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New Books in Middle Eastern Studies
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Jennifer Lynn Kelly, "Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine" (Duke UP, 2023)
78 hours 2 mins; April 09, 2023
Amahl Bishara, "Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression" (Stanford UP, 2022)
49 mins; April 09, 2023
Jonathan A. C. Brown, "Islam and Blackness" (Oneworld Academic, 2022)
96 hours 58 mins; April 07, 2023
Eric Alterman, "We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel" (Basic Book, 2022)
65 hours 8 mins; March 30, 2023
Sara Koplik, "A Political and Economic History of the Jews of Afghanistan" (Brill, 2015)
76 hours 13 mins; March 30, 2023
Jill Jarvis, "Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony" (Duke UP, 2021)
66 hours 40 mins; March 26, 2023
Jacob Norris, "The Lives and Deaths of Jubrail Dabdoub: Or, How the Bethlehemites Discovered Amerka" (Stanford UP, 2023)
78 hours 25 mins; March 25, 2023
Aaron Rock-Singer, "In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East" (U California Press, 2022)
76 hours 23 mins; March 17, 2023
Mejdulene Bernard Shomali, "Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives" (Duke UP, 2023)
47 mins; March 17, 2023
Hilary Falb Kalisman, "Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2022)
62 hours 15 mins; March 15, 2023
Mohamed Tonsy, "You Must Believe in Spring" (Hajar Press, 2022)
61 hours 39 mins; March 14, 2023
Joseph W. Peterson, "Sacred Rivals: Catholic Missions and the Making of Islam in Nineteenth-Century France and Algeria" (Oxford UP, 2022)
80 hours 59 mins; March 14, 2023
Ali Mozaffari and Nigel Westbrook, "Development, Architecture, and the Formation of Heritage in Late Twentieth-Century Iran" (Manchester UP, 2020)
30 mins; March 08, 2023
The Future of the Silk Road: A Discussion with Tim Winters
38 mins; March 07, 2023
William Carruthers, "Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology" (Cornell UP, 2022)
80 hours 23 mins; March 05, 2023
Shivan Mahendrarajah, "A History of Herat: From Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
71 hours 5 mins; March 05, 2023
Seema Golestaneh, "Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran" (Duke UP, 2022)
67 hours 35 mins; March 03, 2023
Melvyn P. Leffler, "Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq" (Oxford UP, 2023)
81 hours 41 mins; February 28, 2023
Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt: A Conversation with Andrew Simon
67 hours 56 mins; February 27, 2023
Sabri Ciftci et al., "Beyond Piety and Politics: Religion, Social Relations, and Public Preferences in the Middle East and North Africa" (Indiana UP, 2022)
49 mins; February 27, 2023
Amanda Podany, "Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East" (Oxford UP, 2022)
69 hours 9 mins; February 25, 2023
Sarah M. Zaides, "Tevye's Ottoman Daughter: Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews at the End of Empire" (Libra Kitap, 2022)
67 hours 40 mins; February 24, 2023
Digging for Answers: The Archaeology of Jerusalem and the Politics of Archaeology
67 hours 16 mins; February 23, 2023
Oren Kessler, "Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
86 hours 55 mins; February 21, 2023
John D. Hosler, "Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace" (Yale UP, 2022)
48 mins; February 16, 2023
Daniel Lasker, "Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism" (Littman Library, 2022)
58 mins; February 14, 2023
Jessica Barnes, "Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt" (Duke UP, 2022)
25 mins; February 10, 2023
Gyan Prakash and Jeremy Adelman, "Inventing the Third World: In Search of Freedom for the Postwar Global South" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
61 hours 36 mins; February 05, 2023
Gabriel Glickman, "US-Egypt Diplomacy Under Johnson: Nasser, Komer, and the Limits of Personal Diplomacy" (Bloombury, 2021)
83 hours 21 mins; February 05, 2023
Spencer D. Segalla, "Empire and Catastrophe: Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
84 hours 50 mins; February 04, 2023
M. M. Silver, "The History of Galilee, 1538-1949" (Lexington Books, 2022)
117 hours 20 mins; February 04, 2023
Yonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)
96 hours 19 mins; February 01, 2023
Discordia Revisited: The Concordia Netanyahu Riot of 2002
77 hours 45 mins; February 01, 2023
Meir M. Bar-Asher, "Jews and the Qur'an" (Princeton UP, 2022)
70 hours 40 mins; February 01, 2023
Greg Brew, "Petroleum and Progress in Iran: Oil, Development, and the Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
73 hours 1 min; January 31, 2023
The Mesopotamian Connection: Comparing the Bible to Other Literature of the Ancient Near East
61 hours 25 mins; January 30, 2023
George Anton Kiraz, "Water the Willow Tree: Memoirs of a Bethlehem Boyhood" (Gorgias Press, 2022)
57 mins; January 29, 2023
Mitri Raheb, "The Politics of Persecution: Middle Eastern Christians in an Age of Empire" (Baylor UP, 2021)
49 mins; January 29, 2023
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, "Beautiful, Gruesome, and True: Artists at Work in the Face of War" (Columbia Global Reports, 2022)
63 hours 23 mins; January 28, 2023
David S. Painter and Gregory Brew, "The Struggle for Iran: Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951-1954" (UNC Press, 2023)
77 hours 18 mins; January 28, 2023
Kobi Peled, "Words Like Daggers: The Political Poetry of the Negev Bedouin" (Brill, 2022)
71 hours 54 mins; January 27, 2023
Contextualizing the Iranian Protests: The Role of Women in Leading the Change
47 mins; January 23, 2023
Mostafa Minawi, "Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire" (Stanford UP, 2022)
62 hours 55 mins; January 23, 2023
Youshaa Patel, "The Muslim Difference: Defining the Line Between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present" (Yale UP, 2023)
94 hours 18 mins; January 20, 2023
Dalal Abo El Seoud, "Fish, Milk, Tamarind: A Book of Egyptian Arabic Food Expressions" (American U in Cairo Press, 2022)
31 mins; January 18, 2023
Marlene SchÀfers, "Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
39 mins; January 16, 2023
Elia Meghnagi, "Escape from Benghazi: Diary of an Imposter" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2022)
113 hours 26 mins; January 15, 2023
Aaron Berman, "America's Arab Nationalists: From the Ottoman Revolution to the Rise of Hitler" (Routledge, 2022)
74 hours 28 mins; January 13, 2023
Wout J. van Bekkum, "The Religious Poetry of El'azar Ben Ya'aqov Ha-Bavli (Baghdad, 13th C.)" (Brill, 2022)
79 hours 12 mins; January 12, 2023
Roma in the Medieval Islamic World
46 mins; January 08, 2023
Bordering the Bedouin
77 hours 10 mins; January 07, 2023
Peter Hudis, "Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades" (Pluto Press, 2015)
73 hours 49 mins; January 07, 2023
Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Mediterranean
55 mins; January 06, 2023
The Bedouin and the Formation of Iraq's National Borders
58 mins; January 05, 2023
Rock Art in the Nomadic Landscape of the Black Desert
43 mins; January 04, 2023
The Future of Iranian Resistance: A Discussion with Azadeh Moaveni
49 mins; January 04, 2023
The 'Queens of the Arabs' during the Neo-Assyrian Period
72 hours 12 mins; January 03, 2023
Iraqi Bedouin and Intangible Cultural Heritage
43 mins; January 02, 2023
Nomads in the Bible
29 mins; December 31, 2022
Samsi, Queen of the Arabs
27 mins; December 30, 2022
The Ancient Arabs
23 mins; December 29, 2022
Eren Duzgun, "Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations: Revisiting Turkish Modernity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
99 hours 30 mins; December 28, 2022
Ron Kronish, "Profiles in Peace: Voices of Peacebuilders in the Midst of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" (2022)
46 mins; December 27, 2022
Ruth Tsoffar, "Life in Citations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture" (Routledge, 2019)
112 hours 41 mins; December 24, 2022
Andreas Guidi, "Generations of Empire: Youth from Ottoman to Italian Rule in the Mediterranean" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
70 hours 4 mins; December 22, 2022
Pamela Karimi, "Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice" (Stanford UP, 2022)
69 hours 59 mins; December 22, 2022
Geoff Harkness, "Changing Qatar: Culture, Citizenship, and Rapid Modernization" (NYU Press, 2020)
41 mins; December 21, 2022
Muhammet Koçak, "Turkey-Russia Relations in the Twenty-First Century: Cooperation and Competition Amid Systemic Turbulence" (Lexington, 2022)
65 hours 3 mins; December 19, 2022
Munira Khayyat, "A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon" (U California Press, 2022)
61 hours 31 mins; December 18, 2022
Amal Sachedina, "Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern: The Politics of Time in the Sultanate of Oman" (Cornell UP, 2021)
55 mins; December 17, 2022
Frederic C. Hof, "Reaching for the Heights: The Inside Story of a Secret Attempt to Reach a Syrian-Israeli Peace" (USIP, 2022)
83 hours 50 mins; December 08, 2022
Jamil Jan Kochai, "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories" (Viking, 2022)
32 mins; December 08, 2022
Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, "Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934-1950" (Stanford UP, 2022)
64 hours 38 mins; December 06, 2022
On "1001 Nights"
31 mins; December 06, 2022
Nicholas Morton, "The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East" (Basic Books, 2022)
41 mins; December 05, 2022
Protests in Iran: Maybe not the Tocqueville Paradox
36 mins; December 05, 2022
Gabriel Polley, "Palestine in the Victorian Age: Colonial Encounters in the Holy Land" (I. B. Tauris, 2022)
67 hours 22 mins; December 05, 2022
Nadim Bawalsa, "Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return Before 1948" (Stanford UP, 2022)
80 hours 25 mins; December 04, 2022
Shaul Bartal and Nesya Rubinstein-Shemer, "Hamas and Ideology: Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qara?awi on the Jews, Zionism and Israel" (Routledge, 2017)
31 mins; December 04, 2022
Edmund Hayes, "Agents of the Hidden Imam: Forging Twelver Shi‘ism, 850-950 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
55 mins; December 03, 2022
Burleigh Hendrickson, "Decolonizing 1968: Transnational Student Activism in Tunis, Paris, and Dakar" (Cornell UP, 2022)
55 mins; December 03, 2022
Yahia Shawkat, "Egypt's Housing Crisis: The Shaping of Urban Space" (American U in Cairo Press, 2020)
32 mins; December 02, 2022
Jillian Schwedler, "Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent" (Stanford UP, 2022)
41 mins; November 30, 2022
Fida Jiryis, "The Cage" (Pardes, 2022)
42 mins; November 24, 2022
Travis Zadeh, "Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos" (Harvard UP, 2023)
54 mins; November 24, 2022
Alda Benjamen, "Assyrians in Modern Iraq: Negotiating Political and Cultural Space" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
77 hours 1 min; November 21, 2022
Beatrice Forbes Manz, "Nomads in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
47 mins; November 21, 2022
Eric Vanden Eykel, "The Magi: Who They Were, How They've Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate" (Fortress Press, 2022)
51 mins; November 21, 2022
Ahmad Al-Jallad, "The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia: A Reconstruction Based on the Safaitic Inscriptions" (Brill, 2022)
61 hours 24 mins; November 17, 2022
Eric Tagliocozzo, "In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama" (Princeton UP, 2022)
35 mins; November 17, 2022
Mark D. Calder, "Bethlehem's Syriac Christians: Self, Nation and Church in Dialogue and Practice" (Gorgias Press, 2017)
107 hours 10 mins; November 16, 2022
Nile Green, "The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London" (Princeton UP, 2015)
73 hours 39 mins; November 14, 2022
Francesca Stavrakopoulou, "God: An Anatomy" (Knopf, 2022)
45 mins; November 14, 2022
Jan Selby et al., "Divided Environments: An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
64 hours 10 mins; November 11, 2022
John Darnell and Colleen Darnell, "Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
58 mins; November 11, 2022
On Edward Said's "Orientalism"
34 mins; November 08, 2022
Peter Adamson, "Don't Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy" (U Notre Dame Press, 2022)
62 hours 36 mins; November 04, 2022
Alan Verskin, "A Vision of Yemen: The Travels of a European Orientalist and His Native Guide--a Translation of Hayyim Habshush's Travelogue" (Stanford UP, 2019)
63 hours 21 mins; October 31, 2022
ÁgĂșst MagnĂșsson, "Kierkegaard and Eastern Orthodox Thought: A Comparative Philosophical Analysis" (Gorgias Press, 2019)
96 hours 2 mins; October 28, 2022
Sanaa Alimia, "Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
69 hours 38 mins; October 28, 2022
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