New Books in Middle Eastern Studies

1102 Episodes

1. Jered Rubin, "Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

   Published: 8/19/2020
2. Will Smiley, "From Slaves to Prisoners of War: The Ottoman Empire, Russia, and International Law" (Oxford UP, 2018)

   Published: 8/18/2020
3. Ghassan Moussawi, "Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut" (Temple UP, 2020)

   Published: 8/17/2020
4. S. Daulatzai and J. Rana, “With Stones in Our Hands: Reflections on Racism, Muslims and US Empire” (U Minnesota Press, 2018)

   Published: 8/14/2020
5. Ulrike Freitag, "A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

   Published: 8/10/2020
6. Alyssa Gabbay, "Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam" (I.B. Tauris, 2020)

   Published: 8/7/2020
7. Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf, "The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace" (All Point Books, 2020)

   Published: 8/6/2020
8. Nathan Spannaus, "Preserving Islamic Tradition: Abu Nasr Qursawi and the Beginnings of Modern Reformism" (Oxford UP, 2019)

   Published: 8/5/2020
9. Asma Barlas, "Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an" (U Texas Press, 2019)

   Published: 8/3/2020
10. Gaurav Desai, "Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination" (Columbia UP, 2013)

    Published: 8/3/2020
11. Paula Fredriksen, "When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation" (Yale UP, 2018)

    Published: 7/31/2020
12. Danyel Reiche and Tamir Sorek, "Sport, Politics, and Society in the Middle East" (Oxford UP, 2019)

    Published: 7/29/2020
13. Shahla Haeri, "The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession, Authority and Gender" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

    Published: 7/24/2020
14. Edward Alpers, "The Indian Ocean in World History" (Oxford UP, 2014)

    Published: 7/22/2020
15. Sigurd Neubauer, "The Gulf Region and Israel: Old Struggles, New Alliances" (Kodesh Press, 2020)

    Published: 7/21/2020
16. L. L. Wynn, "Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt: Navigating the Margins of Respectability" (U Texas Press, 2018)

    Published: 7/17/2020
17. Scott Levi, "The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th-Century Central Asia" (U Pittsburgh, 2020)

    Published: 7/15/2020
18. Nasser Rahmaninejad, "A Man of the Theatre: Survival as an Artist in Iran" (New Village Press, 2020)

    Published: 7/14/2020
19. Pernilla Myrne, "Female Sexuality in the Early Medieval Islamic World: Gender and Sex in Arabic Literature" (IB Taurus, 2020)

    Published: 7/10/2020
20. Hafsa Lodi, "Modesty: A Fashion Paradox" (Neem Tree Press, 2020)

    Published: 7/9/2020