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June 17, 2020
Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique
Sa’ed Atshan
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In Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (Stanford University Press, 2020) anthropologist and activist Sa’ed Atshan explores the Palestinian LGBTQ movement and offers a window into the diverse community …
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May 20, 2020
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Pathways to Syrian California
Sarah M. A. Gualtieri
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In her latest book, Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California(Stanford University Press, 2019), Sarah M. A. Gualtieri uncovers the dynamic and complex stories of Arabic-speaking migrant communities who came to …
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City of Black Gold
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Arbella Bet-Shlimon
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In her debut book, City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk (Stanford University Press, 2019), Arbella Bet-Shlimon explores the vibrant and often troubled history of …
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October 9, 2019
Age of Coexistence
The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World
Ussama Makdisi
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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 …
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September 4, 2019
Enlightenment on the Eve of Revolution
The Egyptian and Syrian Debates
Elizabeth S. Kassab
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The "Arab Spring" shook the world in 2011, revealing profound dissatisfaction throughout the Middle East and North Africa, as people throughout the region took to the streets demanding dramatic political …
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July 25, 2019
Faithful Encounters
Authorities and American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire
Emrah Şahin
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The past decade has seen a tremendous production of scholarship on American missionary endeavors in the Middle East. In Faithful Encounters: Authorities and American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire (McGill-Queens …
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June 19, 2019
Between the Ottomans and the Entente
The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925
Stacy Fahrenthold
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In her debut book, Between the Ottomans and the Entente: The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925 (Oxford University Press, 2019), Stacy Fahrenthold sheds a timely …
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July 12, 2018
States of Separation
Transfer, Partition, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Laura Robson
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The First World War ended over four centuries of Middle East rule by the expansive, multiethnic, multireligious, and multilingual Ottoman Empire. In its wake, Britain, France, and some groups within …
Middle Eastern Studies
May 22, 2018
The First of the Modern Ottomans
The Intellectual History of Ahmed Vasif
Ethan L. Menchinger
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Ethan L. Menchinger's The First of the Modern Ottomans: The Intellectual History of Ahmed Vasif (Cambridge University Press, 2017) traces the life and career of Ahmed Vasif (ca. 1735-1806), a …