New Books in Middle Eastern Studies

1068 Episodes

1. Jacob Norris, "The Lives and Deaths of Jubrail Dabdoub: Or, How the Bethlehemites Discovered Amerka" (Stanford UP, 2023)

   Published: 3/25/2023
2. Aaron Rock-Singer, "In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East" (U California Press, 2022)

   Published: 3/17/2023
3. Mejdulene Bernard Shomali, "Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives" (Duke UP, 2023)

   Published: 3/17/2023
4. Hilary Falb Kalisman, "Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2022)

   Published: 3/15/2023
5. Joseph W. Peterson, "Sacred Rivals: Catholic Missions and the Making of Islam in Nineteenth-Century France and Algeria" (Oxford UP, 2022)

   Published: 3/14/2023
6. Mohamed Tonsy, "You Must Believe in Spring" (Hajar Press, 2022)

   Published: 3/14/2023
7. Ali Mozaffari and Nigel Westbrook, "Development, Architecture, and the Formation of Heritage in Late Twentieth-Century Iran" (Manchester UP, 2020)

   Published: 3/8/2023
8. The Future of the Silk Road: A Discussion with Tim Winters

   Published: 3/7/2023
9. Shivan Mahendrarajah, "A History of Herat: From Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

   Published: 3/5/2023
10. William Carruthers, "Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology" (Cornell UP, 2022)

    Published: 3/5/2023
11. Seema Golestaneh, "Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran" (Duke UP, 2022)

    Published: 3/3/2023
12. Melvyn P. Leffler, "Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 2/28/2023
13. Sabri Ciftci et al., "Beyond Piety and Politics: Religion, Social Relations, and Public Preferences in the Middle East and North Africa" (Indiana UP, 2022)

    Published: 2/27/2023
14. Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt: A Conversation with Andrew Simon

    Published: 2/27/2023
15. Amanda Podany, "Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East" (Oxford UP, 2022)

    Published: 2/25/2023
16. Sarah M. Zaides, "Tevye's Ottoman Daughter: Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews at the End of Empire" (Libra Kitap, 2022)

    Published: 2/24/2023
17. Digging for Answers: The Archaeology of Jerusalem and the Politics of Archaeology

    Published: 2/23/2023
18. Oren Kessler, "Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

    Published: 2/21/2023
19. John D. Hosler, "Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace" (Yale UP, 2022)

    Published: 2/16/2023
20. Daniel Lasker, "Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism" (Littman Library, 2022)

    Published: 2/14/2023