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Middle Eastern Studies
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 LGBTQ movement and offers a window into the diverse community …
American Studies
May 20, 2020
Arab Routes
Pathways to Syrian California
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 complex stories of Arabic-speaking migrant communities who came to …
Middle Eastern Studies
January 14, 2020
City of Black Gold
Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk
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 the vibrant and often troubled history of …
Middle Eastern Studies
October 9, 2019
Age of Coexistence
The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World
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 of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making …
Middle Eastern Studies
September 4, 2019
Enlightenment on the Eve of Revolution
The Egyptian and Syrian Debates
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 region took to the streets demanding dramatic political …
American Studies
July 25, 2019
Faithful Encounters
Authorities and American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire
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: Authorities and American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire (McGill-Queens …
American Studies
June 19, 2019
Between the Ottomans and the Entente
The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925
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, 2019), Stacy Fahrenthold sheds a timely …
Middle Eastern Studies
July 12, 2018
States of Separation
Transfer, Partition, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
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 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
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 career of Ahmed Vasif (ca. 1735-1806), a …