Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New Books Support our show by becoming a pre
From efficient instructions on how to kill civilians to horrifying videos of beheadings, no terroris
Who are the Jews from Arab countries? What were relations with Muslims like? What made Jews leave co
Following the Iranian Revolution of 1978—79, public and scholarly interest in Iran have skyrocketed,
Iran has one of the planet's highest rates of addiction. Maziyar Ghiabi's Drug Politics: Managing Di
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re
Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran (Stanford University Press, 2019)
How do contemporary events shape the ways in which we read, understand, and interpret historical pro
Scholarly and public discourse on Islamic intellectual thought in the modern period tend to frame it
In the absence of any real certainty about the nature and intention of the early sources that tell u
As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of
In July 1958, U.S. Marines stormed the beach in Beirut, Lebanon, ready for combat. Farcically. they
Much has been written about the Crusades, the religiously-inspired wars that pockmarked the later ce
The things that make people academics -- as deep fascination with some arcane subject, often borderi
In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history. In The Rise and
Joanna Lillis’ Dark Shadows, Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan (I. B. Tauris, 2018) takes the re
“Moderation in times of extremism is a revolutionary idea. It is a positive, courageous value, as op
In October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt's relationship with the Nile
Building on nearly two decades of scholarship about sectarianism and communal relations in the Moder
In this new book, Revolution and its Discontents, Political Thought and Reform in Iran (Cambridge Un
In today’s podcast, host Robert Elliott speaks with Dr. Perin Gürel about her new book The Limits of
