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To Exist as a Problem: Being Black, Being Palestinian with Zahi Zalloua (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Oct 07, 2026 |
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Egyptian Male Film Stars in the Nasser Era: Envisioning a National Identity with Samar Abdel-Rahman (American U of Cairo Press, 2026)
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Oct 06, 2026 |
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Driven to Their Knees: Humiliation in Contemporary Politics with Roxanne L. Euben (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Sep 25, 2026 |
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James A Harmon et al., "A Daring Enterprise: The US, Post-Revolutionary Egypt, and a Partnership That Defied the Odds" (American U in Cairo Press, 2026)
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Sep 23, 2026 |
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Abi Bae and Hamza Hamouchene eds., "Towards Palestinian Liberation: Global Perspectives on Anti-Colonial Resistance and Solidarity" (Daraja Press, 2026)
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Sep 19, 2026 |
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Sarah Trad, "A House in the Lebanese Mountains: Recipes & Stories from Beit Trad" (Thames & Hudson, 2026)
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Sep 18, 2026 |
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Mehmet Çelik, "Empire and Nation in the City: Rusçuk from Ottoman Rule to Bulgarian Statehood" (Syracuse UP, 2026)
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Sep 15, 2026 |
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Relative Strangers: Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference
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Sep 05, 2026 |
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Elizabeth Anne Davis, "Artifactual: Forensic and Documentary Knowing" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Sep 02, 2026 |
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Robin Whelan, "Serving the Christian State in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
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Aug 24, 2026 |
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Emily Sibley, "The Poetics of Incivility: Satire and Subversion in Modern Arab Culture" (Cornell UP, 2026)
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Aug 20, 2026 |
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Karène Sanchez Summerer and Sary Zananiri eds., "Palestine in Transition: Frank Scholten's Visual Archive of the British Mandate Period" (CEU Press, 2026)
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Aug 17, 2026 |
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Amihai Mazar and Nava Panitz-Cohen, "Tel Rehov: A Bronze and Iron Age City in the Beth-Shean Valle" (The Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University, 2020)
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Aug 17, 2026 |
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Zvi Yehuda and Marian Scheuer Sofaer, "The Expulsion of Jews from Iraq, 20th Century: The Agonies of Redemption" (Brill, 2024)
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Aug 15, 2026 |
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Hossam el-Hamalawy, "Counterrevolution in Egypt: Sisi's New Republic (Verso Books, 2026)
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Aug 14, 2026 |
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Younus Y. Mirza, "The Islamic Mary: Maryam Through the Centuries" (Fortress Press, 2025)
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Aug 12, 2026 |
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Daniel Majchrowicz, "A Journey to Mecca and London: The Travels of an Indian Muslim Woman, 1909–1910" (Indiana UP, 2025)
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Aug 10, 2026 |
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Gianluca Fantoni, "Soldiers, Angels, and Avengers: A History of the Jewish Brigade" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2026)
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Aug 07, 2026 |
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Muslims and the Minority Question across the Indian Ocean: A Conversation With Roy Bar Sadeh
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Aug 05, 2026 |
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Paulina Banas, "Visualizing Egypt: European Travel, Book Publishing, and the Commercialization of the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century" (American University in Cairo Press, 2025)
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Aug 02, 2026 |
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Murat C. Yildiz, "The Ottoman World of Sports: Refashioning Bodies, Men, and Communities in Late Imperial Istanbul" (U Texas Press, 2026)
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Jul 31, 2026 |
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Mikhail Pelevin, "Love, Honour and God: Pashto Writings of Early Modern Times" (Brill, 2025)
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Jul 31, 2026 |
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Lisa Blaydes and Samuel Helfont eds., "Ba‘thist Iraq Through Archives: Reflections, Explorations, and Opportunities" (Stanford UP, 2026)
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Jul 29, 2026 |
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Samantha Iyer, "Agrarian Superpower: Food, Development, and the Global Ascendancy of the United States" (Columbia UP, 2026)
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Jul 25, 2026 |
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Eamonn Gearon, "The Arab Bureau: The Story of Britain's Most Ingenious Intelligence Unit" (Hurst, 2026)
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Jul 23, 2026 |
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Martin Shaw, "The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges After Gaza" (Agenda Publishing, 2025)
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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Suzy Hansen, "From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan" (FSG, 2026)
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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Massoud Amin, "Both Your Houses: Iran, America, and the Wages of Unchecked Power" (Wisdom Editions, 2026)
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Jul 15, 2026 |
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Thomas Smith, "The Fifth Crusade: A History of the Epic Campaign to Conquer Egypt" (Yale UP, 2026)
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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Sara Farhan, "Medical Education and the Making of Iraqi Doctors, 1869–1959" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
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Jul 12, 2026 |
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Molly Crabapple, "Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund" (Random House, 2026)
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Jul 05, 2026 |
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Arpan Roy, "Relative Strangers: Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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Christopher de Bellaigue, "The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King" (Bodley Head, 2025)
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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Ciruce A. Movahedi-Lankarani, "Accelerant: Energy Infrastructures and the Natural World in Making Modern Iran" (Stanford UP, 2026)
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, "Boundaries of Belonging: Sectarianism and Statecraft in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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Alex Boodrookas, "Comrades Estranged: Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf" (Stanford UP, 2026)
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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Samantha Ellis, "Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture" (Pegasus Books, 2026)
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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Adrian Ciani, "Contesting Zion: The Vatican, American Catholics, and the Partition of Palestine" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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Marielle Risse, "Ethnographic Reflections on Marriage in Dhofar, Oman" (Anthem Press, 2026)
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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Robert Templer, "The Shah's Party: And the Iranian Revolution That Followed (Hurst, 2026)
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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Anand Gopal, "Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution" (Viking, 2026)
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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Homa Katouzian, "Iran and the Revolution: A History" (Yale UP, 2026)
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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Media, Power, and the Gaza Narrative
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May 29, 2026 |
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Timothy Mason Roberts, "After Barbary: Algeria's Roles in the French and American Empires" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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May 28, 2026 |
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Utku Balaban, "Industrial Islamism: How Authoritarian Movements Mobilize Workers" (U California Press, 2025)
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May 20, 2026 |
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Beyond Minorities: Power, Identity, and Conflict in the Middle East
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May 15, 2026 |
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Robin Andersen, "The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel's Genocide in Gaza" (OR Books, 2026)
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May 09, 2026 |
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Zeina Al-Azmeh, "Syrian Intellectuals in Exile: The Dilemmas of Revolution and the Cost of Leaving" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
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May 09, 2026 |
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Edith Szanto, "Twelver Shi'i Self-flagellation Rites in Contemporary Syria: Mourning Sayyida Zaynab" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
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May 07, 2026 |
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Dylan Baun, "Beirut Radical: A Global Microhistory from the Sixties to the Lebanese Civil War" (I.B. Tauris, 2026)
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May 02, 2026 |
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Mostafa Hussein, "Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arabo-Islamic Culture in Late Ottoman and British Palestine" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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May 01, 2026 |
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Craig Perry, "Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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James Bultema, "Free Enough to Grow: The Turkish Protestant Movement, 1961-2016" (Springer, 2026)
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Nathaniel Greenberg, "The Long War of Ideas: American Public Diplomacy in Arabic After 9/11" (Columbia UP, 2026)
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Sabri Jiryis, "The Foundations of Zionism" (Ebb Books, 2025)
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Christian Henderson, "Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf States in the Global Food System" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
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Apr 12, 2026 |
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Radio ReOrient 14.1: State of the Ummah: “A War Against the Islamic Republic?”, hosted by Shehla Khan, with Mona Makinejadbanadaki and S. Sayyid.
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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Beth Derderian, "Art Capital: Museum Politics and the Making of the Louvre Abu Dhabi" (Stanford UP, 2026)
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Michael Allan, "Cinema before the World: The Global Routes of the Lumière Brothers" (Fordham UP, 2026)
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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On Our Continuing Age of Oil with Journalist Stanley Reed
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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James McDougall, "Worlds of Islam: A Global History" (Basic Books, 2026)
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Craig Perry, "Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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Paul Kohlbry, "Plots and Deeds: Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for Land Justice in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2026)
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Matthew Moran et al., "Coercing Syria on Chemical Weapons" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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Understanding Iran Under Attack: A Discussion with Author Vali Nasr
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Mai Serhan, "I Can Imagine It for Us: A Palestinian Daughter's Memoir" (American University in Cairo Press, 2025)
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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Eray Çayli, "Earthmoving: Extractivism, War, and Visuality in Northern Kurdistan" (U Texas Press, 2025)
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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David Frankfurter ed., "Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic" (Brill, 2019)
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Sary Zananiri, "Photographing Biblical Modernity: Frank Scholten in British Mandate Palestine" (I.B. Tauris, 2026)
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Najati Sidqi, "Memoirs of a Palestinian Communist: The Secret Life of Najati Sidqi" (U Texas Press, 2025)
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Yossef Rapoport, "Becoming Arab: The Formation of Arab Identity in the Medieval Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Donna Stein, "The Empress and I: How an Ancient Empire Collected, Rejected and Rediscovered Modern Art" (Skira, 2020)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Adam Bursi, "Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Gershom Gorenberg, "War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East" (Public Affairs, 2021)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Zainab Saleh, "Political Undesirables: Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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Sean Mathews, "The New Byzantines: The Rise of Greece and Return of the Near East" (Hurst, 2025)
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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Sheiba Kian Kaufman, "Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Nile Green, "Serendipitous Translations: A Sourcebook on Sri Lanka in the Islamic Indian Ocean" (U Texas Press, 2026)
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Julia Elyachar, "On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo" (Duke UP, 2025)
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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Suraj Milind Yengde, "Caste: A Global Story" (Hurst, 2025)
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Samuel Helfont, "The Iraq Wars: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Leila Hudson, "Lines of Flight, Assemblages of Home: Syrian Women Displaced" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Daniel K. Falk and Rodney A. Werline, "Prayer in the Ancient World Vol.1" (Brill, 2027)
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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John Tolan, "Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Ayoush Lazikani, "The Medieval Moon: A History of Haunting and Blessing" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Dec 06, 2025 |
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Ali Anooshahr, "Slavery in the Early Mughal World: The Life and Thoughts of Jawhar Aftabachi (1520s–1580s)" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Anny Gaul, "Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato" (U California Press, 2025)
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Mark Griffiths, "Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Anne Irfan, "A Short History of the Gaza Strip" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Fahad Ahmad Bishara, "Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History" (U California Press, 2025)
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Faisal Devji, "Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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Killian Clarke, "Return of Tyranny: Why Counterrevolutions Emerge and Succeed" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Basit Kareem Iqbal, "The Dread Heights: Tribulation and Refuge after the Syrian Revolution" (Fordham UP, 2025)
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Justin Marozzi, "Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World" (Pegasus Books, 2025)
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Eric H. Cline, "Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Aaron Magid, "The Most American King: Abdullah of Jordan" (Universal Publishers, 2025)
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Fahad Ahmad Bishara, "Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History" (U California Press, 2025)
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Sarah Griswold, "Resurrecting the Past: France's Forgotten Heritage Mandate" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Patrick Brittenden, "Algerian and Christian: Christian Theological Formation, Identity and Mission in Contemporary Algeria" (Regnum Books, 2025)
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Radio ReOrient 13.3: “Why Palestine Activism & Resistance Matter,” with Hatem Bazian and Ismail Patel, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Marchella Ward
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Aria Fani, "Reading Across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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James Grehan, "Empire of Manners: Ottoman Sociability and War-Making in the Long Eighteenth Century" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Moudhy Al-Rashid, "Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Hamid Dabashi, "After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization" (Haymarket, 2025)
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Mahboob Qirvanian and Behnaz Mirzai, "Life of an Enslaved African in the Ottoman Empire and Iran" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Karl Ittmann, "Fuelling Empire: The British Imperial Oil Complex, 1886-1945" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Philip Graubart, "Here There Is No Why" and Michael Kinnamon, "A Rooftop in Jerusalem"
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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Hannah Pool, "The Game: The Economy of Undocumented Migration from Afghanistan to Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Georgios Tsourous, "Orthodox Choreographies: Boundaries, Borders and Materiality in Jerusalem's Old City" (Gorgias Press, 2024)
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Gina Vale, "The Unforgotten Women of the Islamic State" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Rosemary Admiral, "Living Law: Women and Legality in Marinid Morocco" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, "Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East" (UP Colorado, 2025)
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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Elizabeth E. Imber, "Uncertain Empire: Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Paris Papamichos Chronakis, "The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Samer Al-Saber, "A Movement's Promise: The Making of Contemporary Palestinian Theater" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Selim Koru, "New Turkey and the Far Right: How Reactionary Nationalism Remade a Country" (I. B. Tauris, 2025)
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Wendell Marsh, "Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Hadi Abdullah, "Critical Conditions: My Diary of the Syrian Revolution" (Doppelhouse Press, 2025)
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, "Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Christine Shepardson, "A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity" (U California Press, 2025)
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Amir Moosavi, "Dust That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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Dorothy Armstrong, "Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Steve Tibble, "Assassins and Templars: A Battle in Myth and Blood" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Karen Bartlett, "Escape from Kabul: The Afghan Women Judges Who Fled the Taliban and Those They Left Behind" (New Press, 2025)
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, "Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East" (UP of Colorado, 2025)
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Sam Dalrymple, "Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia" (William Collins, 2025)
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Ḥannā Diyāb, "The Book of Travels" (NYU Press, 2022): A Conversation with Johannes Stephan
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Matthew D. C. Larsen and Mark Letteney, "Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration" (U California Press, 2025)
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Daisy Livingston, "Managing Paperwork in Mamluk Cairo: Archives, Waqf and Society" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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Syria After Assad
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Micaela Sahhar, "Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An Encyclopaedia of a Palestinian Family" (Newsouth, 2025)
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Omid Safi, “Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition” (Yale UP, 2018)
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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Lucia Sorbera, "Biography of a Revolution: The Feminist Roots of Human Rights in Egypt" (U of California Press, 2025)
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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David Commins, "Saudi Arabia: A Modern History" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Steve L. Monroe, "Mirages of Reform: The Politics of Elite Protectionism in the Arab World" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Nicholas P. Roberts, "A Sea of Wealth: The Omani Empire and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace" (U California Press, 2025)
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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Adriana Carranca, "Soul by Soul: The Evangelical Mission to Spread the Gospel to Muslims" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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Nabil Yasien Mohamed, "Ghazālī’s Epistemology: A Critical Study of Doubt and Certainty" (Routledge, 2024)
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Ahmad Shokr, "Harvests of Liberation: Cotton, Capitalism, and the End of Empire in Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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Nezar AlSayyad and Heba Safey Eldeen, "Cinematic Cairo: Egyptian Urban Modernity from Reel to Real" (American U in Cairo Press, 2022)
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Jan Dost, "Safe Corridor" (DarArab, 2025)
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Isabel Toral and Beatrice Gruendler, "An Unruly Classic: Kalīla and Dimna and Its Syriac, Arabic, and Early Persian Versions" (Brill, 2024)
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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William Marx, "Libraries of the Mind" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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Murad Idris, "War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Bulent Gokay and Lily Hamourtziadou, "Human Costs of War: 21st Century Human (In)Security from 2003 Iraq to 2022 Ukraine" (Routledge, 2024)
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Ünver Rüstem, "Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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Ilana Rosen, "Israeli Documentary Poetry: Coming of Age with the State" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Linda Quiquivix, "Palestine 1492: A Report Back" (Wild Ox Books, 2024)
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Ory Amitay, "Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth and History" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Marc Herman, "After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World" (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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M’hamed Oualdi, "A Slave between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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Lily Hamourtziadou, "Body Count: The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths in Iraq" (Bristol UP, 2021)
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Alissa Walter, "Contested City: Citizen Advocacy and Survival in Modern Baghdad" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Charles Glass, "Syria: Civil War to Holy War?" (OR Books, 2024)
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Yardena Schwartz, "Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict" (Union Square, 2024)
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Siri Schwabe, "Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Fadi Zaghmout, "The Man of Middling Height" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Pamela Karimi, "Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran" (Leuven UP, 2024)
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Michael Cook, "A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Sam Dalrymple, "Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia" (HarperCollins UK, 2025)
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Shayna M. Silverstein, "Fraught Balance: The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria" (Wesleyan UP, 2024)
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Nubar Hovsepian, "Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual" (AUC Press, 2025)
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Vali Nasr, "Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Nicole Watts, "Republic of Dreams: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Ioana Emy Matesan, "The Violence Pendulum: Tactical Change in Islamist Groups in Egypt and Indonesia" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Yasmine Motawy, "Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society" (AUC Press, 2025)
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Laura Frances Goffman, "Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Chinese in Qatar
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab, "Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Sabrin Hasbun, "Crossing: A Love Story Between Italy and Palestine" (Footnote Press, 2025)
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Dave Margoshes, "A Simple Carpenter" (Radiant Press, 2024)
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, "The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Zohra Saed and Sahar Muradi, "One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature" (U Arkansas Press, 2010)
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May 31, 2025 |
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Jonas Elbousty and Roger Allen, "Reading Mohamed Choukri's Narratives: Hunger in Eden" (Routledge, 2024)
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May 30, 2025 |
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Chris Aslan, "Unravelling the Silk Road: Travels and Textiles in Central Asia" (Icon Books, 2024)
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May 29, 2025 |
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Toine van Teeffelen, "The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine: A Memoir" (Wipf and Stock, 2024)
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May 23, 2025 |
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Derek J. Penslar, "Zionism: An Emotional State" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
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May 21, 2025 |
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Timothy A. Lee, "The Syriac Peshiṭta Bible: The New Testament" (Gorgias Press, 2023)
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May 19, 2025 |
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Todd Reisz, "Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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May 18, 2025 |
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David Kraemer, "Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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May 17, 2025 |
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Marc Shapiro, "Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook" (Littman Library, 2025)
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May 14, 2025 |
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Daniel Behar, "Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
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May 14, 2025 |
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Brendan Haug, "Garden of Egypt: Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyūm" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
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May 06, 2025 |
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Simon Mayall, "The House of War: The Struggle Between Christendom and the Caliphate" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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May 03, 2025 |
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The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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Orit Rozin, "Emotions of Conflict, Israel 1949-1967" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard, "Spanish National Identity, Colonial Power, and the Portrayal of Muslims and Jews During the Rif War (1909-27)" (Boydell & Brewer, 2021)
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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Sinem Arcak Casale, "Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Letizia Osti, "History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2024)
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Yaron Ayalon, "Ottoman Jewry: Leadership, Charity, and Literacy" (Brill, 2024)
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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Palestinian Futurism with Leila Abdelrazaq
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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"Imprisoning a Revolution: Writings from Egypt's Incarcerated" (U California Press, 2025)
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Sureshkumar Muthukumaran, "The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean" (U California Press, 2023)
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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Ahmed M. Abozaid, "Counterterrorism Strategies in Egypt: Permanent Exceptions in the War on Terror" (Routledge, 2021)
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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Daniela Richterova, "Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Radio ReOrient 12.5: “The Ancient History of the ‘Middle East,’” with Marc Van De Mieroop, hosted by Marchella Ward and S.Sayyid
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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Catalin-Stefan Popa, "The Making of Syriac Jerusalem" (Routledge, 2023)
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Andrea Wright, "Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Selena Wisnom, "The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Tahrir Hamdi, "Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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On Barak, "Heat, a History: Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet" (U California Press, 2024)
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Kirsten L. Scheid, "Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920–1950" (Indiana UP, 2022)
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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Margaret Peacock, "Frequencies of Deceit: How Global Propaganda Wars Shaped the Middle East" (U California Press, 2025)
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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Nir Arielli, "The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Violent Majorities 2.3: Long-Distance Ethnonationalism Roundup (LA, AS)
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Noam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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Matthew Hughes, "Britain's Pacification of Palestine" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Daniel Silverman, "Seeing Is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Yuval Ben-Bassat and Johann Büssow, "Late Ottoman Gaza: An Eastern Mediterranean Hub in Transformation" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Florence Martin, "Farida Benlyazid and Moroccan Cinema" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Blanche Bendahan, "Mazaltob: A Novel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Malka Z. Simkovich, "Letters from Home: The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity" (Eisenbrauns, 2024)
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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Amit Levy, "A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Peter Wien, "Arab Nationalism: The Politics of History and Culture in the Modern Middle East" (Routledge, 2017)
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Emine Ö Evered, "Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Marcel Elias, "English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Erik Freas, "Palestine's Christians and the Nationalist Cause: The Late Ottoman and Mandatory Periods" (Routledge, 2024)
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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David Graves, "New Realism in Contemporary Israeli Painting" (Austin Macauley, 2023)
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Parisa Vaziri, "Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran's Cinematic Archive" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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William Gallois, "Qayrawan: The Amuletic City" (Penn State UP, 2024)
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Violent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS)
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Cyrus Ali Zargar, "The Ethics of Karbala: Myths, Modernity, and Virtues of Nobility" (Routledge, 2024)
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Elio Zarmati, "Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming of Age as a Jew of the Nile" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025)
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Christopher Burnham, "Sir Ronald Storrs: Personality and Policy in Mandate Palestine, 1917-1926" (Routledge, 2024)
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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David G. Hunter et al., "Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity: Authors, Texts, and Ideas" (Brill, 2024)
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Olga Borovaya, "The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel: Ottoman Jews at the Dawn of the Tanzimat Era" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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The Hyphen Unites: Avi Shlaim on Arab-Jewish Life
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Robert D. Miller II, "Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021)
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Franck Salameh, "Lebanon’s Jewish Community: Fragments of Lives Arrested" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Anne K. Bang, "Zanzibari Muslim Moderns: Islamic Paths to Progress in the Interwar Period" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Yaacov Yadgar, "To Be a Jewish State: Zionism as the New Judaism" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Azad Essa, "Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel" (Pluto Press, 2023)
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Samuel Hodgkin, "Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Wendy Pearlman, "The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora" (Liveright, 2024)
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Persistent Pastoralism: Monuments and Settlements in the Archaeology of Dhofar
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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Yochai Ataria, "Not in Our Brain: Consciousness, Body, World" (Magnes Press, 2019)
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Middle East on the Brink: Escalation, Diplomacy, and the Search for Stability
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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Phillip Lieberman, "The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East: Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Allen James Fromherz, "The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present" (U California Press, 2024)
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Masha Kirasirova, "The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Scott J. Weiner, "Kinship, State Formation and Governance in the Arab Gulf States" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Lisa Nielson, "Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World: A Social History" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Amín Pérez, "Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle" (Polity Press, 2023)
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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Parker Palmer on the Israel-Gaza War
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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Roni Henig, "On Revival: Hebrew Literature Between Life and Death" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Doyle D. Calhoun, "The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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The Failed Concepts That Brought Israel to October 7
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Avi Shlaim, "Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew" (Oneworld, 2024)
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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Toni Alimi, "Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Arash Azizi, "What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom" (Oneworld, 2024)
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Emrah Yildiz, "Zainab's Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others Across Borders" (U California Press, 2024)
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Eran Ortal, "Battle Before the War: The Inside Story of the IDF's Transformation" (Dado Center, 2023)
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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E. L. Gaston, "Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller, "Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture" (Saqi Books, 2024)
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Joseph John Viscomi, "Migration at the End of Empire: Time and the Politics of Departure Between Italy and Egypt" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, "Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad Ibn Qasim Al-Hajari Between Europe and North Africa" (U California Press, 2023)
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Simcha Gross, "Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Fazil Moradi, "Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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Christopher Paul Clohessy, "Half of My Heart: The Narratives of Zaynab, Daughter of Alî" (Gorgias Press, 2020)
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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Faisal Devji, "Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea" (Harvard UP, 2013)
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Julia Caterina Hartley, "Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France" (Bloomsbury. 2023)
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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The Muslim Brotherhood’s Search for Identity in a Post-2013 Context
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, "Desert Ascetics of Egypt" (ARC Humanities Press, 2020)
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Samuel J. Hirst, "Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza, "Women, Households, and the Hereafter in the Qur'an: A Patronage of Piety" (Oxford UP/Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2023)
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Steve Tibble, "Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Hannan Hever, "Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War: Essays on Philology and Responsibility" (Brill, 2019)
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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Seth J. Frantzman, "The October 7 War: Israel's Battle for Security in Gaza" (Wicked Son, 2024)
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold, "Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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Aviad Moreno, "Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas: Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community" (Indiana UP, 2024)
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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Ehaab D. Abdou, "Education, Civics, and Citizenship in Egypt: Towards More Inclusive Curricular Representations and Teaching" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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Paul J. Kosmin, "Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire" (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Terrence G. Peterson, "Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Oren Kroll-Zeldin, "Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Dr. Alexandre Caeiro on the Politics of Islamic Law and Institutions in Qatar
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" (Doubleday, 2019)
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Laura Robson and Arie Dubnov, "Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separatism" (Stanford UP, 2019)
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Granada Dialogues, Part 2: On Ghosts, Nationalism, and Liberation
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Notes from the Field: A Personal View of the War on Gaza
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Michelle Tusan, "The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Anders Persson, "EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967-2019" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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Rachel Kousser, "Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great" (Mariner Books, 2024)
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Granada Dialogues, Part 1: On 1492, Orientalism and Race
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Farshid Emami, "Isfahan: Architecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran" (Penn State UP, 2024)
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Aug 17, 2024 |
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Abbey Stockstill, "Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib" (Penn State UP, 2024)
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Nancy E. Berg and Naomi B. Sokoloff, "Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making" (SUNY Press, 2020)
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Kenneth Atkinson, "A History of the Hasmonean State: Josephus and Beyond" (T&T Clark, 2019)
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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The Politics of Translation
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Yoram Meital, "Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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Iman Mersal, "Traces of Enayat" (Transit Books, 2023)
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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Rachel M. Scott, "Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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Shaul Magid on the Jewish Radicalism of Meir Kahane (JP, Eugene Sheppard)
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Bilge Yesil, "Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, "The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973: The USSR's Military Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict" (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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Austin Knuppe, "Surviving the Islamic State: Contention, Cooperation, and Neutrality in Wartime Iraq" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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World History and the Islamicate
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Arang Keshavarzian, "Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Jul 20, 2024 |
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Özge Çelikaslan, "Archiving the Commons: Looking Through the Lens of bak.ma" (DPR Barcelona, 2024)
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Fida Jiryis, "Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family's Story of Home" (Hurst, 2022)
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Jonathan Marc Gribetz, "Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Zana Gulmohamad, "The Making of Foreign Policy in Iraq: Political Factions and the Ruling Elite" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Jul 13, 2024 |
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Olga Gershenson, "New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
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Jul 13, 2024 |
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Maya Wind, "Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom" (Verso, 2024)
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Rachel Z. Feldman, "Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age: Jews, Noahides, and the Third Temple Imaginary" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Robert E. Jones, "Priesthood, Cult, and Temple in the Aramaic Scrolls from Qumran: Analyzing a Pre-Hasmonean Jewish Literary Tradition" (Brill, 2023)
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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Samuel Dolbee, "Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Travis B. Williams et al., "The Dead Sea Scrolls in Ancient Media Culture" (Brill, 2023)
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, "An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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Peter Hill, "Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East" (Oneworld Academic, 2024)
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī and Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh, "The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century" (NYU Press, 2019/22)
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Edward A. Alpers and Thomas F. McDow, "A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History: Ten Design Principles" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Anat Kidron and Shuli Linder Yarkony, "The Jewish Community of Acre in Mandatory Palestine: The Story of a Forgotten Community" (de Gruyter, 2024)
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Tahera Qutbuddin, trans., "Nahj al-Balāghah: The Wisdom and Eloquence of ʿAlī" (Brill, 2024)
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Andrew M. Gardner, "The Fragmentary City: Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the Urban Landscape of Doha, Qatar" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Peter Bergamin, "The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology” (I. B. Tauris, 2019)
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Ibrahim Fraihat, "Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming a Chaotic Conflict" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
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Jun 09, 2024 |
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Eugene Rogan, "The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World" (Basic Book, 2024)
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Jun 08, 2024 |
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Gizem Zencirci, "The Muslim Social: Neoliberalism, Charity, and Poverty in Turkey" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Asaf Elia-Shalev, "Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth" (U California Press, 2024)
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Wendy Pearlman, "The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora" (Liveright, 2024)
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Naosuke Mukoyama, "Fueling Sovereignty: Colonial Oil and the Creation of Unlikely States" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Thomas Sparr, "German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighbourhood in the Holy City" (Haus Publishers, 2021)
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Sa’ed Atshan, "Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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May 29, 2024 |
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Vartan Matiossian, "The Politics of Naming the Armenian Genocide: Language, History and 'Medz Yeghern'" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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May 28, 2024 |
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Seyed Ali Alavi, "Iran and Palestine: Past, Present, and Future" (Routledge, 2019)
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May 27, 2024 |
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Arjen F. Bakker, "The Secret of Time: Reconfiguring Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls" (Brill, 2023)
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May 23, 2024 |
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Assaf Tamari, "God as Patient: The Medical Discourse of Lurianic Kabbalah" (Magnes Press, 2023)
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May 20, 2024 |
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Sari Nusseibeh, "Avicenna's Al-Shifā': Oriental Philosophy" (Routledge, 2018)
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May 16, 2024 |
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Lisa Bhungalia, "Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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May 15, 2024 |
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José Ciro Martínez, "States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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May 15, 2024 |
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What does Biden’s temporary suspension of offensive arms transfers mean for US-Israeli relations?
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May 13, 2024 |
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Yasmine Ramadan, "Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
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May 12, 2024 |
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Görkem Akgöz, "In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey" (Brill, 2023)
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May 12, 2024 |
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Hala Auji et al., "The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)
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May 10, 2024 |
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David Tal, "The Making of an Alliance: The Origins and Development of the US-Israel Relationship" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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May 08, 2024 |
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Sami Hermez with Sireen Sawalha, "My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine" (Redwood Press, 2024)
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May 07, 2024 |
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Salar Mameni, "Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2023)
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May 05, 2024 |
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Zahra Ayubi, "Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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May 04, 2024 |
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Nadine A. Sinno, "A War of Colors: Graffiti and Street Art in Postwar Beirut" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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May 02, 2024 |
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Harry Pettit, "The Labor of Hope:: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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May 02, 2024 |
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The Rhetoric of Crisis in Israel-Palestine: A Discussion with Amos Goldberg
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May 01, 2024 |
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Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil, "The Gulf Migrant Archives in Kerala: Reading Borders and Belonging" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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May 01, 2024 |
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Maha AbdelMegeed, "Literary Optics: Staging the Collective in the Nahda" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Tarek El-Ariss, "Water on Fire: A Memoir of War" (Other Press, 2024)
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, "Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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M. A. R. Habib and Bruce B. Lawrence, "The Qur'an: A Verse Translation" (Liveright, 2024)
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Nora E. H. Parr, "Novel Palestine: Nation Through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah" (U California Press, 2023)
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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On the History and Evolution of Zionism
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Huda J. Fakhreddine, "The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Ahmed M. Abozaid, "Undesired Revolution: The Arab Uprising in Egypt--A Three Level Analysis" (Brill, 2023)
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Ihsan Abdel Kouddous, "A Nose and Three Eyes" (Hoopoe, 2024)
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Jae Hee Han, "Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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Cristiana Strava, "Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Robert D. Kaplan, "The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China" (Random House, 2023)
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Catholic in Palestine (with Fr Firas Abedrabbo)
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Emily Drumsta, "Ways of Seeking: The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation" (U California Press, 2024)
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Sumita Pahwa, "Politics as Worship: Righteous Activism and the Egyptian Muslim Brothers" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Eric Calderwood, "On Earth Or in Poems: The Many Lives of Al-Andalus" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Esra Mirze Santesso, "Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Annika Schmeding, "Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Loren D. Lybarger, "Palestinian Chicago: Identity in Exile" (U California Press, 2020)
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, "Merits of the Plague" (Penguin, 2023)
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Alessandro Columbu, "Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short Story: Modernity, Authoritarianism and Gender" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Sanjay Subrahmanyam, "Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Anita R. Gohdes, "Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Rana AlMutawa, "Everyday Life in the Spectacular City: Making Home in Dubai" (U California Press, 2024)
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Laura Menin, "Quest for Love in Central Morocco: Young Women and the Dynamics of Intimate Lives" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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Eileen Kane et al., "Russian-Arab Worlds: A Documentary History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Jörg Matthias Determann and Shoaib Ahmed Malik, "Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life: New Frontiers in Science and Religion" (I. B. Tauris, 2024)
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Yaacov Nir, "Establishment and History of the Cyprus Detention Camps for Jewish Refugees (1946-1949)" (Cambridge Scholars, 2024)
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Stephanie Chasin, "British Jews and Imperial Service: Nationalism, Pan-Islamism and Zionism in Mandate Palestine and Colonial India" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Julie Kalman, "The Kings of Algiers: How Two Jewish Families Shaped the Mediterranean World During the Napoleonic Wars and Beyond" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Sofia Rehman, "Gendering the Hadith Tradition: Recentering the Authority of Aisha, Mother of the Believers" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013:: An Anthropological Approach
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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On America’s Blind Spot Towards the Palestinians
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Alexander Christie-Miller, "To the City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Jonathan A. C. Brown, "Slavery and Islam" (Oneworld Academic, 2019)
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Daphna Sharfman, "Jerusalem in the Second World War" (Routledge, 2024)
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Adam Bursi, "Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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The Future of Afghanistan: A Discussion with Kate Clark
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell, "Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region" (Pluto Press, 2023)
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Sarah El-Kazaz, "Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Jewish War Ethics, Ancient to Contemporary: A Conversation with Rabbi Shlomo Brody
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Amira Mittermaier, "Giving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times" (U California Press, 2019)
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Alp Yenen and Erik-Jan Zürcher, "A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments" (Leiden UP, 2023)
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Refqa Abu-Remaileh, "Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Bedross Der Matossian, "The Armenian Social Democrat Hnchakian Party: Politics, Ideology and Transnational History" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Adrian Goldsworthy, "Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry" (Basic Books, 2023)
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Nicholas Morton, "The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Yitzhak Teutsch, "The Cyprus Detention Camps: The Essential Research Guide" (Cambridge Scholars, 2019)
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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What Can We Learn From A Pottery Shard? Uncovering the Ancient Past Through Biblical Archeology with Professor Aren Maeir
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Geoffrey Levin, "Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Karen C. Pinto, "Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Uri Kaufman, "Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Matthew Levitt, "Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad" (Yale UP, 2008)
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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Rishad Choudhury, "Hajj Across Empires: Pilgrimage and Political Culture After the Mughals, 1739-1857" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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Jacob L. Wright, "Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and Its Origins" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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Judith Surkis, "Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Con Coughlin, "Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny" (Picador, 2023)
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, "Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History" (Routledge, 2020)
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Sara Rahnama, "The Future Is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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120 A Roundup Conversation About Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Adam Mestyan, "Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Ilkay Yilmaz, "Ottoman Passports: Security and Geographic Mobility, 1876-1908" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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Devrim Adam Yavuz, "Democracy and Capitalism in Turkey: The State, Power, and Big Business" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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Laila Shereen Sakr, "Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Randall Hansen, "War, Work, and Want: How the OPEC Oil Crisis Caused Mass Migration and Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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Mario Baghos, "From the Ancient Near East to Christian Byzantium: Kings, Symbols, and Cities" (Cambridge Scholars, 2021)
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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Troels Burchall Henningsen, "Western Intervention and Informal Politics: Simulated Statebuilding and Failed Reforms" (Routledge, 2021)
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Violent Majorities: Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism. Episode 2
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Louis-Alexandre Berg, "Governing Security After War: The Politics of Institutional Change in the Security Sector" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Abdul Galil Shaif, "South Yemen: Gateway to the World?" (Authorhouse UK, 2022)
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Yan Slobodkin, "The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Xavier Luffin, "Another Look at Congolese History: Arabic and Swahili Documents in the Belgian Archives" (Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, 2020)
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah et al., "Life & Legacy: A Window into Jewish Life Across the Islamic World" (U Groningen Press, 2023)
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Gregory J. Goalwin, "Borders of Belief: Religious Nationalism and the Formation of Identity in Ireland and Turkey" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Ibrahim Fraihat and Isak Svensson, "Conflict Mediation in the Arab World" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Nur Sobers-Khan et al., "Beyond Colonial Rupture: Print Culture and the Emergence of Muslim Modernity in Nineteenth-Century South Asia" (2023)
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Robert B. Rakove, "Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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Jackie Lubeck, "To The Good People of Gaza: Theatre for Young People by Jackie Lubeck and Theatre Day Productions" (Methuen Drama, 2022)
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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Charlotte Al-Khalili, "Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time and Subjectivity (UCL Press, 2023)
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Dan Senor and Saul Singer, "The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Nader Kadhem, "Africanism: Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Israel, Hamas, and American Jews in a Time of War
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Jarmo T. Kotilaine, "Sustainable Prosperity in the Arab Gulf: From Miracle to Method" (Routledge, 2023)
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Providence and Power: Rabbi Meir Soloveichik on Jewish Statesmanship from King David to David Ben Gurion
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Marika Sosnowski, "Redefining Ceasefires: Wartime Order and Statebuilding in Syria" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Elizabeth M. Perego, "Humor and Power in Algeria, 1920 to 2021" (Indiana UP, 2023)
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Richard S. Ascough, "Early Christ Groups and Greco-Roman Associations: Organizational Models and Social Practices" (Cascade Books, 2022)
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Bahriye Kemal, "Writing Cyprus: Postcolonial and Partitioned Literatures of Place and Space" (Routledge, 2021)
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Shay Rabineau, "Walking the Land: A History of Israeli Hiking Trails" (Indiana UP, 2023)
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Steven Simon, "Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East" (Penguin, 2023)
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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Akram Benjamin, "Cotton, Finance and Business Networks in a Globalised World: The Case of Egypt During the First half of the Twentieth Century" (2019)
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Hamas, Iran and Israel: The Perils of Overreaction
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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David Alan Parnell, "Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Toby Matthiesen, "The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Paschalis Kitromilides, "Insular Destinies: Perspectives on the History and Politics of Modern Cyprus" (Routledge, 2021)
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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On Wars: A Discussion with Michael Mann
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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James White, "Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century: Migrant Poets between Arabia, Iran and India" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Youcef L. Soufi, "The Rise of Critical Islam: 10th-13th Century Legal Debate" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Nick Riemer, "Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine: Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Itamar Rabinovich, "Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, the Arabs and the Region" (Brookings Institution Press, 2023)
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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The Israeli Defense Force (IDF)'s Ethical Code
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Özge Yaka, "Fighting for the River: Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles" (U California Press, 2023)
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Noa Shaindlinger, "Displacement and Erasure in Palestine: The Politics of Hope" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Melissa Weininger, "Beyond the Land: Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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The Unquiet Legacy of Jewish Radical Meir Kahane
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Anna Ziajka Stanton, "The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability" (Fordham UP, 2023)
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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The Gaza War in Military-Historical Perspective
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Jonathan Downs, "Discovery at Rosetta: Revealing Ancient Egypt" (American University in Cairo Press, 2020)
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Valentina Marcella, "Laughing Matters: Graphic Satire Reckoning with the 1980 Coup in Turkey" (Istituto per l’Oriente C. A. Nallino, 2022)
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik, "Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Rhoda Kanaaneh, "The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America" (U Texas Press, 2023)
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Gültan Kışanak, "The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics: Women Politicians Write from Prison" (Pluto Press, 2022)
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Benoît Challand, "Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Seth L. Sanders, "From Adapa to Enoch: Scribal Culture and Religious Vision in Judea and Babylonia" (Mohr Siebeck, 2017)
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Zeynep K. Korkman, "Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Katrin Nahidi, "The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran: Modernism, Exhibitions, and Art Production" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Michelle Karnes, "Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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Seema Alavi, "Sovereigns of the Sea: Omani Ambition in the Age of Empire" (India Allen Lane, 2023)
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Brian Ulrich, "The Medieval Persian Gulf" (ARC Humanities Press, 2023)
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Timur Warner Hammond, "Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul" (U California Press, 2023)
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Elyse Semerdjian, "Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Kevin Funk, "Rooted Globalism: Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries" (Indiana UP, 2022)
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Tylor Brand, "Famine Worlds: Life at the Edge of Suffering in Lebanon's Great War" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Vincent Lemire, "In the Shadow of the Wall: The Life and Death of Jerusalem's Maghrebi Quarter, 1187-1967" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Anthony Gad Bigio, "A Sephardi Turkish Patriot: Gad Franco in the Turmoil of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic" (Hamilton Books, 2023)
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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Peter Adamson, "Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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Pallavi Narayan, "Pamuk's Istanbul: The Self and the City" (Routledge, 2022)
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, "Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther: Achaemenid Court Culture in the Hebrew Bible" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Alma Rachel Heckman, "The Sultan's Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Guillemette Crouzet, "Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Peter Good, "The East India Company in Persia: Trade and Cultural Exchange in the Eighteenth Century" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Muḥsin Jāsim Mūsawī, "The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Salar Abdoh, "Out of Mesopotamia" (Akashic Books, 2020)
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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Davide Rodogno, "Night on Earth: A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918–1930" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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Marion Holmes Katz, "Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Hamid Keshmirshekan, "The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Hans-Lukas Kieser, "When Democracy Died: The Middle East's Enduring Peace of Lausanne" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Alice Wilson, "Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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Ari Finkelstein, "The Specter of the Jews: Emperor Julian and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity in Syrian Antioch" (U California Press, 2018)
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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Lucia Carminati. "Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859-1906" (U California Press, 2023)
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Christopher Harrison, "Genocidal Conscription: Drafting Victims and Perpetrators Under the Guise of War" (Lexington Books, 2023)
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Simon Mills, "A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship Between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1760" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Karen E. Rignall, "An Elusive Common: Land, Politics, and Agrarian Rurality in a Moroccan Oasis" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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Zahi Zalloua, "Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Yoni Furas, "Educating Palestine: Teaching and Learning History Under the Mandate" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Melis Hafez, "Inventing Laziness: The Culture of Productivity in Late Ottoman Society" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Rudi Matthee, "Angels Tapping at the Wine-Shop's Door: A History of Alcohol in the Islamic World" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Yonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Melissa Gatter, "Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency" (American University in Cairo Press, 2023)
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Andrew Quilty, "August in Kabul: America's Last Days in Afghanistan" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Lea Taragin-Zeller, "The State of Desire: Religion and Reproductive Politics in the Promised Land" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Oyman Başaran, "Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey" (U Texas Press, 2023)
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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Ilkim Büke Okyar, "Arabs in Turkish Political Cartoons, 1876-1950: National Self and Non-National Other" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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Amir Sedaghat, "Translating Rumi Into the West: A Linguistic Conundrum and Beyond" (Routledge, 2023)
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Robert Hillenbrand, "The Great Mongol Shahnameh" (Hali Publications et al., 2022)
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Alan Mikhail, "My Egypt Archive" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Joseph Sassoon, "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire" (Pantheon, 2022)
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Leslie Turnberg, "Mandate: The Palestine Crucible, 1919-1939" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2021)
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Hassan S. Khalilieh, "Islamic Law of the Sea: Freedom of Navigation and Passage Rights in Islamic Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Liana Saif et al., "Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice" (Brill, 2020)
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Daniel Boyarin, "The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Lia Brozgal and Rebecca Glasberg, eds., "A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Collection of Stories Curated by Lela Sebbar" (U California Press, 2023)
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Chris Wickham, "The Donkey and the Boat: Reinterpreting the Mediterranean Economy, 950-1180" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Samuel Helfont, "Iraq Against the World: Saddam, America, and the Post-Cold War Order" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Afghanistan-Pakistan Relations: A Clash of Identities?
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Kaya Sahin, "Peerless Among Princes: The Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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David E. Kelly, "First Fights in Fallujah: Marines During Operation Vigilant Resolve, in Iraq, April 2004" (Casemate, 2023)
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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David Wenham, "Jesus in Context: Making Sense of the Historical Figure" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Mongol Nomadism, Mongol Identity, and the Fall of the Mongol Empire
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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Anne Irfan, "Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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Orit Avishai, "Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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Gabriel Schwake, "Dwelling on the Green Line" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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Nora Barakat, "Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Marielle Risse, "Houseways in Southern Oman" (Routledge, 2022)
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Nicholas W. S. Smith, "Colonial Chaos in the Southern Red Sea" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Rumi, "Gold" (New York Review of Books, 2022)
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Tessa Farmer, "Well Connected: Everyday Water Practices in Cairo" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Hiking Trails, Sustainable Tourism, and Bedouin Heritage
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, "Nur Baba: A Sufi Novel of Late Ottoman Istanbul" (Routledge, 2023)
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Nora Barakat, "Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Monika Raesch, "Abbas Kiarostami: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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James H. Meyer, "Red Star over the Black Sea: Nazim Hikmet and His Generation" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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Hilary Frances Aked, "Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity" (Verso, 2023)
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May 30, 2023 |
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Anne Gerritsen and Burton Cleetus, "Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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May 29, 2023 |
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Martyrs in Mosul: A Conversation on Christian Persecution with Father Benedict Kiely
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May 28, 2023 |
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Max Weiss, "Revolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Ba'thist Syria" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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May 28, 2023 |
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Jessica M. Marglin, "The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship Across the Modern Mediterranean" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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May 27, 2023 |
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Burkhard Schnepel and Julia Verne, "Cargoes in Motion: Materiality and Connectivity across the Indian Ocean" (Ohio UP, 2022)
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May 27, 2023 |
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Aomar Boum, "Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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May 26, 2023 |
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Daniel Martin Varisco, "Seasonal Knowledge and the Almanac Tradition in the Arab Gulf" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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May 23, 2023 |
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Natalie Koch, "Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia" (Verso, 2023)
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May 22, 2023 |
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Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, "A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War" (Knopf, 2023)
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May 22, 2023 |
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Philip Gooding, "Droughts, Floods, and Global Climatic Anomalies in the Indian Ocean World" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
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May 22, 2023 |
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Mark LeVine, "We'll Play Till We Die: Journeys Across a Decade of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World" (U California Press, 2022)
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May 19, 2023 |
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Algeria and France: Grievances and the Effects of Decolonialism
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May 18, 2023 |
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Daniel Gordis, "Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams?" (Ecco Press, 2023)
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May 17, 2023 |
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Claudia Liebelt, "Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
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May 14, 2023 |
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Oded Zinger, "Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
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May 11, 2023 |
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Hosam A. Ibrahim Elzembely and Emad El-Din Aysha, "Arab and Muslim Science Fiction" (McFarland, 2022)
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May 10, 2023 |
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Laetitia Nanquette, "Iranian Literature After the Islamic Revolution: Production and Circulation in Iran and the World" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
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May 06, 2023 |
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Gönül Tol, "Erdoğan's War: A Strongman's Struggle at Home and in Syria" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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May 05, 2023 |
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Brahim El Guabli, "Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence" (Fordham UP, 2023)
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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Teena U. Purohit, "Sunni Chauvinism and the Roots of Muslim Modernism" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Awad Halabi, "Palestinian Rituals of Identity: The Prophet Moses Festival in Jerusalem, 1850-1948" (U Texas Press, 2023)
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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Imprisoned in Iran: A Conversation with Wang Xiyue
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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Barak S. Cohen, "For Out of Babylonia Shall Come Torah and the Word of the Lord from Nehar Peqod" (Brill, 2017)
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Barak S. Cohen, "The Legal Methodology of Late Nehardean Sages in Sasanian Babylonia" (Brill, 2011)
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Alexander Jabbari, "The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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The Future of Antisemitism: A Discussion with Dave Rich
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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Chas Smith, "Reports from Hell" (Rare Bird Books, 2020)
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Jennifer Lynn Kelly, "Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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Amahl Bishara, "Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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Jonathan A. C. Brown, "Islam and Blackness" (Oneworld Academic, 2022)
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Eric Alterman, "We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel" (Basic Book, 2022)
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Sara Koplik, "A Political and Economic History of the Jews of Afghanistan" (Brill, 2015)
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Jill Jarvis, "Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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Jacob Norris, "The Lives and Deaths of Jubrail Dabdoub: Or, How the Bethlehemites Discovered Amerka" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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Mejdulene Bernard Shomali, "Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Aaron Rock-Singer, "In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East" (U California Press, 2022)
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Hilary Falb Kalisman, "Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Mohamed Tonsy, "You Must Believe in Spring" (Hajar Press, 2022)
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Joseph W. Peterson, "Sacred Rivals: Catholic Missions and the Making of Islam in Nineteenth-Century France and Algeria" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Ali Mozaffari and Nigel Westbrook, "Development, Architecture, and the Formation of Heritage in Late Twentieth-Century Iran" (Manchester UP, 2020)
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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The Future of the Silk Road: A Discussion with Tim Winters
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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William Carruthers, "Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Shivan Mahendrarajah, "A History of Herat: From Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Seema Golestaneh, "Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Melvyn P. Leffler, "Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Sabri Ciftci et al., "Beyond Piety and Politics: Religion, Social Relations, and Public Preferences in the Middle East and North Africa" (Indiana UP, 2022)
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt: A Conversation with Andrew Simon
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Amanda Podany, "Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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Sarah M. Zaides, "Tevye's Ottoman Daughter: Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews at the End of Empire" (Libra Kitap, 2022)
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Digging for Answers: The Archaeology of Jerusalem and the Politics of Archaeology
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Oren Kessler, "Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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John D. Hosler, "Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Daniel Lasker, "Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism" (Littman Library, 2022)
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Jessica Barnes, "Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Gabriel Glickman, "US-Egypt Diplomacy Under Johnson: Nasser, Komer, and the Limits of Personal Diplomacy" (Bloombury, 2021)
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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Gyan Prakash and Jeremy Adelman, "Inventing the Third World: In Search of Freedom for the Postwar Global South" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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M. M. Silver, "The History of Galilee, 1538-1949" (Lexington Books, 2022)
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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Spencer D. Segalla, "Empire and Catastrophe: Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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Discordia Revisited: The Concordia Netanyahu Riot of 2002
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Meir M. Bar-Asher, "Jews and the Qur'an" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Yonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Greg Brew, "Petroleum and Progress in Iran: Oil, Development, and the Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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The Mesopotamian Connection: Comparing the Bible to Other Literature of the Ancient Near East
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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George Anton Kiraz, "Water the Willow Tree: Memoirs of a Bethlehem Boyhood" (Gorgias Press, 2022)
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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Mitri Raheb, "The Politics of Persecution: Middle Eastern Christians in an Age of Empire" (Baylor UP, 2021)
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, "Beautiful, Gruesome, and True: Artists at Work in the Face of War" (Columbia Global Reports, 2022)
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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David S. Painter and Gregory Brew, "The Struggle for Iran: Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951-1954" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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Kobi Peled, "Words Like Daggers: The Political Poetry of the Negev Bedouin" (Brill, 2022)
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Jan 27, 2023 |