Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New Books Support our show by becoming a pre
Ethan L. Menchinger‘s The First of the Modern Ottomans: The Intellectual History of Ahmed Vasif (Cam
Toufoul Abou-Hodeib‘s A Taste for Home: The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut (Stanford Universi
Space Science and the Arab World, Astronauts, Observatories and Nationalism in the Middle East (I. B
Often, when writing the intellectual history of the Middle East, we make assumptions about the influ
In his new book, In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea (Princeton University Press, 2018), Pro
Modeled on Bad Girls of Japan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), Bad Girls of the Arab World (University of
In the recent past, anti-Muslim hate crimes and rhetoric have surged across America and Europe. Much
Literacy is often portrayed as a social good. Composing Egypt: Reading, Writing, and the Emergence o
Abu Nasr Al-Farabi (c. 872 – c. 950) a philosopher who wrote on politics, metaphysics, and logic as
Mihri Hatun: Performance, Gender-Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History (Syracuse U
In Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 (Atlantic Monthly Press,
The study of Palestine and Israel has been largely shaped by the politics of the conflict and thus,
Who are the American Jews behind many of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank? This is the quest
In the Arab world, photography is often tied to the modernizing efforts of imperial and colonial pow
Sufism, like many terms in the study of Islam, can be difficult to define and even more difficult to
The French-Algerian War that erupted in 1954 ended with the emergence of an independent Algeria in 1
Connections between France and North Africa have long been shaped by colonialism, nationalism, and e
Spanning several decades, the work of Ella Shohat, a Professor of Cultural Studies and Middle Easter
Studies of Arab nationalism populate the field of Middle Eastern studies, perhaps even overpopulate
The Syrian Revolution, which began in March 2011, has since resulted in what can be described as a c
