Ali presents a detailed and fascinating account of Muslim feminist discourses and politics in modern Iraq...

Krona and Pennington explore the characteristics, mission, and tactics of the ISIS's use of media and propaganda...

Matin-Asgari uncovers the intellectual “missing links” both within and without Iran concerning the formation of Iranian national identity...

Iran has one of the planet's highest rates of addiction...

Who are the Jews from Arab countries?

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

Sternfeld presents the first systematic study of the rich and variegated history of Jews in twentieth-century Iran...

How do contemporary events shape the ways in which we read, understand, and interpret historical processes of identity formation?

Fuchs interrogates this framework with a novel intervention by examining the case of Shi’i Islamic intellectual thought in Pakistan as it relates to the Middle East....

In the absence of any real certainty about the nature and intention of the early sources that tell us the story of the early Islamic period, how can we use them?

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

In July 1958, U.S. Marines stormed the beach in Beirut, Lebanon, ready for combat....

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....

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history...

Lillis paints a compelling picture of a nation that is still grappling with the consequences of Joseph Stalin’s devastating disruption...

Daoudi took a group of Palestinian students to visit Auschwitz – a courageous assertion against the Holocaust denial rampant in Palestinian society,..

In October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt's relationship with the Nile River forever changed...

Makdisi dispels the myth that the Middle East is inherently or inescapably sectarian and complicates the often overstated binary of “secular” and religious...

Sadeghi-Boroujerdi traces the rise and evolution of reformist political thought in Iran...

In a 2001 poll, Turks ranked the United States highest when asked: "Which country is Turkey's best friend in international relations?"

Guides have been written to the city of Cairo for generations...

Cohen Lustig suggests a new theoretical and historical approach to Israeli and Palestinian literature...

Hughes shows how the British Army was so devastatingly effective against colonial rebellion in the mid to late 1930s by the Palestinian Arabs...

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...