Iran has one of the planet's highest rates of addiction...
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Afshin Matin-Asgari, "Both Eastern and Western:...
Matin-Asgari uncovers the intellectual “missing links” both within and without Iran concerning the formation of Iranian national identity...
39 min
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Claire Chambers, “Making Sense of Contemporary ...
Chambers outlines Muslim cultural production during this period through a literary analysis of the senses, especially those beyond the visual...
44 min
585
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
586
Christine D. Baker, "Medieval Islamic Sectarian...
How do contemporary events shape the ways in which we read, understand, and interpret historical processes of identity formation?
51 min
587
Sebastian Prange, "Monsoon Islam: Trade and Fai...
Prange provides a fascinating window into the Muslim world of the medieval (12-16th century) Malabar Coast and the development of Islam that was defined by significant trade networks.
54 min
588
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, "In a Pure Muslim Land: S...
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....
Ali presents a lyrical and at many times haunting account of the aspirations, anxieties, and tragedies enfolding everyday life in the rarely studied Gilgit-Baltistan region in Pakistan...
40 min
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Alt Right, Kekistan, White Shariah: An Intervie...
An interview with Dr. Hizer Mir on the Alt Right and Islam
21 min
591
Alicia Izharuddin, “Gender and Islam in Indones...
Izharuddin explores the development of the Islamic film genre with a specific focus on gender representation...
43 min
592
Najam Haider, "The Rebel and the Imam in Early ...
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?
44 min
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
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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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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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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
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Farhat Haq, "Shariʿa and the State in Pakistan:...
Few doctrinal and political issues are more controversial in Pakistan today than that of blasphemy...
60 min
598
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
599
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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Ather Zia, "Resisting Disappearance: Military O...
Zia's urgent ethnography is centered on Kashmiri women of the APDP (Association of the Parents of the Disappeared Persons)...