Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New Books Support our show by becoming a pre
Guides have been written to the city of Cairo for generations. Whether they’re for foreigners who’ve
Differently than existing accounts that concentrate on Israeli and Palestinian nationalism, Kfir Coh
In his splendid military history of Britain's pacification of the Arab revolt in Palestine, Britain'
How are notions of justice and equality constructed in Islamic virtue ethics (akhlaq)? How are Islam
The enterprise of journalism is in crisis. Today’s journalists face accusations of “fake news” on th
In Sharing the Burden: The Armenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention, and Anglo-American Visions
The "Arab Spring" shook the world in 2011, revealing profound dissatisfaction throughout the Middle
Did the early Christians believe their myths? Like most ancient—and modern—people, early Christians
Sometimes it seems that there’s nothing left to say about mass violence in the 20th century. But th
Why was a Crusade that was initially meant for Syria end up in Tunis? How did the aspirations of the
Robert Haug’s new book, The Eastern Frontier: Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Ce
In Changing Saudi Arabia, Art, Culture and Society in the Kingdom (Lynne Rienner, 2019), Sean Foley
Violet Moller has written a narrative history of the transmission of books from the ancient world to
The story of Morocco’s independence struggle against France and Spain is a complicated one. Because
The past decade has seen a tremendous production of scholarship on American missionary endeavors in
Most of the time, memory studies focuses on well-known case studies. The result Is that we know lot
The social history of Turkey across the twentieth century has produced a tension between state gover
Botakoz Kassymbekova’s Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan (University of Pittsburgh P
In her debut book, Between the Ottomans and the Entente: The First World War in the Syrian and Leban
Vahram Ter-Matevosyan new book Turkey, Kemalism and the Soviet Union: Problems of Modernization, Ide
