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Middle Eastern Studies
Interviews with scholars of the Middle East about their new books.
August 7, 2026
Soldiers, Angels, and Avengers
Soldiers, Angels, and Avengers: A History of the Jewish Brigade (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2026) tells the compelling story of the Jewish Briga…
August 5, 2026
Muslims and the Minority Question across the Indian Ocean
In this conversation, we are entering an Indian Ocean world connected by steamships, telegraphs, pilgrimage routes, and print. From Bombay and the Gul…
August 2, 2026
Visualizing Egypt
Following Napoleon Bonaparte’s 1798 campaign in Egypt, new possibilities of travel and improvements in printing technology saw an emergence of publish…
July 31, 2026
Love, Honour and God
In this episode of New Books Network, I speak with Mikhail Pelevin about his book Love, Honour and God: Pashto Writings of Early Modern Times (Iran an…
July 31, 2026
The Ottoman World of Sports
The history of sports in Turkey is deeply contested. Over the decades, journalists, pundits, non-professional historians, sports scholars, and everyda…
July 29, 2026
Ba‘thist Iraq Through Archives
The opening of Iraq's Ba'th Party archives revolutionized the study of Iraqi politics and history, offering scholars unprecedented access to the i…
July 25, 2026
Agrarian Superpower
The United States’ superpower status is often associated with its industrial, financial, and military might. Yet its global power after the Second Wor…
July 23, 2026
The Arab Bureau
Many of us have watched the classic 1962 movie Lawrence of Arabia, the somewhat fictionalized work based on the life of T. E. Lawrence during the Arab…
July 22, 2026
The New Age of Genocide
The Israeli destruction of Gaza has returned the idea of genocide to the centre of world politics, with sharp conflicts between protesters and lawyers…
July 21, 2026
From Life Itself
From Suzy Hansen, whose previous book, Notes on a Foreign Country, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Ne…
July 21, 2026
State of Others
Elad Lapidot is Professor of Jewish Thought at the University of Lille, France. His work is guided by questions concerning the relation between knowl…
July 15, 2026
Both Your Houses
In Both Your Houses: Iran, America, and the Wages of Unchecked Power (Wisdom Editions, 2026), Massoud Amin confronts the war between Iran, Israel, and…
July 14, 2026
The Fifth Crusade
In 1217, the crusader states were in a highly fragile condition. The Fourth Crusade had failed, and Jerusalem had not been recovered. The crusad…
July 12, 2026
Medical Education and the Making of Iraqi Doctors, 1869–1959
Medical Education and the Making of Iraqi Doctors, 1869–1959 (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) by Dr. Sara Farhan offers a rigorous social and cu…
July 5, 2026
Here Where We Live Is Our Country
Molly Crabapple joins Michael Stauch to discuss the history of the Jewish Labor Bund, the subject of her new book, Here Where We Live Is Our Count…
July 1, 2026
Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empire
Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empire: Family, Law and War (Edinburgh UP, 2026) by Dr. Kate Dannies examines the gender and fam…
July 1, 2026
Relative Strangers
Examining how memory, intergenerational transmission, and kinship work together, Relative Strangers: Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference (U Toro…
June 30, 2026
Fashion in Late Ottoman Istanbul
Over the 19th century, the women of Istanbul gradually transformed their appearance, adopting European dress and new modes of self-fashioning, includi…
June 29, 2026
The Golden Throne
What does a 16th century ruler reveal about the nature of power, past and present? Istanbul, 1538. The greatest of the Ottoman Sultans is at the pinn…
June 24, 2026
Accelerant
Between the late 1940s and the end of the twentieth century, natural gas became Iran's bedrock energy source. Billed as a futuristic fuel for a future…