Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New Books Support our show by becoming a pre
Anniversaries are funny things. Sometimes, as with the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the
In her fascinating new book Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Ir
Winner of the 2015 American Anthropological Associations Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excel
In the late nineteenth century, Jewish immigrants inspired by Zionism began to settle in Palestine.
In Islam’s Jesus (University of Florida Press, 2015), Zeki Saritoprak explores an old topic from a f
In Conscientious Objectors in Israel: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty (University of Pennsy
In Imagining the Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film (The Pennsylvania State Universit
We tend to think of Philosophy as a professional academic subject that is taught in college classes,
Jorg Matthias Determann‘s new book looks at the history of modern biology in the Arab Gulf monarchie
In her shining new book Sexual Violation in Islamic Law: Substance, Evidence, and Procedure (Cambrid
In Obligation in Exile: The Jewish Diaspora, Israel and Critique (Edinburgh University Press, 2015),
While “fundamentalism” and “authoritarian secularism” are commonly perceived as the two mutually exc
Skepticism is a familiar term to many of us conjuring up notions of doubt, uncertainty, and perhaps
In Gender Hierarchy in the Qur’an: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses (Cambridge University
Tom Sperlinger, Reader in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol,
The assassination of the Armenian-Turkish activist Hrant Dink in 2007 raised uncomfortable questions
How can a perspective on Islamic law and jurisprudence be constructed responding to the lives and pr
The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Hanafi School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (Cambridge
Neha Vora‘s Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2013) is a wonderfu
