Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New Books Support our show by becoming a pre
Dr. David Graves is a philosopher, artist, musician and author. He helped found the Academic College
From the East African and Red Sea coasts to the Persian Gulf ports of Bushihr, Kish, and Hurmuz, sai
William Gallois joins the podcast to discuss his latest book, Qayrawān: The Amuletic City, published
Political anthropologists Ajantha Subramanian and Lori Allen are back to continue RTB's Violent Majo
The Ethics of Karbala: Myths, Modernity, and Virtues of Nobility (Routledge, 2024) investigates the
Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming of Age as a Jew of the Nile (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025) is a first-p
This volume utilises the personal papers of Sir Ronald Storrs, as well as other archival materials,
From the nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, recurrent and extreme climate disruptions beca
The Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity: Authors, Texts, and Ideas (Brill, 2024) focuses on the
The Rhodes blood libel of 1840, an outbreak of anti-Jewish violence, was initiated by the island’s g
Avi Shlaim is a celebrated "New Historian” whose earlier work established him as an influential hist
This was an interview that I felt only scratched the surface not only of the book, Lebanon’s Jewish
Zanzibari Muslim Moderns: Islamic Paths to Progress in the Interwar Period (Oxford UP, 2024) is a hi
In one of the first books to ask head-on what it means for Israel to be a Jewish state, Yaacov Yadga
Under Narendra Modi, India has changed dramatically. As the world attempts to grapple with its traje
At the height of literary nationalisms in the twentieth century, leftist internationalists from Turk
War forced millions of Syrians from their homes. It also forced them to rethink the meaning of home
Today I talked to Joy McCorriston about Persistent Pastoralism: Monuments and Settlements in the Arc
Yochai's book, Not in Our Brain: Consciousness, Body, World (Magnes Press, 2019), examines the meani
Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice by Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ, translated by Michael Fishbein and
