New Books in Middle Eastern Studies

1111 Episodes

1. Marc Shapiro, "Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook" (Littman Library, 2025)

   Published: 5/14/2025
2. Daniel Behar, "Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

   Published: 5/14/2025
3. Brendan Haug, "Garden of Egypt: Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyūm" (U Michigan Press, 2024)

   Published: 5/6/2025
4. Simon Mayall, "The House of War: The Struggle Between Christendom and the Caliphate" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

   Published: 5/3/2025
5. The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History

   Published: 4/13/2025
6. Orit Rozin, "Emotions of Conflict, Israel 1949-1967" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 4/7/2025
7. Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard, "Spanish National Identity, Colonial Power, and the Portrayal of Muslims and Jews During the Rif War (1909-27)" (Boydell & Brewer, 2021)

   Published: 4/6/2025
8. Sinem Arcak Casale, "Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

   Published: 4/1/2025
9. Letizia Osti, "History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2024)

   Published: 3/31/2025
10. Yaron Ayalon, "Ottoman Jewry: Leadership, Charity, and Literacy" (Brill, 2024)

    Published: 3/30/2025
11. Marc Owen Jones, "Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media" (Hurst/Oxford UP, 2021)

    Published: 3/29/2025
12. Palestinian Futurism with Leila Abdelrazaq

    Published: 3/28/2025
13. "Imprisoning a Revolution: Writings from Egypt's Incarcerated" (U California Press, 2025)

    Published: 3/26/2025
14. Sureshkumar Muthukumaran, "The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean" (U California Press, 2023)

    Published: 3/23/2025
15. Ahmed M. Abozaid, "Counterterrorism Strategies in Egypt: Permanent Exceptions in the War on Terror" (Routledge, 2021)

    Published: 3/22/2025
16. Daniela Richterova, "Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries" (Georgetown UP, 2025)

    Published: 3/18/2025
17. Sumerian History with Marc Van De Mieroop

    Published: 3/15/2025
18. Andrea Wright, "Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea" (Stanford UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/14/2025
19. Catalin-Stefan Popa, "The Making of Syriac Jerusalem" (Routledge, 2023)

    Published: 3/14/2025
20. Selena Wisnom, "The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

    Published: 3/13/2025