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Gültan Kışanak, "The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics: Women Politicians Write from Prison" (Pluto Press, 2022)

53 mins; October 10, 2023

Benoît Challand, "Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

62 hours 52 mins; October 09, 2023

Seth L. Sanders, "From Adapa to Enoch: Scribal Culture and Religious Vision in Judea and Babylonia" (Mohr Siebeck, 2017)

85 hours 41 mins; October 06, 2023

Zeynep K. Korkman, "Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey" (Duke UP, 2023)

45 mins; October 05, 2023

Katrin Nahidi, "The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran: Modernism, Exhibitions, and Art Production" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

65 hours 37 mins; October 04, 2023

Michelle Karnes, "Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

31 mins; September 30, 2023

Seema Alavi, "Sovereigns of the Sea: Omani Ambition in the Age of Empire" (India Allen Lane, 2023)

54 mins; September 28, 2023

Timur Warner Hammond, "Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul" (U California Press, 2023)

53 mins; September 27, 2023

Brian Ulrich, "The Medieval Persian Gulf" (ARC Humanities Press, 2023)

83 hours 14 mins; September 27, 2023

Elyse Semerdjian, "Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide" (Stanford UP, 2023)

84 hours 44 mins; September 20, 2023

Kevin Funk, "Rooted Globalism: Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries" (Indiana UP, 2022)

55 mins; September 20, 2023

Tylor Brand, "Famine Worlds: Life at the Edge of Suffering in Lebanon's Great War" (Stanford UP, 2023)

83 hours 41 mins; September 20, 2023

Vincent Lemire, "In the Shadow of the Wall: The Life and Death of Jerusalem's Maghrebi Quarter, 1187-1967" (Stanford UP, 2023)

63 hours 5 mins; September 19, 2023

Peter Adamson, "Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)

51 mins; September 17, 2023

Anthony Gad Bigio, "A Sephardi Turkish Patriot: Gad Franco in the Turmoil of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic" (Hamilton Books, 2023)

52 mins; September 17, 2023

Pallavi Narayan, "Pamuk's Istanbul: The Self and the City" (Routledge, 2022)

51 mins; September 15, 2023

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, "Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther: Achaemenid Court Culture in the Hebrew Bible" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)

36 mins; September 14, 2023

Alma Rachel Heckman, "The Sultan's Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging" (Stanford UP, 2020)

61 hours 41 mins; September 13, 2023

Guillemette Crouzet, "Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

61 hours 39 mins; September 12, 2023

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34 mins; September 12, 2023

Peter Good, "The East India Company in Persia: Trade and Cultural Exchange in the Eighteenth Century" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

55 mins; September 10, 2023

Muḥsin Jāsim Mūsawī, "The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

54 mins; September 10, 2023

Salar Abdoh, "Out of Mesopotamia" (Akashic Books, 2020)

77 hours 20 mins; September 03, 2023

Davide Rodogno, "Night on Earth: A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918–1930" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

60 hours 12 mins; September 02, 2023

Marion Holmes Katz, "Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity" (Columbia UP, 2022)

104 hours 48 mins; September 01, 2023

Hamid Keshmirshekan, "The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

78 hours 33 mins; August 30, 2023

Hans-Lukas Kieser, "When Democracy Died: The Middle East's Enduring Peace of Lausanne" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

77 hours 41 mins; August 28, 2023

Alice Wilson, "Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman" (Stanford UP, 2023)

56 mins; August 26, 2023

Ari Finkelstein, "The Specter of the Jews: Emperor Julian and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity in Syrian Antioch" (U California Press, 2018)

72 hours 0 mins; August 26, 2023

Lucia Carminati. "Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859-1906" (U California Press, 2023)

57 mins; August 24, 2023

Christopher Harrison, "Genocidal Conscription: Drafting Victims and Perpetrators Under the Guise of War" (Lexington Books, 2023)

67 hours 12 mins; August 15, 2023

Simon Mills, "A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship Between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1760" (Oxford UP, 2020)

52 mins; August 13, 2023

Karen E. Rignall, "An Elusive Common: Land, Politics, and Agrarian Rurality in a Moroccan Oasis" (Cornell UP, 2021)

42 mins; August 12, 2023

Zahi Zalloua, "Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

63 hours 37 mins; August 11, 2023

Yoni Furas, "Educating Palestine: Teaching and Learning History Under the Mandate" (Oxford UP, 2020)

64 hours 34 mins; August 07, 2023

Melis Hafez, "Inventing Laziness: The Culture of Productivity in Late Ottoman Society" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

77 hours 36 mins; August 04, 2023

Rudi Matthee, "Angels Tapping at the Wine-Shop's Door: A History of Alcohol in the Islamic World" (Oxford UP, 2023)

44 mins; August 03, 2023

Yonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)

84 hours 15 mins; July 29, 2023

Melissa Gatter, "Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency" (American University in Cairo Press, 2023)

57 mins; July 28, 2023

Andrew Quilty, "August in Kabul: America's Last Days in Afghanistan" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

41 mins; July 24, 2023

Lea Taragin-Zeller, "The State of Desire: Religion and Reproductive Politics in the Promised Land" (NYU Press, 2023)

64 hours 44 mins; July 24, 2023

Oyman Başaran, "Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey" (U Texas Press, 2023)

41 mins; July 23, 2023

Ilkim Büke Okyar, "Arabs in Turkish Political Cartoons, 1876-1950: National Self and Non-National Other" (Syracuse UP, 2023)

69 hours 15 mins; July 22, 2023

Amir Sedaghat, "Translating Rumi Into the West: A Linguistic Conundrum and Beyond" (Routledge, 2023)

68 hours 5 mins; July 21, 2023

Robert Hillenbrand, "The Great Mongol Shahnameh" (Hali Publications et al., 2022)

39 mins; July 20, 2023

Alan Mikhail, "My Egypt Archive" (Yale UP, 2023)

63 hours 6 mins; July 14, 2023

Joseph Sassoon, "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire" (Pantheon, 2022)

64 hours 57 mins; July 12, 2023

Leslie Turnberg, "Mandate: The Palestine Crucible, 1919-1939" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2021)

66 hours 36 mins; July 12, 2023

Hassan S. Khalilieh, "Islamic Law of the Sea: Freedom of Navigation and Passage Rights in Islamic Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

48 mins; July 12, 2023

Liana Saif et al., "Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice" (Brill, 2020)

62 hours 45 mins; July 10, 2023

Daniel Boyarin, "The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto" (Yale UP, 2023)

55 mins; July 07, 2023

Lia Brozgal and Rebecca Glasberg, eds., "A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Collection of Stories Curated by Lela Sebbar" (U California Press, 2023)

98 hours 28 mins; July 04, 2023

Chris Wickham, "The Donkey and the Boat: Reinterpreting the Mediterranean Economy, 950-1180" (Oxford UP, 2023)

49 mins; July 03, 2023

Samuel Helfont, "Iraq Against the World: Saddam, America, and the Post-Cold War Order" (Oxford UP, 2023)

79 hours 49 mins; June 30, 2023

Afghanistan-Pakistan Relations: A Clash of Identities?

35 mins; June 30, 2023

Kaya Sahin, "Peerless Among Princes: The Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman" (Oxford UP, 2023)

66 hours 58 mins; June 29, 2023

David E. Kelly, "First Fights in Fallujah: Marines During Operation Vigilant Resolve, in Iraq, April 2004" (Casemate, 2023)

32 mins; June 28, 2023

David Wenham, "Jesus in Context: Making Sense of the Historical Figure" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

37 mins; June 27, 2023

Mongol Nomadism, Mongol Identity, and the Fall of the Mongol Empire

53 mins; June 25, 2023

Anne Irfan, "Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System" (Columbia UP, 2023)

57 mins; June 24, 2023

Orit Avishai, "Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel" (NYU Press, 2023)

52 mins; June 18, 2023

Gabriel Schwake, "Dwelling on the Green Line" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

51 mins; June 17, 2023

Nora Barakat, "Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire" (Stanford UP, 2023)

70 hours 32 mins; June 16, 2023

Marielle Risse, "Houseways in Southern Oman" (Routledge, 2022)

54 mins; June 15, 2023

Nicholas W. S. Smith, "Colonial Chaos in the Southern Red Sea" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

55 mins; June 12, 2023

Rumi, "Gold" (New York Review of Books, 2022)

56 mins; June 10, 2023

Tessa Farmer, "Well Connected: Everyday Water Practices in Cairo" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

42 mins; June 08, 2023

Hiking Trails, Sustainable Tourism, and Bedouin Heritage

43 mins; June 07, 2023

Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, "Nur Baba: A Sufi Novel of Late Ottoman Istanbul" (Routledge, 2023)

55 mins; June 06, 2023

Nora Barakat, "Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire" (Stanford UP, 2023)

57 mins; June 06, 2023

Monika Raesch, "Abbas Kiarostami: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)

45 mins; June 04, 2023

James H. Meyer, "Red Star over the Black Sea: Nazim Hikmet and His Generation" (Oxford UP, 2023)

61 hours 14 mins; June 03, 2023

Hilary Frances Aked, "Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity" (Verso, 2023)

82 hours 22 mins; May 30, 2023

Anne Gerritsen and Burton Cleetus, "Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

54 mins; May 29, 2023

Max Weiss, "Revolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Ba'thist Syria" (Stanford UP, 2022)

84 hours 49 mins; May 28, 2023

Martyrs in Mosul: A Conversation on Christian Persecution with Father Benedict Kiely

43 mins; May 28, 2023

Jessica M. Marglin, "The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship Across the Modern Mediterranean" (Princeton UP, 2022)

61 hours 1 min; May 27, 2023

Burkhard Schnepel and Julia Verne, "Cargoes in Motion: Materiality and Connectivity across the Indian Ocean" (Ohio UP, 2022)

44 mins; May 27, 2023

Aomar Boum, "Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2023)

65 hours 21 mins; May 26, 2023

Daniel Martin Varisco, "Seasonal Knowledge and the Almanac Tradition in the Arab Gulf" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

82 hours 20 mins; May 23, 2023

Natalie Koch, "Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia" (Verso, 2023)

59 mins; May 22, 2023

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, "A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War" (Knopf, 2023)

69 hours 1 min; May 22, 2023

Philip Gooding, "Droughts, Floods, and Global Climatic Anomalies in the Indian Ocean World" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

57 mins; May 22, 2023

Mark LeVine, "We'll Play Till We Die: Journeys Across a Decade of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World" (U California Press, 2022)

71 hours 58 mins; May 19, 2023

Algeria and France: Grievances and the Effects of Decolonialism

41 mins; May 18, 2023

Daniel Gordis, "Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams?" (Ecco Press, 2023)

40 mins; May 17, 2023

Claudia Liebelt, "Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey" (Syracuse UP, 2023)

31 mins; May 13, 2023

Oded Zinger, "Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

54 mins; May 11, 2023

Hosam A. Ibrahim Elzembely and Emad El-Din Aysha, "Arab and Muslim Science Fiction" (McFarland, 2022)

60 hours 26 mins; May 10, 2023

Laetitia Nanquette, "Iranian Literature After the Islamic Revolution: Production and Circulation in Iran and the World" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)

49 mins; May 06, 2023

Gönül Tol, "Erdoğan's War: A Strongman's Struggle at Home and in Syria" (Oxford UP, 2023)

49 mins; May 05, 2023

Brahim El Guabli, "Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence" (Fordham UP, 2023)

59 mins; April 30, 2023

Teena U. Purohit, "Sunni Chauvinism and the Roots of Muslim Modernism" (Princeton UP, 2023)

69 hours 6 mins; April 28, 2023

Awad Halabi, "Palestinian Rituals of Identity: The Prophet Moses Festival in Jerusalem, 1850-1948" (U Texas Press, 2023)

81 hours 26 mins; April 23, 2023

Imprisoned in Iran: A Conversation with Wang Xiyue

69 hours 22 mins; April 22, 2023

Barak S. Cohen, "For Out of Babylonia Shall Come Torah and the Word of the Lord from Nehar Peqod" (Brill, 2017)

30 mins; April 21, 2023

Barak S. Cohen, "The Legal Methodology of Late Nehardean Sages in Sasanian Babylonia" (Brill, 2011)

63 hours 17 mins; April 20, 2023

Alexander Jabbari, "The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

76 hours 30 mins; April 16, 2023

The Future of Antisemitism: A Discussion with Dave Rich

58 mins; April 15, 2023

Chas Smith, "Reports from Hell" (Rare Bird Books, 2020)

74 hours 15 mins; April 13, 2023

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