New Books in Middle Eastern Studies

1106 Episodes

1. Ünver Rüstem, "Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul" (Princeton UP, 2019)

   Published: 7/27/2025
2. Ilana Rosen, "Israeli Documentary Poetry: Coming of Age with the State" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)

   Published: 7/24/2025
3. Linda Quiquivix, "Palestine 1492: A Report Back" (Wild Ox Books, 2024)

   Published: 7/23/2025
4. Ory Amitay, "Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth and History" (Oxford UP, 2025)

   Published: 7/22/2025
5. Marc Herman, "After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World" (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

   Published: 7/21/2025
6. M’hamed Oualdi, "A Slave between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa" (Columbia UP, 2020)

   Published: 7/20/2025
7. Lily Hamourtziadou, "Body Count: The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths in Iraq" (Bristol UP, 2021)

   Published: 7/16/2025
8. Alissa Walter, "Contested City: Citizen Advocacy and Survival in Modern Baghdad" (Stanford UP, 2025)

   Published: 7/16/2025
9. Charles Glass, "Syria: Civil War to Holy War?" (OR Books, 2024)

   Published: 7/14/2025
10. Yardena Schwartz, "Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict" (Union Square, 2024)

    Published: 7/11/2025
11. Yardena Schwartz, "Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict" (Union Square, 2024)

    Published: 7/11/2025
12. Siri Schwabe, "Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile" (Cornell UP, 2023)

    Published: 7/9/2025
13. Fadi Zaghmout, "The Man of Middling Height" (Syracuse UP, 2025)

    Published: 7/8/2025
14. Pamela Karimi, "Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran" (Leuven UP, 2024)

    Published: 7/4/2025
15. Michael Cook, "A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 7/2/2025
16. Sam Dalrymple, "Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia" (HarperCollins UK, 2025)

    Published: 7/2/2025
17. Shayna M. Silverstein, "Fraught Balance: The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria" (Wesleyan UP, 2024)

    Published: 6/27/2025
18. Nubar Hovsepian, "Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual" (AUC Press, 2025)

    Published: 6/26/2025
19. Vali Nasr, "Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History" (Princeton UP, 2025)

    Published: 6/25/2025
20. Nicole Watts, "Republic of Dreams: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan" (NYU Press, 2025)

    Published: 6/24/2025