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About Nadirah Mansour
Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University's Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing.
NBN Episodes hosted by Nadirah:
April 21, 2021
When We Were Arabs
When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History (New Press, 2019) is part-memoir, part-history of Jewish Arabs. We follow Massoud Hayoun as he…
March 24, 2021
The Literary Qur'an
Hoda El Shakry’s book The Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb (Fordham University Press, 2019) was awarded the ACLA’s 2018 Helen Tartar B…
March 22, 2021
Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba'thist State
Hawraa Al Hassan’s Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba’thist State: Contending Discourses of Resistance and Collaboration, 1968-2003 (University of Edinbu…
April 28, 2020
Ottoman Baroque
In Istanbul, there is a mosque on every hill. Cruising along the Bosphorus, either for pleasure, or like the majority of Istanbul’s denizens, for tran…
December 23, 2019
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time
The companion publication to the 2019-2020 traveling exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Sahara…
September 25, 2019
A Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo
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 mi…
June 7, 2019
Practicing Islam in Egypt
Discussions of Middle East politics will inevitably bring Islamism to the table and with it, questions of how Islam in its current iterations came to …
February 7, 2019
Pitfalls of Scholarship
Ahmad Atif Ahmad’s Pitfalls of Scholarship: Lessons from Islamic Studies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) is a unique reflection on the field of Islamic stu…
December 31, 2018
Mandatory Separation
The history of Palestine is overly political; most studies, especially of the Mandate period, when the British effectively colonized Palestine, focus …
December 17, 2018
Preventing Palestine
The question of Palestinian autonomy has been a key element of Middle Eastern and Arab politics for much of the last century. A new history, by Seth A…
December 7, 2018
Caliphate Redefined
In Islamic intellectual history, it is generally assumed that the Ottomans did not contribute much to Islamic thought. With his new book, Caliphate Re…
November 12, 2018
Letters of Light
Arabic script is astounding! Not only because it represents one of the most commonly spoken languages today –that is, the Arabic language– but because…
November 5, 2018
The Lighthouse and the Observatory
Both a history of science and a history of Islam, The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt (Cambridge Univ…
September 12, 2018
Emotional Cities
Joseph Ben Prestel talks with us about Emotional Cities: Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo, 1860-1910 (Oxford University Press, 2017), blend…
September 4, 2018
Between Christ and Caliph
Recent years have seen new waves of research in Syriac studies, the medieval Middle East, and family history. Combining all three, Lev Weitz’s Between…
August 21, 2018
Islam without Europe
In Middle Eastern and Islamic intellectual history, there has long been an assumption of decline in the eighteenth century, right before the nineteent…
August 16, 2018
Enclosure
Inspired by the usage of the term ‘enclosure’ to describe the Separation Wall in Israel-Palestine on a visit he made to the West Bank, Gary Fields in …
August 9, 2018
Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt
History is only recently opening up to previously marginalized groups: it is only just now that women’s history is being explored across different his…
July 16, 2018
The Republic of Arabic Letters
In The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment (Harvard University Press, 2018), Alexander Bevilacqua uncovers a different si…
July 11, 2018
What is Global History?
The last two decades have seen a surge in global histories, be they global histories of food, of ideas, or social movements. But why this move away fr…
July 2, 2018
The World in a Book
Described as a small book about a very large book, The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition (Princeton University Press,…
June 5, 2018
Printing Arab Modernity
In Middle Eastern history, the printing press has been both over- and under-assigned significance as an agent of social change. Hala Auji’s Printing A…
June 4, 2018
Vanguard of the Revolution
Is there a difference between the Communist Party as an idea and the Communist Party in practice? A. James McAdams thinks so and takes the global appr…
May 29, 2018
Transforming Sudan
Telling the story of a former colony post-independence is tricky, no matter if it’s a colony in Latin America, the Middle East or East Asia. Where doe…