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New Books in Middle Eastern Studies
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Jamie Allinson, "The Age of Counter-Revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
87 hours 21 mins; October 27, 2022
Michael Francis Laffan, "Under Empire: Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World, 1775–1945" (Columbia UP, 2022)
126 hours 29 mins; October 24, 2022
Yohanan Friedmann, "Messianic Ideas and Movements in Sunni Islam" (Oneworld Academic, 2022)
59 mins; October 21, 2022
Thomas E. Burman et al., "The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650-1650" (U California Press, 2022)
60 hours 30 mins; October 21, 2022
Faleeha Hassan, "War and Me" (Amazon Crossing, 2022)
46 mins; October 20, 2022
Agha Bayramov, "Constructive Competition in the Caspian Sea Region" (Routledge, 2022)
39 mins; October 20, 2022
Mona El-Ghobashy, "Bread and Freedom: Egypt's Revolutionary Situation" (Stanford UP, 2021)
53 mins; October 18, 2022
Deniz Yonucu, "Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul" (Cornell UP, 2022)
48 mins; October 13, 2022
Salim Tamari et al., "Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine" (U California Press, 2022)
76 hours 59 mins; October 13, 2022
Eran Kaplan, "Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
64 hours 10 mins; October 11, 2022
The Future of the Taliban: A Discussion with Ahmed Rashid
35 mins; October 11, 2022
René Provost, "Rebel Courts: The Administration of Justice by Armed Insurgents" (Oxford UP, 2021)
90 hours 8 mins; October 06, 2022
Emily Jane O'Dell, "The Gift of Rumi: Experiencing the Wisdom of the Sufi Master" (St. Martin's Essentials, 2022)
38 mins; October 05, 2022
Elise Massicard, "Street-Level Governing: Negotiating the State in Urban Turkey" (Stanford UP, 2022)
65 hours 50 mins; October 04, 2022
On Abd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī's "Indications of Inimitability"
25 mins; October 04, 2022
Bob Brier, "Tutankhamun and the Tomb That Changed the World" (Oxford UP, 2022)
40 mins; October 03, 2022
Erin A. Snider, "Marketing Democracy: The Political Economy of Democracy Aid in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP. 2022)
58 mins; October 03, 2022
Reeva Spector Simon, "The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa: The Impact of World War II" (Routledge, 2019)
22 mins; September 28, 2022
Andreas Hackl, "The Invisible Palestinians: The Hidden Struggle for Inclusion in Jewish Tel Aviv" (Indiana UP, 2022)
63 hours 0 mins; September 27, 2022
Peter Adamson, "Philosophy in the Islamic World: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 3" (Oxford UP, 2019)
56 mins; September 23, 2022
Dario Miccoli, "A Sephardi Sea: Jewish Memories Across the Modern Mediterranean" (Indiana UP, 2022)
69 hours 51 mins; September 22, 2022
Sara Ronis, "Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia" (U California Press, 2022)
64 hours 30 mins; September 19, 2022
Corinne E. Blackmer, "Queering Anti-Zionism: Academic Freedom, LGBTQ Intellectuals, and Israel/Palestine Campus Activism" (Wayne State UP, 2022)
32 mins; September 19, 2022
Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi, "Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine" (Routledge, 2021)
77 hours 55 mins; September 19, 2022
Kimberley Czajkowski and Benedikt Eckhardt, "Herod in History: Nicolaus of Damascus and the Augustan Context" (Oxford UP, 2021)
90 hours 24 mins; September 12, 2022
Jonathan Wyrtzen, "Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East" (Columbia UP, 2022)
62 hours 10 mins; September 09, 2022
L. L. Wynn and Angel M. Foster, "Sex in the Middle East and North Africa" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
65 hours 10 mins; September 08, 2022
Tilde Rosmer, "The Islamic Movement in Israel" (U Texas Press, 2022)
80 hours 13 mins; September 07, 2022
Dylan Baun, "Winning Lebanon: Youth Politics, Populism, and the Production of Sectarian Violence, 1920–1958" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
63 hours 57 mins; September 02, 2022
Matthew Teller, "Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City" (Other Press, 2022)
51 mins; September 01, 2022
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour, "Minority Of One: The Unchaining of an Arab Mind" (2020)
43 mins; August 30, 2022
Shaul Adar, "On the Border: The Rise and Decline of the Most Political Club in the World" (Pitch Publishing, 2022)
68 hours 1 min; August 29, 2022
Greg Woolf, "The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
50 mins; August 29, 2022
Kareem Rabie, "Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank" (Duke UP, 2021)
62 hours 32 mins; August 26, 2022
Philip Hollander, "From Schlemiel to Sabra: Zionist Masculinity and Palestinian Hebrew Literature" (Indiana UP, 2019)
127 hours 15 mins; August 25, 2022
Yael Halevi-Wise, "The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua" (Penn State UP, 2020)
91 hours 33 mins; August 24, 2022
“Returned to Zero”: The Case for Reparations to Civilians in Yemen
58 mins; August 24, 2022
Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza, "An Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries (vol. 2): On Women" (Oxford UP, 2022)
77 hours 5 mins; August 19, 2022
Hussein Banai, "Hidden Liberalism: Burdened Visions of Progress in Modern Iran" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
56 mins; August 18, 2022
On T. E. Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
37 mins; August 17, 2022
Sevgi Adak, "Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: State, Society and Gender in the Early Republic" (I. B. Tauris, 2022)
81 hours 23 mins; August 12, 2022
Helen Pfeifer, "Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands" (Princeton UP, 2022)
43 mins; August 11, 2022
Letters from Herzl: Settler Colonialism at work in Palestine
81 hours 47 mins; August 09, 2022
Kim Haines-Eitzen, "Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks—and What It Can Teach Us" (Princeton UP, 2022)
36 mins; August 08, 2022
Jason A. Staples, "The Idea of 'Israel' in Second Temple Judaism: A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
33 mins; August 08, 2022
Emma Ashford, "Oil, the State, and War: The Foreign Policies of Petrostates" (Georgetown UP, 2022)
39 mins; August 05, 2022
Maya Mikdashi, "Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon" (Stanford UP, 2022)
65 hours 39 mins; August 05, 2022
Yaniv Voller, "Second-Generation Liberation Wars" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
55 mins; August 03, 2022
Amy E. Grubb and Elisabeth Hope Murray, "British Responses to Genocide: The British Foreign Office and Humanitarianism in the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1923" (Routledge, 2022)
84 hours 38 mins; August 02, 2022
Bedross Der Matossian, "The Horrors of Adana: Revolution and Violence in the Early Twentieth Century" (Stanford UP, 2022)
70 hours 53 mins; August 02, 2022
Vanda Wilcox, "The Italian Empire and the Great War" (Oxford UP, 2021)
82 hours 3 mins; August 01, 2022
Ghassan Hage, "The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
50 mins; July 29, 2022
Hanan Hammad, "Unknown Past: Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2022)
84 hours 24 mins; July 27, 2022
Ali Mirsepassi, "The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, a Radical Cosmopolitan" (Stanford UP, 2021)
70 hours 17 mins; July 27, 2022
Robert W. Tomlinson, "The Influence of Foreign Wars on U.S. Domestic Military Policy: The Case of the Yom Kippur War" (Lexington, 2022)
33 mins; July 27, 2022
John Waterbury, "Missions Impossible: Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab World" (American U in Cairo Press, 2020)
41 mins; July 27, 2022
The Future of Al Qaeda: A Discussion with Nelly Lahoud
50 mins; July 26, 2022
The Kushnameh: The Persian Epic of Kush the Tusked
39 mins; July 21, 2022
Anne-Linda Amira Augustin, "South Yemen's Independence Struggle: Generations of Resistance" (American University in Cairo Press, 2021)
56 mins; July 18, 2022
Eray Çayli, "Victims of Commemoration: The Architecture and Violence of Confronting the Past in Turkey" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
67 hours 33 mins; July 15, 2022
Matt Reingold, "Reenvisioning Israel Through Political Cartoons: Visual Discourses During the 2018-2021 Electoral Crisis" (Lexington, 2022)
57 mins; July 11, 2022
Shivan Mahendrarajah, "The Sufi Saint of Jam: History, Religion and Politics of a Sunni Shrine in Shi'i Iran" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
55 mins; July 08, 2022
Yussef El Guindi, "In a Clear Concise Arabic Tongue" (Broadway Play Publishing, 2021)
58 mins; July 06, 2022
Vered Noam, "Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans: Second Temple Legends and Their Reception in Josephus and Rabbinic Literature" (Oxford UP, 2018)
52 mins; July 06, 2022
The Future of Erdogan: A Discussion with Dimitar Bechev
42 mins; July 05, 2022
Shaul Adar, "On the Border: The Rise and Decline of the Most Political Club in the World" (Pitch Publishing, 2022)
45 mins; July 05, 2022
Christopher Silver, "Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2022)
104 hours 31 mins; July 04, 2022
Yehudah Mirsky, "Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution" (Yale UP, 2014)
55 mins; July 04, 2022
Annie Tracy Samuel, "The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
51 mins; July 01, 2022
Carla Power, "Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism" (One World, 2021)
66 hours 35 mins; June 30, 2022
The Human Tragedy in Yemen
98 hours 48 mins; June 29, 2022
Seán William Gannon, "The Irish Imperial Service: Policing Palestine and Administering the Empire, 1922–1966" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
70 hours 28 mins; June 28, 2022
Matthew Teller, "Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City" (Other Press/Profile Books, 2022)
69 hours 48 mins; June 24, 2022
Peter Oborne, "The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
65 hours 30 mins; June 23, 2022
Joseph A. Boone, "The Homoerotics of Orientalism" (Columbia UP, 2014)
71 hours 12 mins; June 22, 2022
Karùne Sanchez Summerer and Sary Zananiri, "European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948: Between Contention and Connection" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
64 hours 35 mins; June 22, 2022
Lori A. Allen, "A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2020)
46 mins; June 20, 2022
Sarah Irving et al., "'The House of the Priest': A Palestinian Life (1885-1954)" (Brill, 2022)
58 mins; June 17, 2022
Andrew Simon, "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2022)
73 hours 49 mins; June 16, 2022
Matt King, "Dynasties Intertwined: The Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily" (Cornell UP, 2022)
66 hours 44 mins; June 10, 2022
Lily Pearl Balloffet, "Argentina in the Global Middle East" (Stanford UP, 2020)
73 hours 39 mins; June 09, 2022
Guy MacLean Rogers, "For the Freedom of Zion: The Great Revolt of Jews against Romans, 66-74 CE" (Yale UP, 2022)
65 hours 16 mins; June 08, 2022
Chris Gratien, "The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier" (Stanford UP, 2022)
67 hours 32 mins; June 03, 2022
Matthew Mark Silver, "Zionism and the Melting Pot: Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
67 hours 23 mins; June 03, 2022
Mohammed Ayoob and Danielle N. Lussier, "The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion and Politics in Muslim Societies," Second Edition (U Michigan Press, 2020)
45 mins; June 02, 2022
Jeffrey Herf, "Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
35 mins; June 02, 2022
Andrew Leon Hanna, "25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
43 mins; June 01, 2022
Christopher Harker, "Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine" (Duke UP, 2020)
66 hours 14 mins; May 31, 2022
Randa Khair Abbas and Deborah Court, "The Israeli Druze Community in Transition: Between Tradition and Modernity" (Cambridge Scholars, 2021)
31 mins; May 30, 2022
Katherine Pangonis, "Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
66 hours 6 mins; May 30, 2022
Amanda Phillips, "Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles Between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean" (U California Press, 2021)
54 mins; May 27, 2022
Jonathan Fulton, "Routledge Handbook on China–Middle East Relations" (Routledge, 2021)
21 mins; May 27, 2022
Ehud Olmert, "Searching for Peace: A Memoir of Israel" (Brookings Institution, 2022) Part 2 of 2
57 mins; May 27, 2022
Peter Mandaville, "Wahhabism and the World: Understanding Saudi Arabia's Global Influence on Islam" (Oxford UP, 2022)
67 hours 0 mins; May 25, 2022
Heba Gowayed, "Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential" (Princeton UP, 2022)
55 mins; May 18, 2022
Maria Chiara Rioli, "A Liminal Church: Refugees, Conversions and the Latin Diocese of Jerusalem, 1946–1956" (Brill, 2020)
51 mins; May 13, 2022
Mahmood Kooria, "Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi'i Texts Across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
78 hours 47 mins; May 12, 2022
Louis Fishman, "Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era, 1908-1914: Claiming the Homeland" (Edinburgh UP. 2021)
62 hours 20 mins; May 10, 2022
Ehud Olmert, "Searching for Peace: A Memoir of Israel" (Brookings Institution, 2022)
75 hours 56 mins; May 05, 2022
Christine Leuenberger and Izhak Schnell, "The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine" (Oxford UP, 2020)
55 mins; May 04, 2022
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