Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New Books Support our show by becoming a pre
The practice of Partition understood as the physical division of territory along ethno-religious lin
The second part of the interview with Prof. Ella Shohat in which ghosts, nationalism/national identi
We start this season of International Horizons with an interview with Dr. Eli Karetny, an American p
In The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East (Cambridge UP, 20
We've heard and rehearsed the conventional wisdom about oil: that the U.S. military presence in the
Nearly 50 years since the European Foreign Ministers issued their first declaration on the conflict
In 330 BC, Alexander the Great conquers the city of Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of the Persia
A conversation between Prof. Salman Sayyid and Prof. Ella Shohat on (amongst other topics) the signi
A vibrant urban settlement from mediaeval times and the royal seat of the Safavid dynasty, the city
Over the course of the Almoravid (1040–1147) and Almohad (1121–1269) dynasties, mediaeval Marrakesh
Toward the end of the twentieth century, an unprecedented surge of writing altered the Israeli liter
In A History of the Hasmonean State: Josephus and Beyond (T&T Clark, 2019), Kenneth Atkinson tel
An interview with Professor Shenhav in which the politics of translation is discussed. Learn more ab
Cairo's synagogues shed new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community un
Traces of Enayat (Transit Books, 2023) is a work of creative nonfiction tracing the mysterious life
By examining the intersection of Islamic law, state law, religion, and culture in the Egyptian natio
For Kahane, the greatest enemy of the Jews was not the black nationalist, the greatest enemy of the
In the 2010s, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) began to mobilize an international
Russia's forceful re-entry into the Middle Eastern arena, and the accentuated continuity of Soviet p
How did ordinary Iraqis survive the occupation of their communities by the Islamic State? How did th
