New Books in Middle Eastern Studies

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Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New BooksSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/middle-eastern-studies

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  • Dave Margoshes, "A Simple Carpenter" (Radiant Press, 2024)
    Jun 6, 2025 – 55:27
  • Sabrin Hasbun, "Crossing: A Love Story Between Italy and Palestine" (Footnote Press, 2025)
    Jun 6, 2025 – 35:47
  • Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, "The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq" (Stanford UP, 2021)
    Jun 3, 2025 – 01:25:09
  • Zohra Saed and Sahar Muradi, "One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature" (U Arkansas Press, 2010)
    May 31, 2025 – 01:08:05
  • Jonas Elbousty and Roger Allen, "Reading Mohamed Choukri's Narratives: Hunger in Eden" (Routledge, 2024)
    May 30, 2025 – 01:05:00
  • Chris Aslan, "Unravelling the Silk Road: Travels and Textiles in Central Asia" (Icon Books, 2024)
    May 29, 2025 – 47:07
  • Toine van Teeffelen, "The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine: A Memoir" (Wipf and Stock, 2024)
    May 23, 2025 – 01:03:20
  • Derek J. Penslar, "Zionism: An Emotional State" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
    May 21, 2025 – 01:02:12
  • Timothy A. Lee, "The Syriac Peshiṭta Bible: The New Testament" (Gorgias Press, 2023)
    May 19, 2025 – 30:41
  • Todd Reisz, "Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai" (Stanford UP, 2021)
    May 18, 2025 – 42:31
  • David Kraemer, "Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora" (Oxford UP, 2025)
    May 17, 2025 – 01:02:37
  • Daniel Behar, "Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
    May 14, 2025 – 29:32
  • Marc Shapiro, "Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook" (Littman Library, 2025)
    May 14, 2025 – 49:51
  • Brendan Haug, "Garden of Egypt: Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyūm" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
    May 6, 2025 – 59:11
  • Simon Mayall, "The House of War: The Struggle Between Christendom and the Caliphate" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
    May 3, 2025 – 01:11:54
  • The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History
    Apr 13, 2025 – 40:45
  • Orit Rozin, "Emotions of Conflict, Israel 1949-1967" (Oxford UP, 2024)
    Apr 7, 2025 – 01:09:34
  • Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard, "Spanish National Identity, Colonial Power, and the Portrayal of Muslims and Jews During the Rif War (1909-27)" (Boydell & Brewer, 2021)
    Apr 6, 2025 – 48:42
  • Sinem Arcak Casale, "Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
    Apr 1, 2025 – 01:11:28
  • Letizia Osti, "History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2024)
    Mar 31, 2025 – 51:55
  • Yaron Ayalon, "Ottoman Jewry: Leadership, Charity, and Literacy" (Brill, 2024)
    Mar 30, 2025 – 43:34
  • Marc Owen Jones, "Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media" (Hurst/Oxford UP, 2021)
    Mar 29, 2025 – 27:23
  • Palestinian Futurism with Leila Abdelrazaq
    Mar 28, 2025 – 56:11
  • "Imprisoning a Revolution: Writings from Egypt's Incarcerated" (U California Press, 2025)
    Mar 26, 2025 – 01:06:57
  • Sureshkumar Muthukumaran, "The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean" (U California Press, 2023)
    Mar 23, 2025 – 43:07
  • Ahmed M. Abozaid, "Counterterrorism Strategies in Egypt: Permanent Exceptions in the War on Terror" (Routledge, 2021)
    Mar 22, 2025 – 01:06:16
  • Daniela Richterova, "Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
    Mar 18, 2025 – 01:34:45
  • Sumerian History with Marc Van De Mieroop
    Mar 15, 2025 – 01:12:53
  • Andrea Wright, "Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea" (Stanford UP, 2024)
    Mar 14, 2025 – 32:00
  • Catalin-Stefan Popa, "The Making of Syriac Jerusalem" (Routledge, 2023)
    Mar 14, 2025 – 01:07:46
  • Selena Wisnom, "The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
    Mar 13, 2025 – 38:29
  • Tahrir Hamdi, "Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
    Mar 12, 2025 – 53:20
  • On Barak, "Heat, a History: Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet" (U California Press, 2024)
    Mar 10, 2025 – 42:55
  • Kirsten L. Scheid, "Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920–1950" (Indiana UP, 2022)
    Mar 9, 2025 – 01:31:42
  • Margaret Peacock, "Frequencies of Deceit: How Global Propaganda Wars Shaped the Middle East" (U California Press, 2025)
    Mar 8, 2025 – 01:04:03
  • Ibn Butlan, "The Doctors' Dinner Party: A Satirical Novella " (NYU Press, 2023)
    Mar 8, 2025 – 43:49
  • Nir Arielli, "The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History" (Yale UP, 2025)
    Mar 7, 2025 – 01:06:22
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    Mar 6, 2025 – 46:52
  • Noam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
    Mar 1, 2025 – 01:15:06
  • Daniel Silverman, "Seeing Is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
    Feb 28, 2025 – 46:08
  • Matthew Hughes, "Britain's Pacification of Palestine" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
    Feb 28, 2025 – 01:27:49
  • Yuval Ben-Bassat and Johann Büssow, "Late Ottoman Gaza: An Eastern Mediterranean Hub in Transformation" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
    Feb 26, 2025 – 01:00:42
  • Florence Martin, "Farida Benlyazid and Moroccan Cinema" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
    Feb 25, 2025 – 01:18:38
  • Blanche Bendahan, "Mazaltob: A Novel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
    Feb 24, 2025 – 01:08:12
  • Malka Z. Simkovich, "Letters from Home: The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity" (Eisenbrauns, 2024)
    Feb 23, 2025 – 49:54
  • Amit Levy, "A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
    Feb 21, 2025 – 01:10:52
  • Peter Wien, "Arab Nationalism: The Politics of History and Culture in the Modern Middle East" (Routledge, 2017)
    Feb 19, 2025 – 49:11
  • Emine Ö Evered, "Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity" (U Texas Press, 2024)
    Feb 19, 2025 – 56:25
  • Erik Freas, "Palestine's Christians and the Nationalist Cause: The Late Ottoman and Mandatory Periods" (Routledge, 2024)
    Feb 16, 2025 – 01:15:48
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    Feb 16, 2025 – 26:09
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