New Books in Middle Eastern Studies

1012 Episodes

1. Eugene Rogan, "The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World" (Basic Book, 2024)

   Published: 6/8/2024
2. Asaf Elia-Shalev, "Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth" (U California Press, 2024)

   Published: 6/7/2024
3. Gizem Zencirci, "The Muslim Social: Neoliberalism, Charity, and Poverty in Turkey" (Syracuse UP, 2024)

   Published: 6/7/2024
4. Wendy Pearlman, "The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora" (Liveright, 2024)

   Published: 6/5/2024
5. Naosuke Mukoyama, "Fueling Sovereignty: Colonial Oil and the Creation of Unlikely States" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

   Published: 6/5/2024
6. Thomas Sparr, "German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighbourhood in the Holy City" (Haus Publishers, 2021)

   Published: 6/4/2024
7. Sa’ed Atshan, "Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique" (Stanford UP, 2020)

   Published: 5/29/2024
8. Vartan Matiossian, "The Politics of Naming the Armenian Genocide: Language, History and 'Medz Yeghern'" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

   Published: 5/28/2024
9. Seyed Ali Alavi, "Iran and Palestine: Past, Present, and Future" (Routledge, 2019)

   Published: 5/27/2024
10. Arjen F. Bakker, "The Secret of Time: Reconfiguring Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls" (Brill, 2023)

    Published: 5/23/2024
11. Assaf Tamari, "God as Patient: The Medical Discourse of Lurianic Kabbalah" (Magnes Press, 2023)

    Published: 5/20/2024
12. Sari Nusseibeh, "Avicenna's Al-Shifā': Oriental Philosophy" (Routledge, 2018)

    Published: 5/16/2024
13. José Ciro Martínez, "States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan" (Stanford UP, 2022)

    Published: 5/15/2024
14. Lisa Bhungalia, "Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2023)

    Published: 5/15/2024
15. What does Biden’s temporary suspension of offensive arms transfers mean for US-Israeli relations?

    Published: 5/13/2024
16. Yasmine Ramadan, "Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)

    Published: 5/12/2024
17. Görkem Akgöz, "In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey" (Brill, 2023)

    Published: 5/12/2024
18. Hala Auji et al., "The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)

    Published: 5/10/2024
19. David Tal, "The Making of an Alliance: The Origins and Development of the US-Israel Relationship" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

    Published: 5/8/2024
20. Sami Hermez with Sireen Sawalha, "My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine" (Redwood Press, 2024)

    Published: 5/7/2024