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In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in T
What was popular entertainment like for everyday Arab societies in Middle Eastern cities during the
Laying the foundation for an understanding of US-Israeli relations, this lively and accessible book
My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine (Redwood Press, 2024) is a riveting and unapologetic acc
In Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics (Duke UP, 2023), Salar Mameni historicizes the popularization of th
How are notions of justice and equality constructed in Islamic virtue ethics (akhlaq)? How are Islam
Over the last two decades in Beirut, graffiti makers have engaged in a fierce “war of colors,” seeki
Capitalism is not only an economic system but also a system of production and allocation of hope. In
This week, RBI Director John Torpey speaks with Amos Goldberg, Professor of Holocaust History at the
The Indian state of Kerala is one of the largest blocs of migrants in the oil economies of the Arab
In Literary Optics: Staging the Collective in the Nahda (Syracuse UP, 2024), Maha AbdelMegeed offers
In this evocative, insightful memoir, a leading voice in Middle Eastern Studies revisits his childho
Palestinian writing imagines the nation, not as a nation-in-waiting but as a living, changing struct
Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ot
In their landmark new translation of the Qur’an, The Qur’an: A Verse Translation (LIveright, 2024),
On today's episode of the New Books Network, we are privileged to have Professor Arie Dubnov joining
The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice (Edinburgh UP, 2021), by Huda Fakhreddine, examine
Ahmed M. Abozaid’s Undesired Revolution: The Arab Uprising in Egypt--A Three Level Analysis (Brill,
Written by iconic Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdel Kouddous, this classic of love, desire, and family b
In Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East (Cambridge UP, 2023), Jae Han investigates ho
