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About Roberto Mazza
I am currently a visiting professor at Northwestern University with seventeen years of academic experience (researching, publishing, teaching and supervising). I mostly work on the history of the modern Middle East with a specialization on Palestine - I have developed a successful podcast Jerusalem Unplugged dedicated to the history and politics of the city. I recently developed courses on the global history of conspiracy theories and I am interested in developing a podcast dedicated to this topic. I am the current executive editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly and I am very much involved in peer-reviewing articles and manuscripts for other journals and publishers. In relation to my interest in podcasting, I believe this is a form of connecting academia to the wider world and attract the general audience to more complex historical debates.Roberto Mazza is visiting professor at Northwestern University. He is the host of the Jerusalem Unplugged Podcast and to discuss and propose a book for interview can be reached at robbymazza@gmail.com. Twitter: @robbyref
NBN Episodes hosted by Roberto:
February 12, 2026
Photographing Biblical Modernity
This open access book offers the first in-depth appraisal of the photographic archive of Frank Scholten (1881–1942), a queer Dutch photographer and Ca…
December 19, 2025
Lines of Flight, Assemblages of Home: Syrian Women Displaced
While humanitarian organizations and media outlets often reduce Syrian refugees to statistics or brief anecdotes, the real story of displacement unfol…
November 12, 2025
The Most American King
The Most American King: Abdullah of Jordan (Universal Publishers, 2025) is the first comprehensive biography on Jordan’s King Abdullah. Drawing on int…
October 12, 2025
"Here There Is No Why" and "A Rooftop in Jerusalem"
In this double interview I talked to Michael Kinnamon, author of A Rooftop in Jerusalem and Philip Graubart author of Here There Is No Why. A Roof…
September 30, 2025
Orthodox Choreographies
Orthodox Choreographies: Boundaries, Borders and Materiality in Jerusalem's Old City (Gorgias Press, 2024) offers a comprehensive anthropological stud…
September 26, 2025
Uncertain Empire
Following the British conquest of Ottoman Palestine, Jews across the British Empire—from Jerusalem to Johannesburg, London to Calcutta—found themselve…
September 25, 2025
The Business of Transition
The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule (Stanford UP, 2024) examines how the cosmopolitan bourge…
August 27, 2025
Find Me at the Jaffa Gate
"If we were different people, to write down these words might be to leave them behind us. But words are our artifacts, and I am seeding a trail for th…
May 23, 2025
The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine
The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine: A Memoir (Wipf and Stock, 2024) is a narrative of a Christian family in Bethlehem in the West Bank. Based on …
March 7, 2025
The Genius of Judy
Everyone knows Judy Blume. Her books have garnered her fans of all ages for decades and sold tens of millions of copies. But why were people so drawn…
March 7, 2025
The Dead Sea
The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their healing properties, though its own waters are deadly t…
March 1, 2025
Edges of Care
“No man’s land” invokes stretches of barren landscape, twisted barbed wire, desolation, and the devastation of war. But this is not always the reality…
February 26, 2025
Late Ottoman Gaza
Today, when we think about Gaza we think about the war, the destruction of the city and the constant movement of its population. In contemporary publi…
February 16, 2025
Palestine's Christians and the Nationalist Cause
Palestine's Christians and the Nationalist Cause: The Late Ottoman and Mandatory Periods (Routledge, 2024) provides an historical overview of Palestin…
January 24, 2025
Sir Ronald Storrs
This volume utilises the personal papers of Sir Ronald Storrs, as well as other archival materials, to make a microhistorical investigation of his per…
January 22, 2025
The Last Transport
Today I talked to Anthony McElligott about The Last Transport: The Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean (Bloomsbury, 2024). The deportation of 1,755 Jews …
December 10, 2024
The Home I Worked to Make
War forced millions of Syrians from their homes. It also forced them to rethink the meaning of home itself. In 2011, Syrians took to the streets dema…
November 9, 2024
The Boundaries of War
The expansion of trade and communication networks has been active since the fifteenth century and has had an undeniable impact on connecting military …
October 24, 2024
Creating Conspiracy Beliefs
Conspiracy theories spread more widely and faster than ever before. Fear and uncertainty prompt people to believe false narratives of danger and hidde…
October 18, 2024
Daybreak in Gaza
This is Gaza – a place of humanity and creativity, rich in culture and industry. A place now utterly devastated, its entire population displaced by a …
September 6, 2024
Unsettled
Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine (NYU Press, 2024) digs into the experiences of young Jewish Americans who engage wi…
July 18, 2024
Stranger in My Own Land
In this very moving and heartwarming interview I had the opportunity to discuss with Fida Jiyris her work, a beautifully written memoir that tells the…
June 7, 2024
Israel's Black Panthers
Asaf Elia-Shalev's book Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth (U California Press, 2024) tells the story of the…
April 22, 2024
On the History and Evolution of Zionism
On today's episode of the New Books Network, we are privileged to have Professor Arie Dubnov joining us for an in-depth discussion on the multifaceted…