Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New Books Support our show by becoming a pre
Desert Paradises: Surveying the Landscapes of Dubai’s Urban Model (Routledge, 2019) explores how des
The 2011 uprisings in Arab countries put their diplomats under scrutiny: they faced unprecedented po
Law and Self-Knowledge in the Talmud (Cambridge UP, 2018) examines the emergence of self-knowledge a
In his majestic and encyclopedic new book Slavery and Islam (Oneworld Academic, 2019), Jonathan A. C
Revisionism, a form of literary criticism, is an integral part of scholarly research, and revisionis
With scholarship in the discipline of history witnessing a shift toward global approaches to local h
Partitioning Palestine: British Policymaking at the End of the Empire (University of Chicago Press,
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be
“The library is a gathering pool of narratives and of the people who come to find them. It is where
In her debut book, City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk (Stanford Uni
Narges Bajoghli’s gripping new book Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic (Stanf
How did Muslims respond to foreign goods in an age characterized by global exchange and European imp
Barbara Spackman’s riveting study identifies a strand of what it calls “Accidental Orientalism” in n
In Israel Has a Jewish Problem: Self Determination as Self Elimination (Oxford University Press, 201
Italy's current crisis of Mediterranean migration and detention has its roots in early twentieth cen
In Iran and Palestine: Past, Present and Future (Routledge, 2019), Seyed Ali Alavi (SOAS University
The companion publication to the 2019-2020 traveling exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time:
What precisely is “Muslim theology?” What would a “Muslim theology” in the present day look like? An
In her book Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic (Stanford University Press, 20
In her powerful new book Women and Gender in Iraq: Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation (Cambri
