Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New Books Support our show by becoming a pre
Gendering the Hadith Tradition: Recentering the Authority of Aisha, Mother of the Believers (Oxford
In Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013:: An Anthropological Approach (R
In their handling of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process over the decades, U.S. officials have dis
Walking along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul and talking to those he passes, Alexander Ch
In his majestic and encyclopedic new book Slavery and Islam (Oneworld Academic, 2019), Jonathan A. C
Daphna Sharfman's book Jerusalem in the Second World War (Routledge, 2024) is the first to present t
Ever since the Taliban victory in 2021 there has been very little prospect of significant change in
Adam Bursi’s Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam (Edinburg University Pr
Just in Time - the urgent need for a just transition in the Arab region. The newly published book Di
In Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul (
How should we think about violent accounts in the Bible? Why did Gandhi urge the Jews to turn a blin
In her stunning new book, Giving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times (University of Calif
The Republic of Turkey was founded a hundred years ago on 29 October 1923. Turkey holds a unique pos
Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature (Stanford UP, 2023) is a digital-
Bedross Der Matossian's The Armenian Social Democrat Hnchakian Party: Politics, Ideology and Transna
For almost seven centuries, two powers dominated the region we now call the Middle East: Rome and Pe
Nicholas Morton’s The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187 (Oxford UP
Beginning in August 1946, stateless and visaless Jews, most of them survivors of the Nazi death camp
Some people are good at what they do, some are enthusiastic about their work. This guest brings both
American Jews began debating Palestinian rights issues even before Israel’s founding in 1948. Geoffr
