New Books in Middle Eastern Studies

Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
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Omid Safi, “Radical Love: Teachings from the Is...
Its often touted that Rumi is one of the best-selling poets in the United States...
74 min
27
Lucia Sorbera, "Biography of a Revolution: The ...
40 min
28
David Commins, "Saudi Arabia: A Modern History"...
26 min
29
Steve L. Monroe, "Mirages of Reform: The Politi...
21 min
30
Nicholas P. Roberts, "A Sea of Wealth: The Oman...
49 min
31
Adriana Carranca, "Soul by Soul: The Evangelica...
51 min
32
Nabil Yasien Mohamed, "Ghazālī’s Epistemology: ...
77 min
33
Ahmad Shokr, "Harvests of Liberation: Cotton, C...
35 min
34
Nezar AlSayyad and Heba Safey Eldeen, "Cinemati...
63 min
35
Jan Dost, "Safe Corridor" (DarArab, 2025)
29 min
36
William Marx, "Libraries of the Mind" (Princeto...
63 min
37
Isabel Toral and Beatrice Gruendler, "An Unruly...
61 min
38
Murad Idris, "War for Peace: Genealogies of a V...
Idris traces the concept of peace, and the way it is often insinuated with other words and concepts, over more than 2000 years of political thought...
63 min
39
Bulent Gokay and Lily Hamourtziadou, "Human Cos...
27 min
40
Ünver Rüstem, "Ottoman Baroque: The Architectur...
Rüstem takes a stab of a slice of that history, arguing that we should see the eighteenth-century Baroque period in Ottoman mosque architecture as innovative and not derivative...
68 min
41
Ilana Rosen, "Israeli Documentary Poetry: Comin...
54 min
42
Linda Quiquivix, "Palestine 1492: A Report Back...
68 min
43
Ory Amitay, "Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: ...
44 min
44
Marc Herman, "After Revelation: The Rabbinic Pa...
47 min
45
M’hamed Oualdi, "A Slave between Empires: A Tra...
Oualdi explores the life and afterlife of one figure, the manumitted slave and Tunisian dignitary Husayn Ibn ‘Abdallah...
38 min
46
Lily Hamourtziadou, "Body Count: The War on Ter...
26 min
47
Alissa Walter, "Contested City: Citizen Advocac...
28 min
48
Charles Glass, "Syria: Civil War to Holy War?" ...
37 min
49
Yardena Schwartz, "Ghosts of a Holy War: The 19...
46 min
50
Siri Schwabe, "Moving Memory: Remembering Pales...
47 min