1111 Episodes

  1. Tahrir Hamdi, "Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

    Published: 3/12/2025
  2. On Barak, "Heat, a History: Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet" (U California Press, 2024)

    Published: 3/10/2025
  3. Kirsten L. Scheid, "Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920–1950" (Indiana UP, 2022)

    Published: 3/9/2025
  4. Margaret Peacock, "Frequencies of Deceit: How Global Propaganda Wars Shaped the Middle East" (U California Press, 2025)

    Published: 3/8/2025
  5. Ibn Butlan, "The Doctors' Dinner Party: A Satirical Novella " (NYU Press, 2023)

    Published: 3/8/2025
  6. Nir Arielli, "The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History" (Yale UP, 2025)

    Published: 3/7/2025
  7. Violent Majorities 2.3: Long-Distance Ethnonationalism Roundup (LA, AS)

    Published: 3/6/2025
  8. Noam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

    Published: 3/1/2025
  9. Daniel Silverman, "Seeing Is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/28/2025
  10. Matthew Hughes, "Britain's Pacification of Palestine" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

    Published: 2/28/2025
  11. Yuval Ben-Bassat and Johann Büssow, "Late Ottoman Gaza: An Eastern Mediterranean Hub in Transformation" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/26/2025
  12. Florence Martin, "Farida Benlyazid and Moroccan Cinema" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

    Published: 2/25/2025
  13. Blanche Bendahan, "Mazaltob: A Novel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/24/2025
  14. Malka Z. Simkovich, "Letters from Home: The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity" (Eisenbrauns, 2024)

    Published: 2/23/2025
  15. Amit Levy, "A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/21/2025
  16. Emine Ö Evered, "Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity" (U Texas Press, 2024)

    Published: 2/19/2025
  17. Peter Wien, "Arab Nationalism: The Politics of History and Culture in the Modern Middle East" (Routledge, 2017)

    Published: 2/19/2025
  18. Erik Freas, "Palestine's Christians and the Nationalist Cause: The Late Ottoman and Mandatory Periods" (Routledge, 2024)

    Published: 2/16/2025
  19. Marcel Elias, "English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/16/2025
  20. David Graves, "New Realism in Contemporary Israeli Painting" (Austin Macauley, 2023)

    Published: 2/11/2025

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