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Michael Allan, "Cinema before the World: The Global Routes of the Lumière Brothers" (Fordham UP, 2026)
35 mins; March 29, 2026
On Our Continuing Age of Oil with Journalist Stanley Reed
46 mins; March 28, 2026
James McDougall, "Worlds of Islam: A Global History" (Basic Books, 2026)
31 mins; March 27, 2026
Craig Perry, "Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History" (Princeton UP, 2026)
53 mins; March 21, 2026
Paul Kohlbry, "Plots and Deeds: Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for Land Justice in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2026)
70 hours 10 mins; March 20, 2026
Matthew Moran et al., "Coercing Syria on Chemical Weapons" (Oxford UP, 2025)
37 mins; March 14, 2026
Understanding Iran Under Attack: A Discussion with Author Vali Nasr
48 mins; March 12, 2026
Mai Serhan, "I Can Imagine It for Us: A Palestinian Daughter's Memoir" (American University in Cairo Press, 2025)
32 mins; February 21, 2026
Eray Çayli, "Earthmoving: Extractivism, War, and Visuality in Northern Kurdistan" (U Texas Press, 2025)
63 hours 10 mins; February 20, 2026
David Frankfurter ed., "Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic" (Brill, 2019)
39 mins; February 19, 2026
Sary Zananiri, "Photographing Biblical Modernity: Frank Scholten in British Mandate Palestine" (I.B. Tauris, 2026)
74 hours 53 mins; February 12, 2026
Najati Sidqi, "Memoirs of a Palestinian Communist: The Secret Life of Najati Sidqi" (U Texas Press, 2025)
25 mins; January 30, 2026
Yossef Rapoport, "Becoming Arab: The Formation of Arab Identity in the Medieval Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2025)
41 mins; January 29, 2026
Gershom Gorenberg, "War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East" (Public Affairs, 2021)
62 hours 7 mins; January 26, 2026
Donna Stein, "The Empress and I: How an Ancient Empire Collected, Rejected and Rediscovered Modern Art" (Skira, 2020)
46 mins; January 26, 2026
Adam Bursi, "Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
56 mins; January 26, 2026
Zainab Saleh, "Political Undesirables: Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq" (Stanford UP, 2025)
44 mins; January 24, 2026
Sean Mathews, "The New Byzantines: The Rise of Greece and Return of the Near East" (Hurst, 2025)
45 mins; January 09, 2026
Sheiba Kian Kaufman, "Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama" (Oxford UP, 2025)
59 mins; January 08, 2026
Nile Green, "Serendipitous Translations: A Sourcebook on Sri Lanka in the Islamic Indian Ocean" (U Texas Press, 2026)
62 hours 24 mins; January 07, 2026
Julia Elyachar, "On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo" (Duke UP, 2025)
36 mins; January 04, 2026
Suraj Milind Yengde, "Caste: A Global Story" (Hurst, 2025)
47 mins; December 25, 2025
Samuel Helfont, "The Iraq Wars: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2025)
62 hours 15 mins; December 24, 2025
Leila Hudson, "Lines of Flight, Assemblages of Home: Syrian Women Displaced" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
52 mins; December 19, 2025
Daniel K. Falk and Rodney A. Werline, "Prayer in the Ancient World Vol.1" (Brill, 2027)
35 mins; December 17, 2025
John Tolan, "Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present" (Princeton UP, 2025)
51 mins; December 15, 2025
Ayoush Lazikani, "The Medieval Moon: A History of Haunting and Blessing" (Yale UP, 2025)
37 mins; December 06, 2025
Ali Anooshahr, "Slavery in the Early Mughal World: The Life and Thoughts of Jawhar Aftabachi (1520s–1580s)" (Oxford UP, 2025)
54 mins; December 05, 2025
Anny Gaul, "Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato" (U California Press, 2025)
57 mins; December 04, 2025
Mark Griffiths, "Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
47 mins; December 03, 2025
Anne Irfan, "A Short History of the Gaza Strip" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
34 mins; December 02, 2025
Fahad Ahmad Bishara, "Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History" (U California Press, 2025)
45 mins; November 27, 2025
Faisal Devji, "Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam" (Yale UP, 2025)
64 hours 48 mins; November 22, 2025
Killian Clarke, "Return of Tyranny: Why Counterrevolutions Emerge and Succeed" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
65 hours 1 min; November 21, 2025
Basit Kareem Iqbal, "The Dread Heights: Tribulation and Refuge after the Syrian Revolution" (Fordham UP, 2025)
76 hours 50 mins; November 14, 2025
Justin Marozzi, "Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World" (Pegasus Books, 2025)
40 mins; November 13, 2025
Eric H. Cline, "Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed" (Princeton UP, 2025)
67 hours 5 mins; November 12, 2025
Aaron Magid, "The Most American King: Abdullah of Jordan" (Universal Publishers, 2025)
52 mins; November 12, 2025
Fahad Ahmad Bishara, "Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History" (U California Press, 2025)
109 hours 59 mins; November 06, 2025
Sarah Griswold, "Resurrecting the Past: France's Forgotten Heritage Mandate" (Cornell UP, 2025)
55 mins; November 03, 2025
Patrick Brittenden, "Algerian and Christian: Christian Theological Formation, Identity and Mission in Contemporary Algeria" (Regnum Books, 2025)
70 hours 2 mins; November 02, 2025
Aria Fani, "Reading Across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism" (U Texas Press, 2024)
52 mins; October 31, 2025
13.3 – Ismail Patel and Hatem Bazian
67 hours 59 mins; October 31, 2025
James Grehan, "Empire of Manners: Ottoman Sociability and War-Making in the Long Eighteenth Century" (Stanford UP, 2025)
36 mins; October 17, 2025
Moudhy Al-Rashid, "Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
43 mins; October 16, 2025
Hamid Dabashi, "After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization" (Haymarket, 2025)
37 mins; October 15, 2025
Mahboob Qirvanian and Behnaz Mirzai, "Life of an Enslaved African in the Ottoman Empire and Iran" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
60 hours 38 mins; October 14, 2025
Karl Ittmann, "Fuelling Empire: The British Imperial Oil Complex, 1886-1945" (Oxford UP, 2025)
42 mins; October 14, 2025
Philip Graubart, "Here There Is No Why" and Philip Graubart "Here There Is No Why"
68 hours 29 mins; October 12, 2025
Hannah Pool, "The Game: The Economy of Undocumented Migration from Afghanistan to Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)
51 mins; October 07, 2025
Georgios Tsourous, "Orthodox Choreographies: Boundaries, Borders and Materiality in Jerusalem's Old City" (Gorgias Press, 2024)
64 hours 5 mins; September 30, 2025
Gina Vale, "The Unforgotten Women of the Islamic State" (Oxford UP, 2024)
56 mins; September 29, 2025
Rosemary Admiral, "Living Law: Women and Legality in Marinid Morocco" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
49 mins; September 29, 2025
Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, "Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East" (UP Colorado, 2025)
39 mins; September 28, 2025
Elizabeth E. Imber, "Uncertain Empire: Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism" (Stanford UP, 2025)
72 hours 46 mins; September 26, 2025
Paris Papamichos Chronakis, "The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule" (Stanford UP, 2024)
71 hours 50 mins; September 25, 2025
Samer Al-Saber, "A Movement's Promise: The Making of Contemporary Palestinian Theater" (Stanford UP, 2025)
32 mins; September 24, 2025
Selim Koru, "New Turkey and the Far Right: How Reactionary Nationalism Remade a Country" (I. B. Tauris, 2025)
47 mins; September 23, 2025
Wendell Marsh, "Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities" (Columbia UP, 2025)
53 mins; September 22, 2025
Hadi Abdullah, "Critical Conditions: My Diary of the Syrian Revolution" (Doppelhouse Press, 2025)
62 hours 52 mins; September 17, 2025
Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, "Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
57 mins; September 17, 2025
Christine Shepardson, "A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity" (U California Press, 2025)
84 hours 18 mins; September 15, 2025
Amir Moosavi, "Dust That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War" (Stanford UP, 2025)
28 mins; September 14, 2025
Dorothy Armstrong, "Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
74 hours 0 mins; September 10, 2025
Steve Tibble, "Assassins and Templars: A Battle in Myth and Blood" (Yale UP, 2025)
56 mins; September 09, 2025
Karen Bartlett, "Escape from Kabul: The Afghan Women Judges Who Fled the Taliban and Those They Left Behind" (New Press, 2025)
61 hours 3 mins; September 05, 2025
Sam Dalrymple, "Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia" (William Collins, 2025)
53 mins; September 04, 2025
Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, "Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East" (UP of Colorado, 2025)
58 mins; September 04, 2025
Ḥannā Diyāb, "The Book of Travels" (NYU Press, 2022): A Conversation with Johannes Stephan
51 mins; September 01, 2025
Matthew D. C. Larsen and Mark Letteney, "Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration" (U California Press, 2025)
80 hours 39 mins; September 01, 2025
Daisy Livingston, "Managing Paperwork in Mamluk Cairo: Archives, Waqf and Society" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
57 mins; August 30, 2025
Syria After Assad
40 mins; August 29, 2025
Micaela Sahhar, "Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An Encyclopaedia of a Palestinian Family" (Newsouth, 2025)
62 hours 42 mins; August 27, 2025
Omid Safi, “Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition” (Yale UP, 2018)
77 hours 58 mins; August 24, 2025
Lucia Sorbera, "Biography of a Revolution: The Feminist Roots of Human Rights in Egypt" (U of California Press, 2025)
43 mins; August 23, 2025
David Commins, "Saudi Arabia: A Modern History" (Yale UP, 2025)
29 mins; August 20, 2025
Steve L. Monroe, "Mirages of Reform: The Politics of Elite Protectionism in the Arab World" (Cornell UP, 2025)
24 mins; August 19, 2025
Nicholas P. Roberts, "A Sea of Wealth: The Omani Empire and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace" (U California Press, 2025)
53 mins; August 16, 2025
Adriana Carranca, "Soul by Soul: The Evangelical Mission to Spread the Gospel to Muslims" (Columbia UP, 2024)
55 mins; August 16, 2025
Nabil Yasien Mohamed, "Ghazālī’s Epistemology: A Critical Study of Doubt and Certainty" (Routledge, 2024)
80 hours 58 mins; August 15, 2025
Ahmad Shokr, "Harvests of Liberation: Cotton, Capitalism, and the End of Empire in Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2025)
38 mins; August 10, 2025
Nezar AlSayyad and Heba Safey Eldeen, "Cinematic Cairo: Egyptian Urban Modernity from Reel to Real" (American U in Cairo Press, 2022)
68 hours 10 mins; August 07, 2025
Jan Dost, "Safe Corridor" (DarArab, 2025)
32 mins; August 04, 2025
William Marx, "Libraries of the Mind" (Princeton UP, 2025)
65 hours 38 mins; August 03, 2025
Isabel Toral and Beatrice Gruendler, "An Unruly Classic: Kalīla and Dimna and Its Syriac, Arabic, and Early Persian Versions" (Brill, 2024)
65 hours 2 mins; August 03, 2025
Murad Idris, "War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought" (Oxford UP, 2019)
66 hours 1 min; July 30, 2025
Bulent Gokay and Lily Hamourtziadou, "Human Costs of War: 21st Century Human (In)Security from 2003 Iraq to 2022 Ukraine" (Routledge, 2024)
31 mins; July 28, 2025
Ilana Rosen, "Israeli Documentary Poetry: Coming of Age with the State" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
62 hours 42 mins; July 24, 2025
Linda Quiquivix, "Palestine 1492: A Report Back" (Wild Ox Books, 2024)
73 hours 57 mins; July 23, 2025
Ory Amitay, "Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth and History" (Oxford UP, 2025)
46 mins; July 22, 2025
Marc Herman, "After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World" (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
55 mins; July 21, 2025
Lily Hamourtziadou, "Body Count: The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths in Iraq" (Bristol UP, 2021)
31 mins; July 16, 2025
Alissa Walter, "Contested City: Citizen Advocacy and Survival in Modern Baghdad" (Stanford UP, 2025)
33 mins; July 16, 2025
Charles Glass, "Syria in Ashes" (OR Books, 2024)
41 mins; July 14, 2025
Yardena Schwartz, "Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict" (Union Square, 2024)
49 mins; July 11, 2025
Yardena Schwartz, "Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict" (Union Square, 2024)
49 mins; July 11, 2025
Siri Schwabe, "Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile" (Cornell UP, 2023)
49 mins; July 09, 2025
Fadi Zaghmout, "The Man of Middling Height" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
19 mins; July 08, 2025
Pamela Karimi, "Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran" (Leuven UP, 2024)
61 hours 8 mins; July 04, 2025
Sam Dalrymple, "Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia" (HarperCollins UK, 2025)
67 hours 0 mins; July 02, 2025
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