Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New Books Support our show by becoming a pre
Experiencing a major crisis from different viewpoints, step by step: the Suez crisis of 1956— one o
In his groundbreaking new book, Alef is for Allah: Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic
Elizabeth A. Fraser's Mediterranean Encounters: Artists Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774–
Jonathan Fulton's China's Relations with the Gulf Monarchies (Routledge, 2018) sheds light on China’
It's often touted that Rumi is one of the best-selling poets in the United States. That may be the c
The world that Alexander remade in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death in 323 BCE. I
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the great animating foreign policy issues of the twenty-f
Sometimes a book can take inspiration from a (not so) simple map. At the end of his previous book, Q
The history of Palestine is overly political; most studies, especially of the Mandate period, when t
Jonathan Fulton and Li-Chen Sim’s edited volume, External Powers and the Gulf Monarchies(Routledge,
In eastern Tajikistan, the Trans-Pamir Highway flows through the mountains creating a lunar-like lan
I had the opportunity to catch up with Harry O. Maier, professor of New Testament and Early Christia
Alessandro Arduino and Xue Gong’s Securing the Belt and Road, Risk Assessment, Private Security and
The question of Palestinian autonomy has been a key element of Middle Eastern and Arab politics for
In Islamic intellectual history, it is generally assumed that the Ottomans did not contribute much t
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who
Winner of the Middle East Studies Association’s 2018 Albert Hourani Book Award, Alireza Doostdar’s T
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar’s The Politics of Common Sense: State, Society and Culture in Pakistan(Cambridge
Sumantra Bose's new book Secular States, Religious Politics, India, Turkey and the Future of Secular
Arabic script is astounding! Not only because it represents one of the most commonly spoken languag
