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New Books in Middle Eastern Studies
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Edmund Richardson, "Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City Beneath the Mountains" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
36 mins; September 09, 2021
Lev Luis Grinberg, "Mo(ve)ments of Resistance: Politics, Economy and Society in Israel/Palestine, 1931-2013" (Academics Studies Press, 2014)
102 hours 15 mins; August 31, 2021
Simonetta Calderini, "Women as Imams: Classical Islamic Sources and Modern Debates on Leading Prayer" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
48 mins; August 31, 2021
Nile Green, “Religious Entrepreneurs?” (Open Agenda, 2021)
108 hours 48 mins; August 31, 2021
David J. Goldberg, “Rabbi With A Cause: Israel and Identity” (Open Agenda, 2021)
87 hours 36 mins; August 27, 2021
Aaron Y. Zelin, "Your Sons Are at Your Service: Tunisia's Missionaries of Jihad" (Columbia UP, 2020)
64 hours 40 mins; August 27, 2021
Naphtaly Shem-Tov, "Israeli Theatre: Mizrahi Jews and Self-Representation" (Routledge, 2021)
82 hours 24 mins; August 25, 2021
Antonio Panaino: What is Zoroastrianism?
150 hours 29 mins; August 25, 2021
Gökten DogangĂŒn, "Gender Politics in Turkey and Russia: From State Feminism to Authoritarian Rule" (I. B. Tauris, 2019)
69 hours 42 mins; August 23, 2021
Beverly A. Tsacoyianis, "Disturbing Spirits: Mental Illness, Trauma, and Treatment in Modern Syria and Lebanon" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)
61 hours 13 mins; August 19, 2021
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, "ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters Along the Silk Roads" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
61 hours 28 mins; August 16, 2021
Nivi Manchanda, "Imagining Afghanistan: The History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
48 mins; August 13, 2021
Soner Çaǧaptay, "A Sultan in Autumn: Erdogan Faces Turkey's Uncontainable Forces" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
54 mins; August 12, 2021
Mark Farha, "Lebanon: The Rise and Fall of a Secular State under Siege" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
56 mins; August 11, 2021
Mika Ahuvia, "On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture" (U California Press, 2021)
57 mins; August 09, 2021
Angela Williams, "Hip Hop Harem: Women, Rap and Representation in the Middle East" (Peter Lang, 2020)
53 mins; August 06, 2021
Heather N. Keaney, "'Uthman ibn 'Affan" (Oneworld Academic, 2020)
68 hours 15 mins; August 06, 2021
James E. Lindsay and Suleiman Mourad, "Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology" (Hackett, 2021)
62 hours 57 mins; August 04, 2021
Deanna Ferree Womack, "Protestants, Gender and the Arab Renaissance in Late Ottoman Syria" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
84 hours 35 mins; July 29, 2021
Ryan J. Lynch, "Arab Conquests and Early Islamic Historiography: The Futuh Al-Buldan of Al-Baladhuri" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
73 hours 59 mins; July 28, 2021
Anna Bigelow et al., "Islam Through Objects" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
57 mins; July 16, 2021
Cynthia J. Becker, "Blackness in Morocco: Gnawa Identity Through Music and Visual Culture" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
51 mins; July 16, 2021
David Arnovitz, "Samuel: The Making of the Monarchy, Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel" (Koren Publishers, 2021)
18 mins; July 14, 2021
Ayse Parla, "Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey" (Stanford UP, 2019)
61 hours 52 mins; July 07, 2021
Katherine Pangonis, "Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule" (Hachette, 2021)
55 mins; July 01, 2021
Caroline Seymour-Jorn, "Creating Spaces of Hope: Young Artists and the New Imagination in Egypt" (AU in Cairo Press, 2021)
61 hours 29 mins; June 29, 2021
Marie Favereau, "The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
66 hours 21 mins; June 29, 2021
Matthew S. Gordon, "Ahmad ibn Tulun: Governor of Abbasid Egypt, 868–884" (Oneworld Academic, 2021)
56 mins; June 25, 2021
Richard Antaramian, "Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire: Armenians and the Politics of Reform in the Ottoman Empire" (Stanford UP, 2020)
62 hours 55 mins; June 24, 2021
Samuli Schielke, "Migrant Dreams: Egyptian Workers in the Gulf States" (AU in Cairo Press, 2020)
60 hours 15 mins; June 22, 2021
ÊżAbd al-Laáč­Ä«f al-BaghdādÄ«, "A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years" (NYU Press, 2021)
81 hours 15 mins; June 21, 2021
Xenia Svetlova, "On Heels in the Middle East" (Pardes Publishing, 2020)
67 hours 19 mins; June 16, 2021
Donna Stein, "The Empress and I: How an Ancient Empire Collected, Rejected and Rediscovered Modern Art" (Skira, 2021)
48 mins; June 09, 2021
Sertaç Sehlikoglu, "Working Out Desire: Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul" (Syracuse UP, 2020)
57 mins; June 08, 2021
Samy Ayoub, "Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Hanafi Jurisprudence" (Oxford UP, 2020)
64 hours 28 mins; June 04, 2021
Kevin M. Jones, "The Dangers of Poetry: Culture, Politics, and Revolution in Iraq" (Stanford UP, 2020)
61 hours 4 mins; June 02, 2021
Mikiya Koyagi, "Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway" (Stanford UP, 2021)
59 mins; June 01, 2021
Michael Sorkin and Deen Sharp, "Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope" ( American University in Cairo Press, 2021)
39 mins; May 28, 2021
Devi Mays, "Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora" (Stanford UP, 2020)
85 hours 20 mins; May 26, 2021
Heba Y. Amin, "The General's Stork" (Sternberg Press, 2020)
51 mins; May 25, 2021
Cary Nelson, "Not in Kansas Anymore: Academic Freedom in Palestinian Universities" (AEN, 2021)
64 hours 44 mins; May 25, 2021
Caterina Scaramelli, "How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey" (Stanford UP, 2021)
54 mins; May 24, 2021
Teach-In on Sheikh Jarrah and Israel-Palestine
90 hours 34 mins; May 24, 2021
Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi, "The Translator of Desires: Poems" (Princeton UP, 2021)
67 hours 46 mins; May 21, 2021
Mehr Afshan Farooqi, "Ghalib: a Wilderness at My Doorstep: A Critical Biography" (Allen Lane, 2021)
42 mins; May 20, 2021
Leon R. Kass, "Founding God’s Nation: Reading Exodus" (Yale UP, 2021)
65 hours 41 mins; May 17, 2021
Jenny White, "Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence" (Princeton UP, 2021)
43 mins; May 13, 2021
Robert D. Miller II, "Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021)
26 mins; May 13, 2021
Hannah Barker, "That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
55 mins; May 12, 2021
Christine M. Philliou, "Turkey: A Past Against History" (U California Press, 2021)
66 hours 21 mins; May 12, 2021
Wazhmah Osman, "Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Local Activists" (U of Illinois Press, 2020)
49 mins; May 12, 2021
Eleni Kefala, "The Conquered: Byzantium and America on the Cusp of Modernity" (Dumbarton Oaks, 2021)
72 hours 10 mins; May 10, 2021
J. Andrew Bush, "Between Muslims: Religious Difference in Iraqi Kurdistan" (Stanford UP, 2020)
40 mins; May 07, 2021
I. M. Fuerst and B. M. Wheeler, "Words of Experience: Translating Islam with Carl W. Ernst" (Equinox, 2020)
60 hours 50 mins; May 07, 2021
Shibli Numani, "Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue" (Syracuse UP, 2019)
54 mins; May 07, 2021
Ora Szekely, et al., "Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars" (Georgetown UP, 2019)
43 mins; May 07, 2021
Jörg Matthias Determann, "Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World" (I. B. Tauris, 2020)
52 mins; May 05, 2021
Evren Savci, "Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam" (Duke UP, 2021)
74 hours 41 mins; May 03, 2021
Ziad Elmarsafy, "Esoteric Islam in Modern French Thought: Massignon, Corbin, Jambet" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
57 mins; April 30, 2021
Elise K. Burton, "Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity" (Stanford UP, 2021)
58 mins; April 29, 2021
Richard Hammond, "Strangling the Axis: The Fight for Control of the Mediterranean during the Second World War" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
48 mins; April 27, 2021
Massoud Hayoun, "When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History" (New Press, 2019)
73 hours 10 mins; April 21, 2021
Junaid Quadri, "Transformations of Tradition: Islamic Law in Colonial Modernity" (Oxford UP, 2021)
80 hours 42 mins; April 09, 2021
Helen Zughaib and Elia Zughaib, "Stories My Father Told Me: Memories of a Childhood in Syria and Lebanon" (Cune Press, 2020)
58 mins; April 07, 2021
Nicola Pratt, "Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon" (U California Press, 2020)
67 hours 24 mins; April 07, 2021
Richard C. Jankowsky, "Ambient Sufism: Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
63 hours 43 mins; April 02, 2021
Smriti Srinivas et al., "Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds" (Routledge, 2020)
74 hours 53 mins; April 02, 2021
Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, "The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics, and Community" (Edinburgh UP)
75 hours 13 mins; March 30, 2021
Mohammad Salama, "Islam and the Culture of Modern Egypt: From the Monarchy to the Republic" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
85 hours 35 mins; March 26, 2021
Mayte Green-Mercado, "Visions of Deliverance: Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean" (Cornell UP, 2019)
62 hours 45 mins; March 26, 2021
Aaron Tugendhaft, "The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
69 hours 9 mins; March 25, 2021
Brendan McNamara, "The Reception of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Britain: East Comes West" (Brill, 2020)
49 mins; March 25, 2021
Hoda El Shakry, "The Literary Qur'an: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb" (Fordham UP, 2019)
48 mins; March 24, 2021
Elizabeth Thompson, "How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020)
61 hours 53 mins; March 23, 2021
Aaron G. Jakes, "Egypt's Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism" (Stanford UP, 2020)
100 hours 14 mins; March 23, 2021
Hawraa Al Hassan, "Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba'thist State" (U Edinburgh Press, 2020)
55 mins; March 22, 2021
Laura Robson, "The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East" (Oxford UP, 2020)
73 hours 7 mins; March 22, 2021
Oya Dursun-Özkanca, "Turkey–West Relations: The Politics of Intra-alliance Opposition" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
60 hours 35 mins; March 22, 2021
Jason Thompson, "Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology" (AU of Cairo, 2018)
50 mins; March 19, 2021
Nevin Reda and Yasmin Amin, "Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice: Processes of Canonization Subversion and Change" (McGill Queens UP, 2020)
67 hours 7 mins; March 19, 2021
Joshua Cole, "Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria" (Cornell UP, 2019)
63 hours 45 mins; March 16, 2021
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, "Terror Epidemics: Islamophobia and the Disease Poetics of Empire" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
74 hours 48 mins; February 26, 2021
Celene Ibrahim, "Women and Gender in the Qur'an" (Oxford UP, 2020)
58 mins; February 19, 2021
Dina Danon, "The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History" (Stanford UP, 2020)
50 mins; February 17, 2021
Augustin Jomier, "Islam, réforme et colonisation: une histoire de l'ibadisme en Algérie (1882-1962)" (Sorbonne, 2020)
66 hours 12 mins; February 16, 2021
Nathaniel Greenberg, "How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring: The Politics of Narrative in Egypt and Tunisia" (Edinburgh UP, 2019)
62 hours 30 mins; February 12, 2021
Ɓukasz Stanek, "Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War" (Princeton UP, 2020)
44 mins; February 11, 2021
An Intercultural Friendship in the Context of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
15 mins; February 10, 2021
Khatchig Mouradian, "The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918" (MSU Press, 2020)
56 mins; February 09, 2021
Sara Salem, "Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
62 hours 3 mins; February 09, 2021
N. Darshan-Leitner and S. M. Katz, "Harpoon: Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism's Money Masters" (Hachette, 2017)
56 mins; February 08, 2021
Amit Bein, "Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East: International Relations in the Interwar Period" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
58 mins; February 07, 2021
Michael Christo Low, "Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj" (Columbia UP, 2020)
90 hours 45 mins; January 28, 2021
Catherine E. Herrold, "Delta Democracy: Pathways to Incremental Civic Revolution in Egypt and Beyond" (Oxford UP, 2020)
54 mins; January 25, 2021
James Pickett, "Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia" (Cornell UP, 2020)
61 hours 14 mins; January 21, 2021
Becky L. Schulthies, "Channeling Moroccanness: Language and the Media of Sociality" (Fordham UP, 2020)
59 mins; January 20, 2021
Alexs Thompson, "I'll Go: War, Religion, and Coming Home, from Cairo to Kansas City" (2020)
51 mins; January 20, 2021
Bruce B. Lawrence, "The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader: Islam Beyond Borders" (Duke UP, 2021)
69 hours 8 mins; January 15, 2021
H. M. E. Tagma and P. E. Lenze, "Understanding and Explaining the Iranian Nuclear 'Crisis'" (Lexington Books, 2020)
61 hours 11 mins; January 15, 2021
Haggai Ram, "Intoxicating Zion: A Social History of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel" (Stanford UP, 2020)
31 mins; January 13, 2021
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