Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New Books Support our show by becoming a pre
Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea (Stanford UP, 2024) by Andrea Wright offers a crit
When a team of Victorian archaeologists dug into a grassy hill in Iraq, they chanced upon one of the
Tahrir Hamdi is a Professor of Resistance Literature at the Arab Open University in Jordan. She is t
Despite the flames of record-breaking temperatures licking at our feet, most people fail to fully gr
In Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920–1950 (Indiana UP, 2022), Kirsten L. Schei
In the latest episode of Unlocking Academia, Raja Aderdor, the host, delves deeper into this fascina
On June 8, 1967, Egypt's most famous radio broadcaster, Ahmed Said, reported that Egyptian, Syrian,
The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their heal
John joins Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian for the roundup episode of the second series of Violen
“No man’s land” invokes stretches of barren landscape, twisted barbed wire, desolation, and the deva
Factual misinformation is spread in conflict zones around the world, often with dire consequences. B
Today, when we think about Gaza we think about the war, the destruction of the city and the constant
Farida Benlyazid and Moroccan Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) unfolds and analyzes the work of Mor
Raised in the Judería or Jewish quarter of Tetouan, Morocco, at the turn of the 20th-century, sixtee
Dr. Simkovich has crossed lines and offered some controversy in her time as a scholar. She taught in
A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel (Brandeis UP, 2024) explor
Historian Emine Ö. Evered’s Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity (University
Arab nationalism has been one of the dominant ideologies in the Middle East and North Africa since t
The period from the Mamlūk reconquest of Acre (1291) to the Ottoman siege of Constantinople (1453) w
Palestine's Christians and the Nationalist Cause: The Late Ottoman and Mandatory Periods (Routledge,
