About Banafsheh Madaninejad

NBN Episodes hosted by Banafsheh:

Marcia C. Inhorn, "The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2012)

December 18, 2015

The New Arab Man

Marcia C. Inhorn

Winner of the 2015 American Anthropological Associations Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology and the 2014 JM…

Naser Ghobadzadeh, "Religious Secularity: A Theological Challenge to the Islamic State" (Oxford UP, 2014)

November 18, 2015

Religious Secularity

Naser Ghobadzadeh

While "fundamentalism" and "authoritarian secularism" are commonly perceived as the two mutually exclusive paradigms available to Muslim majority coun…

Asaad al-Saleh, "Voices of the Arab Spring: Personal Stories from the Arab Revolutions" (Columbia UP, 2015)

May 16, 2015

Voices of the Arab Spring

Asaad al-Saleh

Asaad al-Saleh is assistant professor of Arabic, comparative literature, and cultural studies in the Department of Languages and Literature and the Mi…

Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, and Sarah Shourd, "A Sliver of Light" (HMH, 2014)

November 10, 2014

A Sliver of Light

Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, and Sarah Shourd

In the summer of 2009, Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, and Sarah Shourd were hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan when they unknowingly crossed into Iran and were ca…

Carlotta Gall, "The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014" (HMH, 2014)

October 23, 2014

The Wrong Enemy

Carlotta Gall

Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times reporter Carlotta Gall reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan for almost the entire duration of the American inv…

Mariam al-Attar, "Islamic Ethics: Divine Command Theory in Arabo-Islamic Thought" (Routledge, 2010)

October 2, 2014

Islamic Ethics

Mariam al-Attar

Mariam al-Attar, Islamic Ethics: Divine Command Theory in Arabo-Islamic Thought (Routledge, 2010) explores the meaning, origin and development of "Div…