Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New Books Support our show by becoming a pre
Despite enduring for nearly five centuries, the Roman Republic ended in a series of crises and wars
Both a history of science and a history of Islam, The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science
A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Mor
How was Jewish life affected by the First World War? How did Jews around the world understand, engag
Following a 2011 meeting of the annual Mediterranean Workshop at the University of Minnesota, Patric
In Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture (Revised Edition)
In her new book, Warriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema (Wayne State University Press 20
Thomas Schmidinger‘s Rojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria’s Kurds (Pluto Press, 2018) is
Samuel Helfont‘s Compulsion in Religion: Saddam Hussein, Islam and the Roots of Insurgencies in Iraq
Religious music can be a source of comfort and release, but also a remembrance of sadness and loss.
For all that China’s twenty-first-century ‘rise’ is a much-discussed notion both within the country
How would Israelites have understood their nation’s covenant relationship with Yahweh? Dr. Robert Mi
Ellen R. Wald’s timely, well-written history of the Saudi national oil company, Saudi Inc. The Arabi
Joseph Ben Prestel talks with us about Emotional Cities: Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo
Courtney Freer‘s new book Rentier Islamism: The Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gulf Monarchi
In the 6th century CE, the Roman emperor Justinian embarked upon a series of wars that seemed to her
Recent years have seen new waves of research in Syriac studies, the medieval Middle East, and family
Pakistan Under Siege: Extremism, Society, and the State (Brookings, 2018) provides a unique insight
Cyrus Ali Zargar, Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida, is the author of The Pol
In Middle Eastern and Islamic intellectual history, there has long been an assumption of decline in
