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Islamic Studies
February 26, 2021
Terror Epidemics
Islamophobia and the Disease Poetics of Empire
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. For more than a century, this metaphor has figured insurgent violence as contagion in order to contain its political energies …
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Islamic Studies
February 19, 2021
Women and Gender in the Qur'an
Celene Ibrahim
Hosted by Shehnaz Haqqani
In Women and Gender in the Qur’an (Oxford University Press in 2020), Celene Ibrahim explores key themes related to gender in the Qur’an, focusing on women, such as female sexuality …
Jewish Studies
February 18, 2021
The Jews of Ottoman Izmir
A Modern History
Dina Danon
Hosted by Makena Mezistrano
Across Europe, Jews were often confronted with the notion that their religious and cultural distinctiveness was somehow incompatible with the modern age. Yet the view from Ottoman Izmir invites a …
Communications
February 12, 2021
How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring
The Politics of Narrative in Egypt and Tunisia
Nathaniel Greenberg
Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto
On January 28 2011 WikiLeaks released documents from a cache of US State Department cables stolen the previous year. The Daily Telegraph in London published one of the memos with …
Architecture
February 11, 2021
Architecture in Global Socialism
Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War
Łukasz Stanek
Hosted by Sharika Crawford
In the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with those in West Africa and the Middle East …
Middle Eastern Studies
February 9, 2021
Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt
The Politics of Hegemony
Sara Salem
Hosted by Yi Ning Chang
In this conversation, Sara Salem, author of Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony (Cambridge University Press, 2020), talks to host Yi Ning Chang about temporality, capitalism, and hegemony …
Genocide Studies
February 9, 2021
The Resistance Network
The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918
Khatchig Mouradian
Hosted by Steven Seegel
The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918 (Michigan State University Press, 2020) is the history of an underground network of humanitarians, missionaries, and diplomats …
Middle Eastern Studies
February 8, 2021
Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East
International Relations in the Interwar Period
Amit Bein
Hosted by Reuben Silverman
To better understand the lasting legacy of international relations in the post-Ottoman Middle East, Amit Bein's Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East: International Relations in the Interwar Period (Cambridge University Press, 2017), reexamines Turkey’s engagement …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
February 8, 2021
Harpoon
Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism's Money Masters
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner and Samuel M. Katz
Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Covid-19 is the global threat that owns today’s headlines, but the threat of international and domestic terrorism is still very much with us. Specifically, the widespread upheaval, uncertainty and global …
Indian Ocean World
January 28, 2021
Imperial Mecca
Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj
Michael Christo Low
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi
With the advent of the steamship, repeated outbreaks of cholera marked oceanic pilgrimages to Mecca as a dangerous form of travel and a vehicle for the globalization of epidemic diseases …
Political Science
January 25, 2021
Delta Democracy
Pathways to Incremental Civic Revolution in Egypt and Beyond
Catherine E. Herrold
Hosted by Susan Liebell
Ten years from the uprising in Egypt, Dr. Catherine E. Herrold, an associate professor at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and a Faculty Affiliate of the Indiana …
Central Asian Studies
January 21, 2021
Polymaths of Islam
Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia
James Pickett
Hosted by Nicholas Seay
James Pickett's new book, Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia (Cornell University Press, 2020) analyzes the social and intellectual power of religious leaders who created a …
Anthropology
January 20, 2021
Channeling Moroccanness
Language and the Media of Sociality
Becky L. Schulthies
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi
What does it mean to connect as a people through mass media? This book approaches that question by exploring how Moroccans engage communicative failure as they seek to shape social …
Literature
January 20, 2021
I'll Go
War, Religion, and Coming Home, From Cairo to Kansas City
Alexs Thompson
Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Alexs Thompson about his new memoir, I'll Go: War, Religion, and Coming Home, from Cairo to Kansas City (2020). Let me begin with a moment of honesty …
Islamic Studies
January 15, 2021
The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader
Islam Beyond Borders
Bruce B. Lawrence and Ali Altaf Mian
Hosted by SherAli Tareen
For more than four decades, Bruce Lawrence’s multivalent and fulsomely prolific scholarship has influenced and imprinted the Western study of Islam and Religious Studies more broadly in singularly profound ways …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery
January 13, 2021
Intoxicating Zion
A Social History of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel
Haggai Ram
Hosted by Lucas Richert
When European powers carved political borders across the Middle East following World War I, a curious event in the international drug trade occurred: Palestine became the most important hashish waystation …
Indian Ocean World
January 11, 2021
The Impoverishment of the African Red Sea Littoral, 1640–1945
Steven Serels
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi
The African Red Sea Littoral, currently divided between Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Djibouti, is one of the poorest regions in the world. But the pastoralist communities indigenous to this region …
Political Science
January 11, 2021
Understanding and Explaining the Iranian Nuclear 'Crisis'
Theoretical Approaches
Halit M. E. Tagma and Paul E. Lenze Jr.
Hosted by Susan Liebell
How can multiple theoretical approaches yield a better understanding of international political politics? In Understanding and Explaining the Iranian Nuclear 'Crisis': Theoretical Approaches (Lexington Books, 2020), Dr. Halit M. E. Tagma …
Interpretive Political and Social Science
January 11, 2021
Authoritarian Apprehensions
Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria
Lisa Wedeen
Hosted by Nick Cheesman
How has the Syrian regime been able to bear the brunt of the challenges raised against it? And, what can we learn about the seductions of authoritarian politics more generally …
Islamic Studies
January 8, 2021
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires
Women, Prayer and Poetry in Iran
Niloofar Haeri
Hosted by Shobhana Xavier
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer & Poetry in Iran (Stanford University Press, 2020) by Niloofar Haeri is a stunning and absorbing ethnography of the lived ritual experiences …
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