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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Middle Eastern Studies
January 7, 2021
The Sword is Not Enough
Arabs, Israelis, and the Limits of Military Force
Jeremy Pressman
Hosted by Aaron Hagler
Jeremy Pressman is Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of Middle East Studies at the University of Connecticut. Jeremy is the author of The Sword is Not Enough …
Middle Eastern Studies
January 5, 2021
The Lost Archive
Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue
Marina Rustow
Hosted by Nancy Ko
What does it mean that our single greatest source of medieval Islamic government documents comes from the attic of a Jewish synagogue in Cairo? This is the seeming paradox that …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
January 4, 2021
Till We Have Built Jerusalem
Architects of a New City
Adina Hoffman
Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
A remarkable view of one of the world's most beloved and troubled cities, Adina Hoffman's Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City (FSG, 2017) is a gripping …
Genocide Studies
December 31, 2020
Genocide in Libya
Shar, a Hidden Colonial History
Ali Abdullatif Ahmida
Hosted by Jeff Bachman
This original research on the forgotten Libyan genocide specifically recovers the hidden history of the fascist Italian concentration camps (1929-1934) through the oral testimonies of Libyan survivors. Ali Abdullatif Ahmida's …
Islamic Studies
December 31, 2020
Muhammad and the Empires of Faith
The Making of the Prophet of Islam
Sean Anthony
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
Contemporary historians have searched for the historical Muhammad along many paths. In Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam (University of California Press, 2020) …
Islamic Studies
December 24, 2020
The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender
Justine Howe
Hosted by Shehnaz Haqqani
The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender (Routledge, 2020), edited by Justine Howe, includes an excellent introduction to Islam and gender as well as to the volume and 31 content chapters …
Middle Eastern Studies
December 22, 2020
Sacrificial Limbs
Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey
Salih Can Aciksoz
Hosted by Reuben Silverman
Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey (University of California Press, 2020) is an exploration of “the ways in which . . .veterans’ gendered and classed experiences of warfare …
Indian Ocean World
December 21, 2020
Land and Maritime Empires in the Indian Ocean
Beatrice Nicolini and Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi
Land and Maritime Empires in the Indian Ocean (Educatt, 2017) reconceptualizes the history of the Indian Ocean through the themes of mobility, encounters, empires, and slavery. The book aims to …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
December 15, 2020
Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages
A Discussion with Roland Betancourt
Roland Betancourt
Hosted by Allison Leigh
In Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 2020), Roland Betancourt reveals the fascinating, little-examined conversations in medieval thought and visual culture around matters …
Political Science
December 14, 2020
Outsiders at Home
The Politics of American Islamophobia
Nazita Lajevardi
Hosted by Susan Liebell
What is the status of Muslim Americans in American democracy? Dr. Nazita Lajevardi’s superb new study concludes they are ‘outsiders at home.’ In Outsiders at Homes: The Politics of American …
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