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Middle Eastern Studies
Interviews with scholars of the Middle East about their new books.
June 20, 2026
Comrades Estranged
In 1975, Kuwaiti workers orchestrated arguably the most powerful citizen-led movement for noncitizen rights in the history of the Persian Gulf. Their …
June 17, 2026
Always Carry Salt
I had the privilege of speaking with writer Samantha Ellis about her deeply moving new book, Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Cu…
June 17, 2026
Contesting Zion
The modern relationship between the Vatican and the State of Israel is rooted in a long history of hostility between Judaism and Roman Catholicism. Th…
June 15, 2026
Ethnographic Reflections on Marriage in Dhofar, Oman
In this episode of the New Books Network, we explore Ethnographic Reflections on Marriage in Dhofar, Oman (Anthem Press, 2026), with anthropologist Dr…
June 11, 2026
The Shah's Party
In 1971, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi threw a party to celebrate the 2,500-year anniversary of the Persian Empire. It was planned to be a massive party,…
June 4, 2026
Days of Love and Rage
From Pulitzer and National Book Award finalist Anand Gopal, an epic and enthralling account of six Syrians fighting for a better world, in the traditi…
June 4, 2026
Iran and the Revolution
Iran's revolution in 1979 shook the world. The Pahlavi dynasty came crashing down, and the Islamic Republic rose in its place. But what led to this se…
May 29, 2026
Media, Power, and the Gaza Narrative
How Western media shapes public understanding of Gaza, Palestine, and conflict through language, political narratives, and global power structures. I…
May 28, 2026
After Barbary
After Barbary: Algeria's Roles in the French and American Empires (Cornell University Press, 2025) by Dr. Timothy Mason Roberts explores the connectio…
May 20, 2026
Industrial Islamism
What explains the rise of religious populism in contemporary Turkish politics and society? How does industrialization help to explain change and…
May 18, 2026
Exit from International Organizations
Why do states exit international organizations (IOs)? How often does exit from IOs – including voluntary withdrawal and forced suspension – occur? Wha…
May 14, 2026
Beyond Minorities
Helen Haas speaks with political scientist Sean Lee about the changing relationship between majorities and minorities in the Middle East, the collapse…
May 9, 2026
Syrian Intellectuals in Exile
Zeina Al-Azmeh’s Syrian Intellectuals in Exile: The Dilemmas of Revolution and the Cost of Leaving (Cambridge UP, 2026) captures a group of intellectu…
May 9, 2026
The Complicit Lens
Robin Andersen's latest book, The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel's Genocide in Gaza (OR Books, 2026), is a forensic and unflinching exami…
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 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…