Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New Books Support our show by becoming a pre
Azraq refugee camp, built in 2014 and host to forty thousand refugees, is one of two official humani
Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Qui
In recent years, Israeli state policies have attempted to dissuade Orthodox Jews from creating large
In Turkey, circumcision is viewed as both a religious obligation and a rite of passage for young boy
The emergence of Turkish nationalism prior to World War I opened the way for various ethnic, religio
Amir Artaban Sedaghat’s Translating Rumi into the West: A Linguistic Conundrum and Beyond (Routledge
It’s amazing that art historians like Robert Hillenbrand got to study the “Great Mongol Shahnama” at
A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism th
The doctrine of the modern law of the sea is commonly believed to have developed in Renaissance Euro
The twenty years between the World Wars saw remarkable changes in the Middle East. In Palestine, Bri
Today I talked to Joseph Sassoon about his book The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Mak
Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice (Brill, 2020) brings together the latest research
Daniel Boyarin's new book The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto (Yale University Press, 2023) is
A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Collection of Stories Curated by Lela Sebbar (U Ca
A new account of the Mediterranean economy in the 10th to 12th centuries, forcing readers to entirel
The move away from post-Cold War unipolarity and the rise of revisionist states like Russia and Chin
With Afghanistan once again under Taliban rule and Pakistan reeling under a severe economic and poli
Süleyman, who ruled the Ottoman Empire between 1520 and 1566, was a globally recognized figure durin
In March 2004, the unprovoked ambush killing and desecration of the bodies of American civilian secu
Jesus changed our world forever. But who was he and what do we know about him? David Wenham's Jesus
