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New Books in Middle Eastern Studies
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Michael Cook, "A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2024)
79 hours 2 mins; July 02, 2025
Shayna M. Silverstein, "Fraught Balance: The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria" (Wesleyan UP, 2024)
58 mins; June 27, 2025
Nubar Hovsepian, "Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual" (AUC Press, 2025)
34 mins; June 26, 2025
Vali Nasr, "Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History" (Princeton UP, 2025)
53 mins; June 25, 2025
Nicole Watts, "Republic of Dreams: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan" (NYU Press, 2025)
50 mins; June 24, 2025
Ioana Emy Matesan, "The Violence Pendulum: Tactical Change in Islamist Groups in Egypt and Indonesia" (Oxford UP, 2020)
40 mins; June 23, 2025
Yasmine Motawy, "Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society" (AUC Press, 2025)
49 mins; June 20, 2025
Laura Frances Goffman, "Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia" (Stanford UP, 2024)
53 mins; June 19, 2025
Chinese in Qatar
43 mins; June 18, 2025
Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab, "Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective" (Columbia UP, 2025)
29 mins; June 11, 2025
Dave Margoshes, "A Simple Carpenter" (Radiant Press, 2024)
55 mins; June 06, 2025
Sabrin Hasbun, "Crossing: A Love Story Between Italy and Palestine" (Footnote Press, 2025)
35 mins; June 06, 2025
Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, "The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq" (Stanford UP, 2021)
85 hours 9 mins; June 03, 2025
Zohra Saed and Sahar Muradi, "One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature" (U Arkansas Press, 2010)
68 hours 5 mins; May 31, 2025
Jonas Elbousty and Roger Allen, "Reading Mohamed Choukri's Narratives: Hunger in Eden" (Routledge, 2024)
65 hours 0 mins; May 30, 2025
Chris Aslan, "Unravelling the Silk Road: Travels and Textiles in Central Asia" (Icon Books, 2024)
47 mins; May 29, 2025
Toine van Teeffelen, "The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine: A Memoir" (Wipf and Stock, 2024)
63 hours 20 mins; May 23, 2025
Derek J. Penslar, "Zionism: An Emotional State" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
62 hours 12 mins; May 21, 2025
Timothy A. Lee, "The Syriac Peshiáč­ta Bible: The New Testament" (Gorgias Press, 2023)
30 mins; May 19, 2025
Todd Reisz, "Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai" (Stanford UP, 2021)
42 mins; May 18, 2025
David Kraemer, "Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora" (Oxford UP, 2025)
62 hours 37 mins; May 17, 2025
Daniel Behar, "Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
29 mins; May 14, 2025
Marc Shapiro, "Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook" (Littman Library, 2025)
49 mins; May 14, 2025
Brendan Haug, "Garden of Egypt: Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyƫm" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
59 mins; May 06, 2025
Simon Mayall, "The House of War: The Struggle Between Christendom and the Caliphate" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
71 hours 54 mins; May 03, 2025
The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History
40 mins; April 13, 2025
Orit Rozin, "Emotions of Conflict, Israel 1949-1967" (Oxford UP, 2024)
69 hours 34 mins; April 07, 2025
Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard, "Spanish National Identity, Colonial Power, and the Portrayal of Muslims and Jews During the Rif War (1909-27)" (Boydell & Brewer, 2021)
48 mins; April 06, 2025
Sinem Arcak Casale, "Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
71 hours 28 mins; April 01, 2025
Letizia Osti, "History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2024)
51 mins; March 31, 2025
Yaron Ayalon, "Ottoman Jewry: Leadership, Charity, and Literacy" (Brill, 2024)
43 mins; March 30, 2025
Marc Owen Jones, "Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media" (Hurst/Oxford UP, 2021)
27 mins; March 29, 2025
Palestinian Futurism with Leila Abdelrazaq
56 mins; March 28, 2025
"Imprisoning a Revolution: Writings from Egypt's Incarcerated" (U California Press, 2025)
66 hours 57 mins; March 26, 2025
Sureshkumar Muthukumaran, "The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean" (U California Press, 2023)
43 mins; March 23, 2025
Ahmed M. Abozaid, "Counterterrorism Strategies in Egypt: Permanent Exceptions in the War on Terror" (Routledge, 2021)
66 hours 16 mins; March 22, 2025
Daniela Richterova, "Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
94 hours 45 mins; March 18, 2025
Sumerian History with Marc Van De Mieroop
72 hours 53 mins; March 15, 2025
Andrea Wright, "Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea" (Stanford UP, 2024)
32 mins; March 14, 2025
Catalin-Stefan Popa, "The Making of Syriac Jerusalem" (Routledge, 2023)
67 hours 46 mins; March 14, 2025
Selena Wisnom, "The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
38 mins; March 13, 2025
Tahrir Hamdi, "Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
53 mins; March 12, 2025
On Barak, "Heat, a History: Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet" (U California Press, 2024)
42 mins; March 10, 2025
Kirsten L. Scheid, "Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920–1950" (Indiana UP, 2022)
91 hours 42 mins; March 09, 2025
Ibn Butlan, "The Doctors' Dinner Party: A Satirical Novella " (NYU Press, 2023)
43 mins; March 08, 2025
Margaret Peacock, "Frequencies of Deceit: How Global Propaganda Wars Shaped the Middle East" (U California Press, 2025)
64 hours 3 mins; March 08, 2025
Nir Arielli, "The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History" (Yale UP, 2025)
66 hours 22 mins; March 07, 2025
Violent Majorities 2.3: Long-Distance Ethnonationalism Roundup (LA, AS)
46 mins; March 06, 2025
Noam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
75 hours 6 mins; March 01, 2025
Matthew Hughes, "Britain's Pacification of Palestine" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
87 hours 49 mins; February 28, 2025
Daniel Silverman, "Seeing Is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
46 mins; February 28, 2025
Yuval Ben-Bassat and Johann BĂŒssow, "Late Ottoman Gaza: An Eastern Mediterranean Hub in Transformation" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
60 hours 42 mins; February 26, 2025
Florence Martin, "Farida Benlyazid and Moroccan Cinema" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
78 hours 38 mins; February 25, 2025
Blanche Bendahan, "Mazaltob: A Novel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
68 hours 12 mins; February 24, 2025
Malka Z. Simkovich, "Letters from Home: The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity" (Eisenbrauns, 2024)
49 mins; February 23, 2025
Amit Levy, "A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
70 hours 52 mins; February 21, 2025
Emine Ö Evered, "Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity" (U Texas Press, 2024)
56 mins; February 19, 2025
Peter Wien, "Arab Nationalism: The Politics of History and Culture in the Modern Middle East" (Routledge, 2017)
49 mins; February 19, 2025
Marcel Elias, "English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
26 mins; February 16, 2025
Erik Freas, "Palestine's Christians and the Nationalist Cause: The Late Ottoman and Mandatory Periods" (Routledge, 2024)
75 hours 48 mins; February 16, 2025
David Graves, "New Realism in Contemporary Israeli Painting" (Austin Macauley, 2023)
49 mins; February 11, 2025
Parisa Vaziri, "Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran's Cinematic Archive" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
87 hours 0 mins; February 09, 2025
William Gallois, "Qayrawan: The Amuletic City" (Penn State UP, 2024)
44 mins; February 07, 2025
Violent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS)
56 mins; February 06, 2025
Elio Zarmati, "Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming of Age as a Jew of the Nile" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025)
79 hours 59 mins; February 03, 2025
Cyrus Ali Zargar, "The Ethics of Karbala: Myths, Modernity, and Virtues of Nobility" (Routledge, 2024)
64 hours 24 mins; February 03, 2025
Christopher Burnham, "Sir Ronald Storrs: Personality and Policy in Mandate Palestine, 1917-1926" (Routledge, 2024)
63 hours 52 mins; January 24, 2025
The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century
54 mins; January 15, 2025
David G. Hunter et al., "Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity: Authors, Texts, and Ideas" (Brill, 2024)
52 mins; January 08, 2025
Olga Borovaya, "The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel: Ottoman Jews at the Dawn of the Tanzimat Era" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
77 hours 59 mins; January 05, 2025
The Hyphen Unites: Avi Shlaim on Arab-Jewish Life
70 hours 12 mins; January 03, 2025
Robert D. Miller II, "Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021)
26 mins; December 31, 2024
Franck Salameh, "Lebanon’s Jewish Community: Fragments of Lives Arrested" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
58 mins; December 27, 2024
Anne K. Bang, "Zanzibari Muslim Moderns: Islamic Paths to Progress in the Interwar Period" (Oxford UP, 2024)
66 hours 10 mins; December 18, 2024
Yaacov Yadgar, "To Be a Jewish State: Zionism as the New Judaism" (NYU Press, 2024)
62 hours 6 mins; December 16, 2024
Azad Essa, "Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel" (Pluto Press, 2023)
78 hours 0 mins; December 13, 2024
Samuel Hodgkin, "Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
62 hours 38 mins; December 12, 2024
Wendy Pearlman, "The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora" (Liveright, 2024)
67 hours 34 mins; December 10, 2024
Persistent Pastoralism: Monuments and Settlements in the Archaeology of Dhofar
51 mins; December 07, 2024
Yochai Ataria, "Not in Our Brain: Consciousness, Body, World" (Magnes Press, 2019)
53 mins; December 04, 2024
Ibn al-MuqaffaÊżs "KalÄ«lah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice"
73 hours 51 mins; December 02, 2024
Middle East on the Brink: Escalation, Diplomacy, and the Search for Stability
39 mins; November 24, 2024
Phillip Lieberman, "The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East: Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
88 hours 30 mins; November 23, 2024
Allen James Fromherz, "The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present" (U California Press, 2024)
54 mins; November 21, 2024
Masha Kirasirova, "The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire" (Oxford UP, 2024)
60 hours 30 mins; November 19, 2024
Scott J. Weiner, "Kinship, State Formation and Governance in the Arab Gulf States" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
46 mins; November 13, 2024
Lisa Nielson, "Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World: A Social History" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
114 hours 16 mins; November 12, 2024
AmĂ­n PĂ©rez, "Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle" (Polity Press, 2023)
38 mins; November 09, 2024
Parker Palmer on the Israel-Gaza War
57 mins; November 09, 2024
Roni Henig, "On Revival: Hebrew Literature Between Life and Death" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
53 mins; November 07, 2024
Doyle D. Calhoun, "The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)
73 hours 7 mins; November 06, 2024
The Failed Concepts That Brought Israel to October 7
39 mins; November 05, 2024
Avi Shlaim, "Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew" (Oneworld, 2024)
61 hours 37 mins; November 03, 2024
Toni Alimi, "Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
66 hours 58 mins; October 28, 2024
Arash Azizi, "What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom" (Oneworld, 2024)
56 mins; October 23, 2024
Emrah Yildiz, "Zainab's Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others Across Borders" (U California Press, 2024)
72 hours 55 mins; October 22, 2024
Eran Ortal, "Battle Before the War: The Inside Story of the IDF's Transformation" (Dado Center, 2023)
61 hours 55 mins; October 20, 2024
E. L. Gaston, "Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria" (Columbia UP, 2024)
62 hours 7 mins; October 19, 2024
Joseph John Viscomi, "Migration at the End of Empire: Time and the Politics of Departure Between Italy and Egypt" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
97 hours 29 mins; October 18, 2024
Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller, "Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture" (Saqi Books, 2024)
81 hours 44 mins; October 18, 2024
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