New Books in Middle Eastern Studies

1111 Episodes

1. Parisa Vaziri, "Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran's Cinematic Archive" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

   Published: 2/9/2025
2. William Gallois, "Qayrawan: The Amuletic City" (Penn State UP, 2024)

   Published: 2/7/2025
3. Violent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS)

   Published: 2/6/2025
4. Cyrus Ali Zargar, "The Ethics of Karbala: Myths, Modernity, and Virtues of Nobility" (Routledge, 2024)

   Published: 2/3/2025
5. Elio Zarmati, "Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming of Age as a Jew of the Nile" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025)

   Published: 2/3/2025
6. Christopher Burnham, "Sir Ronald Storrs: Personality and Policy in Mandate Palestine, 1917-1926" (Routledge, 2024)

   Published: 1/24/2025
7. The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century

   Published: 1/15/2025
8. David G. Hunter et al., "Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity: Authors, Texts, and Ideas" (Brill, 2024)

   Published: 1/8/2025
9. Olga Borovaya, "The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel: Ottoman Jews at the Dawn of the Tanzimat Era" (Berghahn Books, 2024)

   Published: 1/5/2025
10. The Hyphen Unites: Avi Shlaim on Arab-Jewish Life

    Published: 1/3/2025
11. Robert D. Miller II, "Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021)

    Published: 12/31/2024
12. Franck Salameh, "Lebanon’s Jewish Community: Fragments of Lives Arrested" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

    Published: 12/27/2024
13. Anne K. Bang, "Zanzibari Muslim Moderns: Islamic Paths to Progress in the Interwar Period" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 12/18/2024
14. Yaacov Yadgar, "To Be a Jewish State: Zionism as the New Judaism" (NYU Press, 2024)

    Published: 12/16/2024
15. Azad Essa, "Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel" (Pluto Press, 2023)

    Published: 12/13/2024
16. Samuel Hodgkin, "Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

    Published: 12/12/2024
17. Wendy Pearlman, "The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora" (Liveright, 2024)

    Published: 12/10/2024
18. Persistent Pastoralism: Monuments and Settlements in the Archaeology of Dhofar

    Published: 12/7/2024
19. Yochai Ataria, "Not in Our Brain: Consciousness, Body, World" (Magnes Press, 2019)

    Published: 12/4/2024
20. Ibn al-Muqaffaʿs "Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice"

    Published: 12/2/2024