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NBN Episodes hosted by Joshua:

Sa’ed Atshan, "Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique" (Stanford UP, 2020)

June 17, 2020

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique

Sa’ed Atshan
Hosted by Joshua Donovan

In Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (Stanford University Press, 2020) anthropologist and activist Sa’ed Atshan explores the Palestinian LGBT…

Sarah M. A. Gualtieri, "Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California" (Stanford UP, 2019)

May 20, 2020

Arab Routes

Sarah M. A. Gualtieri
Hosted by Joshua Donovan

In her latest book, Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California(Stanford University Press, 2019), Sarah M. A. Gualtieri uncovers the dynamic and comple…

Arbella Bet-Shlimon, "City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk" (Stanford UP, 2019)

January 14, 2020

City of Black Gold

Arbella Bet-Shlimon
Hosted by Joshua Donovan

In her debut book, City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk (Stanford University Press, 2019), Arbella Bet-Shlimon explores…

Ussama Makdisi, "Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World" (U California Press, 2019)

October 9, 2019

Age of Coexistence

Ussama Makdisi
Hosted by 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 o…

Elizabeth S. Kassab, "Enlightenment on the Eve of Revolution: The Egyptian and Syrian Debates" (Columbia UP, 2019)

September 4, 2019

Enlightenment on the Eve of Revolution

Elizabeth S. Kassab
Hosted by Joshua Donovan

The "Arab Spring" shook the world in 2011, revealing profound dissatisfaction throughout the Middle East and North Africa, as people throughout the re…

Emrah Şahin, "Faithful Encounters: Authorities and American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire" (McGill-Queens UP, 2018)

July 25, 2019

Faithful Encounters

Emrah Şahin
Hosted by Joshua Donovan

The past decade has seen a tremendous production of scholarship on American missionary endeavors in the Middle East. In Faithful Encounters: Authoriti…

Stacy Fahrenthold, "Between the Ottomans and the Entente: The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925" (Oxford UP, 2019)

June 19, 2019

Between the Ottomans and the Entente

Stacy Fahrenthold
Hosted by Joshua Donovan

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, …

Laura Robson, "States of Separation: Transfer, Partition, and the Making of the Modern Middle East" (U California Press, 2017)

July 12, 2018

States of Separation

Laura Robson
Hosted by Joshua Donovan

The First World War ended over four centuries of Middle East rule by the expansive, multiethnic, multireligious, and multilingual Ottoman Empire. In i…

Ethan L. Menchinger, "The First of the Modern Ottomans: The Intellectual History of Ahmed Vasif" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

May 22, 2018

The First of the Modern Ottomans

Ethan L. Menchinger
Hosted by Joshua Donovan

Ethan L. Menchinger's The First of the Modern Ottomans: The Intellectual History of Ahmed Vasif (Cambridge University Press, 2017) traces the life and…