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Middle Eastern Studies 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 …
Middle Eastern Studies May 20, 2020

Arab Routes

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 …
Middle Eastern Studies January 14, 2020

City of Black Gold

Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk

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 …
Middle Eastern Studies 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 …
Middle Eastern Studies 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 …
Middle Eastern Studies 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 …
Middle Eastern Studies 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 …
Middle Eastern Studies 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 …