2015)
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Dec 26, 2016 |
Abigail Jacobson and Moshe Naor, “Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine” (Brandeis UP, 2016)
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Dec 23, 2016 |
Devin Naar, “Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece” (Stanford UP, 2016)
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Dec 19, 2016 |
Victor Taki, “Tsar and Sultan: Russian Encounters with the Ottoman Empire” (I.B. Taurus, 2016)
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Dec 14, 2016 |
Banu Bargu, “Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons” (Columbia UP, 2016)
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Dec 10, 2016 |
Bryan K. Roby, “The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion: Israel’s Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle, 1948-1966” (Syracuse UP, 2015)
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Nov 14, 2016 |
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, “Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment” (U. of Minnesota Press, 2016)
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Nov 06, 2016 |
Nile Green, “Terrains of Exchange: Religious Economies of Global Islam” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Oct 17, 2016 |
Ahmed Ragab, “The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, Charity” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
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Sep 21, 2016 |
Sarah Abrevaya Stein, “Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century” (U. of Chicago Press, 2016)
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Sep 19, 2016 |
Miki Kratsman with Ariella Azoulay, “The Resolution of the Suspect” (Radius Books, 2016)
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Aug 30, 2016 |
Anders Ingram, “Writing the Ottomans: Turkish History in Early Modern England” (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015)
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Aug 22, 2016 |
Paul M. Cobb, “The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades” (Oxford UP, 2014)
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Jul 25, 2016 |
Vanessa Ogle, “The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950” (Harvard UP, 2015)
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Jul 13, 2016 |
Reza Zarghamee, “Discovering Cyrus: The Persian Conqueror Astride the Ancient World” (Mage Pub, 2013)
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Jul 05, 2016 |
Elizabeth Hurd, “Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion” (Princeton UP, 2015)
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Jun 27, 2016 |
Bard Kartveit, “Dilemmas of Attachment: Identity and Belonging among Palestinian Christians” (Brill, 2014)
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Jun 18, 2016 |
Marc Lynch, “The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East” (PublicAffairs, 2016)
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Jun 13, 2016 |
Eid Mohamed, “Arab Occidentalism: Images of America in the Middle East” (I.B. Tauris, 2015)
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Jun 02, 2016 |
Irene L. Gendzier, “Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East” (Columbia UP, 2015)
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May 18, 2016 |
Dana Sajdi, “The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant” (Stanford UP, 2012)
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May 16, 2016 |
Asma Afsaruddin, “Contemporary Issues in Islam” (Edinburgh UP, 2015)
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May 04, 2016 |
Hillel Cohen, “Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929” (Brandeis UP, 2015)
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Apr 27, 2016 |
Kenneth Garden, “The First Islamic Reviver: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and his Revival of the Religious Sciences” (Oxford UP, 2014)
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Mar 21, 2016 |
Jason Mokhtarian, “Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests: The Culture of the Talmud in Ancient Iran” (U of California Press, 2015)
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Feb 22, 2016 |
Kishwar Rizvi, “The Transnational Mosque: Architecture and Historical Memory in the Contemporary Middle East” (UNC Press, 2015)
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Feb 08, 2016 |
Ron Grigor Suny, “They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide” (Princeton UP, 2015)
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Jan 19, 2016 |
Afsaneh Najmabadi, “Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran” (Duke UP, 2013)
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Dec 30, 2015 |
Afsaneh Najmabadi, "Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran" (Duke UP, 2013)
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Dec 30, 2015 |
Marcia C. Inhorn, “The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East” (Princeton UP, 2012)
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Dec 18, 2015 |
Yael Raviv, “Falafel Nation: Cuisine and the Making of National Identity in Israel” (University of Nebraska Press, 2015)
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Dec 17, 2015 |
Zeki Saritoprak, “Islam’s Jesus” (University of Florida Press, 2015)
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Dec 17, 2015 |
Erica Weiss, “Conscientious Objectors in Israel: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
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Dec 10, 2015 |
Ranen Omer-Sherman, “Imagining the Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film” (Penn State UP, 2015)
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Dec 08, 2015 |
Carlos Fraenkel, “Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World” (Princeton UP, 2015)
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Dec 01, 2015 |
Jorg Matthias Determann, “Researching Biology and Evolution in the Gulf States: Networks of Science in the Middle East” (I. B. Tauris, 2015)
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Nov 29, 2015 |
Hina Azam, “Sexual Violation in Islamic Law: Substance, Evidence, and Procedure” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
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Nov 25, 2015 |
Ilan Zvi Baron, “Obligation in Exile: The Jewish Diaspora, Israel and Critique” (Edinburgh UP, 2015)
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Nov 19, 2015 |
Naser Ghobadzadeh, “Religious Secularity: A Theological Challenge to the Islamic State” (Oxford UP, 2014)
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Nov 18, 2015 |
Paul L. Heck, “Skepticism in Classical Islam: Moments of Confusion” (Routledge, 2013)
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Nov 15, 2015 |
Karen Bauer, “Gender Hierarchy in the Qur’an: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
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Nov 12, 2015 |
Tom Sperlinger, “Romeo and Juliet in Palestine: Teaching Under Occupation” (Zero Books, 2015)
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Nov 08, 2015 |
Vicken Cheterian, "Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks, and a Century of Genocide" (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Oct 29, 2015 |
Azizah al-Hibri, “The Islamic Worldview: Islamic Jurisprudence” (ABA Books, 2015)
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Oct 27, 2015 |
Guy Burak, “The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Hanafi School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
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Sep 23, 2015 |
Neha Vora, “Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora” (Duke UP, 2013)
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Sep 22, 2015 |
Gerard Russell, “Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East” (Basic Books, 2014)
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Sep 21, 2015 |
Liora R. Halperin, “Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948” (Yale UP, 2014)
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Sep 10, 2015 |
Aysha Hidayatullah, “Feminist Edges of the Qur’an” (Oxford UP, 2014)
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Sep 09, 2015 |
Kecia Ali, “The Lives of Muhammad” (Harvard UP, 2014)
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Aug 25, 2015 |
Bruce B. Lawrence, “Who is Allah?” (UNC Press, 2015)
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Aug 10, 2015 |
James Gelvin, “The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know” (Oxford UP, 2012)
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Aug 03, 2015 |
Emran El-Badawi, “The Qur’an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions” (Routledge, 2013)
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Jul 17, 2015 |
Ebrahim Moosa, “What is a Madrasa?” (U of North Carolina Press, 2015)
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Jul 03, 2015 |
Mark S. Wagner, “Jews and Islamic Law in Early 20th-Century Yemen” (Indiana UP, 2015)
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Jun 20, 2015 |
M. Alper Yalcinkaya, “Learned Patriots: Debating Science, State, and Society in the 19th-Century Ottoman Empire” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
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Jun 15, 2015 |
Asaad al-Saleh, “Voices of the Arab Spring: Personal Stories from the Arab Revolutions” (Columbia UP, 2015)
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May 16, 2015 |
Jamal Elias, “Aisha’s Cushion” (Harvard UP, 2012)
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Apr 23, 2015 |
Lital Levy, “Poetic Trespass: Writing Between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine” (Princeton UP, 2014)
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Apr 06, 2015 |
M. Brett Wilson, “Translating the Qur’an in an Age of Nationalism: Print Culture and Modern Islam in Turkey” Oxford University Press, 2014
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Apr 06, 2015 |
Aristotle Tziampiris, “The Emergence of Israeli-Greek Cooperation” (Springer, 2015)
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Mar 30, 2015 |
Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, “The Myth of the Taliban/Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan, 1970-2010” (Oxford UP, 2014)
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Mar 05, 2015 |
Bedross Der Matossian, “Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire” (Stanford UP, 2014)
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Feb 24, 2015 |
Christian C. Sahner, “Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present” (Oxford University Press, 2014)
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Feb 12, 2015 |
Gohar Homayounpour, “Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran” (MIT Press, 2012)
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Dec 19, 2014 |
General Daniel Bolger, “Why We Lost” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014)
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Dec 12, 2014 |
Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, and Sarah Shourd, “A Sliver of Light” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014)
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Nov 10, 2014 |
Jonathan A. C. Brown, “Misquoting Muhammad” (Oneworld Publications, 2014)
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Oct 30, 2014 |
Amanullah De Sondy, “The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities” (Bloomsbury, 2014)
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Oct 27, 2014 |
Carlotta Gall, “The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014)
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Oct 23, 2014 |
Sarah Bowen Savant, “The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran: Tradition, Memory, and Conversion” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
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Oct 16, 2014 |
Joel Migdal, “Shifting Sands: The United States and the Middle East” (Columbia UP, 2014)
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Oct 10, 2014 |
Mariam al-Attar, “Islamic Ethics: Divine Command Theory in Arabo-Islamic Thought” (Routledge, 2010)
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Oct 02, 2014 |
Nabil Matar, “Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam: The Originall and Progress of Mahometanism” (Columbia UP, 2013)
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Sep 18, 2014 |
William Chittick, “Divine Love: Islamic Literature and the Path to God” (Yale UP, 2013)
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Sep 02, 2014 |
Ovamir Anjum, “Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought: The Taymiyyan Moment” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
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Aug 22, 2014 |
Ronen Shamir, “Current Flow: The Electrification of Palestine” (Stanford UP, 2013)
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Jul 23, 2014 |
John P. Turner, “Inquisition in Early Islam” (I.B. Tauris, 2013)
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Jul 23, 2014 |
J. Matthias Determann, “Historiography in Saudi Arabia: Globalization and the State in the Middle East” (Tauris, 2014)
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Jun 20, 2014 |
Hugh Talat Halman, “Where The Two Seas Meet” (Fons Vitae, 2013)
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Jun 10, 2014 |
Najam Haider, “The Origins of the Shia: Identity, Ritual, and Sacred Space in Eighth-Century Kufa” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
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May 23, 2014 |
Marwa Elshakry, “Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
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May 23, 2014 |
Sean Anthony, “Crucifixion and Death as Spectacle” (American Oriental Society, 2014)
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May 12, 2014 |
Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, “Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East” (Yale UP, 2014)
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May 11, 2014 |
Sa’diyya Shaikh, “Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn Arabi, Gender and Sexuality” (University of North Carolina Press, 2012)
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Apr 29, 2014 |
Ayesha Chaudhry, “Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition” (Oxford University Press, 2013)
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Mar 29, 2014 |
Ahmad Atif Ahmad, “The Fatigue of the SharÄ«’a” (Palgrave, 2012)
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Mar 01, 2014 |
Rebecca Williams, “Muhammad and the Supernatural: Medieval Arab Views” (Routledge, 2013)
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Feb 03, 2014 |
Joshua Mitchell, “Tocqueville in Arabia: Dilemmas in a Democratic Age” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
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Jan 20, 2014 |
Joshua Mitchell, “Tocqueville in Arabia: Dilemmas in a Democratic Age” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
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Jan 20, 2014 |
Ahmed El Shamsy, “The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
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Jan 10, 2014 |
Rumee Ahmed, “Narratives of Islamic Legal Theory” (Oxford UP, 2012)
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Dec 20, 2013 |
Agostino Cilardo, “The Early History of Islamili Jurisprudence” (I. B. Tauris, 2013)
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Dec 02, 2013 |
Mohammed Rustom, “The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mulla Sadra” (SUNY Press, 2012)
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Oct 30, 2013 |
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, “The Devil That Never Dies” (Little, Brown and Co., 2013)
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Oct 22, 2013 |
Nancy Khalek, “Damascus after the Muslim Conquest” (Oxford University Press, 2011)
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Sep 06, 2013 |
Ronald Suny et al., “A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire” (Oxford UP, 2011)
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Sep 02, 2013 |
R. Kevin Jaques, “Ibn Hajar: Makers of Islamic Civilization” (I. B. Tauris, 2013)
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Jul 06, 2013 |
Mohammad Khalil, “Islam and the Fate of Others: The Salvation Question” (Oxford UP, 2012)
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Jun 11, 2013 |
Martin Nguyen, “Sufi Master and Qur’an Scholar: Abu’l-Qasim al-Qushayri and the Lata’if al-isharat” (Oxford University Press, 2012)
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May 13, 2013 |
Muzammil Hussain and Phillip Howard, “Democracy’s Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Arab Spring” (Oxford UP 2013)
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Apr 26, 2013 |
Jason Brownlee, “Democracy Prevention: The Politics of the U.S.-Egyptian Alliance” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
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Oct 28, 2012 |
Ali Ansari, “The Politics of Nationalism in Modern Iran” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
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Oct 13, 2012 |
Whitney Bodman, “The Poetics of Iblis: Narrative Theology in the Qur’an” (Harvard UP, 2011)
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Sep 19, 2012 |
David Lesch, “Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad” (Yale UP, 2012)
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Sep 18, 2012 |
Vijay Mahajan, “The Arab World Unbound: Tapping into the Power of 350 Million Consumers” (Jossey-Bass, 2012)
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Aug 22, 2012 |
Avner Ben Zaken, “Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1560-1660” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2010)
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Aug 11, 2012 |
Franck Salameh, “Language, Memory, and Identity in the Middle East: The Case for Lebanon” (Lexington Books, 2010)
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Jul 27, 2012 |
Mark Haas, “The Clash of Ideologies: Middle Eastern Politics and American Security” (Oxford UP, 2012)
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Jul 18, 2012 |
Ann Elizabeth Mayer, “Islam and Human Rights: Traditions and Politics” (Westview Press, 2012)
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Jun 24, 2012 |
Allen Fromherz, “Qatar: A Modern History” (Georgetown UP, 2012)
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Jun 11, 2012 |
Laury Silvers, “A Soaring Minaret: Abu Bakr al-Wasiti and the Rise of Baghdadi Sufism” (SUNY Press, 2010)
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Oct 25, 2011 |
Carool Kersten, “Cosmopolitans and Heretics: New Muslim Intellectuals and the Study of Islam” (Columbia University Press, 2011)
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Sep 14, 2011 |
Charles Townshend, “Desert Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia” (Harvard University Press, 2011)
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Aug 31, 2011 |
Dov Zakheim, "A Vulcan's Tale: How the Bush Administration Mismanaged the Reconstruction of Afghanistan" (Brookings Institution Press, 2011)
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Jul 15, 2011 |
Greg Myre and Jennifer Griffin, “This Burning Land: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Transformed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” (Wiley, 2011)
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Jun 10, 2011 |
Reuel Marc Gerecht, “The Wave: Man, God, and the Ballot Box in the Middle East” (Hoover Institution Press, 2011)
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May 18, 2011 |
Michael A. Reynolds, “Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1908-1918” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
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Apr 22, 2011 |
Giancarlo Casale, “The Ottoman Age of Exploration” (Oxford UP, 2010)
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Mar 18, 2011 |
W. Taylor Fain, “American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian Gulf Region” (Palgrave-McMillan, 2008)
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Mar 14, 2011 |
Lesley Hazleton, “After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split” (Doubleday, 2009)
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Mar 07, 2011 |
Amanda Podany, “Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East” (Oxford UP, 2010)
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Aug 19, 2010 |