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Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai (Stanford UP, 2020) by Todd Reisz is a critical histori
Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora (Oxford University Press, 2025) analyzes biblical and
Rav Kook’s Vision: Halakhah, Secular Knowledge, and the Renewal of Judaism. Those of us who know som
Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity (Edinburgh UP, 2025) examines a poetic movement that rose from
Garden of Egypt: Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyūm (University of Michigan
A powerful new history detailing the most significant military clashes between Islam and Christendom
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How were Moroccan Muslim and Jewish cultures depicted in Spanish literature, journalism, and photogr
When the Safavid dynasty, founded in 1501, built a state that championed Iranian identity and Twelve
Abu Bakr al-Suli was an Abbasid polymath and table companion, as well as a legendary chess player. H
Those of us who have some background in Jewish history are taught that the Ottoman Empire encouraged
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Imprisoning a Revolution: Writings from Egypt’s Incarcerated (U California Press, 2025), edited by C
The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean (Univers
Ahmed M. Abozaid’s Counterterrorism Strategies in Egypt: Permanent Exceptions in the War on Terror (
The untold history of Czechoslovakia's complex relations with Middle Eastern terrorists and revoluti
In this episode of Radio ReOrient, Salman Sayyid and Chella Ward spoke to Professor Marc Van De Mier
This book discusses hagiographic, historiographical, hymnological, and theological sources that cont
