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New Books in Middle Eastern Studies
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Lisa Wedeen, "Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
56 mins; January 11, 2021
Steven Serels, "The Impoverishment of the African Red Sea Littoral, 1640–1945" (Palgrave, 2018)
59 mins; January 11, 2021
Niloofar Haeri, "Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer and Poetry in Iran" (Stanford UP, 2020)
63 hours 9 mins; January 08, 2021
Zeynep Kaya, "Mapping Kurdistan: Territory, Self-Determination and Nationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
50 mins; January 07, 2021
Jeremy Pressman, "The Sword is Not Enough: Arabs, Israelis, and the Limits of Military Force" (Manchester UP, 2020)
57 mins; January 07, 2021
Marina Rustow, "The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue" (Princeton UP, 2020)
77 hours 25 mins; January 05, 2021
Adina Hoffman, "Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City" (FSG, 2017)
54 mins; January 04, 2021
Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, "Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History" (Routledge, 2020)
65 hours 18 mins; December 31, 2020
Sean Anthony, "Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam" (U California Press, 2020)
68 hours 49 mins; December 31, 2020
Justine Howe, "The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender" (Routledge, 2020)
40 mins; December 24, 2020
Salih Can Açıksöz, "Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey" (U California Press, 2019)
70 hours 11 mins; December 22, 2020
Beatrice Nicolini, "Land and Maritime Empires in the Indian Ocean" (Educatt, 2017)
56 mins; December 21, 2020
Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages: A Discussion with Roland Betancourt
68 hours 5 mins; December 15, 2020
Nazita Lajevardi, "Outsiders at Home: The Politics of American Islamophobia" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
53 mins; December 14, 2020
Anne K. Bang, "Islamic Sufi Networks in the Western Indian Ocean (c.1880-1940): Ripples of Reform" (Brill, 2014)
97 hours 35 mins; December 03, 2020
Diana Darke, "Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe" (Hurst, 2020)
37 mins; December 03, 2020
David Rundell, "Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads" (I. B. Tauris, 2020)
74 hours 18 mins; November 25, 2020
J. E. Peterson, "The Emergence of the Gulf States: Studies in Modern History" (Bloomsbury, 2016)
42 mins; November 23, 2020
Antonia Bosanquet, "Minding their Place: Space and Religious Hierarchy in Ibn al-Qayyim’s Aáž„kām ahl al-dhimma" (Brill, 2020)
59 mins; November 20, 2020
A. Kanna et al., "Beyond Exception: New Interpretations of the Arabian Peninsula" (Cornell UP, 2020)
52 mins; November 18, 2020
Jerome Slater, "Mythologies Without End: The US, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020" (Oxford UP, 2020)
75 hours 39 mins; November 17, 2020
Christopher J. Lee, "Making a World After Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives" (Ohio UP, 2019)
87 hours 7 mins; November 17, 2020
Michael Muhammad Knight, "Muhammad's Body: Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage" (UNC Press, 2020)
48 mins; November 12, 2020
Ken Tully and Chad Leahy, "Jerusalem Afflicted: Quaresmius, Spain, and the Idea of a 17th-century Crusade" (Routledge, 2019)
90 hours 25 mins; November 11, 2020
Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy" (Stanford UP, 2020)
65 hours 25 mins; November 10, 2020
Pedro Machado, "Pearls, People, and Power: Pearling and Indian Ocean Worlds" (Ohio UP, 2020)
75 hours 23 mins; November 09, 2020
Jon Hoover, "Ibn Taymiyya" (Oneworld, 2020)
57 mins; November 09, 2020
Zainab Saleh, "Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia" (Stanford UP, 2020)
51 mins; November 06, 2020
John Tolan, "Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today" (Princeton UP, 2019)
56 mins; November 06, 2020
Walker Robins, "Between Dixie and Zion: Southern Baptists and Palestine before Israel" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
56 mins; November 05, 2020
Michael Q. Morton, "Masters of the Pearl: A History of Qatar" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
60 hours 58 mins; November 03, 2020
Danielle Haque, “Interrogating Secularism: Race and Religion in Arab Transnational Art and Literature” (Syracuse UP, 2019)
58 mins; October 30, 2020
Eve M. Troutt Powell, "Tell This in my Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire" (Stanford UP, 2013)
48 mins; October 29, 2020
DĂłnal Hassett, "Mobilizing Memory: The Great War and the Language of Politics in Colonial Algeria, 1918-1939" (Oxford UP, 2019)
62 hours 38 mins; October 27, 2020
Andrea Chiovenda, "Crafting Masculine Selves: Culture, War, and Psychodynamics in Afghanistan" (Oxford UP, 2019)
62 hours 30 mins; October 27, 2020
Noel Malcolm, "Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750" (Oxford UP, 2019)
64 hours 1 min; October 22, 2020
Alan Chong, "Critical Reflections on China’s Belt and Road Initiative" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
56 mins; October 16, 2020
Wilson Chacko Jacob, "For God or Empire: Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World" (Stanford UP, 2019)
96 hours 10 mins; October 15, 2020
Alexis Wick, "The Red Sea In Search of Lost Space" (U California Press, 2016)
47 mins; October 12, 2020
Farzaneh Hemmasi, "Tehrangeles Dreaming: Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California's Iranian Pop Music" (Duke UP, 2020)
62 hours 57 mins; October 12, 2020
Matthew S. Hopper, "Slaves of One Master: Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age of Empire” (Yale UP, 2015)
66 hours 56 mins; October 08, 2020
Sophie Richter-Devroe, "Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
45 mins; October 05, 2020
Ziad Fahmy, "Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2020)
33 mins; September 28, 2020
Lorenz M. LĂŒthi, "Cold Wars: Asia, the Middle East, Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
88 hours 44 mins; September 25, 2020
François-Xavier Fauvelle, "The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages" (Princeton UP, 2018)
62 hours 31 mins; September 25, 2020
Victor McFarland, "Oil Powers: A History of the US-Saudi Alliance" (Columbia UP, 2020)
63 hours 50 mins; September 17, 2020
Majid Daneshgar, "Studying the Qur’an in the Muslim Academy" (Oxford UP, 2019)
40 mins; September 15, 2020
Jonathan Lee, "Afghanistan: A History from 1260 to the Present" (Reaktion Books, 2019)
77 hours 0 mins; September 14, 2020
Jacob Mundy, "Libya" (Polity Press, 2018)
65 hours 7 mins; September 07, 2020
James Zogby, "The Tumultuous Decade: Arab Public Opinion and the Upheavals of 2010-2019" (Steuben Press, 2020)
71 hours 40 mins; September 04, 2020
Behnaz A. Mirzai, "A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800-1929" (U Texas Press, 2017)
64 hours 43 mins; September 03, 2020
Adam Hanieh, "Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
75 hours 38 mins; September 01, 2020
Nathalie Peutz, "Islands of Heritage Conservation and Transformation in Yemen" (Stanford UP, 2018)
79 hours 2 mins; August 31, 2020
Richard van Leeuwen, "The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction" (Brill, 2018)
60 hours 49 mins; August 31, 2020
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of the Mediterranean" (Little Brown, 2020)
32 mins; August 31, 2020
M. R. Jackson Bonner, "The Last Empire of Iran" (Gorgias Press, 2020)
70 hours 50 mins; August 26, 2020
A. Meleagrou-Hitchens, "Incitement: Anwar al-Awlaki’s Western Jihad" (Harvard UP, 2020)
64 hours 26 mins; August 25, 2020
David Bressoud, "Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
87 hours 28 mins; August 24, 2020
Zachary Valentine Wright, "Realizing Islam: The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the 18th-Century Muslim World" (UNC Press, 2020)
66 hours 33 mins; August 21, 2020
Nancy Um, "Shipped but Not Sold: Material Culture and the Social Protocols of Trade during Yemen’s Age of Coffee" (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
48 mins; August 20, 2020
Waleed Mahdi, "Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation" (Syracuse UP, 2020)
47 mins; August 20, 2020
Jered Rubin, "Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
76 hours 33 mins; August 19, 2020
Will Smiley, "From Slaves to Prisoners of War: The Ottoman Empire, Russia, and International Law" (Oxford UP, 2018)
72 hours 28 mins; August 18, 2020
Ghassan Moussawi, "Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut" (Temple UP, 2020)
57 mins; August 17, 2020
S. Daulatzai and J. Rana, “With Stones in Our Hands: Reflections on Racism, Muslims and US Empire” (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
79 hours 40 mins; August 14, 2020
Ulrike Freitag, "A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
75 hours 1 min; August 10, 2020
Alyssa Gabbay, "Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam" (I.B. Tauris, 2020)
69 hours 42 mins; August 07, 2020
Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf, "The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace" (All Point Books, 2020)
64 hours 37 mins; August 06, 2020
Nathan Spannaus, "Preserving Islamic Tradition: Abu Nasr Qursawi and the Beginnings of Modern Reformism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
53 mins; August 05, 2020
Asma Barlas, "Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an" (U Texas Press, 2019)
38 mins; August 03, 2020
Gaurav Desai, "Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination" (Columbia UP, 2013)
79 hours 14 mins; August 03, 2020
Paula Fredriksen, "When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation" (Yale UP, 2018)
68 hours 24 mins; July 31, 2020
Danyel Reiche and Tamir Sorek, "Sport, Politics, and Society in the Middle East" (Oxford UP, 2019)
68 hours 51 mins; July 29, 2020
Shahla Haeri, "The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession, Authority and Gender" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
71 hours 20 mins; July 24, 2020
Edward Alpers, "The Indian Ocean in World History" (Oxford UP, 2014)
112 hours 52 mins; July 22, 2020
Sigurd Neubauer, "The Gulf Region and Israel: Old Struggles, New Alliances" (Kodesh Press, 2020)
61 hours 50 mins; July 21, 2020
L. L. Wynn, "Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt: Navigating the Margins of Respectability" (U Texas Press, 2018)
48 mins; July 17, 2020
Scott Levi, "The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th-Century Central Asia" (U Pittsburgh, 2020)
74 hours 55 mins; July 15, 2020
Nasser Rahmaninejad, "A Man of the Theatre: Survival as an Artist in Iran" (New Village Press, 2020)
68 hours 0 mins; July 14, 2020
Pernilla Myrne, "Female Sexuality in the Early Medieval Islamic World: Gender and Sex in Arabic Literature" (IB Taurus, 2020)
53 mins; July 10, 2020
Hafsa Lodi, "Modesty: A Fashion Paradox" (Neem Tree Press, 2020)
46 mins; July 09, 2020
Greg Burris, "The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media, and the Radical Imagination" (Temple UP, 2019)
67 hours 4 mins; July 03, 2020
Ahmed El-Shamsy, "Rediscovering the Islamic Classics" (Princeton UP, 2020)
79 hours 26 mins; July 02, 2020
Sa’ed Atshan, "Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique" (Stanford UP, 2020)
55 mins; June 17, 2020
Lara Harb, "Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
65 hours 48 mins; June 12, 2020
Fadi A. Bardawil, "Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation" (Duke UP, 2020)
90 hours 37 mins; June 11, 2020
BegĂŒm Adalet, "Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey" (Stanford UP, 2018)
76 hours 11 mins; June 08, 2020
Gabriel Said Reynolds, "Allah: God in the Qur’an" (Yale UP, 2020)
52 mins; June 05, 2020
James C. Scott, "Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States" (Yale UP, 2017)
57 mins; June 04, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
120 hours 37 mins; June 02, 2020
M’hamed Oualdi, "A Slave between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa" (Columbia UP, 2020)
41 mins; May 25, 2020
Dana El Kurd, "Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine" (Oxford UP, 2020)
53 mins; May 25, 2020
Yaacov Yadgar, "Israel’s Jewish Identity Crisis: State and Politics in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
55 mins; May 21, 2020
Sarah M. A. Gualtieri, "Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California" (Stanford UP, 2019)
60 hours 18 mins; May 20, 2020
Derek Penslar, "Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader" (Yale UP, 2020)
52 mins; May 19, 2020
Ibrahim Fraihat, "Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming a Chaotic Conflict" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
71 hours 9 mins; May 05, 2020
Ünver RĂŒstem, "Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul" (Princeton UP, 2019)
71 hours 3 mins; April 28, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
59 mins; April 28, 2020
Eric Dursteler, "In the Sultan’s Realm: Two Venetian Reports on the Early Modern Ottoman Empire" (CRRS, 2018)
70 hours 50 mins; April 23, 2020
Christiane Gruber, “The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images" (Indiana UP, 2019)
63 hours 37 mins; April 17, 2020
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