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Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/middle-eastern-studies

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