Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New Books Support our show by becoming a pre
Upon their independence, Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian governments turned to the Global South and
The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics: Women Politicians Write from Prison (Pluto Press, 2022) is a o
From the overloaded courts with their constantly changing dates and appointments to the need to prov
Providing a longue durée perspective on the Arab uprisings of 2011, Benoît Challand narrates the tra
In From Adapa to Enoch: Scribal Culture and Religious Vision in Judea and Babylonia (Mohr Siebeck, 2
In Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey (Duke UP, 2023), Zeyne
Modernist Iranian art represents a highly diverse field of cultural production deeply involved in di
Marvels like enchanted rings and sorcerers’ stones were topics of fascination in the Middle Ages, no
It’s one of the strange artifacts of history that Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania, was once cont
For centuries, the Mosque of Eyüp Sultan has been one of Istanbul’s most important pilgrimage destin
The Persian Gulf today is home to multiple cosmopolitan urban hubs of globalization. This did not st
Foremost among the images of the Armenian Genocide is the specter of tattooed Islamized Armenian wom
Triumphant capitalism has in our time engendered a new global class that lives and works in a border
World War I was a catastrophe for the lands that would become Lebanon. With war came famine, and wit
The Maghrebi Quarter of Jerusalem long sat in the shadow of the Western Wall, the last vestige of th
Peter Adamson's book Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2023) provides an in
In A Sephardi Turkish Patriot: Gad Franco in the Turmoil of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Repub
Pallavi Narayan's book Pamuk's Istanbul: The Self and the City (Routledge, 2022) reconstructs Istanb
The Book of Esther, one of the historical books in the Torah and the Old Testament, is known as a st
The Sultan's Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging (Stanford UP, 2020) uncovers th
