1105 Episodes

  1. Erik Love, “Islamophobia and Racism in America” (NYU Press, 2017)

    Published: 6/26/2017
  2. Brad Gooch, “Rumi’s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love” (Harper, 2017)

    Published: 6/8/2017
  3. Nir Baram, “A Land Without Borders: My Journey Around East Jerusalem and the West Bank” (Text Publishing Company, 2017)

    Published: 5/30/2017
  4. Joseph Lumbard, “The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary” (HarperOne, 2015)

    Published: 3/24/2017
  5. “Best New Books in Political Science 2016: International Politics Edition”

    Published: 12/29/2016
  6. Banu Bargu, “Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons” (Columbia UP, 2016)

    Published: 12/10/2016
  7. Miki Kratsman with Ariella Azoulay, “The Resolution of the Suspect” (Radius Books, 2016)

    Published: 8/30/2016
  8. Paul M. Cobb, “The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades” (Oxford UP, 2014)

    Published: 7/25/2016
  9. Elizabeth Hurd, “Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion” (Princeton UP, 2015)

    Published: 6/27/2016
  10. Bard Kartveit, “Dilemmas of Attachment: Identity and Belonging among Palestinian Christians” (Brill, 2014)

    Published: 6/18/2016
  11. Marc Lynch, “The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East” (PublicAffairs, 2016)

    Published: 6/13/2016
  12. Asma Afsaruddin, “Contemporary Issues in Islam” (Edinburgh UP, 2015)

    Published: 5/4/2016
  13. Kishwar Rizvi, “The Transnational Mosque: Architecture and Historical Memory in the Contemporary Middle East” (UNC Press, 2015)

    Published: 2/8/2016
  14. Afsaneh Najmabadi, “Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran” (Duke UP, 2013)

    Published: 12/30/2015
  15. Marcia C. Inhorn, “The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East” (Princeton UP, 2012)

    Published: 12/18/2015
  16. Yael Raviv, “Falafel Nation: Cuisine and the Making of National Identity in Israel” (University of Nebraska Press, 2015)

    Published: 12/17/2015
  17. Erica Weiss, “Conscientious Objectors in Israel: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)

    Published: 12/10/2015
  18. Ranen Omer-Sherman, “Imagining the Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film” (Penn State UP, 2015)

    Published: 12/8/2015
  19. Carlos Fraenkel, “Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World” (Princeton UP, 2015)

    Published: 12/1/2015
  20. Jorg Matthias Determann, “Researching Biology and Evolution in the Gulf States: Networks of Science in the Middle East” (I. B. Tauris, 2015)

    Published: 11/29/2015

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