Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New Books Support our show by becoming a pre
Paul Thomas Chamberlin has written a book about the Cold War that makes important claims about the n
In her stunning new book, Giving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times (University of Calif
Discussions of Middle East politics will inevitably bring Islamism to the table and with it, questio
Jennifer Dixon’s Dark Pasts: Changing the State’s Story in Turkey and Japan (Cornell University Pres
For hundreds of years, people living on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea enslaved one another. M
How do peripheral places assert the centrality of their identity? Why are fanciful events, like drea
Whether in space colonies or through geo-engineering, the looming disaster of climate change inspire
Religion and empire are often intertwined. Regarding Muslims there are well known dynasties like the
Andreas Krieg’s edited volume, Divided Gulf: The Anatomy of a Crisis(Palgrave, 2019), brings togethe
In her newest book, Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian,
In the post–Cold War era, states increasingly find themselves in conflicts with nonstate actors. Fin
Since 2011, civil wars and state failure have wracked the Arab world, underlying the misalignment be
In recent years, the concept of a ‘Cold War’ has been revived to describe the rivalry between Saudi
In the late second century BCE, a series of trading route developed between China in the east and Ro
In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests, the Seleucid kings ruled a vast territory stret
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider pub
Signatures of Struggle: The Figuration of Collectivity in Israeli Fiction (SUNY Press, 2018) offers
Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars (Georgetown University Press, 2019), investigates t
Ahmad Atif Ahmad’s Pitfalls of Scholarship: Lessons from Islamic Studies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
In On the Mediterranean and the Nile: The Jews of Egypt (Indiana University Press, 2017), Aimée Isr
