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New Books in Middle Eastern Studies
Perin Gürel, “The Limits of Westernization: A Cultural History of America in Turkey” (Columbia UP, 2017)
Perin Gürel
The Limits of Westernization
A Cultural History of America in Turkey
Columbia University Press, 2017

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Eastern European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network October 15, 2019 Robert Elliott

In today’s podcast, host Robert Elliott speaks with Dr. Perin Gürel about her new book The Limits of Westernization: A Cultural History of America in Turkey (Columbia University Press, 2017), which examines how Turkish perceptions of the United States intersected with debates around “westernization” in the twentieth century. In a... Read More
Jennifer L. Derr, “The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt” (Stanford UP, 2019)
Jennifer L. Derr
The Lived Nile
Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt
Stanford University Press, 2019

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network October 10, 2019 Lukas Rieppel

In October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt’s relationship with the Nile River forever changed. Flooding villages of historical northern Nubia and filling the irrigation canals that flowed from the river, the perennial Nile not only reshaped agriculture and the environment, but also Egypt’s colonial... Read More
Ussama Makdisi, “Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World” (U California Press, 2019)
Ussama Makdisi
Age of Coexistence
The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World
University of California Press, 2019

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network October 9, 2019 Joshua Donovan

Building on nearly two decades of scholarship about sectarianism and communal relations in the Modern Middle East, Ussama Makdisi’s latest book, Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World (University of California Press, 2019) dispels the myth that the Middle East is inherently or inescapably... Read More
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, “Revolution and Its Discontents: Political Thought and Reform in Iran” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
Revolution and Its Discontents
Political Thought and Reform in Iran
Cambridge University Press, 2019

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network October 8, 2019 Yaacov Yadgar

In this new book, Revolution and its Discontents, Political Thought and Reform in Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi’s (of Goldsmiths University of London) studies the rise and evolution of reformist political thought in Iran and analyses the complex network of publications, study circles, and think tanks that encompassed... Read More
Humphrey Davies and Lesley Lababidi, “A Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo” (AU in Cairo Press, 2018)
Humphrey Davies and Lesley Lababidi
A Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo

American University in Cairo Press, 2018

New Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network September 25, 2019 Nadirah Mansour

Guides have been written to the city of Cairo for generations. Whether they’re for foreigners who’ve come to the city or its residents. However, it might be safe to say that A Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo (American University in Cairo Press, 2018) is a beast unto... Read More
Kfir Cohen Lustig, “Makers of Worlds, Readers of Signs: Israeli and Palestinian Literature of the Global Contemporary” (Verso, 2019)
Kfir Cohen Lustig
Makers of Worlds, Readers of Signs
Israeli and Palestinian Literature of the Global Contemporary
Verso, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Israel StudiesNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network September 24, 2019 Yaacov Yadgar

Differently than existing accounts that concentrate on Israeli and Palestinian nationalism, Kfir Cohen Lustig‘s Makers of Worlds, Readers of Signs: Israeli and Palestinian Literature of the Global Contemporary (Verso, 2019) suggests a new theoretical and historical approach to Israeli and Palestinian literature as well as to the contemporary system of... Read More
Matthew Hughes, “Britain’s Pacification of Palestine” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Matthew Hughes
Britain's Pacification of Palestine
The British Army, the Colonial State, and the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939
Cambridge University Press, 2019

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network September 24, 2019 Charles Coutinho

In his splendid military history of Britain’s pacification of the Arab revolt in Palestine, Britain’s Pacification of Palestine: The British Army, the Colonial State, and the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Professor Matthew Hughes of Brunel University shows how the British Army was so devastatingly effective against colonial... Read More