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Middle Eastern Studies
Interviews with scholars of the Middle East about their new books.
November 19, 2024
The Eastern International
In the first few years after the Russian Revolution, an ideological project coalesced to link the development of what Stalin demarcated as the interna…
November 13, 2024
Kinship, State Formation and Governance in the Arab Gulf States
Tribe-state relations are a foundational element of authoritarian bargains in the Middle East, and in particular in the Gulf States. However, the stru…
November 12, 2024
Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World
During the early medieval Islamicate period (800–1400 CE), discourses concerned with music and musicians were wide-ranging and contentious, and expres…
November 9, 2024
Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire
How did the Algerian war of independence shape contemporary sociology? In Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggl…
November 9, 2024
Parker Palmer on the Israel-Gaza War
In times of profound crisis, when violence and hatred seem to dominate our world, we often search for voices that can help us navigate through the dar…
November 7, 2024
On Revival
On Revival: Hebrew Literature Between Life and Death (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) is a critique of one of the most important tenets of Zionist thinkin…
November 6, 2024
The Suicide Archive
A note about content: This episode involves discussion of suicide, specifically in the contexts of slavery, colonization and empire. Please use your…
November 5, 2024
The Failed Concepts That Brought Israel to October 7
The essay "The Failed Concepts That Brought Israel to October 7" (Mosaic Magazine) by Shany Mor, dated October 7, 2024, examines the intellectual and …
November 3, 2024
Three Worlds
In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing from their beloved Iraq into the new state of Israel. Now the r…
October 28, 2024
Slaves of God
Augustine believed that slavery is permissible, but to understand why, we must situate him in his late antique Roman intellectual context. Slaves of G…
October 23, 2024
What Iranians Want
On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a day shopping in Tehran. Her birthday is next week. But she is arrested as she comes out…
October 22, 2024
Zainab's Traffic
Emrah Yildiz's new book Zainab’s Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others Across Borders (University of California Press, 2024) is a masterful ethno…
October 20, 2024
Battle Before the War
A critical challenge for militaries is preparing for future, not past, wars. History shows that success often depends on accurately interpreting and h…
October 19, 2024
Illusions of Control
Over the last two decades, the United States has supported a range of militias, rebels, and other armed groups in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Critic…
October 18, 2024
Migration at the End of Empire
How has migration shaped Mediterranean history? And what role did conflicting temporalities and the politics of departure play in the age of decolonis…
October 18, 2024
Daybreak in Gaza
This is Gaza – a place of humanity and creativity, rich in culture and industry. A place now utterly devastated, its entire population displaced by a …
October 16, 2024
Beyond Orientalism
The first in-depth study of the collaborative intellectual exchange between the European and the Arabic Republics of Letters. Beyond Orientalism: Ah…
October 15, 2024
Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity
From the image offered by the Babylonian Talmud, Jewish elites were deeply embedded within the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE). The Talmud is replete wit…
October 6, 2024
Half of My Heart
Today I talked to Christopher Paul Clohessy about Half of My Heart: The Narratives of Zaynab, Daughter of Alî (Gorgias Press, 2020). As Abû ʿAbd Allâ…
October 6, 2024
Being Human
In the contemporary world, political violence has been an unavoidable issue for everyone. It is therefore essential to criticize political violence in…