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New Books in Middle Eastern Studies
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Moshe Shokeid, "Can Academics Change the World?: An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus" (Berghahn, 2020)
57 mins; May 03, 2022
Ramadan Violence: A Conversation with Ambassador Dore Gold
34 mins; April 27, 2022
Faisal H. Husain, "Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire" (Oxford UP, 2021)
103 hours 43 mins; April 22, 2022
George Warner, "The Words of the Imams: Al-Shaykh Al-Saduq and the Development of Twelver Shi'i Hadith Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
61 hours 20 mins; April 18, 2022
Jeffrey Saks and Shalom Carmy, "Agnon’s Tales of the Land of Israel" (Pickwick Publications, 2021)
55 mins; April 14, 2022
Anthony Shaw and Giora Goodman, "Hollywood and Israel: A History" (Columbia UP, 2022)
53 mins; April 08, 2022
Pamela Kyle Crossley, "Hammer and Anvil: Nomad Rulers at the Forge of the Modern World" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
66 hours 8 mins; April 06, 2022
Paul Stephenson, "New Rome: The Empire in the East" (Harvard UP, 2022)
53 mins; April 06, 2022
Scott Kugle, "Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys Across the Indian Ocean" (UNC Press, 2021)
77 hours 49 mins; April 01, 2022
On Israel, Palestine, and Christian Zionism
56 mins; March 29, 2022
Jørgen Jensehaugen, "Arab-Israeli Diplomacy Under Carter: The US, Israel and the Palestinians" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
77 hours 54 mins; March 29, 2022
Andrew Lawler, "Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City" (Doubleday, 2021)
49 mins; March 28, 2022
K. S. Batmanghelichi, "Revolutionary Bodies: Technologies of Gender, Sex, and Self in Contemporary Iran" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
54 mins; March 25, 2022
Jeremy Friedman, "Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World" (Harvard UP, 2022)
79 hours 6 mins; March 24, 2022
The Samaritans: A Biblical People
31 mins; March 23, 2022
Natasha Iskander, "Does Skill Make Us Human?: Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond" (Princeton UP, 2021)
61 hours 50 mins; March 21, 2022
David H. Warren, "Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis" (Routledge, 2021)
63 hours 31 mins; March 21, 2022
Natasha Iskander, "Does Skill Make Us Human?: Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond" (Princeton UP, 2021)
53 mins; March 21, 2022
Sandy Gall, "Afghan Napoleon: The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud" (Haus Publishing, 2021)
54 mins; March 17, 2022
Asef Bayat, "Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring" (Harvard UP, 2021)
65 hours 4 mins; March 11, 2022
Peter Mandaville, "Islam and Politics" (Routledge, 2020)
62 hours 52 mins; March 11, 2022
Sarah-Neel Smith, "Metrics of Modernity: Art and Development in Postwar Turkey" (U California Press, 2022)
51 mins; March 08, 2022
Gardner Thompson, "Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel" (Saqi, 2020)
44 mins; March 02, 2022
Nebil Husayn, "Opposing the Imam: The Legacy of the Nawasib in Islamic Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
48 mins; February 28, 2022
Anneka Lenssen, "Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria" (U California Press, 2020)
65 hours 8 mins; February 28, 2022
Andrea Wright, "Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil" (Stanford UP, 2021)
57 mins; February 23, 2022
Usaama Al-Azami, "Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama Between Democracy and Autocracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
67 hours 57 mins; February 23, 2022
Manata Hashemi, "Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity" (NYU Press, 2020)
39 mins; February 22, 2022
Marc David Baer, "The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs" (Basic Books, 2021)
46 mins; February 17, 2022
Mona Kareem, "Mapping Exile," The Common magazine (Fall 2021)
35 mins; February 11, 2022
Katherine Harvey, "A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Saudi Struggle for Iraq" (Oxford UP, 2022)
69 hours 57 mins; February 08, 2022
Susan Gilson Miller, "Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2021)
80 hours 6 mins; February 03, 2022
Omar Ashour, "How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
62 hours 19 mins; January 31, 2022
Jason Pack, "Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder" (Oxford UP, 2021)
71 hours 49 mins; January 25, 2022
Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, "Quagmire in Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
46 mins; January 19, 2022
David Leupold, "Embattled Dreamlands: The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish Memory" (Routledge, 2020)
53 mins; January 18, 2022
Noor Naga, “Who Writes the Arabian Gulf?” The Common magazine (Fall, 2021)
37 mins; January 14, 2022
Timothy Brennan, "Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said" (FSG, 2021)
59 mins; January 13, 2022
Gil Z. Hochberg, "Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future" (Duke UP, 2021)
52 mins; January 12, 2022
Kyle J. Anderson, "The Egyptian Labor Corps: Race, Space, and Place in the First World War" (U Texas Press, 2021)
78 hours 24 mins; January 12, 2022
Gideon Sapir and Daniel Statman, "State and Religion in Israel: A Philosophical-Legal Inquiry" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
58 mins; January 11, 2022
Jonathan Schanzer, "Gaza Conflict 2021" (Foundation for Defense of Democracies, 2021)
62 hours 42 mins; January 05, 2022
D. Fairchild Ruggles, "Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar Al-Durr" (Oxford UP, 2020)
57 mins; January 05, 2022
Aro Velmet, "Pasteur's Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
63 hours 28 mins; December 31, 2021
From Linear A to Linear B: Suggestive Continuity
114 hours 28 mins; December 29, 2021
Ian Almond, "World Literature Decentered: Beyond the 'West' Through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal" (Routledge, 2021)
75 hours 22 mins; December 27, 2021
E. Natalie Rothman, "The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism" (Cornell UP, 2021)
71 hours 50 mins; December 24, 2021
Hatim El-Hibri, "Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure" (Duke UP, 2021)
65 hours 42 mins; December 24, 2021
Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh, "Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
57 mins; December 20, 2021
Jocelyn Hendrickson, "Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa" (Harvard UP, 2020)
67 hours 53 mins; December 17, 2021
Yossi Alpher, "Death Tango: Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat, and Three Fateful Days in March" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
66 hours 44 mins; December 17, 2021
Sa'ed Atshan and Katharina Galor, "The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians" (Duke UP, 2020)
56 mins; December 17, 2021
Avner Wishnitzer, "As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
57 mins; December 16, 2021
Hassan Abbas, "The Prophet's Heir: The Life of Ali ibn Abi Talib" (Yale UP, 2021)
59 mins; December 15, 2021
Craig Jones, "The War Lawyers: The United States, Israel, and Juridical Warfare" (Oxford UP, 2020)
59 mins; December 14, 2021
Jarmo T. Kotilaine, "Trials of Resilience: How Covid-19 Is Driving Economic Change in the Arab Gulf" (Gilgamesh, 2021)
53 mins; December 13, 2021
Pouya Alimagham, "Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
64 hours 38 mins; December 09, 2021
James Shires, "The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East" (Hurst, 2021)
65 hours 17 mins; December 09, 2021
Till F. Paasche and James Derrick Sidaway, "Transecting Securityscapes: Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
69 hours 59 mins; December 01, 2021
Bahia Shehab and Haytham Nawar, "A History of Arab Graphic Design" (AU of Cairo Press, 2020)
45 mins; November 26, 2021
Christopher Coker, "The Rise of the Civilizational State" (Polity Press, 2019)
31 mins; November 23, 2021
Rose Wellman, "Feeding Iran: Shi`i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic" (U California Press, 2021)
43 mins; November 22, 2021
Beatrice Gruendler, "The Rise of the Arabic Book" (Harvard UP, 2020)
90 hours 39 mins; November 22, 2021
Amy Aisen Kallander, "Tunisia's Modern Woman: Nation-Building and State Feminism in the Global 1960s" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
56 mins; November 18, 2021
David Barak-Gorodetsky, "Judah Magnes: The Prophetic Politics of a Religious Binationalist" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
44 mins; November 18, 2021
Anders Persson, "EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967-2019" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
59 mins; November 18, 2021
Ümit Kurt, "The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province" (Harvard UP, 2021)
60 hours 17 mins; November 17, 2021
Mark Mazower, "The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe" (Penguin, 2021)
56 mins; November 16, 2021
Yair Wallach, "A City in Fragments: Urban Texts in Modern Jerusalem" (Stanford UP, 2020)
86 hours 25 mins; November 15, 2021
Andrew Farrand, "The Algerian Dream: Youth and the Quest for Dignity" (New Degree Press, 2021)
59 mins; November 15, 2021
Conchita Anorve-Tschirgi and Ehsan Abushadi, "The Architecture of Ramses Wissa Wassef" (AU of Cairo Press, 2019)
18 mins; November 11, 2021
Sima Shakhsari, "Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan" (Duke UP, 2020)
66 hours 16 mins; November 10, 2021
Justin K. Stearns, "Revealed Sciences: The Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
52 mins; November 05, 2021
Simon O'Meara, "The Ka'ba Orientations: Readings in Islam's Ancient House" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
62 hours 14 mins; November 05, 2021
Aubrey L. Glazer, "Mystical Vertigo: Contemporary Kabbalistic Hebrew Poetry Dancing Over the Divide" (Academic Studies Press, 2013)
59 mins; November 03, 2021
Raphael Cormack, "Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring 20s" (Norton, 2021)
56 mins; November 02, 2021
Nada Moumtaz, "God’s Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State" (U California Press, 2021)
65 hours 34 mins; November 02, 2021
Susan Mokhberi, "The Persian Mirror: French Reflections of the Safavid Empire in Early Modern France" (Oxford UP, 2019)
60 hours 7 mins; October 28, 2021
Dilek Kurban, "Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey's Kurdish Conflict" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
60 hours 37 mins; October 28, 2021
Carl Rommel, "Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics" (U Texas Press, 2021)
55 mins; October 27, 2021
Andrea E. Duffy, "Nomad's Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
70 hours 16 mins; October 25, 2021
Jay Rubenstein, “Apocalypse Then: The First Crusade” (Open Agenda, 2021)
113 hours 1 min; October 22, 2021
Rebecca L. Stein, "Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2021)
63 hours 11 mins; October 20, 2021
Leonidas Mylonakis, "Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean: Maritime Marauders in the Greek and Ottoman Aegean" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
35 mins; October 20, 2021
Dov Zakheim, "The Prince and the Emperors: The Life and Times of Rabbi Judah the Prince" (Maggid, 2021)
39 mins; October 15, 2021
Harrison Guthorn, "Capital Development: Mandate Era Amman and the Construction of the Hashemite State (1921-1946)" (Gingko Library, 2021)
42 mins; October 13, 2021
Mikhael Manekin, "The Dawn of Redemption: Ethics and Tradition in a Time of Power" (Evrit, 2021)
56 mins; October 13, 2021
Ozan Ozavci, "Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864" (Oxford UP, 2021)
61 hours 28 mins; October 12, 2021
Richard J. A. McGregor, "Islam and the Devotional Object" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
69 hours 53 mins; October 08, 2021
Henning TrĂźper, "Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
71 hours 26 mins; October 06, 2021
Mirjam LĂźcking, "Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims" (SAPP, 2021)
64 hours 12 mins; October 04, 2021
Shay Hazkani, "Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War" (Stanford UP, 2021)
84 hours 0 mins; September 29, 2021
Nada Moumtaz, "God's Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State" (U California Press, 2021)
61 hours 38 mins; September 27, 2021
Muhammad Umar Faruque, "Sculpting the Self: Islam, Selfhood, and Human Flourishing" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
72 hours 47 mins; September 24, 2021
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, "Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture" (U Washington Press, 2021)
38 mins; September 23, 2021
Kristin Swenson, "A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible" (Oxford UP, 2021)
64 hours 58 mins; September 21, 2021
Rachel Rojanski, "Yiddish in Israel: A History" (Indiana UP, 2020)
99 hours 40 mins; September 20, 2021
Emmanuel Navon, "The Star and the Scepter: A Diplomatic History of Israel" (Jewish Publication Society, 2020)
43 mins; September 16, 2021
Shlomit Naim Naor, "The Things We Are Not Talking About" (2020)
59 mins; September 13, 2021
Ori Yehudai, "Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
83 hours 49 mins; September 09, 2021
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