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From the image offered by the Babylonian Talmud, Jewish elites were deeply embedded within the Sasan
Today I talked to Christopher Paul Clohessy about Half of My Heart: The Narratives of Zaynab, Daught
In the contemporary world, political violence has been an unavoidable issue for everyone. It is ther
Pakistan, founded less than a decade after a homeland for India's Muslims was proposed, is both the
Today I talked to Julia Caterina Hartley about Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary C
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Lucia Ardovini to discuss the Brotherhood’s search for identit
Egypt is revered as the home of the famous Desert Ascetics, who first embraced a monastic life and e
In the aftermath of the First World War the Western great powers sought to redefine international no
In their book Women, Households, and the Hereafter in the Qur’an: A Patronage of Piety (Oxford UP/In
In Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land (Yale University Press, 2024), Dr
Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War: Essays on Philology and Responsibility (Brill, 2019) is the firs
A harrowing account on the frontlines of the war between Israel and Hamas, The October 7 War: Israel
Today I talked to Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold's their book Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy fr
Dr. Aviad Moreno is himself an incarnation of entwined homelands. He is an Israeli whose grandfather
Ehaab D. Abdou's book Education, Civics, and Citizenship in Egypt: Towards More Inclusive Curricular
In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests, the Seleucid kings ruled a vast territory stret
The Algerian War of Independence constituted a major turning point of 20th century history. The conf
Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine (NYU Press, 2024) digs into the e
An interview with Dr. Alexandre Caeiro in which we discuss Islamic law and institutions in Qatar, se
Violet Moller has written a narrative history of the transmission of books from the ancient world to
