Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New Books Support our show by becoming a pre
What does living “precariously” mean in Casablanca? In 2014 it meant being labeled tcharmil (seeming
The Middle East remains one of the world’s most complicated, thorny—and, uncharitably, unstable—part
There have been Christians in the Holy Land for two thousand years; “we are the first church,” says
In Ways of Seeking: The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation (U California Press, 2024), Em
During the Middle Ages, the Iberian Peninsula was home not to Spain and Portugal but rather to al-An
Despite expectations that the deeply held political and religious organizing principles at the heart
Recent decades have seen an unprecedented number of comics by and about Muslim people enter the glob
Annika Schmeding’s new book Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan
Chicago is home to one of the largest, most politically active Palestinian immigrant communities in
Six hundred years ago, the author of this landmark work of history and religious thought—an esteemed
Zakariyya Tamir is Syria’s foremost writer of short stories, and his works are widely read across th
Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640 (University of Texas Press,
Everyday Life in the Spectacular City is a groundbreaking urban ethnography that reveals how middle-
Global adoption of the Internet has exploded, yet we are only beginning to understand the Internet's
Following the 2011 wave of revolutions and protests in North Africa and the Middle East, new discuss
The roots of the Arab world’s current Russian entanglements reach deep into the tsarist and Soviet p
Over the last thirty years, humanity has discovered thousands of planets outside of our solar system
Yaacov Nir's Establishment and History of the Cyprus Detention Camps for Jewish Refugees (1946-1949)
In the wake of the devastating WWI, three Jews headed the most valuable territory in the British Emp
On July 27th, 1827, the dey of Algiers struck the French consul over his country’s refusal to pay ba
