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Middle Eastern Studies
Islamic Studies
April 9, 2021
Transformations of Tradition
Islamic Law in Colonial Modernity
Junaid Quadri
Hosted by SherAli Tareen
In his much anticipated and equally brilliant book Transformations of Tradition: Islamic Law in Colonial Modernity (Oxford UP, 2021), Junaid Quadri explores the productive tensions, fissures, and creative interpretive projects …
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Middle Eastern Studies
April 7, 2021
Stories My Father Told Me
Memories of a Childhood in Syria and Lebanon
Helen Zughaib and Elia Zughaib
Hosted by Valerie Saint-Rossy
Family stories are the texture of the human fabric. From every land, from every time, they bring the past to life for young ears. In the beginning of the twentieth …
History
April 7, 2021
Embodying Geopolitics
Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon
Nicola Pratt
Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Dina Hassan (Lecturer, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, University of Oklahoma, USA) speaks with Nicola Pratt (Associate Professor, International Politics of the Middle East, University of Warwick, UK) about Pratt’s …
Islamic Studies
April 2, 2021
Ambient Sufism
Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form
Richard C. Jankowsky
Hosted by Shobhana Xavier
Ambient Sufism: Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form (University of Chicago Press, 2021) by Richard C. Jankowsky (an Associate Professor of music at Tufts University) is a …
Indian Ocean World
April 2, 2021
Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds
Smriti Srinivas, Bettina Ng'weno, and Neelima Jeychandran
Hosted by Kelvin Ng
Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds (Routledge, 2020), coedited by Smriti Srinivas, Bettina Ng'weno, and Neelima Jeychandran, breaks new ground by bringing together multidisciplinary approaches to examine contemporary Indian Ocean worlds. It …
Military History
March 31, 2021
War of Shadows
Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East
Gershom Gorenberg
Hosted by Zalman Newfield
As World War II raged in North Africa, General Erwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans and weaknesses. In the summer of 1942, he led …
Middle Eastern Studies
March 30, 2021
The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia
Sufism, Politics and Community
Ayfer Karakaya-Stump
Hosted by Deren Ertas
In today's program, Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, Associate Professor of History at the College of William and Mary, discusses her recently-published monograph, The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics, and Community (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).  …
History
March 26, 2021
Visions of Deliverance
Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Mayte Green-Mercado
Hosted by Jana Byars
Today we hear from Mayte Green-Mercado, Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey to talk about Visions of Deliverance: Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in …
Islamic Studies
March 26, 2021
Islam and the Culture of Modern Egypt
From the Monarchy to the Republic
Mohammad Salama
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
Egypt is often the focus of religious and political histories of early twentieth century. The striking hardening of nationalist and Islamic movements within Arab societies during this period is frequently …
Christian Studies
March 25, 2021
The Reception of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Britain
East Comes West
Brendan McNamara
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Brendan McNamara, who teaches religion at University College Cork, Ireland, has published an excellent new book on the expansion of the Bahá’í faith into western Europe. In the late nineteenth …
Middle Eastern Studies
March 24, 2021
The Literary Qur'an
Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb
Hoda El Shakry
Hosted by Nadirah Mansour
Hoda El Shakry’s book The Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb (Fordham University Press, 2019) was awarded the ACLA’s 2018 Helen Tartar Book Subvention Award and the MLA’s 202 …
Middle Eastern Studies
March 23, 2021
Egypt's Occupation
Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism
Aaron G. Jakes
Hosted by Nancy Ko
The story is a familiar one. In 1882, the British invaded Egypt to secure payment on the country’s crippling foreign debts and quash the movement for fiscal sovereignty and constitutional …
Middle Eastern Studies
March 23, 2021
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs
The Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of Its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance
Elizabeth F. Thompson
Hosted by Zalman Newfield
When Europe’s Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers and allied with the British on the promise of an independent Arab state …
Genocide Studies
March 22, 2021
The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East
Laura Robson
Hosted by Kelly McFall
My students are generally 19 or 20 or 21. They have never known the Middle East without American boots on the ground. They have never turned on the news and …
Political Science
March 22, 2021
Turkey–West Relations
The Politics of Intra-alliance Opposition
Oya Dursun-Özkanca
Hosted by Susan Liebell
How do we make sense of Turkey’s recent turn against the West – after decades of Turkish cooperation and desire to be integrated into the European and wider Western community …
Middle Eastern Studies
March 22, 2021
Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba'thist State
Contending Discourses of Resistance and Collaboration, 1968-2003
Hawraa Al-Hassan
Hosted by Nadirah Mansour
Hawraa Al Hassan’s Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba’thist State: Contending Discourses of Resistance and Collaboration, 1968-2003 (University of Edinburgh Press, 2020) is unique because it both explores discourse concerning women …
Islamic Studies
March 19, 2021
Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice
Processes of Canonization Subversion and Change
Nevin Reda and Yasmin Amin
Hosted by Shehnaz Haqqani
In their groundbreaking new book, Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice: Processes of Canonization, Subversion, and Change (McGill, 2020), Nevin Reda and Yasmin Amin raise excellent questions about the existence …
Archaeology
March 19, 2021
Wonderful Things
A History of Egyptology
Jason Thompson
Hosted by Samuel Pfister
When asked what he saw after reverently peering into the freshly opened tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, Egyptologist Howard Carter could only find the words the say “Wonderful Things.” These words …
French Studies
March 17, 2021
Lethal Provocation
The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria
Joshua Cole
Hosted by Roxanne Panchasi
Joshua Cole's Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria (Cornell University Press, 2019) appeals to a few of the different readers in my head: the one who admires …
Middle Eastern Studies
March 3, 2021
Islam, réforme et colonisation
une histoire de l'ibadisme en Algérie (1882-1962)
Augustin Jomier
Hosted by Julian Weideman
Islam, réforme et colonisation: une histoire de l'ibadisme en Algérie (1882-1962) by Augustin Jomier is an important study of colonial North Africa, Islamic reform, and Ibadi Islam. Jomier, a professor …
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