New Books in Middle Eastern Studies

1112 Episodes

1. Edmund Hayes, "Agents of the Hidden Imam: Forging Twelver Shi‘ism, 850-950 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

   Published: 12/3/2022
2. Yahia Shawkat, "Egypt's Housing Crisis: The Shaping of Urban Space" (American U in Cairo Press, 2020)

   Published: 12/2/2022
3. Jillian Schwedler, "Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent" (Stanford UP, 2022)

   Published: 11/30/2022
4. Travis Zadeh, "Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos" (Harvard UP, 2023)

   Published: 11/24/2022
5. Fida Jiryis, "The Cage" (Pardes, 2022)

   Published: 11/24/2022
6. Alda Benjamen, "Assyrians in Modern Iraq: Negotiating Political and Cultural Space" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

   Published: 11/21/2022
7. Beatrice Forbes Manz, "Nomads in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

   Published: 11/21/2022
8. Eric Vanden Eykel, "The Magi: Who They Were, How They've Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate" (Fortress Press, 2022)

   Published: 11/21/2022
9. Eric Tagliocozzo, "In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama" (Princeton UP, 2022)

   Published: 11/17/2022
10. Ahmad Al-Jallad, "The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia: A Reconstruction Based on the Safaitic Inscriptions" (Brill, 2022)

    Published: 11/17/2022
11. Mark D. Calder, "Bethlehem's Syriac Christians: Self, Nation and Church in Dialogue and Practice" (Gorgias Press, 2017)

    Published: 11/16/2022
12. Nile Green, "The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London" (Princeton UP, 2015)

    Published: 11/14/2022
13. Francesca Stavrakopoulou, "God: An Anatomy" (Knopf, 2022)

    Published: 11/14/2022
14. John Darnell and Colleen Darnell, "Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)

    Published: 11/11/2022
15. Jan Selby et al., "Divided Environments: An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

    Published: 11/11/2022
16. On Edward Said's "Orientalism"

    Published: 11/8/2022
17. Peter Adamson, "Don't Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy" (U Notre Dame Press, 2022)

    Published: 11/4/2022
18. Alan Verskin, "A Vision of Yemen: The Travels of a European Orientalist and His Native Guide--a Translation of Hayyim Habshush's Travelogue" (Stanford UP, 2019)

    Published: 10/31/2022
19. Sanaa Alimia, "Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

    Published: 10/28/2022
20. Ágúst Magnússon, "Kierkegaard and Eastern Orthodox Thought: A Comparative Philosophical Analysis" (Gorgias Press, 2019)

    Published: 10/28/2022