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Middle Eastern Studies
Interviews with scholars of the Middle East about their new books.
May 7, 2026
Twelver Shi'i Self-flagellation Rites in Contemporary Syria
Edith Szanto’s Twelver Shi'i Self-Flagellation Rites in Contemporary Syria: Mourning Sayyida Zaynab (Edinburgh UP, 2025) is a striking and deeply imme…
May 2, 2026
Beirut Radical
Imad Yusuf Nuwayhid was born in 1944 in the Lebanese village of Ras al-Matn. He came of age in the 1960s, splitting time between Beirut and Europe. An…
May 1, 2026
Hebrew Orientalism
In the decades before the establishment of a Jewish state in 1948, native and immigrant Jews in Palestine mediated between Jewish and Arab cultures wh…
April 23, 2026
Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt
Slavery was a key part of pre-modern Islamic society, spanning from soldiers to concubines. And one of the most revealing repositories of evidence we …
April 21, 2026
Free Enough to Grow
In Free Enough to Grow: The Turkish Protestant Movement, 1961-2016 (Springer Nature, 2026), James Bultema identifies and investigates four central fac…
April 19, 2026
The Long War of Ideas
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, US officials identified the so-called battle for hearts and minds as the “second front” in the war on terror.…
April 19, 2026
The Foundations of Zionism
Translated into English for the first time since its original publication by the PLO's Palestine Research Center, this book extensively details the or…
April 12, 2026
Monarchies of Extraction
In a region known for its export of oil, Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf States in the Global Food System (Cambridge UP, 2026) explores how the Gul…
April 10, 2026
Radio ReOrient 14.1: State of the Ummah: “A War Against the Islamic Republic?”, hosted by Shehla Khan, with Mona Makinejadbanadaki and S. Sayyid
This is Radio ReOrient. Welcome to our 14th season of navigating the post-Western and connecting the Islamosphere. We begin this season with Radio…
April 3, 2026
Art Capital
Museums often served nationalist and imperialist interests in the past, but the primary force in the 21st century is the market. Museum franchising—ex…
March 29, 2026
Cinema before the World
Cinema Before the World: The Global Routes of the Lumière Brothers (Fordham UP, 2026) investigates the transnational origins of filmmaking by focusing…
March 28, 2026
On Our Continuing Age of Oil
Stanley Reed has been covering energy and the Middle East from London for more than three decades, most recently for The New York Times. With the war …
March 27, 2026
Worlds of Islam
From its birth in seventh-century Arabia, Islam has been a faith on the move. In Worlds of Islam: A Global History (Basic Books, 2026), James McDougal…
March 21, 2026
Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt
What did slavery actually look like in the everyday lives of Jews in the medieval Middle East? In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with histori…
March 20, 2026
Plots and Deeds
The emancipatory potential and limits of land justice, when land is at once home, property, territory, and homeland. Peasant farming was once an inte…
March 17, 2026
Political Undesirables
Political Undesirables: Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq (Stanford UP, 2025) considers the legal making and unmaking of citizens…
March 16, 2026
The Arsacids of Rome
At the beginning of the common era, the two major imperial powers of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East were Rome and Parthia. In this (open acce…
March 14, 2026
Coercing Syria on Chemical Weapons
In 2012, US President Barack Obama stated that the Syrian government’s use of chemical weapons on its population would cross a red line that would req…
March 12, 2026
Understanding Iran Under Attack
Eleven days into the attack on Iran by the United States and Israel, starting on Feb. 28, 2026, I speak with Vali Nasr, a renowned analyst of Iran. He…
February 21, 2026
I Can Imagine It for Us
I Can Imagine It for Us: A Palestinian Daughter's Memoir (American University in Cairo Press, 2025) is a young woman’s search for connection with her …