New Books in Middle Eastern Studies

by Marshall Poe
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  • Simon Mayall, "The House of War: The Struggle Between Christendom and the Caliphate" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
    May 3, 2025 – 01:11:54
  • The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History
    Apr 13, 2025 – 40:45
  • Orit Rozin, "Emotions of Conflict, Israel 1949-1967" (Oxford UP, 2024)
    Apr 7, 2025 – 01:09:34
  • Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard, "Spanish National Identity, Colonial Power, and the Portrayal of Muslims and Jews During the Rif War (1909-27)" (Boydell & Brewer, 2021)
    Apr 6, 2025 – 48:42
  • Sinem Arcak Casale, "Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
    Apr 1, 2025 – 01:11:28
  • Letizia Osti, "History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2024)
    Mar 31, 2025 – 51:55
  • Yaron Ayalon, "Ottoman Jewry: Leadership, Charity, and Literacy" (Brill, 2024)
    Mar 30, 2025 – 43:34
  • Marc Owen Jones, "Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media" (Hurst/Oxford UP, 2021)
    Mar 29, 2025 – 27:23
  • Palestinian Futurism with Leila Abdelrazaq
    Mar 28, 2025 – 56:11
  • "Imprisoning a Revolution: Writings from Egypt's Incarcerated" (U California Press, 2025)
    Mar 26, 2025 – 01:06:57
  • Sureshkumar Muthukumaran, "The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean" (U California Press, 2023)
    Mar 23, 2025 – 43:07
  • Ahmed M. Abozaid, "Counterterrorism Strategies in Egypt: Permanent Exceptions in the War on Terror" (Routledge, 2021)
    Mar 22, 2025 – 01:06:16
  • Daniela Richterova, "Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
    Mar 18, 2025 – 01:34:45
  • Sumerian History with Marc Van De Mieroop
    Mar 15, 2025 – 01:12:53
  • Andrea Wright, "Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea" (Stanford UP, 2024)
    Mar 14, 2025 – 32:00
  • Catalin-Stefan Popa, "The Making of Syriac Jerusalem" (Routledge, 2023)
    Mar 14, 2025 – 01:07:46
  • Selena Wisnom, "The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
    Mar 13, 2025 – 38:29
  • Tahrir Hamdi, "Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
    Mar 12, 2025 – 53:20
  • On Barak, "Heat, a History: Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet" (U California Press, 2024)
    Mar 10, 2025 – 42:55
  • Kirsten L. Scheid, "Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920–1950" (Indiana UP, 2022)
    Mar 9, 2025 – 01:31:42
  • Margaret Peacock, "Frequencies of Deceit: How Global Propaganda Wars Shaped the Middle East" (U California Press, 2025)
    Mar 8, 2025 – 01:04:03
  • Ibn Butlan, "The Doctors' Dinner Party: A Satirical Novella " (NYU Press, 2023)
    Mar 8, 2025 – 43:49
  • Nir Arielli, "The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History" (Yale UP, 2025)
    Mar 7, 2025 – 01:06:22
  • Violent Majorities 2.3: Long-Distance Ethnonationalism Roundup (LA, AS)
    Mar 6, 2025 – 46:52
  • Noam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
    Mar 1, 2025 – 01:15:06
  • Matthew Hughes, "Britain's Pacification of Palestine" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
    Feb 28, 2025 – 01:27:49
  • Daniel Silverman, "Seeing Is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
    Feb 28, 2025 – 46:08
  • Yuval Ben-Bassat and Johann Büssow, "Late Ottoman Gaza: An Eastern Mediterranean Hub in Transformation" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
    Feb 26, 2025 – 01:00:42
  • Florence Martin, "Farida Benlyazid and Moroccan Cinema" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
    Feb 25, 2025 – 01:18:38
  • Blanche Bendahan, "Mazaltob: A Novel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
    Feb 24, 2025 – 01:08:12
  • Malka Z. Simkovich, "Letters from Home: The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity" (Eisenbrauns, 2024)
    Feb 23, 2025 – 49:54
  • Amit Levy, "A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
    Feb 21, 2025 – 01:10:52
  • Emine Ö Evered, "Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity" (U Texas Press, 2024)
    Feb 19, 2025 – 56:25
  • Peter Wien, "Arab Nationalism: The Politics of History and Culture in the Modern Middle East" (Routledge, 2017)
    Feb 19, 2025 – 49:11
  • Marcel Elias, "English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
    Feb 16, 2025 – 26:09
  • Erik Freas, "Palestine's Christians and the Nationalist Cause: The Late Ottoman and Mandatory Periods" (Routledge, 2024)
    Feb 16, 2025 – 01:15:48
  • David Graves, "New Realism in Contemporary Israeli Painting" (Austin Macauley, 2023)
    Feb 11, 2025 – 49:56
  • Parisa Vaziri, "Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran's Cinematic Archive" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
    Feb 9, 2025 – 01:27:00
  • William Gallois, "Qayrawan: The Amuletic City" (Penn State UP, 2024)
    Feb 7, 2025 – 44:51
  • Violent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS)
    Feb 6, 2025 – 56:50
  • Cyrus Ali Zargar, "The Ethics of Karbala: Myths, Modernity, and Virtues of Nobility" (Routledge, 2024)
    Feb 3, 2025 – 01:04:24
  • Elio Zarmati, "Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming of Age as a Jew of the Nile" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025)
    Feb 3, 2025 – 01:19:59
  • Christopher Burnham, "Sir Ronald Storrs: Personality and Policy in Mandate Palestine, 1917-1926" (Routledge, 2024)
    Jan 24, 2025 – 01:03:52
  • The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century
    Jan 15, 2025 – 54:29
  • David G. Hunter et al., "Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity: Authors, Texts, and Ideas" (Brill, 2024)
    Jan 8, 2025 – 52:00
  • Olga Borovaya, "The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel: Ottoman Jews at the Dawn of the Tanzimat Era" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
    Jan 5, 2025 – 01:17:59
  • The Hyphen Unites: Avi Shlaim on Arab-Jewish Life
    Jan 3, 2025 – 01:10:12
  • Robert D. Miller II, "Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021)
    Dec 31, 2024 – 26:14
  • Franck Salameh, "Lebanon’s Jewish Community: Fragments of Lives Arrested" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
    Dec 27, 2024 – 58:39
  • Anne K. Bang, "Zanzibari Muslim Moderns: Islamic Paths to Progress in the Interwar Period" (Oxford UP, 2024)
    Dec 18, 2024 – 01:06:10
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