Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New Books Support our show by becoming a pre
The “Middle East” has long been an indispensable and ubiquitous term in discussing world affairs, ye
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In 1747, the city of Kerman in Persia burned amidst chaos, destruction and death perpetrated by the
The stories in the Thousand and One Nights, or the Arabian Nights, are familiar to many of us: from
Saleh, the narrator of Out of Mesopotamia (Akashic Books, 2020), is a middle-aged Iranian journalist
Night on Earth: A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918–1930 (Cambridge UP
In this interview, I speak with Marion Holmes Katz about her latest book Wives and Work: Islamic Law
Hamid Keshmirshekan's book The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Tracing the
The Treaty of Lausanne, signed in Switzerland in July 1923, officially settled the conflict between
In the generation after Constantine the Great elevated Christianity to a dominant position in the Ro
The Dhufar Revolution was fought between 1965–1976, in an attempt to depose Oman's British-backed Su
Lucia Carminati's book Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the
Christopher Harrison's book Genocidal Conscription: Drafting Victims and Perpetrators Under the Guis
Simon Mills' book A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship Between England and the
Karen E. Rignall's book An Elusive Common: Land, Politics, and Agrarian Rurality in a Moroccan Oasis
Zahi Zalloua provides the first examination of Palestinian identity from the perspective of Indigene
Through the story of education and the teaching of history in Mandate Palestine, Yoni Furas reframes
Neither laziness nor its condemnation are new inventions, however, perceiving laziness as a social c
When meeting an expatriate friend on my first trip to Dubai, the host at the restaurant where we wer
In The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal (Yale University Press, 2022), Y
