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Middle Eastern Studies
Interviews with scholars of the Middle East about their new books.
July 26, 2024
Surviving the Islamic State
How did ordinary Iraqis survive the occupation of their communities by the Islamic State? How did they decide whether to stay or flee, to cooperate or…
July 24, 2024
World History and the Islamicate
In this episode, Richard Bulliet talks about his work in world and Islamicate history. This interview was originally published on May 24, 2019. …
July 21, 2024
Making Space for the Gulf
The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space--an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The roots of these cont…
July 20, 2024
The New Roman Empire
In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated mo…
July 19, 2024
Archiving the Commons
“Stories of archives are always stories of phantoms, of the death or disappearance or erasure of something, the preservation of what remains, and its …
July 18, 2024
Stranger in My Own Land
In this very moving and heartwarming interview I had the opportunity to discuss with Fida Jiyris her work, a beautifully written memoir that tells the…
July 15, 2024
Reading Herzl in Beirut
How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO's relationship to Zionism and Israel In September 1982, the Israeli milita…
July 13, 2024
New Israeli Horror
Before 2010, there were no Israeli horror films. Then distinctly Israeli serial killers, zombies, vampires, and ghosts invaded local screens. The next…
July 13, 2024
The Making of Foreign Policy in Iraq
How is foreign policy made in Iraq? Based on dozens of interviews with senior officials and politicians, The Making of Foreign Policy in Iraq: Politic…
July 12, 2024
Towers of Ivory and Steel
Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sour…
July 12, 2024
Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East
Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge UP, 2023) focuses on the intersections of three entities other…
July 9, 2024
Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age
Judaism in the twenty-first century has seen the rise of the messianic Third Temple movement, as religious activists based in Israel have worked to re…
July 8, 2024
Priesthood, Cult, and Temple in the Aramaic Scrolls from Qumran
The Hellenistic period was a pivotal moment in the history of the Jewish priesthood. The waning days of the Persian empire coincided with the continue…
July 3, 2024
Locusts of Power
In this episode, I talk to Samuel Dolbee, Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His book, Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and En…
July 1, 2024
The Dead Sea Scrolls in Ancient Media Culture
Media studies is an emerging discipline that is quickly making an impact within the wider field of biblical scholarship. The Dead Sea Scrolls in Ancie…
June 29, 2024
An Impossible Friendship
In Jerusalem, as World War II was coming to an end, an extraordinary circle of friends began to meet at the bar of the King David Hotel. This group of…
June 26, 2024
Prophet of Reason
Today I talked to Peter Hill about his new book Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East (Oneworld Academic, 202…
June 26, 2024
The Philosopher Responds
Today I talked to James Montgomery, one of the translators of The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, two vol…
June 25, 2024
A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History
A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History: Ten Design Principles (Duke UP, 2024) is a guide for college and high school educators who are teach…
June 18, 2024
Nahj al-Balāghah: The Wisdom and Eloquence of ʿAlī
Nahj al-Balagha is among the most powerful, consequential, and linguistically brilliant masterpieces of Arabic and of Islamic thought and literature. …