Dan Jones, "Crusaders: The Epic History of the ...
Jones shows how the Crusades was a different event depending upon one’s perspective, be that of a Norman ruler, a Byzantine princess, or a Muslim chronicler....
38 min
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Michael Mandelbaum, "The Rise and Fall of Peace...
In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history...
52 min
953
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
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Joanna Lillis, "Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret...
Lillis paints a compelling picture of a nation that is still grappling with the consequences of Joseph Stalin’s devastating disruption...
58 min
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Mohammed Dajani Daoudi, "Teaching Empathy and R...
Daoudi took a group of Palestinian students to visit Auschwitz – a courageous assertion against the Holocaust denial rampant in Palestinian society,..
67 min
956
Jennifer L. Derr, "The Lived Nile: Environment,...
In October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt's relationship with the Nile River forever changed...
51 min
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Ussama Makdisi, "Age of Coexistence: The Ecumen...
Makdisi dispels the myth that the Middle East is inherently or inescapably sectarian and complicates the often overstated binary of “secular” and religious...
49 min
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Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, "Revolution and It...
Sadeghi-Boroujerdi traces the rise and evolution of reformist political thought in Iran...
57 min
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Perin Gürel, "The Limits of Westernization: A C...
In a 2001 poll, Turks ranked the United States highest when asked: "Which country is Turkey's best friend in international relations?"
34 min
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Humphrey Davies and Lesley Lababidi, "A Field G...
Guides have been written to the city of Cairo for generations...
56 min
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Kfir Cohen Lustig, "Makers of Worlds, Readers o...
Cohen Lustig suggests a new theoretical and historical approach to Israeli and Palestinian literature...
29 min
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Matthew Hughes, "Britain's Pacification of Pale...
Hughes shows how the British Army was so devastatingly effective against colonial rebellion in the mid to late 1930s by the Palestinian Arabs...
51 min
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Seth J. Frantzman, "After Isis: America, Iran a...
Frantzman spent months traveling throughout the Middle East to get a first-hand view of the region, its people and politics in war’s aftermath...
How are notions of justice and equality constructed in Islamic virtue ethics (akhlaq)?
64 min
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Charlie Laderman, "Sharing the Burden: The Arme...
Laderman exposes the way that imperial ambitions suffused the ideas and practices of turn-of-century humanitarian intervention...
69 min
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Elizabeth S. Kassab, "Enlightenment on the Eve ...
Kassab shows her readers that the demands for human dignity, freedom, and political participation had been robustly discussed by intellectuals in Syria and Egypt during the 1990s and 2000s...
56 min
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M. David Litwa, "How the Gospels Became History...
Did the early Christians believe their myths?
58 min
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David Gaunt, "Let Them Not Return" (Berghahn Bo...
The book functions in some ways like an invitation—an invitation to learn something about peoples and suffering about which we know little,..
49 min
969
Michael Lower, "The Tunis Crusade of 1270: A Me...
Why was a Crusade that was initially meant for Syria end up in Tunis?
62 min
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Sean Foley, "Changing Saudi Arabia: Art, Cultur...
Foley offers eye-opening insights into a changing society that is under the international magnifying glass...
64 min
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Robert Haug, "The Eastern Frontier: Limits of E...
Haug offers an in-depth look at the frontier zone of the Sassanian, Umayyad, and Abbasid Empires...
60 min
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Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousan...
Moller traces the histories of migration of three ancient authors, Euclid, Ptolemy and Galen, from ancient Alexandria in 500 to Syria and Constantinople,
61 min
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David Stenner, "Globalizing Morocco: Transnatio...
The story of Morocco’s independence struggle against France and Spain is a complicated one...