Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New Books Support our show by becoming a pre
In Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1560-1660 (Johns Hopkins Univer
Franck Salameh achieves his goal of revealing “another” version of the Middle East with his book. La
How do ideologies shape foreign policy? That is question Dr. Mark Haas examines in his new book The
In the new edition to Islam and Human Rights: Traditions and Politics (Westview Press, 2012), Ann El
In his new book Qatar: A Modern History (Georgetown University Press, 2012), Dr. Allen Fromherz, a p
A broad portrait of early Islamic mysticism is fairly well-know. However, there are only a few key f
Often when we read about new Muslim intellectuals we are offered a presentation of their politicized
An earlier author described the British invasion of Mesopotamia in 1914 as “The Neglected War.” It n
In his new book, A Vulcan's Tale: How the Bush Administration Mismanaged the Reconstruction of Afgha
In their new book, This Burning Land: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Transformed Israeli-Palest
In his new book The Wave: Man, God, and the Ballot Box in the Middle East (Hoover Institution Press,
Most of us live in a world of nations. If you were born and live in the Republic of X, then you prob
You’ve probably heard of the “Age of Exploration.” You know, Henry the Navigator, Vasco da Gama, Col
If you ask most Americans when the U.S. became heavily involved in the Persian Gulf, they might cite
Sometimes a shallow explanation, the kind you read in newspapers and hear on television, is enough.
I have a (much beloved) colleague who calls all history about things before AD 1900 “that old stuff.
